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Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

The men's 800 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 26 with the heats and July 27 with the final.

Men's 800 metre freestyle
at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
DatesJuly 26, 2011 (heats)
July 27, 2011 (final)
Competitors51 from 43 nations
Winning time7:38.57
Medalists
gold medal Sun Yang   China
silver medal Ryan Cochrane   Canada
bronze medal Gergő Kis   Hungary
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Records edit

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

Name Nation Time Location Date
World record
Championship record		 Zhang Lin   China 7:32.12 Rome July 29, 2009

Results edit

Heats edit

51 swimmers participated in 7 heats.[1]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 7 4 Sun Yang   China 7:45.29 Q
2 5 3 Pál Joensen   Faroe Islands 7:45.55 Q, NR
3 5 4 Ryan Cochrane   Canada 7:45.57 Q
4 6 3 Gergő Kis   Hungary 7:48.33 Q, NR
5 6 7 Oussama Mellouli   Tunisia 7:48.86 Q
6 7 6 Peter Vanderkaay   United States 7:49.13 Q
7 6 4 Sébastien Rouault   France 7:49.43 Q
8 5 5 Chad La Tourette   United States 7:49.94 Q
9 6 5 Samuel Pizzetti   Italy 7:51.59
10 7 3 Job Kienhuis   Netherlands 7:52.63
11 6 2 Mads Glæsner   Denmark 7:54.57
12 5 6 Dai Jun   China 7:54.63
13 7 2 Ryan Napoleon   Australia 7:56.84
14 5 2 Yohsuke Miyamoto   Japan 7:57.13
15 7 5 Christian Kubusch   Germany 7:58.20
16 6 8 Juan Martin Pereyra   Argentina 7:59.06 NR
17 6 6 Federico Colbertaldo   Italy 8:01.10
18 7 7 Heerden Herman   South Africa 8:01.79
19 4 6 Anton Goncharov   Ukraine 8:02.07
20 5 1 Mark Randall   South Africa 8:02.45
21 7 8 Sergiy Frolov   Ukraine 8:03.87
22 4 4 David Brandl   Austria 8:05.66
23 3 2 Mateo de Angulo   Colombia 8:05.98 NR
24 4 3 Uladzimir Zhyharau   Belarus 8:06.04
25 5 7 Gergely Gyurta   Hungary 8:06.14
26 2 7 Jan Karel Petric   Slovenia 8:07.78
27 6 1 Evgeny Kulikov   Russia 8:08.54
28 7 1 Nikolay Bulakhov   Russia 8:08.78
29 4 7 Mohamed Farhoud   Egypt 8:10.35
30 4 2 Daniel Delgadillo Faisal   Mexico 8:10.82
31 4 8 Jang Sang-Jin   South Korea 8:11.94
32 3 5 Ricardo Monasterio   Venezuela 8:12.16
33 4 5 Florian Janistyn   Austria 8:12.90
34 5 8 Dylan Dunlop-Barrett   New Zealand 8:13.06
35 3 4 Ventsislav Aydarski   Bulgaria 8:13.07
36 3 1 Stefan Sorak   Serbia 8:14.45 NR
37 3 6 Christian Bayo   Puerto Rico 8:17.02
38 3 3 Esteban Enderica   Ecuador 8:17.22
39 2 6 Anton Sveinn McKee   Iceland 8:17.83
40 2 2 Kevin Soow Choy Yeap   Malaysia 8:18.79 NR
41 4 1 Květoslav Svoboda   Czech Republic 8:20.41
42 3 7 Ullalmath Gagan   India 8:21.90 NR
43 3 8 Nezir Karap   Turkey 8:23.37
44 2 8 Erazmo Maršanić   Croatia 8:23.53
45 2 5 Sobitjon Amilov   Uzbekistan 8:27.35
46 2 3 Marko Blazevski   North Macedonia 8:27.39
47 2 1 Pavol Jelenak   Slovakia 8:28.07
48 2 4 Zhen Ren Teo   Singapore 8:28.67
49 1 5 Iacovos Hadjiconstantinou   Cyprus 8:38.93
50 1 4 Pavel Naroshkin   Estonia 8:44.06
51 1 3 Heimanu Sichan   French Polynesia 9:00.87

Final edit

The final was held at 18:41.[2]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
  4 Sun Yang   China 7:38.57
  3 Ryan Cochrane   Canada 7:41.86 AR, NR
  6 Gergő Kis   Hungary 7:44.94 NR
4 2 Oussama Mellouli   Tunisia 7:45.99
5 5 Pál Joensen   Faroe Islands 7:46.51
6 8 Chad La Tourette   United States 7:46.52
7 7 Peter Vanderkaay   United States 7:46.64
8 1 Sébastien Rouault   France 7:55.91

References edit

  1. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle (heats)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-26.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-17. Retrieved 2011-07-27.

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