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Women's 800 metre freestyle
at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 800 metre freestyle ; at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Marine Messe Fukuoka
Location	Fukuoka, Japan
Dates	28 July (heats); 29 July (final)
Competitors	34 from 25 nations
Winning time	8:08.87
Medalists
	← 2022 2024 →

The women's 800 metre freestyle competition at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships was held on 28 and 29 July 2023.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.^[4]

World record	Katie Ledecky (USA)	8:04.79	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	12 August 2016
Competition record	Katie Ledecky (USA)	8:07.39	Kazan, Russia	8 August 2015

The heats were started on 28 July at 12:13.^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Katie Ledecky	United States	8:15.60	Q
2	3	6	Li Bingjie	China	8:20.51	Q
3	3	5	Erika Fairweather	New Zealand	8:21.06	Q
4	3	4	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	8:21.25	Q
5	4	5	Lani Pallister	Australia	8:21.38	Q
6	4	3	Simona Quadarella	Italy	8:21.65	Q
7	3	3	Isabel Gose	Germany	8:21.71	Q
8	4	6	Jillian Cox	United States	8:22.20	Q
9	4	7	Anastasiia Kirpichnikova	France	8:22.74
10	4	0	Ajna Késely	Hungary	8:28.23
11	3	1	Waka Kobori	Japan	8:29.54
12	4	1	Eve Thomas	New Zealand	8:31.72
13	3	0	Beatriz Dizotti	Brazil	8:32.42
14	2	6	Alisée Pisane	Belgium	8:32.52	NR
15	3	7	Deniz Ertan	Turkey	8:32.54
16	4	8	Miyu Namba	Japan	8:34.62
17	2	8	Gan Ching Hwee	Singapore	8:36.31
18	2	2	Emma Finlin	Canada	8:36.47
19	2	5	Kristel Köbrich	Chile	8:37.09
20	4	2	Yang Peiqi	China	8:37.16
21	4	9	Jimena Pérez Blanco	Spain	8:37.40
22	3	2	Merve Tuncel	Turkey	8:39.47
23	3	8	Ángela Martínez	Spain	8:39.60
24	2	3	Bettina Fábián	Hungary	8:39.63
25	3	9	Tamila Holub	Portugal	8:42.90
26	2	7	Han Da-kyung	South Korea	8:43.68
27	2	4	Gabrielle Roncatto	Brazil	8:48.36
28	2	0	Artemis Vasilaki	Greece	8:49.61
29	2	1	Imani de Jong	Netherlands	8:50.81
30	1	6	Diana Taszhanova	Kazakhstan	8:51.46	NR
31	1	4	María Bramont-Arias	Peru	8:59.52
32	1	5	Eva Petrovska	North Macedonia	9:06.00
33	1	3	Sasha Gatt	Malta	9:08.63
34	2	9	Võ Thị Mỹ Tiên	Vietnam	9:15.23

The final was held on 29 July at 21:23.^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Katie Ledecky	United States	8:08.87
	5	Li Bingjie	China	8:13.31	AS
	6	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	8:13.59	=OC
4	7	Simona Quadarella	Italy	8:16.46
5	1	Isabel Gose	Germany	8:17.95
6	8	Jillian Cox	United States	8:19.73
7	2	Lani Pallister	Australia	8:21.33
8	3	Erika Fairweather	New Zealand	8:28.21

^ "Schedule" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
^ Sutherland, James (13 January 2023). "World Aquatics Announces Competition Schedule For 2023 World Championships In Fukuoka". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
^ "Start list" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 July 2023.
^ "Records book" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024.
^ "Heats results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 28 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 July 2023.
^ "Final results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 29 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 July 2023.