Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

Men's 800 metre freestyle
at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Men's 800 metre freestyle ; at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	25 July (heats); 26 July (final)
Competitors	30 from 27 nations
Winning time	7:40.77
Medalists
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The Men's 800 metre freestyle competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 25 and 26 July 2017.^[1]^[2]

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

The heats were held on 25 July at 10:31.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:45.31	Q
2	3	3	Wojciech Wojdak	Poland	7:46.39	Q
3	3	5	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	7:47.61	Q
4	3	1	Felix Auböck	Austria	7:49.24	Q, NR
5	4	3	Sun Yang	China	7:49.28	Q
6	4	4	Gabriele Detti	Italy	7:49.67	Q
7	4	1	Florian Wellbrock	Germany	7:50.89	Q
8	4	2	Zane Grothe	United States	7:50.97	Q
9	4	0	Ahmed Akram	Egypt	7:51.41
10	3	6	Clark Smith	United States	7:51.83
11	4	8	Victor Johansson	Sweden	7:52.66	NR
12	4	9	Anton Ipsen	Denmark	7:53.37
13	4	7	Jack McLoughlin	Australia	7:53.51
14	2	3	Marcelo Acosta	El Salvador	7:55.70
15	2	1	Ferry Weertman	Netherlands	7:56.44
16	4	6	Jan Micka	Czech Republic	7:56.71
17	3	7	Qiu Ziao	China	7:57.47
18	3	8	Ilya Druzhinin	Russia	8:00.27
19	3	0	Martin Bau	Slovenia	8:00.32
20	2	4	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	8:01.42
21	3	2	Gergely Gyurta	Hungary	8:03.87
22	2	2	Ricardo Vargas	Mexico	8:04.17
23	3	9	Antonio Arroyo	Spain	8:04.68
24	2	6	Dimitrios Negris	Greece	8:05.88
25	2	8	Guilherme Pina	Portugal	8:08.96
26	2	5	Martín Naidich	Argentina	8:12.00
27	2	7	Marc Hinawi	Israel	8:12.39
28	1	4	Óli Mortensen	Faroe Islands	8:16.25
29	1	5	Constantinos Hadjittooulis	Cyprus	8:23.30
30	1	3	Franci Aleksi	Albania	8:37.23
	4	5	Mack Horton	Australia	DNS

The final was held on 26 July at 19:05.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	7	Gabriele Detti	Italy	7:40.77	ER
	5	Wojciech Wojdak	Poland	7:41.73	NR
	4	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:42.44
4	3	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	7:44.21	NR
5	2	Sun Yang	China	7:48.87
6	6	Felix Auböck	Austria	7:51.20
7	1	Florian Wellbrock	Germany	7:52.27
8	8	Zane Grothe	United States	7:52.43