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

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