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

Women's 800 metre freestyle at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	23 June (heats) 24 June (final)
Competitors	21 from 17 nations
Winning time	8:08.04
Medalists
Katie Ledecky    United States   Kiah Melverton    Australia   Simona Quadarella    Italy
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The Women's 800 metre freestyle competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 23 and 24 June 2022. ^{[1] [2]}

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record	Katie Ledecky  (USA)	8:04.79	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	12 August 2016
Competition record	Katie Ledecky (USA)	8:07.39	Kazan, Russia	8 August 2015

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 23 June at 10:31. ^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Katie Ledecky	United States	8:17.51	Q
2	3	3	Lani Pallister	Australia	8:24.66
3	2	5	Leah Smith	United States	8:25.19	Q
4	3	5	Li Bingjie	China	8:27.19	Q
5	3	6	Isabel Marie Gose	Germany	8:27.69	Q
6	3	7	Eve Thomas	New Zealand	8:27.82	Q
7	2	4	Simona Quadarella	Italy	8:27.96	Q
8	2	3	Kiah Melverton	Australia	8:30.68	Q
9	2	7	Viviane Jungblut	Brazil	8:32.26	Q
10	2	2	Miyu Namba	Japan	8:32.91
11	3	1	Kristel Köbrich	Chile	8:37.02
12	3	2	Ajna Késely	Hungary	8:38.64
13	3	8	Gabrielle Roncatto	Brazil	8:38.65
14	2	6	Tang Muhan	China	8:39.46
15	2	0	Diana Durães	Portugal	8:41.37
16	2	8	Ángela Martínez	Spain	8:45.12
17	3	0	Katrina Bellio	Canada	8:45.67
18	3	9	Han Da-kyung	South Korea	8:49.18
19	1	4	Arianna Valloni	San Marino	8:59.95
20	1	5	Võ Thị Mỹ Tiên	Vietnam	9:12.87
21	1	3	Vár Erlingsdóttir Eidesgaard	Faroe Islands	9:16.94
	1	2	Talita Te Flan	Ivory Coast	did not start
	1	6	Arianna Lont	Sint Maarten
	2	1	Paula Otero	Spain
	2	9	Gan Ching Hwee	Singapore

Final

The final was held on 24 June at 19:26. ^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Katie Ledecky	United States	8:08.04
	1	Kiah Melverton	Australia	8:18.77
	7	Simona Quadarella	Italy	8:19.00
4	5	Leah Smith	United States	8:20.04
5	3	Li Bingjie	China	8:23.15
6	6	Isabel Marie Gose	Germany	8:23.78
7	2	Eve Thomas	New Zealand	8:30.37
8	8	Viviane Jungblut	Brazil	8:37.04

References

1. "Schedule" (PDF). fina.org. 15 June 2022.
2. "Start list" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 16 June 2022.
3. "Heats results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 23 June 2022.
4. "Final results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 24 June 2022.