Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

Men's 800 metre freestyle
at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates19–20 May
Competitors30 from 20 nations
Winning time7:42.33
Medalists
gold medal    Italy
silver medal    Italy
bronze medal    Ukraine
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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
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
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
1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy 7:42.33 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5 Gabriele Detti  Italy 7:43.52
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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

References