Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

Men's 800 metre freestyle
at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates July 26, 2011 (heats)
July 27, 2011 (final)
Competitors 51 from 43 nations
Winning time 7:38.57
Medalists
    China
    Canada
    Hungary
2011 FINA
World Championships

Shanghai, China
Diving
Individual
1 m men women
3 m men women
10 m men women
Synchronised
3 m men women
10 m 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
Synchronised swimming
Solo technical free
Duet technical free
Team technical free
combination
Water polo

The men's 800 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 26 with the heats and July 27 with the final.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

Name Nation Time Location Date
World record
Championship record
Zhang Lin China 7:32.12 RomeJuly 29, 2009

Results

Heats

51 swimmers participated in 7 heats.[1]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 7 4 Sun Yang  China 7:45.29 Q
2 5 3 Pál Joensen  Faroe Islands 7:45.55 Q, NR
3 5 4 Ryan Cochrane  Canada 7:45.57 Q
4 6 3 Gergő Kis  Hungary 7:48.33 Q, NR
5 6 7 Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia 7:48.86 Q
6 7 6 Peter Vanderkaay  United States 7:49.13 Q
7 6 4 Sébastien Rouault  France 7:49.43 Q
8 5 5 Chad La Tourette  United States 7:49.94 Q
9 6 5 Samuel Pizzetti  Italy 7:51.59
10 7 3 Job Kienhuis  Netherlands 7:52.63
11 6 2 Mads Glæsner  Denmark 7:54.57
12 5 6 Dai Jun  China 7:54.63
13 7 2 Ryan Napoleon  Australia 7:56.84
14 5 2 Yohsuke Miyamoto  Japan 7:57.13
15 7 5 Christian Kubusch  Germany 7:58.20
16 6 8 Juan Martin Pereyra  Argentina 7:59.06 NR
17 6 6 Federico Colbertaldo  Italy 8:01.10
18 7 7 Heerden Herman  South Africa 8:01.79
19 4 6 Anton Goncharov  Ukraine 8:02.07
20 5 1 Mark Randall  South Africa 8:02.45
21 7 8 Sergiy Frolov  Ukraine 8:03.87
22 4 4 David Brandl  Austria 8:05.66
23 3 2 Mateo de Angulo  Colombia 8:05.98 NR
24 4 3 Uladzimir Zhyharau  Belarus 8:06.04
25 5 7 Gergely Gyurta  Hungary 8:06.14
26 2 7 Jan Karel Petric  Slovenia 8:07.78
27 6 1 Evgeny Kulikov  Russia 8:08.54
28 7 1 Nikolay Bulakhov  Russia 8:08.78
29 4 7 Mohamed Farhoud  Egypt 8:10.35
30 4 2 Daniel Delgadillo Faisal  Mexico 8:10.82
31 4 8 Jang Sang-Jin  South Korea 8:11.94
32 3 5 Ricardo Monasterio  Venezuela 8:12.16
33 4 5 Florian Janistyn  Austria 8:12.90
34 5 8 Dylan Dunlop-Barrett  New Zealand 8:13.06
35 3 4 Ventsislav Aydarski  Bulgaria 8:13.07
36 3 1 Stefan Sorak  Serbia 8:14.45 NR
37 3 6 Christian Bayo  Puerto Rico 8:17.02
38 3 3 Esteban Enderica  Ecuador 8:17.22
39 2 6 Anton Sveinn McKee  Iceland 8:17.83
40 2 2 Kevin Soow Choy Yeap  Malaysia 8:18.79 NR
41 4 1 Květoslav Svoboda  Czech Republic 8:20.41
42 3 7 Ullalmath Gagan  India 8:21.90 NR
43 3 8 Nezir Karap  Turkey 8:23.37
44 2 8 Erazmo Maršanić  Croatia 8:23.53
45 2 5 Sobitjon Amilov  Uzbekistan 8:27.35
46 2 3 Marko Blazevski  Macedonia 8:27.39
47 2 1 Pavol Jelenak  Slovakia 8:28.07
48 2 4 Zhen Ren Teo  Singapore 8:28.67
49 1 5 Iacovos Hadjiconstantinou  Cyprus 8:38.93
50 1 4 Pavel Naroshkin  Estonia 8:44.06
51 1 3 Heimanu Sichan  French Polynesia 9:00.87

Final

The final was held at 18:41.[2]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) 4 Sun Yang  China 7:38.57
2nd, silver medalist(s) 3 Ryan Cochrane  Canada 7:41.86 AR, NR
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 6 Gergő Kis  Hungary 7:44.94 NR
4 2 Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia 7:45.99
5 5 Pál Joensen  Faroe Islands 7:46.51
6 8 Chad La Tourette  United States 7:46.52
7 7 Peter Vanderkaay  United States 7:46.64
8 1 Sébastien Rouault  France 7:55.91

References

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