Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

The Men's 800 Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on July 24–25, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary heats of the event were swum during the morning session on July 24,[1] with the Final being held during the evening session on July 25.[2]

Men's 800m Freestyle
at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates24 July (prelims)
25 July (final)
Winning time7 minute 43.82 seconds
Medalists
gold medal    Australia
silver medal    United States
bronze medal    Ukraine
← 2001
2005 →

Prior to the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were both:

Results

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Final

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Place Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 Grant Hackett   Australia 7:43.82
2 Larsen Jensen   USA 7:48.09 NR
3 Ihor Chervynskyi   Ukraine 7:53.15
4 Graeme Smith   Great Britain 7:53.48
5 Dragoș Coman   Romania 7:57.22
6 Kurtis MacGillivary   Canada 8:01.75
7 Shunichi Fujita   Japan 8:02.38
8 Lin Zhang   China 8:04.10

Preliminaries

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Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 H4 L4 Grant Hackett   Australia 7:55.15 q
2 H2 L4 Graeme Smith   Great Britain 7:58.66 q
3 H3 L4 Larsen Jensen   United States 7:59.18 q
4 H4 L3 Kurtis MacGillivary   Canada 7:59.58 q
5 H2 L3 Dragoș Coman   Romania 8:00.44 q
6 H3 L2 Ihor Chervynskyi   Ukraine 8:00.61 q
7 H2 L2 Shunichi Fujita   Japan 8:02.84 q
8 H3 L1 Lin Zhang   China 8:04.74 q
9 H3 L5 Stephen Penfold   Australia 8:06.48
10 H3 L7 Shilo Ayalon   Israel 8:07.85
11 H2 L1 Hannes Kalteis   Austria 8:08.17
12 H4 L7 Chad Carvin   United States 8:08.48
13 H2 L6 Dimitros Manganas   Greece 8:10.07
14 H2 L7 Felipe Araujo   Brazil 8:10.56
15 H3 L6 Kyu Chul Han   South Korea 8:13.47
16 H4 L8 Gian Carlo Zolezzi   Chile 8:14.62
17 H4 L1 Luiz Lima   Brazil 8:15.08
18 H4 L2 Cheng Yu   China 8:16.23
19 H3 L3 Rick Say   Canada 8:17.31
20 H3 L8 Yi-Khy Saw   Malaysia 8:22.99
21 H2 L8 Shai Livant   Israel 8:24.14
22 H1 L4 Mohammad Naeem Masri   Syria 8:30.00
23 H1 L3 Kwok Leung Chung   Hong Kong 8:31.10
24 H1 L5 Roberto Peñailillo   Chile 8:34.10
25 H1 L6 Neils Agius   Malta 9:09.73
26 H1 L2 Steven Mangroo   Seychelles 9:16.60
27 H1 L7 Barnsley Albert   Seychelles 9:27.30
- - David Davies   Great Britain DNS
- - Emiliano Brembilla   Italy DNS
- - Trevor Kakunze   Burundi DNS

References

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  1. ^ Worlds 2003 results: Men's 800 Free -- Prelims from Omega Timing (official timer). Published 2003-07-24, retrieved 2013-06-06.
  2. ^ Worlds 2003 results: Men's 800 Free -- Final from Omega Timing (official timer). Published 2003-07-25, retrieved 2013-06-06.