Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

Men's 800m Freestyle
at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates24 July (prelims)
25 July (final)
Winning time7 minute 43.82 seconds
Medalists
gold medal Grant Hackett   Australia
silver medal Larsen Jensen   United States
bronze medal Ihor Chervynskyi   Ukraine
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Main article: Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships

The Men's 800 Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on July 24–25, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary heats of the event were swum during the morning session on July 24,[1] with the Final being held during the evening session on July 25.[2]

Prior to the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were both:

Results

Final

Place Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 Grant Hackett  Australia 7:43.82
2 Larsen Jensen  USA 7:48.09 NR
3 Ihor Chervynskyi  Ukraine 7:53.15
4 Graeme Smith  Great Britain 7:53.48
5 Dragoș Coman  Romania 7:57.22
6 Kurtis MacGillivary  Canada 8:01.75
7 Shunichi Fujita  Japan 8:02.38
8 Lin Zhang  China 8:04.10

Preliminaries

Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 H4 L4 Grant Hackett  Australia 7:55.15 q
2 H2 L4 Graeme Smith  Great Britain 7:58.66 q
3 H3 L4 Larsen Jensen  United States 7:59.18 q
4 H4 L3 Kurtis MacGillivary  Canada 7:59.58 q
5 H2 L3 Dragoș Coman  Romania 8:00.44 q
6 H3 L2 Ihor Chervynskyi  Ukraine 8:00.61 q
7 H2 L2 Shunichi Fujita  Japan 8:02.84 q
8 H3 L1 Lin Zhang  China 8:04.74 q
9 H3 L5 Stephen Penfold  Australia 8:06.48
10 H3 L7 Shilo Ayalon  Israel 8:07.85
11 H2 L1 Hannes Kalteis  Austria 8:08.17
12 H4 L7 Chad Carvin  United States 8:08.48
13 H2 L6 Dimitros Manganas  Greece 8:10.07
14 H2 L7 Felipe Araujo  Brazil 8:10.56
15 H3 L6 Kyu Chul Han  South Korea 8:13.47
16 H4 L8 Gian Carlo Zolezzi  Chile 8:14.62
17 H4 L1 Luiz Lima  Brazil 8:15.08
18 H4 L2 Cheng Yu  China 8:16.23
19 H3 L3 Rick Say  Canada 8:17.31
20 H3 L8 Yi-Khy Saw  Malaysia 8:22.99
21 H2 L8 Shai Livant  Israel 8:24.14
22 H1 L4 Mohammad Naeem Masri  Syria 8:30.00
23 H1 L3 Kwok Leung Chung  Hong Kong 8:31.10
24 H1 L5 Roberto Peñailillo  Chile 8:34.10
25 H1 L6 Neils Agius  Malta 9:09.73
26 H1 L2 Steven Mangroo  Seychelles 9:16.60
27 H1 L7 Barnsley Albert  Seychelles 9:27.30
- - David Davies  Great Britain DNS
- - Emiliano Brembilla  Italy DNS
- - Trevor Kakunze  Burundi DNS

References

  1. ^ Worlds 2003 results: Men's 800 Free -- Prelims from Omega Timing (official timer). Published 2003-07-24, retrieved 2013-06-06.
  2. ^ Worlds 2003 results: Men's 800 Free -- Final from Omega Timing (official timer). Published 2003-07-25, retrieved 2013-06-06.