Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle

Women's 400 Freestyle at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	24 July 2005
Competitors	37 from 25 nations
Winning time	4 minutes 06.44 seconds
Medalists
Laure Manaudou    France   Ai Shibata    Japan   Caitlin McClatchey    Great Britain
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The Women's 400 Freestyle at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum on 24 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Preliminary heats were swum that morning, with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim the race again in that evenings Final.

As the competition was held in a long course (50m) pool, the race consisted of 8 lengths of freestyle.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were:

• WR: 4:03.85, Janet Evans (USA), swum 22 September 1988 in Seoul, South Korea;
• CR: 4:06.28, Tracey Wickham (Australia), swum 24 August 1978 in Berlin, Germany.

Results[]

Prelims[]

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H3 L2	Brittany Reimer		4:08.28	q
2	H3 L5	Camelia Potec		4:08.40	q
3	H3 L4	Ai Shibata		4:08.82	q
4	H5 L5	Joanne Jackson		4:10.47	q
5	H4 L4	Caitlin McClatchey		4:10.48	q
6	H4 L3	Claudia Poll		4:10.88	q
7	H4 L5	Linda Mackenzie		4:11.13	q
8	H5 L4	Laure Manaudou		4:11.46	q
9	H5 L3			4:11.75
10	H5 L6	Carly Piper		4:12.96
11	H4 L2	Jana Henke		4:13.68
12	H4 L6	Sachiko Yamada		4:13.97
13	H5 L2	Éva Risztov		4:14.10
14	H5 L7	Cecilia Biagioli		4:14.48
15	H3 L7	Sophie Huber		4:15.53
16	H3 L6			4:15.63
17	H3 L1	Melissa Corfe		4:15.95
18	H4 L1	Anja Čarman		4:16.28
19	H2 L1	Mariana Brochado		4:17.65
20	H5 L8			4:18.05
21	H4 L8	Kristel Köbrich		4:18.41
22	H3 L3	Jingzhi Tang		4:18.71
23	H2 L4	Lauren Boyle		4:19.22
24	H3 L8	Melissa Ingram		4:19.28
25	H4 L7	Monique Ferreira		4:19.42
26	H2 L6	Olga Beresneva		4:24.27
27	H2 L2			4:26.03
28	H2 L7			4:26.46
29	H2 L3	Paola Duguet		4:26.57
30	H1 L2	Shrone Austin		4:28.36
31	H1 L5			4:28.43
32	H2 L5			4:31.39
33	H2 L8	Ting Wen Quah		4:31.48
34	H1 L6	Nimitta Thaveesupsoonthorn		4:33.39
35	H1 L3			4:35.34
36	H1 L4			4:35.56
-	H5 L1	Tanya Hunks		DNS

Final[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Laure Manaudou	France	4:06.44
	Ai Shibata	Japan	4:06.74
	Caitlin McClatchey	Great Britain	4:07.25
4	Brittany Reimer	Canada	4:07.32
5	Camelia Potec	Romania	4:08.06
6	Linda Mackenzie	Australia	4:08.75
7	Joanne Jackson	Great Britain	4:08.88
8	Claudia Poll	Costa Rica	4:10.02

References[]

• Worlds 2005 results: Women's 800m Freestyle Prelims, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-10.
• Worlds 2005 results: Women's 800m Freestyle Finals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-10.