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

Men's 800 metre freestyle
at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
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
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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	Rome	July 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	North 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
	4	Sun Yang	China	7:38.57
	3	Ryan Cochrane	Canada	7:41.86	AR, NR
	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