Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle
Men's 800m Freestyle at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships | ||||||||||
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Dates | 24 July (prelims) 25 July (final) | |||||||||
Winning time | 7 minute 43.82 seconds | |||||||||
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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:
- WR & CR: 7:39.16 swum by Ian Thorpe (Australia) on July 24, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan
Results
Final
Place | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
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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 | |
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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 |