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