Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

Men's 800 metre freestyle
at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates 19–20 May
Competitors 30 from 20 nations
Winning time 7:42.33
Medalists
    Italy
    Italy
    Ukraine
2016 LEN
European Championships

London, England
Diving
Individual
1 m men women
3 m men women
10 m men women
Synchronised
3 m men women
10 m men women
Mixed 3 m 10 m
Team team
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
Backstroke
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
50 m men women
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 women
Medley relay
4×100 m men women
Mixed relay
4×100 m freestyle medley
Synchronised swimming
Solo Free Technical
Duet Free Technical
Team Free Technical
Mixed Free Technical
Combination Combination

The Men's 800 metre freestyle competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 19 and 20 May 2016.[1][2]

Records

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

Name Nation Time Location Date
World recordZhang Lin China7:32.12Rome29 July 2009
European recordGregorio Paltrinieri Italy7:40.81Kazan5 August 2015
Championship recordGregorio Paltrinieri Italy7:44.98Berlin22 August 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 19 May at 10:53.[3]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 4 Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy 7:49.87 Q
2 4 5 Gabriele Detti  Italy 7:51.40 Q
3 3 6 Mykhailo Romanchuk  Ukraine 7:51.83 Q
4 1 5 Timothy Shuttleworth  Great Britain 7:52.33 Q
5 3 2 Jan Micka  Czech Republic 7:52.76 Q
6 3 4 Henrik Christiansen  Norway 7:53.09 Q
7 3 3 Joris Bouchaut  France 7:54.41 Q
8 4 3 Gergely Gyurta  Hungary 7:56.50 Q
9 4 2 Ruwen Straub  Germany 7:57.05
10 4 1 Filip Zaborowski  Poland 7:57.62
11 4 7 Daniel Jervis  Great Britain 7:58.45
12 3 5 Serhiy Frolov  Ukraine 7:58.54
13 4 6 Richárd Nagy  Slovakia 7:58.93
14 2 4 Nezir Karap  Turkey 7:59.20
15 4 8 Miguel Durán  Spain 8:01.12
16 2 5 Victor Johansson  Sweden 8:01.63
17 2 6 Marc Hinawi  Israel 8:01.70
18 3 8 Kristóf Rasovszky  Hungary 8:01.82
19 3 9 Martin Bau  Slovenia 8:03.35
20 3 1 Anton Ipsen  Denmark 8:03.37
21 3 7 Antonio Arroyo  Spain 8:04.40
22 4 9 Henning Muehlleitner  Germany 8:12.21
23 2 3 Grega Popović  Slovenia 8:14.56
24 4 0 Vuk Čelić  Serbia 8:14.86
25 2 1 Ján Kútnik  Czech Republic 8:16.47
26 2 7 Truls Wigdel  Norway 8:17.80
27 3 0 Ediz Yıldırımer  Turkey 8:17.99
28 2 8 Dimitrios Dimitriou  Greece 8:29.63
29 1 4 Irakli Revishvili  Georgia 8:33.31
30 1 3 Franc Aleksi  Albania 8:35.94
31 2 2 Oli Mortensen  Faroe Islands DNS

Final

The final was held on 20 May at 18:02.[4]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) 4 Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy 7:42.33 CR
2nd, silver medalist(s) 5 Gabriele Detti  Italy 7:43.52
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 3 Mykhailo Romanchuk  Ukraine 7:47.99
4 2 Jan Micka  Czech Republic 7:50.38
5 6 Timothy Shuttleworth  Great Britain 7:50.52
6 7 Henrik Christiansen  Norway 7:51.84
7 8 Gergely Gyurta  Hungary 7:54.32
8 1 Joris Bouchaut  France 7:58.54

References

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