Women's 800 metre freestyle at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships | ||||||||||
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Venue | Tašmajdan Sports Centre | |||||||||
Location | Belgrade, Yugoslavia | |||||||||
Dates | 9 September 1973 | |||||||||
Competitors | 24 from 17 nations | |||||||||
Winning time | 8:52.973 WR | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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1973 FINA World Championships | ||
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Diving | ||
Individual | ||
3 m | men | women |
10 m | men | women |
Swimming | ||
Freestyle | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
800 m | women | |
1500 m | men | |
Backstroke | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Breaststroke | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Butterfly | ||
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 | |
Medley relay | ||
4×100 m | men | women |
Synchronised swimming | ||
Solo | women | |
Duet | women | |
Team | women | |
Water polo | ||
Tournament | men | |
The women's 800 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on 9 September.
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
World record | Keena Rothhammer (USA) | 8:53.68 | Munich, West Germany | 3 September 1972 |
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Competition record | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
The following records were established during the competition:
Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
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9 September | Timed Final | Marina Maliutina | Soviet Union | 9:45.644 | CR |
9 September | Timed Final | Angela Franke | East Germany | 9:09.677 | CR |
9 September | Timed Final | Novella Calligaris | Italy | 8:52.973 | WR |
24 swimmers participated in 3 heats. [1] The event was a timed final. The first two heats were contested in the morning with the third and final heat contested in the evening.
Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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3 | - | Novella Calligaris | Italy | 8:52.973 | WR | |
3 | - | Jo Harshbarger | United States | 8:55.560 | ||
3 | - | Gudrun Wegner | East Germany | 9:01.823 | ||
4 | 2 | - | Angela Franke | East Germany | 9:09.677 | CR |
5 | 3 | - | Narelle Moras | Australia | 9:09.936 | |
6 | 3 | - | Keena Rothhammer | United States | 9:15.725 | |
7 | 2 | - | Elisa Gunston | Sweden | 9:22.129 | |
8 | 3 | - | Sandra Yost | Australia | 9:22.493 | |
9 | 2 | - | M. De Angelis | Italy | 9:23.206 | |
10 | 3 | - | Anne Marie McCaffrey | Canada | 9:23.503 | |
11 | 3 | - | Leslie Cliff | Canada | 9:27.647 | |
12 | 2 | - | Maria Guimarães | Brazil | 9:27.920 | |
13 | 2 | - | Roselina Angel | Colombia | 9:42.695 | |
14 | 1 | - | Marina Maliutina | Soviet Union | 9:45.644 | CR |
15 | 1 | - | Sandra Arambatsis | Venezuela | 9:51.384 | |
16 | 2 | - | Naoko Shio | Japan | 9:51.499 | |
17 | 2 | - | Tatyana Skvortsova | Soviet Union | 9:57.458 | |
18 | 2 | - | Svetlana Pavletic | Yugoslavia | 10:04.873 | |
19 | 1 | - | Elzbieta Pilawska | Poland | 10:06.768 | |
20 | 1 | - | Eva Tomandl | Austria | 10:11.277 | |
21 | 1 | - | Loida Moreda | Puerto Rico | 10:18.319 | |
22 | 1 | - | Myriam Mizouni | Tunisia | 10:28.992 | |
- | 1 | - | Belinda Phillips | Jamaica | - | DNS / DSQ |
- | 1 | - | Leslie Thompson | Puerto Rico | - | DNS / DSQ |
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The women's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 5.
The women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 4.
The women's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 5.
The men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 5.
The women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 6.
The women's 100 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 6.
The men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 6.
The women's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 7.
The women's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 7.
The women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 7.
The men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 7.
The women's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 8.
The women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 8.
The men's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 8.
The women's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 9.
The men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 9.
The men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 9.