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 Sun Yang   China
silver medal Gregorio Paltrinieri   Italy
bronze medal Mack Horton   Australia
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Diving
Individual
1 mmenwomen
3 mmenwomen
10 mmenwomen
3 m & 10 mmixed team
Synchronised
3 mmenwomenmixed
10 mmenwomenmixed
High diving
20 mwomen
27 mmen
Open water swimming
Single
5 kmmenwomen
10 kmmenwomen
25 kmmenwomen
Team
5 kmmixed
Swimming
Freestyle
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmenwomen
Backstroke
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 mmenwomenmixed
4 × 200 mmenwomen
Medley relay
4 × 100 mmenwomenmixed
Synchronised swimming
Solo
Technicalwomen
Freewomen
Duet
Technicalwomenmixed
Freewomenmixed
Team
Technicalwomen
Freewomen
Combinationwomen
Water polo
Tournamentmenwomen

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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  1. ^ Start list
  2. ^ Heats results
  3. ^ Final results