The Women's 800 Freestyle event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 29 – 30 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Preliminary heats were held in the Championships morning session on 29 July,Worlds 2005 results: Women's 800m Freestyle Prelims, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-01-23. with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim-again in the event's Final on 30 July.Worlds 2005 results: Women's 800m Freestyle Final , from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-01-23.

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 8:30.96 q 2 H5 L5 Ai Shibata 8:30.98 q 3 H4 L6 Flavia Rigamonti 8:33.34 q 4 H4 L4 Rebecca Cooke 8:33.48 q 5 H5 L2 Jana Henke 8:35.73 q 6 H3 L4 Kate Ziegler 8:35.81 q 7 H4 L2 Camelia Potec 8:36.21 q 8 H4 L5 Erika Villaécija 8:37.42 q 9 H5 L6 Sachiko Yamada 8:37.70 10 H3 L2 Laura Conway 8:37.90 11 H3 L3 Linda Mackenzie 8:38.27 12 H3 L6 Lotte Friis 8:41.91 13 H4 L1 Éva Risztov 8:42.81 14 H4 L7 Elisa Pasini 8:42.88 15 H5 L1 Kristel Köbrich 8:46.90 16 H5 L8 Tanya Hunks 8:47.55 17 H3 L5 Simona Păduraru 8:48.06 18 H3 L1 Sophie Huber 8:48.37 19 H2 L3 Cecilia Biagioli 8:48.85 20 H4 L3 Hua Chen 8:49.46 21 H2 L4 Olga Beresneva 8:50.59 22 H2 L5 Youn Jeong Seo 8:51.39 23 H5 L3 Haylee Reddaway 8:51.99 24 H3 L7 Jingzhi Tang 8:53.47 25 H2 L6 Chin-Kuei Yang 9:07.25 26 H2 L2 Paola Duguet 9:14.00 27 H1 L5 Shrone Austin 9:14.44 28 H2 L7 Ting Wen Quah 9:20.93 29 H4 L8 Wan-Tong Cheng 9:23.48 30 H1 L4 Wan Ting Goh 9:32.68 - H1 L3 Ea Hyun Jung DNS - H3 L8 Teresia Gimholt DNS - H5 L4 Laure Manaudou DNS

Final heat Place Swimmer Nation Time Notes Kate Ziegler USA 8:25.31 Brittany Reimer Canada 8:27.59 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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