# Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

The Women's 4×100 Freestyle Relay event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 24 July 2005 in Montreal Canada.
At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were:
* WR: 3:35.94 swum by Australia on 14 August 2004 in Athens, Greece
* CR: 3:37.91 swum by China on 7 September 1994 in Rome, Italy

## Results
### Final

| Place | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Australia | Jodie Henry (54.45), Alice Mills (53.96), Shayne Reese (55.37), Libby Lenton (53.54) | 3:37.32 | CR |
| 2 | Germany | Petra Dallmann (55.01), Antje Buschschulte (54.37), Annika Liebs (54.66), Daniela Götz (54.20) | 3:38.24 | |
| 3 | USA | Natalie Coughlin (54.31), Kara Lynn Joyce (55.22), Lacey Nymeyer (54.88), Amanda Weir (53.90) | 3:38.31 | |
| 4 | Netherlands | Inge Dekker (54.95), Hinkelien Schreuder (55.56), Chantal Groot (55.52), Marleen Veldhuis (53.34) | 3:39.37 | |
| 5 | France | Solenne Figuès (55.47), Céline Couderc (54.52), Aurore Mongel (55.42), Malia Metella (54.04) | 3:39.45 | |
| 6 | China | Yu Yang (55.95), Ji Li (56.24), Yingwen Zhu (54.31), Jiaying Pang (55.60) | 3:42.10 | |
| 7 | Sweden | Anna-Karin Kammerling (56.67), Josefin Lillhage (54.25), Therese Alshammar (54.81), Gabriella Fagundez (57.20) | 3:42.93 | |
| 8 | New Zealand | Nichola Chellingworth (56.68), Alison Fitch (55.67), Hannah McLean (55.49), Te Rina Taite (57.00) | 3:44.84 | |

### Preliminaries

| Rank | Heat+Lane | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
| 1 | H2 L4 | Australia | Jodie Henry (55.24), Alice Mills (54.29), Shayne Reese (55.15), Sophie Edington (55.89) | 3:40.57 | q |
| 2 | H2 L3 | France | Céline Couderc (55.61), Solenne Figuès (54.97), Aurore Mongel (55.51), Malia Metella (54.75) | 3:40.84 | q |
| 3 | H1 L5 | Germany | Petra Dallmann (55.76), Annika Liebs (55.13), Meike Freitag (55.67), Daniela Götz (54.79) | 3:41.35 | q |
| 4 | H2 L5 | Netherlands | Chantal Groot (55.76), Femke Heemskerk (56.43), Hinkelien Schreuder (55.62), Marleen Veldhuis (53.74) | 3:41.55 | q |
| 5 | H1 L4 | United States | Kara Lynn Joyce (55.23), Emily Silver (55.84), Mary DeScenza (55.65), Lacey Nymeyer (54.92) | 3:41.84 | q |
| 6 | H2 L6 | China | Yu Yang (56.06), Ji Li (55.78), Yingwen Zhu (54.48), Jiaying Pang (55.57) | 3:41.89 | q |
| 7 | H1 L3 | Sweden | Gabriella Fagundez (56.98), Josefin Lillhage (55.09), Anna-Karin Kammerling (55.77), Therese Alshammar (54.19) | 3:42.03 | q |
| 8 | H2 L2 | New Zealand | Nichola Chellingworth (56.58), Alison Fitch (55.60), Hannah McLean (56.06), Georgina Toomey (57.12) | 3:45.36 | q |
| 9 | H1 L2 | Japan | Norie Urabe (56.36), Atsumi Yamada (56.79), Kaori Yamada (56.36), Haruka Ueda (56.78) | 3:46.29 | |
| 10 | H1 L6 | South Korea | Nam-Eun Lee (57.64), Keo Ra Lee (57.04), Na-Ri Park (57.45), Ji Eun Lee (57.50) | 3:49.63 | |
| 11 | H2 L1 | Denmark | Annette Hansen (58.34), Jeanette Ottesen (57.17), Louise Jansen (58.60), Louise Ørnstedt (57.70) | 3:51.81 | |
| 12 | H1 L7 | Chinese Taipei | Pin-Chieh Nieh (58.15), Yu-Chia Tong (58.40), Chin-Kuei Yang (58.20), Man-Hsu Lin (59.30) | 3:54.05 | |
| 13 | H2 L7 | Singapore | Shu Yong Ho (59.74), Ruth Ho (1:01.29), Lynette Ng (1:00.41), Joscelin Yeo (57.87) | 3:59.31 | |
| 14 | H1 L1 | Macau | Man Wai Fong (1:01.65), Weng I Kuan (1:03.24), Sin Ian Lei (1:05.56), Cheok Mei Ma (1:00.24) | 4:10.69 | |