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Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

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Men's 800 metre freestyle
at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Victory Ceremony
Dates4 August (heats)
5 August (final)
Competitors41 from 36 nations
Winning time7:39.96
Medalists
gold medal    China
silver medal    Italy
bronze medal    Australia
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The men's 800 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 4 August with the heats and 5 August with the final.[1]

Records

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Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record  Zhang Lin (CHN) 7:32.12 Rome, Italy 29 July 2009
Competition record  Zhang Lin (CHN) 7:32.12 Rome, Italy 29 July 2009

Results

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Heats

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The heats were held at 10:30.[2]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 3 Connor Jaeger  United States 7:44.77 Q
2 5 4 Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy 7:45.15 Q
3 5 2 Stephen Milne  Great Britain 7:46.61 Q
4 5 6 Michael McBroom  United States 7:47.05 Q
5 5 5 Mack Horton  Australia 7:47.08 Q
6 4 5 Sun Yang  China 7:47.87 Q
7 5 8 Wojciech Wojdak  Poland 7:48.95 Q
8 3 6 Henrik Christiansen  Norway 7:49.70 Q, NR
9 5 1 Ahmed Akram  Egypt 7:49.83 NR
10 4 4 Ryan Cochrane  Canada 7:50.28
11 4 2 Damien Joly  France 7:50.30
12 4 0 Marc Sánchez  Spain 7:51.19
13 3 0 Mads Glæsner  Denmark 7:51.24 NR
14 3 5 Joris Bouchaut  France 7:52.37
15 4 1 Florian Vogel  Germany 7:53.61
16 4 9 Maarten Brzoskowski  Netherlands 7:54.31
17 4 3 Pál Joensen  Faroe Islands 7:55.01
18 3 4 Richárd Nagy  Slovakia 7:55.31 NR
19 5 9 Wang Kecheng  China 7:56.05
20 3 7 Nathan Capp  New Zealand 7:57.61 NR
21 3 8 Martín Naidich  Argentina 7:57.72
22 4 8 Sören Meißner  Germany 7:57.93
23 5 7 Gergely Gyurta  Hungary 7:58.70
24 4 6 Péter Bernek  Hungary 7:59.56
25 3 1 Serhiy Frolov  Ukraine 8:02.17
26 3 2 Esteban Enderica  Ecuador 8:03.17
27 3 9 Martin Bau  Slovenia 8:04.11
28 5 0 Myles Brown  South Africa 8:04.47
29 2 5 Vuk Čelić  Serbia 8:05.68
30 4 7 Jan Micka  Czech Republic 8:05.76
31 3 3 Matias Koski  Finland 8:07.28
32 2 6 Sven Arnar Saemundsson  Croatia 8:07.40 NR
33 2 1 Ido Haber  Israel 8:07.78
34 2 2 Alexei Sancov  Moldova 8:10.83
35 2 3 Marcelo Acosta  El Salvador 8:12.52
36 2 4 Ernest Maksumov  Russia 8:12.65
37 1 4 Alin Artimon  Romania 8:17.16
38 2 8 Sim Wee Sheng Welson Sim  Malaysia 8:18.20
39 2 7 Andy Arteta  Venezuela 8:19.39
40 1 5 Felipe Tapia  Chile 8:21.27
41 1 3 Pol Arias  Andorra 8:28.11

Final

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Sun and Paltrinieri swim to medals

The final was held at 18:58.[3]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 7 Sun Yang  China 7:39.96
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5 Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy 7:40.81 ER
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2 Mack Horton  Australia 7:44.02
4 4 Connor Jaeger  United States 7:44.51
5 8 Henrik Christiansen  Norway 7:45.66 NR
6 1 Wojciech Wojdak  Poland 7:45.90 NR
7 3 Stephen Milne  Great Britain 7:49.86
8 6 Michael McBroom  United States 7:55.30

References

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