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

The Men's 800 metre freestyle competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 12 and 13 August 2022.^{[1] [2]}

Records

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

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World record			7:32.12		29 July 2009
European record			7:39.27		24 July 2019
Championship record			7:42.33		20 May 2016

The following new records were set during this competition.

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 12 August at 10:08.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4			7:47.93	Q
2	3	5			7:48.38	Q
3	2	4			7:48.91	Q
4	3	3			7:49.08	Q
5	3	6			7:49.17	Q
6	2	3			7:49.30	Q
7	2	5			7:49.93
8	3	7			7:51.60
9	3	1			7:51.63	Q
10	2	2			7:52.48	Q
11	2	1			7:52.60
12	2	6			7:53.82
13	3	2			7:59.24
14	2	0			7:59.31
15	3	0			7:59.50
16	2	8			8:04.48
17	3	8			8:05.71
18	1	5			8:11.02
19	1	4			8:15.09
20	3	9			8:15.39
21	2	7			8:20.88
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Final

The final was held on 13 August at 19:37.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3			7:40.86	CR
	5			7:42.65
	6			7:43.37	WJ
4	4			7:45.03
5	7			7:47.36
6	2			7:48.82
7	1			7:50.69
8	8			7:54.51

Notes and References

1. https://www.roma2022.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Timing-SWIMMING-elite-1.5.pdf Schedule
2. https://roma2022.microplustimingservices.com/export/NU_ROMA2022/NU/pdf/SWMM800MFR------------HEAT--------_51A1%201.0.pdf Start list
3. https://roma2022.microplustimingservices.com/export/NU_ROMA2022/NU/pdf/SWMM800MFR------------HEAT--------_74A%201.0.pdf Heats results
4. https://roma2022.microplustimingservices.com/export/NU_ROMA2022/NU/pdf/SWMM800MFR------------FNL---------_73A2%201.0.pdf Final results