Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships

The Swimming competition at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships consisted of 40 long course events, swum July 24–31, 2005 at pools in Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.^[1] Swimming's 40 events were split evenly between males and females (20 each) and were:^[2]

• freestyle (free): 50, 100, 200, 400, 800 and 1500;
• backstroke (back): 50, 100 and 200;
• breaststroke (breast): 50, 100 and 200;
• butterfly (fly): 50, 100 and 200;
• Individual Medley (IM): 200 and 400; and
• relay: 4×100 and 4×200 freestyle, and 4×100 medley.

Event schedule

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Roland Schoeman   South Africa	21.69 CR	Duje Draganja   Croatia	21.89	Bartosz Kizierowski   Poland	21.94
100 m freestyle	Filippo Magnini   Italy	48.12 CR	Roland Schoeman   South Africa	48.28	Ryk Neethling   South Africa	48.34
200 m freestyle	Michael Phelps   USA	1:45.20	Grant Hackett   AUS	1:46.14	Ryk Neethling   South Africa	1:46.63
400 m freestyle	Grant Hackett   Australia	3:42.91	Yuri Prilukov   Russia	3:44.44	Oussama Mellouli   Tunisia	3:46.08
800 m freestyle	Grant Hackett   Australia	7:38.65 WR	Larsen Jensen   USA	7:45.63	Yuri Prilukov   Russia	7:46.64
1500 m freestyle	Grant Hackett   Australia	14:42.58	Larsen Jensen   USA	14:47.58	David Davies   Great Britain	14:48.11
50 m backstroke	Aristeidis Grigoriadis   Greece	24.95	Matt Welsh   Australia	24.99	Liam Tancock   Great Britain	25.02
100 m backstroke	Aaron Peirsol   USA	53.62	Randall Bal   USA	54.02	László Cseh   Hungary	54.27
200 m backstroke	Aaron Peirsol   USA	1:54.66 WR	Markus Rogan   Austria	1:56.63	Ryan Lochte   USA	1:57.00
50 m breaststroke	Mark Warnecke   Germany	27.63	Mark Gangloff   USA	27.71	Kosuke Kitajima   Japan	27.78
100 m breaststroke	Brendan Hansen   USA	59.37 CR	Kosuke Kitajima   Japan	59.53	Hugues Duboscq   France	1:00.20
200 m breaststroke	Brendan Hansen   USA	2:09.85	Mike Brown   Canada	2:11.22	Genki Imamura   Japan	2:11.54
50 m butterfly	Roland Schoeman   South Africa	22.96 WR	Ian Crocker   USA	23.12	Sergiy Breus   Ukraine	23.38
100 m butterfly	Ian Crocker   USA	50.40 WR	Michael Phelps   USA	51.65	Andriy Serdinov   Ukraine	52.08
200 m butterfly	Paweł Korzeniowski   Poland	1:55.02	Takeshi Matsuda   Japan	1:55.62	Wu Peng   China	1:56.50
200 m I.M.	Michael Phelps   USA	1:56.68	László Cseh   Hungary	1:57.61	Ryan Lochte   USA	1:57.79
400 m I.M.	László Cseh   Hungary	4:09.63	Luca Marin   Italy	4:11.67	Oussama Mellouli   Tunisia	4:13.47
4 × 100 m   freestyle relay	USA   Michael Phelps (49.17)   Neil Walker (47.70)   Nate Dusing (48.97)   Jason Lezak (47.93)	3:13.77 CR	Canada   Yannick Lupien (49.88)   Rick Say (48.85)   Mike Mintenko (49.52)   Brent Hayden (48.19)	3:16.44	Australia   Michael Klim (49.75)   Andrew Mewing (49.04)   Leith Brodie (49.82)   Patrick Murphy (48.95)	3:17.56
4 × 200 m   freestyle relay	USA   Michael Phelps (1:45.51)   Ryan Lochte (1:48.22)   Peter Vanderkaay (1:46.52)   Klete Keller (1:46.33)	7:06.58	Canada   Brent Hayden (1:47.10)   Colin Russell (1:48.60)   Rick Say (1:46.84)   Andrew Hurd (1:47.19)	7:09.73	Australia   Nicholas Sprenger (1:47.94)   Patrick Murphy (1:49.04)   Andrew Mewing (1:48.77)   Grant Hackett (1:44.84)	7:10.59
4 × 100 m   medley relay	USA   Aaron Peirsol (54.26)   Brendan Hansen (59.33)   Ian Crocker (50.39)   Jason Lezak (47.87)	3:31.85	Russia   Arkady Vyatchanin (54.75)   Dmitry Komornikov (59.64)   Igor Marchenko (52.16)   Andrey Kapralov (48.53)	3:35.08	Japan   Tomomi Morita (54.85)   Kosuke Kitajima (59.19)   Ryo Takayasu (52.48)   Daisuke Hosokawa (48.88)	3:35.40

