Swimming at the 2013 Mediterranean Games – Women's 800 metre freestyle

The women's 800 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2013 Mediterranean Games took place on June 24 at the Mersin Olympic Swimming Pool in Mersin, Turkey.

Women's 800 metre freestyle at the 2013 Mediterranean Games
Venue	Mersin Olympic Swimming Pool
Dates	June 23, 2013
Competitors	10 from 7 nations
Winning time	8:33.17
Medalists
Martina De Memme   Italy   Aurora Ponselé   Italy   Claudia Dasca   Spain

The race consisted of sixteen length of the pool in freestyle.

Schedule

All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00)

Date	Time	Event
Sunday, 23 June 2013	10:40	Heat 1
	19:30	Heat 2

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Mediterranean Games records were as follows:

World record	Rebecca Adlington (GBR)	8:14.10	Beijing, China	August 16, 2008
Mediterranean Games record	Alessia Filippi (ITA)	8:20.78	Pescara, Italy	June 30, 2009

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:

GR

Games record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

DNS

Did not started

Final

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Time	Notes
	2	4	Martina De Memme (ITA)	8:33.17
	2	5	Aurora Ponselé (ITA)	8:40.70
	2	6	Claudia Dasca (ESP)	8:45.41
4	2	1	Špela Bohinc (SLO)	8:46.57
5	2	8	Marianna Lymperta (GRE)	8:48.21
6	2	2	María Vilas (ESP)	8:52.05
7	2	7	Morgane Rothon (FRA)	8:53.09
8	1	4	Merve Eroğlu (TUR)	9:06.30
9	1	5	Reem Kaseem (EGY)	9:10.72
10	1	3	Zeynep Balto (TUR)	9:20.27