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   details	Roland Schoeman   South Africa	21.69 CR, AF	Duje Draganja   Croatia	21.89	Bartosz Kizierowski   Poland	21.94
100 m freestyle   details	Filippo Magnini   Italy	48.12 CR, NR	Roland Schoeman   South Africa	48.28	Ryk Neethling   South Africa	48.34
200 m freestyle   details	Michael Phelps   USA	1:45.20 AM	Grant Hackett   AUS	1:46.14	Ryk Neethling   South Africa	1:46.63
400 m freestyle   details	Grant Hackett   Australia	3:42.91	Yuri Prilukov   Russia	3:44.44 NR	Oussama Mellouli   Tunisia	3:46.08
800 m freestyle   details	Grant Hackett   Australia	7:38.65 WR	Larsen Jensen   USA	7:45.63 AM	Yuri Prilukov   Russia	7:46.64 ER
1500 m freestyle   details	Grant Hackett   Australia	14:42.58	Larsen Jensen   USA	14:47.58	David Davies   Great Britain	14:48.11
50 m backstroke   details	Aristeidis Grigoriadis   Greece	24.95	Matt Welsh   Australia	24.99 OC	Liam Tancock   Great Britain	25.02
100 m backstroke   details	Aaron Peirsol   USA	53.62	Randall Bal   USA	54.02	László Cseh   Hungary	54.27
200 m backstroke   details	Aaron Peirsol   USA	1:54.66 WR	Markus Rogan   Austria	1:56.63	Ryan Lochte   USA	1:57.00
50 m breaststroke   details	Mark Warnecke   Germany	27.63	Mark Gangloff   USA	27.71	Kosuke Kitajima   Japan	27.78
100 m breaststroke   details	Brendan Hansen   USA	59.37 CR	Kosuke Kitajima   Japan	59.53	Hugues Duboscq   France	1:00.20
200 m breaststroke   details	Brendan Hansen   USA	2:09.85	Mike Brown   Canada	2:11.22	Genki Imamura   Japan	2:11.54
50 m butterfly   details	Roland Schoeman   South Africa	22.96 WR	Ian Crocker   USA	23.12	Sergiy Breus   Ukraine	23.38
100 m butterfly   details	Ian Crocker   USA	50.40 WR	Michael Phelps   USA	51.65	Andriy Serdinov   Ukraine	52.08
200 m butterfly   details	Paweł Korzeniowski   Poland	1:55.02	Takeshi Matsuda   Japan	1:55.62	Wu Peng   China	1:56.50
200 m I.M.   details	Michael Phelps   USA	1:56.68	László Cseh   Hungary	1:57.61	Ryan Lochte   USA	1:57.79
400 m I.M.   details	László Cseh   Hungary	4:09.63 ER	Luca Marin   Italy	4:11.67	Oussama Mellouli   Tunisia	4:13.47 AF
4 × 100 m   freestyle relay details	USA   Michael Phelps (49.17)   Neil Walker (47.70)   Nate Dusing (48.97)   Jason Lezak (47.93)	3:13.77 CR, AM	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 details	USA   Michael Phelps (1:45.51)   Ryan Lochte (1:48.22)   Peter Vanderkaay (1:46.52)   Klete Keller (1:46.33)	7:06.58 AM	Canada   Brent Hayden (1:47.10)   Colin Russell (1:48.60)   Rick Say (1:46.84)   Andrew Hurd (1:47.19)	7:09.73 NR	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 details	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   details	Libby Lenton   Australia	24.59	Marleen Veldhuis   Netherlands	24.83	Zhu Yingwen   China	24.91
100 m freestyle   details	Jodie Henry   Australia	54.18	Malia Metella   France Natalie Coughlin   USA	54.74	none
200 m freestyle   details	Solenne Figuès   France	1:58.60	Federica Pellegrini   Italy	1:58.73	Josefin Lillhage   Sweden Yang Yu   China	1:59.08
400 m freestyle   details	Laure Manaudou   France	4:06.44	Ai Shibata   Japan	4:06.74	Caitlin McClatchey   Great Britain	4:07.25
800 m freestyle   details	Kate Ziegler   USA	8:25.31	Brittany Reimer   Canada	8:27.59	Ai Shibata   Japan	8:27.86
1500 m freestyle   details	Kate Ziegler   USA	16:00.41	Flavia Rigamonti   Switzerland	16:04:34	Brittany Reimer   Canada	16:07.73
50 m backstroke   details	Giaan Rooney   Australia	28.63	Gao Chang   China	28.69	Antje Buschschulte   Germany	28.72
100 m backstroke   details	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	1:00.24	Antje Buschschulte   Germany	1:00.84	Natalie Coughlin   USA	1:00.88
200 m backstroke   details	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	2:08.52	Margaret Hoelzer   USA	2:09.94	Reiko Nakamura   Japan	2:10.41
50 m breaststroke   details	Jade Edmistone   Australia	30.45 WR	Jessica Hardy   USA	30.85	Brooke Hanson   Australia	30.89
100 m breaststroke   details	Leisel Jones   Australia	1:06.25 OC	Jessica Hardy   USA	1:06.62	Tara Kirk   USA	1:07.43
200 m breaststroke   details	Leisel Jones   Australia	2:21.72 WR	Anne Poleska   Germany	2:25.84	Mirna Jukić   Austria	2:27.11
50 m butterfly   details	Danni Miatke   Australia	26.11	Anna-Karin Kammerling   Sweden	26.36	Therese Alshammar   Sweden	26.39
100 m butterfly   details	Jessicah Schipper   Australia	57.23 CR, OC	Libby Lenton   Australia	57.37	Otylia Jędrzejczak   Poland	58.57
200 m butterfly   details	Otylia Jędrzejczak   Poland	2:05.61 WR	Jessicah Schipper   Australia	2:05.65 OC	Yuko Nakanishi   Japan	2:09.40
200 m I.M.   details	Katie Hoff   USA	2:10.41 CR, AM	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	2:11.13	Lara Carroll   Australia	2:13.32
400 m I.M.   details	Katie Hoff   USA	4:36.07 CR	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	4:39.72	Kaitlin Sandeno   USA	4:40.85
4 × 100 m   freestyle relay details	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 details	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) OC   Shayne Reese (2:00.00)   Bronte Barratt (1:58.58)   Linda Mackenzie (1:58.42)	7:54.06 OC	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 details	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 entries)		40	41	40	121

