Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 1500 metre freestyle

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[1] with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim again in the event's final heat during the evening session on 26 July.[2]

Women's 1500m Freestyle at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	25 July (prelims) 26 July (final)
Competitors	24 from 19 nations
Winning time	16 minutes 00.41 seconds
Medalists
Kate Ziegler    United States   Flavia Rigamonti     Switzerland   Brittany Reimer    Canada

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	Great Britain	16:15.69	q
2	H3 L7	Laura Conway	United States	16:17.97	q
3	H4 L3	Flavia Rigamonti	Switzerland	16:18.14	q
4	H3 L6	Brittany Reimer	Canada	16:21.55	q
5	H2 L5	Jana Henke	Germany	16:22.57	q
6	H2 L6	Yumi Kida	Japan	16:23.05	q
7	H4 L4	Kate Ziegler	United States	16:26.75	q
8	H2 L4	Erika Villaécija	Spain	16:29.54	q
9	H4 L7	Kristel Köbrich	Chile	16:33.36
10	H4 L5	Sarah Paton	Australia	16:37.18
11	H3 L3	Lotte Friis	Denmark	16:38.53
12	H3 L4	Laure Manaudou	France	16:39.19
13	H2 L3	Éva Risztov	Hungary	16:39.55
14	H3 L5	Sachiko Yamada	Japan	16:48.23
15	H4 L2	Elisa Pasini	Italy	16:48.91
16	H4 L6	Réka Nagy	Hungary	16:54.94
17	H3 L1	Cecilia Biagioli	Argentina	17:01.73
18	H2 L7	Teresia Gimholt	Sweden	17:10.21
19	H2 L1	Youn Jeong Seo	South Korea	17:14.31
20	H1 L4	Shrone Austin	Seychelles	17:31.81
21	H4 L8	Chin-Kuei Yang	Chinese Taipei	17:34.01
22	H4 L1	Wan-Tong Cheng	Chinese Taipei	17:46.01
23	H1 L3	QUAH Ting Wen	Singapore	18:07.10
24	H1 L5	Wan Ting Goh	Singapore	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

References

1. Worlds 2005 results: Women's 1500 m freestyle Prelims, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-23.
2. Worlds 2005 results: Women's 1500 m freestyle Finals Archived 7 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-23.