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

2005 FINA World Championships Montreal, Canada
Diving
Individual
1 m	men	women
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Synchronised
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Open water swimming
5 km	men	women
10 km	men	women
25 km	men	women
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
Synchronised swimming
Solo		women
Duet		women
Team		women
Combination		women
Water polo
men (rosters) women (rosters)

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
	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

References

1. Worlds 2005 results: Women's 800m Freestyle Prelims, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-23.
2. Worlds 2005 results: Women's 800m Freestyle Final, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-23.