Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle


The men's 800 metre freestyle event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 30–31 July at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:54.
RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
124Connor Jaeger7:49.28Q
234Sun Yang7:49.37Q
344Ryan Cochrane7:49.58Q
445Michael McBroom7:50.62Q
533Oussama Mellouli7:50.77Q
628Pál Joensen7:50.81Q
735Gregorio Paltrinieri7:52.33Q
846Jordan Harrison7:52.55Q
938Matias Koski7:54.70NR
1032Filip Zaborowski7:55.65
1125Gabriele Detti7:56.15
1243Daniel Fogg7:56.62
1342Sören Meissner7:56.64
1436Ayatsugu Hirai7:56.69
1531Marc Sánchez7:57.64
1647Devon Myles Brown7:57.69
1741Damien Joly7:57.79
1823Serhiy Frolov7:58.70
1940Richárd Nagy7:59.69
2037Martin Grodzki8:00.36
2127Pawel Furtek8:00.56
2226Gergő Kis8:00.92
2321David Brandl8:05.45
2439Uladzimir Zhyharau8:05.51
2520Anton Sveinn McKee8:08.71
2648Ahmed Akaram8:08.73
2749Alejandro Gómez8:09.04
2830Arturo Pérez Vertti8:09.23
2915Marcelo Acosta8:17.39
3014Jang Sang-Jin8:18.51
3122Martin Naidich8:20.53
3229Nezir Karap8:21.31
3313Khader Baqleh8:43.13
3416Brandon Schuster9:27.45

Final

The final was held at 19:29.
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
5Sun Yang7:41.36
6Michael McBroom7:43.60NR
3Ryan Cochrane7:43.70
44Connor Jaeger7:44.26
58Jordan Harrison7:47.38
61Gregorio Paltrinieri7:50.29
77Pál Joensen7:52.57
82Oussama Mellouli7:52.79