The Women's 1500 Freestyle event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum on 25 – 26 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Preliminary heats were swum during the morning session on 25 JulyWorlds 2005 results: Women's 1500 m 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 heat during the evening session on 26 July.Worlds 2005 results: Women's 1500 m freestyle Finals , 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: 15:52.10, Janet Evans (USA), swum 26 March 1988 in Orlando, USA; CR: 16:00.18, Hannah Stockbauer (Germany), swum 22 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain
Results
Preliminary heats Rank Heat + Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 H3 L2 Rebecca Cooke 16:15.69 q 2 H3 L7 Laura Conway 16:17.97 q 3 H4 L3 Flavia Rigamonti 16:18.14 q 4 H3 L6 Brittany Reimer 16:21.55 q 5 H2 L5 Jana Henke 16:22.57 q 6 H2 L6 Yumi Kida 16:23.05 q 7 H4 L4 Kate Ziegler 16:26.75 q 8 H2 L4 Erika Villaécija 16:29.54 q 9 H4 L7 Kristel Köbrich 16:33.36 10 H4 L5 Sarah Paton 16:37.18 11 H3 L3 Lotte Friis 16:38.53 12 H3 L4 Laure Manaudou 16:39.19 13 H2 L3 Éva Risztov 16:39.55 14 H3 L5 Sachiko Yamada 16:48.23 15 H4 L2 Elisa Pasini 16:48.91 16 H4 L6 Réka Nagy 16:54.94 17 H3 L1 Cecilia Biagioli 17:01.73 18 H2 L7 Teresia Gimholt 17:10.21 19 H2 L1 Youn Jeong Seo 17:14.31 20 H1 L4 Shrone Austin 17:31.81 21 H4 L8 Chin-Kuei Yang 17:34.01 22 H4 L1 Wan-Tong Cheng 17:46.01 23 H1 L3 QUAH Ting Wen 18:07.10 24 H1 L5 Wan Ting Goh 18:16.20
Final heat Rank Swimmer Nation Time Notes Kate Ziegler USA 16:00.41 Flavia Rigamonti Switzerland 16:04.34 Brittany Reimer Canada 16:07.73 4 Laura Conway USA 16:17.17 5 Jana Henke Germany 16:17.89 6 Erika Villaécija Spain 16:17.92 7 Rebecca Cooke Great Britain 16:23.25 8 Yumi Kida Japan 16:23.89
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