Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

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Men's 800 metre freestyle
at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
VenueTollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates7 August (heats)
8 August (final)
Competitors26 from 20 nations
Winning time7:42.96
Medalists
gold medal    Ukraine
silver medal    Italy
bronze medal    Germany
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The Men's 800 metre freestyle competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 7 and 8 August 2018.[1][2]

Records

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

Name Nation Time Location Date
World record Zhang Lin  China 7:32.12 Rome 29 July 2009
European record Gabriele Detti  Italy 7:40.77 Budapest 26 July 2017
Championship record Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy 7:42.33 London 20 May 2016

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 7 August at 10:18.[3]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 2 5 Mykhailo Romanchuk  Ukraine 7:49.96 Q
2 2 4 Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy 7:50.08 Q
3 1 4 Marin Mogić  Croatia 7:51.78 Q
4 2 2 Jan Micka  Czech Republic 7:52.14 Q
5 2 7 Damien Joly  France 7:52.54 Q
6 2 1 Domenico Acerenza  Italy 7:52.80 Q
7 3 3 Florian Wellbrock  Germany 7:53.62 Q
8 3 5 Henrik Christiansen  Norway 7:53.94 Q
9 3 2 Serhiy Frolov  Ukraine 7:54.31
9 3 6 Victor Johansson  Sweden 7:54.31
11 3 1 Anton Ipsen  Denmark 7:54.34
12 2 3 Felix Auböck  Austria 7:55.56
13 1 6 Vuk Čelić  Serbia 7:56.58
14 3 4 Wojciech Wojdak  Poland 7:56.83
15 2 8 Ilya Druzhinin  Russia 7:57.54
16 1 5 Tom Derbyshire  Great Britain 7:58.26
17 3 0 Jay Lelliott  Great Britain 7:58.67
18 3 7 Henning Mühlleitner  Germany 7:58.77
19 1 3 Albert Escrits  Spain 8:01.39
20 3 8 Poul Zellmann  Germany 8:03.07
21 1 2 Bogdan-Andrei Scarlat  Romania 8:03.98
22 2 0 Filip Zaborowski  Poland 8:06.48
23 2 9 Dávid Lakatos  Hungary 8:07.51
24 1 1 Guilherme Pina  Portugal 8:07.96
25 1 7 Andreas Georgakopoulos  Greece 8:25.42
26 1 0 Frenc Berdaku  Albania 8:44.70
1 8 Maksym Shemberev  Azerbaijan Did not start
1 9 Spiro Goga  Albania
2 6 David Aubry  France

Final

The final was started on 8 August at 16:30.[4]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 Mykhailo Romanchuk  Ukraine 7:42.96
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5 Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy 7:45.12
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1 Florian Wellbrock  Germany 7:45.60
4 8 Henrik Christiansen  Norway 7:46.75
5 6 Jan Micka  Czech Republic 7:49.73
6 7 Domenico Acerenza  Italy 7:51.64
7 2 Damien Joly  France 7:56.75
8 3 Marin Mogić  Croatia 7:58.03

References