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| Lithuania at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships | |
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| FINA code | LTU |
| National federation | Lietuvos plaukimo federacija |
| Website | www |
| in Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |
| Competitors | 6 in 1 sports |
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| World Aquatics Championships appearances (overview) | |
| Other related appearances | |
 Soviet Union (1973–1991) | |
Lithuania competed at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
6 swimmers represented Lithuania: [1]
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | |||
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| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
| Paulius Andrijauskas | 200 m freestyle | 1:51.48 | 34 | did not advance | |||
| 200 m individual medley | 2:04.77 | 18 | did not advance | ||||
| 400 m individual medley | 4:29.25 | 20 | — | did not advance | |||
| Saulius Binevičius | 100 m freestyle | 50.59 | 32 | did not advance | |||
| 200 m freestyle | 1:53.15 | 46 | did not advance | ||||
| Rolandas Gimbutis | 50 m freestyle | 22.79 | 23 | did not advance | |||
| 100 m freestyle | 49.73 | 16 Q | 50.42 | 16 | did not advance | ||
| Vytautas Janušaitis | 100 m backstroke | 55.83 | 18 | did not advance | |||
| 200 m individual medley | 2:00.93 | 6 Q | 1:59.72 (NR) | 3 Q | 2:00.78 | 6 | |
| Pavel Suškov | 50 m backstroke | 26.51 | 18 | did not advance | |||
| 100 m backstroke | 56.50 | 25 | did not advance | ||||
| 200 m backstroke | 2:02.36 | 17 | did not advance | ||||
| 200 m butterfly | 2:02.77 (NR) | 26 | did not advance | ||||
| Paulius Viktoravičius | 50 m freestyle | 23.43 | 38 | did not advance | |||
| 50 m butterfly | 25.17 | 36 | did not advance | ||||
| Paulius Viktoravičius Vytautas Janušaitis Saulius Binevičius Rolandas Gimbutis | 4 × 100 m freestyle relay | 3:18.57 (NR) | 5 | — | 3:17.89 (NR) | 4 | |
| 4 × 200 m freestyle relay | 7:30.57 (NR) | 15 | — | did not advance | |||
| 4 × 100 m medley relay | 3:46.74 | 12 | — | did not advance | |||
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