Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle


The Men's 800 metre freestyle competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 21–22 August.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.
NameNationTimeLocationDate
World recordZhang Lin7:32.12Rome29 July 2009
European recordGabriele Detti7:42.74Riccione8 April 2014
Championship recordSebastien Rouault7:48.28Budapest13 August 2010

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10.16.
RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
145Pál Joensen7:53.09Q
247Jan Micka7:53.38Q
344Gabriele Detti7:53.51Q
443Gergely Gyurta7:55.34Q
534Gregorio Paltrinieri7:55.35Q
639Stephen Milne7:56.40Q
724Richárd Nagy7:56.74Q
837Ferry Weertman7:57.80Q
925Anton Ipsen7:58.17
1030Florian Vogel7:58.34
1135Serhiy Frolov7:58.55
1233Marc Sánchez7:58.66
13237:58.82
1442Filip Zaborowski7:58.99
1514Martin Bau7:59.76
1636Sören Meiβner8:01.65
1731Joris Bouchault8:02.89
1832Anthony Pannier8:03.00
1946Matias Koski8:05.07
2048Damien Joly8:05.29
2141Gergő Kis8:06.14
2220Maksim Shemberyev8:06.78
2328Nezir Karap8:08.05
2413Jan Kutník8:10.48
2522David Brandl8:10.66
2615Lukas Ambros8:11.71
2738Pawel Furtek8:12.50
2849Axel Reymond8:12.81
2929Eetu Piiroinen8:13.11
3021Anton Goncharov8:13.67
3112Adam Paulsson8:19.29
3216Tomás Novovesky8:20.70
3326Ediz Yıldırımer8:21.41
3427Uladzimir Zhyharau8:23.95
3517Pit Brandenburger8:33.16
—40Mads GlæsnerDNS

Final

The final was held at 18:07.
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
2Gregorio Paltrinieri7:44.98CR
4Pál Joensen7:48.49
3Gabriele Detti7:49.35
47Stephen Milne7:50.64
55Jan Micka7:52.19
66Gergely Gyurta7:55.47
78Ferry Weertman7:55.57
81Richárd Nagy7:56.28