Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle
Men's 800 metre freestyle at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships | ||||||||||
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Dates | 19–20 May | |||||||||
Competitors | 30 from 20 nations | |||||||||
Winning time | 7:42.33 | |||||||||
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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 | |
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World record | Zhang Lin | China | 7:32.12 | Rome | 29 July 2009 |
European record | Gregorio Paltrinieri | Italy | 7:40.81 | Kazan | 5 August 2015 |
Championship record | Gregorio Paltrinieri | Italy | 7:44.98 | Berlin | 22 August 2014 |
Results
Heats
The heats were held on 19 May at 10:53.[3]
Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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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 | |
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 |
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4 | Gregorio Paltrinieri | Italy | 7:42.33 | CR | |
5 | Gabriele Detti | Italy | 7:43.52 | ||
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 |