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

2015 FINA World Championships Kazan, Russia
Diving
Individual
1 m	men	women
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Synchronised
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Mixed	3 m	10 m
	Team
High diving
men women
Open water swimming
5 km	men	women
10 km	men	women
25 km	men	women
Team	team
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
Mixed relay
4×100 m	freestyle	medley
Synchronised swimming
Solo	technical	free
Duet	technical	free
Team	technical	free
	combination
Mixed duet	technical	free
Water polo
men (rosters) women (rosters)

Contents

RecordsEdit

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

ResultsEdit

HeatsEdit

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

FinalEdit

Sun and Paltrinieri swim to medals

The final was held at 18:58.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	7	Sun Yang	China	7:39.96
02 !	5	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:40.81	ER
03 !	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