Swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

Men's 800 metre freestyle at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	20 June (heats) 21 June (final)
Competitors	30 from 27 nations
Winning time	7:39.36
Medalists
Bobby Finke    United States   Florian Wellbrock    Germany   Mykhailo Romanchuk    Ukraine
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The Men's 800 metre freestyle competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 20 and 21 June 2022. ^{[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	26 July 2009
Competition record	Zhang Lin (CHN)	7:32.12	Rome, Italy	26 July 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 20 June at 09:57. ^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	7:44.75	Q
2	3	5	Florian Wellbrock	Germany	7:44.80	Q
3	3	6	Gabriele Detti	Italy	7:46.08	Q
4	4	4	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:46.24	Q
5	3	1	Daniel Wiffen	Ireland	7:46.32	Q, NR
6	4	3	Bobby Finke	United States	7:46.36	Q
7	4	2	Guilherme Costa	Brazil	7:46.90	Q
8	4	8	Damien Joly	France	7:47.46	Q
9	4	7	Samuel Short	Australia	7:48.28
10	4	1	Daniel Jervis	Great Britain	7:50.55
11	3	2	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	7:50.98
12	3	7	Charlie Clark	United States	7:51.59
13	4	0	Marwan Elkamash	Egypt	7:52.08
14	2	3	Kim Woo-min	South Korea	7:53.27
15	4	5	Lukas Märtens	Germany	7:55.21
16	4	9	Dimitrios Markos	Greece	8:00.08
17	3	9	Bar Soloveychik	Israel	8:04.14
18	3	8	Zhang Ziyang	China	8:04.18
19	2	5	Carlos Garach	Spain	8:05.52
20	2	6	Juan Morales	Colombia	8:05.61
21	2	4	Ákos Kalmár	Hungary	8:06.67
22	3	0	José Paulo Lopes	Portugal	8:14.40
23	2	2	Kushagra Rawat	India	8:15.96
24	1	5	Rafael Ponce	Peru	8:17.49
25	2	1	Nguyễn Hữu Kim Sơn	Vietnam	8:24.02
26	2	0	Rodolfo Falcón	Cuba	8:24.45
27	1	4	Loris Bianchi	San Marino	8:27.93
28	2	7	Cheuk Ming Ho	Hong Kong	8:32.67
29	2	8	Ratthawit Thammananthachote	Thailand	8:35.86
30	1	3	Muhammad Siddiqui	Pakistan	8:57.59	NR
	3	3	Elijah Winnington	Australia	Did not start
	4	6	Felix Auböck	Austria

Final

The final was held on 21 June at 18:02. ^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	7	Bobby Finke	United States	7:39.36	AM
	5	Florian Wellbrock	Germany	7:39.63	NR
	4	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	7:40.05	NR
4	6	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:41.19
5	1	Guilherme Costa	Brazil	7:45.48	SA
6	3	Gabriele Detti	Italy	7:47.75
7	8	Damien Joly	France	7:48.10
8	2	Daniel Wiffen	Ireland	7:50.63

References

1. "Schedule" (PDF). fina.org. 15 June 2022.
2. "Start list" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 19 June 2022.
3. "Heats results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 20 June 2022.
4. "Final results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 June 2022.