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

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.

Men's 800 metre freestyle at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Victory Ceremony
Dates	4 August (heats) 5 August (final)
Competitors	41 from 36 nations
Winning time	7:39.96
Medalists
Sun Yang   China   Gregorio Paltrinieri   Italy   Mack Horton   Australia

Records

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

Heats

The heats were held at 10:30.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	3	Connor Jaeger	United States	7:44.47	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

Sun and Paltrinieri swim to medals

The final was held at 18:58.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	7	Sun Yang	China	7:39.96
	5	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:40.81	ER
	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