Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

Men's 800m Freestyle at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	26 July (prelims) 27 July (final)
Competitors	45
Winning time	seconds
Medalists
Grant Hackett    Australia   Larsen Jensen    United States   Yuri Prilukov    Russia
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The Men's 800m Freestyle at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships occurred on the morning of 26 July 2005 (preliminary heats) and in the evening of 27 July 2005 (final heat) in the Olympic pool at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Canada. 45 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 44 swam. The top-8 swimmers from the morning heats advanced to the next day's final heat.

The existing records at the start of the event were:

• World record (WR): 7:39.16, Ian Thorpe (Australia), July 24, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan.
• Championship record (CR): same

Results[]

Final[]

Place	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	Grant Hackett	Australia	7:38.65	WR
2	Larsen Jensen	USA	7:45.63	NR
3	Yuri Prilukov	Russia	7:46.64	NR
4	Przemysław Stańczyk	Poland	7:50.83
5	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	7:51.03
6	David Davies	Great Britain	7:51.54
7	Lukasz Drzewinski	Poland	7:58.62
8	Sébastien Rouault	France	8:03.52

Heats[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	Grant Hackett	Australia	7:47.63	Q
2	Larsen Jensen	USA	7:48.89	Q
3	Yuri Prilukov	Russia	7:51.75	Q
4	David Davies	Great Britain	7:51.92	Q
5	Sébastien Rouault	France	7:52.04	Q
6	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	7:52.55	Q
7	Przemysław Stańczyk	Poland	7:52.56	Q
8	Lukasz Drzewinski	Poland	7:53.33	Q
9	Nicolas Rostoucher	France	7:54.55
10	Christian Hein	Germany	7:56.38
11	Sergiy Fesenko	Ukraine	7:57.11
12	Dragoș Coman	Romania	7:57.79
13	Sho Uchida	Japan	7:58.00
14	Igor Chervynskiy	Ukraine	7:59.09
15	Massimiliano Rosolino	Italy	7:59.60
16		South Africa	7:59.65
17	Marco Rivera	Spain	7:59.66
18	Troyden Prinsloo	South Africa	7:59.69
19	Andrew Hurd	Canada	8:00.06
20	Chris Thompson	USA	8:04.67
21		Japan	8:05.65
22	Fernando Costa	Portugal	8:06.98
23	Spyridon Gianniotis	Greece	8:07.46
24	Park Tae-Hwan	South Korea	8:08.52
25		Brazil	8:08.66
26		Australia	8:09.01
27	Luka Turk	Slovenia	8:09.23
28	Gard Kvale	Norway	8:09.32
29	XIN Tong	China	8:12.91
30		Belgium	8:16.93
31		South Korea	8:18.06
32	Mahrez Mebarek	Algeria	8:20.55	NR
33		Guatemala	8:23.13
34	Miguel Mendoza	Philippines	8:28.73
35		Kuwait	8:29.83
36		Chinese Taipei	8:29.91
37		Singapore	8:39.94
38	Irakli Revishvili	Georgia	8:41.81
39		Singapore	8:48.71
40	Neil Agius	Malta	8:53.14
41	Rony Bakale	Congo	8:54.73
42		Seychelles	8:55.03	NR
43	Omar Nunez	Nicaragua	8:58.55
44		Macao	9:17.94
--	Emiliano Brembilla	Italy	DNS

See also[]

• Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle
• Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

References[]

• FINA Worlds 2005: Men's 800 Freestyle heats results from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds). Published 2005-07-30, retrieved 2009-08-21.
• FINA Worlds 2005: Men's 800 Freestyle final results from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds). Published 2005-07-30, retrieved 2009-08-21.