Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 800 metre freestyle

Women's 800m Freestyle at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	29 July (heats) 30 July (final)
Winning time	8 minutes 25.31 seconds
Medalists
Kate Ziegler    United States   Brittany Reimer    Canada   Ai Shibata    Japan

The Women's 800 Freestyle event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 29 – 30 July 2005 in Montreal, Canada. Preliminary heats were held in the Championships morning session on 29 July,^[1] with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim-again in the event's Final on 30 July.^[2]

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were:

• WR: 8:16.22, Janet Evans (USA), swum 20 August 1989 in Tokyo, Japan
• CR: 8:23.66, Hannah Stockbauer (Germany), swum 26 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain

Note: no new World or Championships records were set during this competition.

Results

Preliminary heats

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H5 L7	Brittany Reimer	Canada	8:30.96	q
2	H5 L5	Ai Shibata	Japan	8:30.98	q
3	H4 L6	Flavia Rigamonti	Switzerland	8:33.34	q
4	H4 L4	Rebecca Cooke	Great Britain	8:33.48	q
5	H5 L2	Jana Henke	Germany	8:35.73	q
6	H3 L4	Kate Ziegler	United States	8:35.81	q
7	H4 L2	Camelia Potec	Romania	8:36.21	q
8	H4 L5	Erika Villaécija	Spain	8:37.42	q
9	H5 L6	Sachiko Yamada	Japan	8:37.70
10	H3 L2	Laura Conway	United States	8:37.90
11	H3 L3	Linda Mackenzie	Australia	8:38.27
12	H3 L6	Lotte Friis	Denmark	8:41.91
13	H4 L1	Éva Risztov	Hungary	8:42.81
14	H4 L7	Elisa Pasini	Italy	8:42.88
15	H5 L1	Kristel Köbrich	Chile	8:46.90
16	H5 L8	Tanya Hunks	Canada	8:47.55
17	H3 L5	Simona Păduraru	Romania	8:48.06
18	H3 L1	Sophie Huber	France	8:48.37
19	H2 L3	Cecilia Biagioli	Argentina	8:48.85
20	H4 L3	Hua Chen	China	8:49.46
21	H2 L4	Olga Beresneva	Israel	8:50.59
22	H2 L5	Youn Jeong Seo	South Korea	8:51.39
23	H5 L3	Haylee Reddaway	Australia	8:51.99
24	H3 L7	Jingzhi Tang	China	8:53.47
25	H2 L6	Chin-Kuei Yang	Chinese Taipei	9:07.25
26	H2 L2	Paola Duguet	Colombia	9:14.00
27	H1 L5	Shrone Austin	Seychelles	9:14.44
28	H2 L7	Ting Wen Quah	Singapore	9:20.93
29	H4 L8	Wan-Tong Cheng	Chinese Taipei	9:23.48
30	H1 L4	Wan Ting Goh	Singapore	9:32.68
-	H1 L3	Ea Hyun Jung	South Korea	DNS
-	H3 L8	Teresia Gimholt	Sweden	DNS
-	H5 L4	Laure Manaudou	France	DNS

Final heat

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
01 !	Kate Ziegler	USA	8:25.31
02 !	Brittany Reimer	Canada	8:27.59
03 !	Ai Shibata	Japan	8:27.86
4	Flavia Rigamonti	Switzerland	8:28.74
5	Camelia Potec	Romania	8:34.40
6	Erika Villaécija	Spain	8:36.34
7	Rebecca Cooke	Great Britain	8:37.98
8	Jana Henke	Germany	8:38.23

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