Legend: WR – World record; CR – Championship record

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Libby Lenton   Australia	24.59	Marleen Veldhuis   Netherlands	24.83	Zhu Yingwen   China	24.91
100 m freestyle	Jodie Henry   Australia	54.18	Malia Metella   France Natalie Coughlin   USA	54.74	none
200 m freestyle	Solenne Figuès   France	1:58.60	Federica Pellegrini   Italy	1:58.73	Josefin Lillhage   Sweden Yang Yu   China	1:59.08
400 m freestyle	Laure Manaudou   France	4:06.44	Ai Shibata   Japan	4:06.74	Caitlin McClatchey   Great Britain	4:07.25
800 m freestyle	Kate Ziegler   USA	8:25.31	Brittany Reimer   Canada	8:27.59	Ai Shibata   Japan	8:27.86
1500 m freestyle	Kate Ziegler   USA	16:00.41	Flavia Rigamonti   Switzerland	16:04:34	Brittany Reimer   Canada	16:07.73
50 m backstroke	Giaan Rooney   Australia	28.63	Gao Chang   China	28.69	Antje Buschschulte   Germany	28.72
100 m backstroke	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	1:00.24	Antje Buschschulte   Germany	1:00.84	Natalie Coughlin   USA	1:00.88
200 m backstroke	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	2:08.52	Margaret Hoelzer   USA	2:09.94	Reiko Nakamura   Japan	2:10.41
50 m breaststroke	Jade Edmistone   Australia	30.45 WR	Jessica Hardy   USA	30.85	Brooke Hanson   Australia	30.89
100 m breaststroke	Leisel Jones   Australia	1:06.25	Jessica Hardy   USA	1:06.62	Tara Kirk   USA	1:07.43
200 m breaststroke	Leisel Jones   Australia	2:21.72 WR	Anne Poleska   Germany	2:25.84	Mirna Jukić   Austria	2:27.11
50 m butterfly	Danni Miatke   Australia	26.11	Anna-Karin Kammerling   Sweden	26.36	Therese Alshammar   Sweden	26.39
100 m butterfly	Jessicah Schipper   Australia	57.23 CR	Libby Lenton   Australia	57.37	Otylia Jędrzejczak   Poland	58.57
200 m butterfly	Otylia Jędrzejczak   Poland	2:05.61 WR	Jessicah Schipper   Australia	2:05.65	Yuko Nakanishi   Japan	2:09.40
200 m I.M.	Katie Hoff   USA	2:10.41 CR	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	2:11.13	Lara Carroll   Australia	2:13.32
400 m I.M.	Katie Hoff   USA	4:36.07 CR	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	4:39.72	Kaitlin Sandeno   USA	4:40.85
4 × 100 m   freestyle relay	Australia   Jodie Henry (54.45)   Alice Mills (53.96)   Shayne Reese (55.37)   Libby Lenton (53.54)	3:37.32 CR	Germany   Petra Dallmann (55.01)   Antje Buschschulte (54.37)   Annika Liebs (54.66)   Daniela Gotz (54.20)	3:38.24	USA   Natalie Coughlin (54.31)   Kara Lynn Joyce (55.22)   Lacey Nymeyer (54.88)   Amanda Weir (53.90)	3:38.31
4 × 200 m   freestyle relay	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	Australia   Libby Lenton (1:57.06)   Shayne Reese (2:00.00)   Bronte Barratt (1:58.58)   Linda Mackenzie (1:58.42)	7:54.06	China   Zhu Yingwen (1:58.91)   Pang Jiaying (1:59.90)   Zhou Yafei (1:59.44)   Yang Yu (1:59.04)	7:57.29
4 × 100 m   medley relay	Australia   Sophie Edington (1:01.48)   Leisel Jones (1:05.73)   Jessicah Schipper (57.13)   Libby Lenton (53.13)	3:57.47 CR	USA   Natalie Coughlin (1:00.00)   Jessica Hardy (1:07.70)   Rachel Komisarz (57.80)   Amanda Weir (54.42)	3:59.92	Germany   Antje Buschschulte (1:00.72)   Sarah Poewe (1:08.51)   Annika Mehlhorn (58.75)   Daniela Gotz (54.53)	4:02.51

