Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

Women's 4×200m Free Relay
at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Women's 4×200m Free Relay ; at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	July 28, 2005
Competitors	19
Winning time	7 minutes 53.70 seconds
Medalists
	United States
	Australia
	China
	← 2003 2007 →

The Women's 4x200 Freestyle Relay event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 28 July 2005 in Montreal, Canada^[1]^[2]

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

WR: 7:53.42 swum by USA on 18 August 2004 in Athens, Greece
CR: 7:55.70 swum by USA on 24 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain

Results

Final

Place	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	USA	Natalie Coughlin (1:58.82), Katie Hoff (1:58.50), Whitney Myers (1:58.81), Kaitlin Sandeno (1:57.57)	7:53.70	CR
2	Australia	Libby Lenton (1:57.06), Shayne Reese (2:00.00), Bronte Barratt (1:58.58), Linda Mackenzie (1:58.42)	7:54.06
3	China	Yingwen Zhu (1:58.91), Jiaying Pang (1:59.90), Yafei Zhou (1:59.44), Yu Yang (1:59.04)	7:57.29
4	Great Britain	Melanie Marshall (1:59.47), Caitlin McClatchey (1:58.26), Joanne Jackson (1:59.16), Rebecca Cooke (2:02.15)	7:59.04
5	France	Laure Manaudou (2:00.47), Céline Couderc (2:00.19), Elsa N'Guessan (2:01.63), Solenne Figuès (1:59.14)	8:01.43
6	Japan	Ai Shibata (1:59.85), Norie Urabe (2:00.78), Haruka Ueda (2:01.69), Sachiko Yamada (2:01.88)	8:04.20
7	Canada	Sophie Simard (2:00.18), Brittany Reimer (1:59.43), Tanya Hunks (2:03.37), Kelly Stefanyshyn (2:04.58)	8:07.56
8	New Zealand	Helen Norfolk (2:00.38), Alison Fitch (2:01.67), Lauren Boyle (2:03.06), Melissa Ingram (2:02.84)	8:07.95

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	H3 L4	United States	Mary DeScenza (2:01.17), Caroline Burckle (2:00.09), Rachel Komisarz (1:59.50), Kaitlin Sandeno (1:58.88)	7:59.64	q
2	H3 L5	Australia	Libby Lenton (1:58.72), Millie Mitchell (2:00.67), Lara Davenport (2:01.11), Bronte Barratt (1:59.27)	7:59.77	q
3	H2 L4	China	Yingwen Zhu (1:59.31), Jingzhi Tang (2:01.13), Yafei Zhou (2:01.34), Jiaying Pang (2:00.73)	8:02.51	q
4	H3 L2	Japan	Ai Shibata (1:59.02), Norie Urabe (1:59.97), Haruka Ueda (2:01.51), Yumi Kida (2:04.22)	8:04.72	q
5	H2 L5	Great Britain	Rebecca Cooke (2:01.78), Caitlin McClatchey (1:59.81), Julia Beckett (2:03.48), Joanne Jackson (1:59.94)	8:05.01	q
6	H2 L6	New Zealand	Helen Norfolk (2:01.09), Alison Fitch (2:01.34), Lauren Boyle (2:01.39), Melissa Ingram (2:01.30)	8:05.12	q
7	H2 L3	France	Céline Couderc (2:01.18), Angela Tavernier (2:00.73), Elsa N'Guessan (2:00.71), Sophie Huber (2:03.61)	8:06.23	q
8	H1 L6	Canada	Sophie Simard (1:59.38), Audrey Lacroix (2:05.96), Tanya Hunks (2:03.25), Brittany Reimer (1:59.29)	8:07.88	q

9	H2 L2	Italy	Martina Cuppone (2:02.92), Flavia Zoccari (2:01.84), Simona Ricciardi (2:00.94), Renata Spagnolo (2:03.44)	8:09.14
10	H2 L1	Poland	Paulina Barzycka (2:01.36), Katarzyna Staszak (2:01.98), Katarzyna Kowalczyk (2:04.46), Katarzyna Baranowska (2:01.98)	8:09.78
11	H3 L6	Netherlands	Inge Dekker (1:59.95), Femke Heemskerk (2:04.97), Haike Van Stralen (2:02.74), Celina Lemmen (2:03.13)	8:10.79
12	H1 L5	Spain	Tatiana Rouba (2:02.60), Melissa Caballero (2:05.21), Ilune Gorbea (2:02.45), Erika Villaécija (2:00.98)	8:11.24
13	H3 L3	Brazil	Mariana Brochado (2:03.90), Joanna Melo (2:03.04), Monique Ferreira (2:03.66), Paula Ribeiro (2:02.23)	8:12.83
14	H3 L7	Slovenia	Sara Isaković (1:59.89), Anja Klinar (2:03.31), Anja Čarman (2:04.54), Jasna Ovsenik (2:05.90)	8:13.64
15	H1 L2	Denmark	Lotte Friis (2:03.04), Julie Hjorth-Hansen (2:04.24), Annette Hansen (2:08.03), Louise Jansen (2:04.83)	8:20.14
16	H1 L7	Chinese Taipei	Chin-Kuei Yang (2:04.82), Pin-Chieh Nieh (2:08.72), Man-Hsu Lin (2:10.26), Wan-Tong Cheng (2:12.94)	8:36.74
17	H2 L7	Singapore	Mylene Ong (2:10.80), Ting Wen Quah (2:11.61), Shu Yong Ho (2:11.72), Joscelin Yeo (2:07.92)	8:42.05
18	H3 L1	Macau	Cheok Mei Ma (2:16.65), Weng I Kuan (2:15.38), Sin Ian Lei (2:24.44), Man Wai Fong (2:16.68)	9:13.15
--	H1 L4	Germany	Meike Freitag (2:01.33), Annika Liebs (DQ), Petra Dallmann, Sophie-Luise Dietrich	DQ
--	--	Sweden		DNS

References

^ Worlds 2005 results: Women's 4x200m Free Relay Prelims Archived 2012-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2005-07-28; retrieved 2012-05-10.
^ Worlds 2005 results: Women's 4x200m Free Relay Final^{[permanent dead link]}. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2005-07-28; retrieved 2012-05-10.