Records

The following world and championship records were set during the competition.

World records

Date	Round	Event	Time	Name	Nation
July 24	Semifinal 1	Men's 50 metre butterfly	23.01	Roland Schoeman	South Africa
July 25	Final	Men's 50 metre butterfly	22.96	Roland Schoeman	South Africa
July 25	Semifinal 1	Women's 100 metre breaststroke	1:06.20	Jessica Hardy	United States
July 27	Final	Men's 800 metre freestyle	7:38.65	Grant Hackett	Australia
July 28	Final	Women's 200 metre butterfly	2:05.61	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland
July 29	Final	Men's 200 metre backstroke	1:54.66	Aaron Peirsol	United States
July 29	Final	Women's 200 metre breaststroke	2:21.72	Leisel Jones	Australia
July 30	Final	Men's 100 metre butterfly	50.40	Ian Crocker	United States
July 31	Final	Women's 50 metre breaststroke	30.45	Jade Edmistone	Australia

Championship records

Date	Round	Event	Time	Name	Nation
July 24	Heat 6	Women's 100 metre butterfly	57.91	Jessicah Schipper	Australia
July 24	Heat 12	Men's 100 metre breaststroke	59.71	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan
July 24	Semifinal 2	Women's 100 metre butterfly	57.75	Jessicah Schipper	Australia
July 24	Final	Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	3:37.32	Jodie Henry (54.45) Alice Mills (53.96) Shayne Reese (55.37) Libby Lenton (54.56)	Australia
July 24	Final	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	3:13.77	Michael Phelps (49.17) Neil Walker (47.70) Nate Dusing (48.97) Jason Lezak (47.93)	United States
July 25	Final	Men's 100 metre breaststroke	59.37	Brendan Hansen	United States
July 25	Final	Women's 100 metre butterfly	57.23	Jessicah Schipper	Australia
July 25	Final	Women's 200 metre individual medley	2:10.41	Katie Hoff	United States
July 27	Semifinal 2	Women's 50 metre backstroke	28.31	Gao Chang	China
July 28	Final	Men's 100 metre freestyle	48.12	Filippo Magnini	Italy
July 28	Final	Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay	7:53.70	Natalie Coughlin (1:58.82) Katie Hoff (1:58.50) Whitney Myers (1:58.81) Kaitlin Sandeno (1:57.57)	United States
July 30	Final	Men's 50 metre freestyle	21.69	Roland Schoeman	South Africa
July 30	Semifinal 2	Women's 50 metre breaststroke	30.61	Jade Edmistone	Australia
July 30	Final	Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay	3:57.47	Sophie Edington (1:01.48) Leisel Jones (1:05.73) Jessicah Schipper (57.13) Libby Lenton (53.13)	Australia
July 31	Final	Women's 400 metre individual medley	4:36.07	Katie Hoff	United States