Medal standings

  *   Host nation (Canada)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	15	11	6	32
2	Australia (AUS)	13	5	4	22
3	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	2	2	0	4
4	South Africa (RSA)	2	1	2	5
5	France (FRA)	2	1	1	4
6	Poland (POL)	2	0	2	4
7	Germany (GER)	1	3	2	6
8	Italy (ITA)	1	2	0	3
9	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	1	3
10	Greece (GRE)	1	0	0	1
11	Canada (CAN)*	0	4	1	5
12	Japan (JPN)	0	3	6	9
13	Russia (RUS)	0	2	1	3
14	China (CHN)	0	1	4	5
15	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	2	3
16	Austria (AUT)	0	1	1	2
17	Croatia (CRO)	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
20	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	3	3
21	Tunisia (TUN)	0	0	2	2
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	2	2
Totals (22 nations)		40	41	40	121

Records

World records

Nine World Records were set at the 2005 World Championships.

Gender	Event	Round	Name	Nation	Time
Men	800 free	Final	Grant Hackett	Australia	7:38.65
Men	200 back	Final	Aaron Peirsol	USA	1:54.66
Men	50 fly	Semi-final 1	Roland Schoeman	South Africa	23.01*
Men	50 fly	Final	Roland Schoeman	South Africa	22.96
Men	100 fly	Final	Ian Crocker	USA	50.40
Women	50 breast	Final	Jade Edmistone	Australia	30.45
Women	100 breast	Semi-final 1	Jessica Hardy	USA	1:06.20
Women	200 breast	Final	Leisel Jones	Australia	2:21.72
Women	200 fly	Final	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	2:05.61

Championships records

Fifteen Championships (or meet) records were set at the 2005 World Championships.
Note: Results followed by an asterisk (*) denote that the record was subsequently re-broken during the competition.

Gender	Event	Round	Name	Nation	Time
Men	50 free	Final	Roland Schoeman	South Africa	21.69
Men	100 free	Final	Filippo Magnini	Italy	48.12
Men	100 breast	Heat 12	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	59.71*
Men	100 breast	Final	Brendan Hansen	USA	59.37
Women	50 back	Semi-final 2	Gao Chang	China	28.31
Men	4×100 free relay	Final	Michael Phelps, Neil Walker  Nate Dusing, Jason Lezak	USA	3:13.77
Women	50 breast	Semi-final 2	Jade Edmistone	Australia	30.61*
Women	100 fly	Heat 6	Jessicah Schipper	Australia	57.91*
Women	100 fly	Semi-final 2	Jessicah Schipper	Australia	57.75*
Women	100 fly	Final	Jessicah Schipper	Australia	57.23
Women	200 IM	Final	Katie Hoff	USA	2:10.41
Women	400 IM	Final	Katie Hoff	USA	4:36.07
Women	4×100 free relay	Final	Jodie Henry, Alice Mills,  Shayne Reese, Libby Lenton	Australia	3:37.32
Women	4×200 free relay	Final	Natalie Coughlin, Katie Hoff,  Whitney Myers, Kaitlin Sandeno	USA	7:53.70
Women	4×100 medley relay	Final	Sophie Edington, Leisel Jones,  Jessicah Schipper, Libby Lenton	Australia	3:57.47

See also

• List of World Championships records in swimming
• Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships (previous Worlds)
• Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics (previous year)
• Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships (subsequent Worlds)

References

External links

• Full swimming results posted on OmegaTiming.com
• PDF of all swimming results