The Women's 400 Freestyle at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum on 24 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Preliminary heats were swum that morning, with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim the race again in that evenings Final.

As the competition was held in a long course (50m) pool, the race consisted of 8 lengths of freestyle.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were: WR: 4:03.85, Janet Evans (USA), swum 22 September 1988 in Seoul, South Korea; CR: 4:06.28, Tracey Wickham (Australia), swum 24 August 1978 in Berlin, Germany.

Results

Prelims Rank Heat + Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 H3 L2 Brittany Reimer 4:08.28 q 2 H3 L5 Camelia Potec 4:08.40 q 3 H3 L4 Ai Shibata 4:08.82 q 4 H5 L5 Joanne Jackson 4:10.47 q 5 H4 L4 Caitlin McClatchey 4:10.48 q 6 H4 L3 Claudia Poll 4:10.88 q 7 H4 L5 Linda Mackenzie 4:11.13 q 8 H5 L4 Laure Manaudou 4:11.46 q 9 H5 L3 Haylee Reddaway 4:11.75 10 H5 L6 Carly Piper 4:12.96 11 H4 L2 Jana Henke 4:13.68 12 H4 L6 Sachiko Yamada 4:13.97 13 H5 L2 Éva Risztov 4:14.10 14 H5 L7 Cecilia Biagioli 4:14.48 15 H3 L7 Sophie Huber 4:15.53 16 H3 L6 Kelsey Ditto 4:15.63 17 H3 L1 Melissa Corfe 4:15.95 18 H4 L1 Anja Čarman 4:16.28 19 H2 L1 Mariana Brochado 4:17.65 20 H5 L8 Ji Eun Lee 4:18.05 21 H4 L8 Kristel Köbrich 4:18.41 22 H3 L3 Jingzhi Tang 4:18.71 23 H2 L4 Lauren Boyle 4:19.22 24 H3 L8 Melissa Ingram 4:19.28 25 H4 L7 Monique Ferreira 4:19.42 26 H2 L6 Olga Beresneva 4:24.27 27 H2 L2 Chin-Kuei Yang 4:26.03 28 H2 L7 Ea Hyun Jung 4:26.46 29 H2 L3 Paola Duguet 4:26.57 30 H1 L2 Shrone Austin 4:28.36 31 H1 L5 Jasna Ovsenik 4:28.43 32 H2 L5 Wan-Tong Cheng 4:31.39 33 H2 L8 Ting Wen Quah 4:31.48 34 H1 L6 Nimitta Thaveesupsoonthorn 4:33.39 35 H1 L3 Wing Yan Fung 4:35.34 36 H1 L4 Wan Ting Goh 4:35.56 - H5 L1 Tanya Hunks DNS

Final Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Laure Manaudou France 4:06.44 Ai Shibata Japan 4:06.74 Caitlin McClatchey Great Britain 4:07.25 4 Brittany Reimer Canada 4:07.32 5 Camelia Potec Romania 4:08.06 6 Linda Mackenzie Australia 4:08.75 7 Joanne Jackson Great Britain 4:08.88 8 Claudia Poll Costa Rica 4:10.02

References Worlds 2005 results: Women's 800m Freestyle Prelims, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-10. Worlds 2005 results: Women's 800m Freestyle Finals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-10.