Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 1500 metre freestyle
Introduction 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 July with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim again in the event's final heat during the evening session on 26 July.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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