Water polo at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Women's tournament

The 1998 Women's World Water Polo Championship was the fourth edition of the women's water polo tournament at the World Aquatics Championships, organised by the world governing body in aquatics, the FINA. The tournament was held from 8 to 16 January 1998 in the Challenge Stadium, and was incorporated into the 1998 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Western Australia.^[1]

Teams

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Canada	8	5	4	0	1	34	25	+9
2.	Russia	7	5	3	1	1	49	28	+21
3.	Australia	7	5	3	1	1	50	28	+22
4.	United States	5	5	2	1	2	36	31	+5
5.	Brazil	3	5	1	1	3	29	44	–15
6.	New Zealand	0	5	0	0	5	27	69	–42

	Team	Points	G	W	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Netherlands	10	5	5	0	49	16	+33
2.	Hungary	8	5	4	1	48	30	+18
3.	Greece	6	5	3	2	32	31	+1
4.	Italy	4	5	2	3	48	33	+15
5.	Spain	2	5	1	4	15	35	–20
6.	Kazakhstan	0	5	0	5	19	66	–47


Italy	10 – 9	Australia
Netherlands	7 – 5	Russia


New Zealand	9 – 7	Kazakhstan


Spain	8 – 4	Brazil


Hungary	10 – 7	United States


Greece	10 – 9	Canada


Australia	8 – 5	Russia


Italy	7 – 6	Netherlands

1998 FINA Women's World champion
Italy First title

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Italy^[1] Carmela Alluci Alexandra Araujo Cristina Consoli Francesca Conti Antonella Di Giacinto Eleonora Gay Melania Grego Stefania Larucci Giusi Malato Martina Micelli Maddalena Musumeci Monica Vaillant Milena Virzi	Netherlands Karla van der Boon Carla van Usen Ellen Bast Gillian van den Berg Daniëlle de Bruijn Edmée Hiemstra Karin Kuipers Ingrid Leijendekker Petra Meerdink Carla Quint Sandra Scherrenburg Mariëlle Schothans Marjan op den Velde	Australia

^ ^a ^b ^c "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 57. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.