Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 800 metre freestyle
Introduction 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, with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim-again in the event's Final on 30 July.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, SpainNote: 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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