Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

Men's 800 metre freestyle at the 2009 FINA World Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Dates	28 July 2009 (heats, semifinals) 29 July 2009 (final)
Competitors	56 from 40 nations
Winning time	7 minutes 32.12 seconds
Medalists
Zhang Lin    China   Oussama Mellouli    Tunisia   Ryan Cochrane    Canada
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The men's 800 metre freestyle at the 2009 World Championships occurred on the morning of Tuesday, 28 July (heats) and the evening Wednesday 29 July (final) at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Records[]

World record
7:38.65	Grant Hackett	Montreal	27 July 2005
Competition record
7:38.65	Grant Hackett	Montreal	27 July 2005

Results[]

Heats[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	7:41.82	6	5	AF
2	Ryan Cochrane	Canada	7:43.61	6	4	AM
3	Federico Colbertaldo	Italy	7:44.29	4	3	ER
4	David Davies	Great Britain	7:45.89	4	5	NR
5	Yury Prilukov	Russia	7:46.05	5	4	NR
6	Zhang Lin	China	7:48.75	6	3
7	Marco Rivera	Spain	7:49.09	6	6	NR
8	Peter Vanderkaay	United States	7:49.71	5	6
9	Jan Wolfgarten	Germany	7:50.10	5	5
10	Robert Hurley	Australia	7:50.65	4	6
11	Mads Glæsner	Denmark	7:52.18	6	7	NR
12	Ryan Napoleon	Australia	7:53.92	5	2
13	Ahmed Mathlouthi	Tunisia	7:55.43	4	0
14	Jackson Wilcox	United States	7:57.09	5	8
15	Tom Vangeneugden	Belgium	7:59.16	6	1
16	Samuel Pizzetti	Italy	7:59.67	4	4
17	Richard Charlesworth	Great Britain	8:00.50	5	1
18	Pál Joensen	Faroe Islands	8:01.50	6	2
19	David Brandl	Austria	8:02.35	5	7
20		Argentina	8:03.27	4	1	NR
21		Japan	8:05.12	4	8
22		South Korea	8:05.68	3	3
23	Ricardo Monasterio	Venezuela	8:08.64	3	5
24	Igor Snitko	Ukraine	8:09.16	6	8
25	Luis Escobar	Mexico	8:10.26	1	1
26	Fabio Pereira	Portugal	8:11.60	5	0
27	Florian Janistyn	Austria	8:11.79	4	2
28		Ukraine	8:12.36	1	2
29	Alejandro Gómez	Venezuela	8:13.16	3	2
30		Egypt	8:14.67	6	9
31	Xin Tong	China	8:16.93	1	7
32	Irakli Revishvili	Georgia	8:20.55	3	7
33		Slovenia	8:20.94	5	9
34		Colombia	8:22.12	3	4
35	Daniel Delgadillo	Mexico	8:25.81	6	0
36		Chinese Taipei	8:29.57	4	9
37		Chinese Taipei	8:33.44	3	8
38		Bosnia and Herzegovina	8:35.57	2	9
39		Ecuador	8:36.04	3	1
40	Pang Sheng Jun	Singapore	8:39.69	2	3
41		Chile	8:43.89	3	0
42		Singapore	8:44.09	2	5
43	Allan Gabriel Gutierrez Castro	Honduras	8:45.18	2	7
44		Kyrgyzstan	8:54.03	3	9
45	Neil Agius	Malta	8:54.06	2	6
46		French Polynesia	8:55.64	2	1	NR
47		Macau	8:56.92	2	2
48	Omar Nunez	Nicaragua	8:59.14	2	8
49		Honduras	8:59.58	2	0
50	Vincent Perry	French Polynesia	9:11.37	1	4
51		Northern Mariana Islands	9:38.96	1	3
52		Northern Mariana Islands	9:40.57	1	5
–		Palestine	DNS	1	6
–		Morocco	DNS	2	4
–	Sho Uchida	Japan	DNS	4	7
–	Nicolas Rostoucher	France	DNS	5	3

Final[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Lane	Notes
	Zhang Lin	China	7:32.12	7	WR
	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	7:35.27	4	AF
	Ryan Cochrane	Canada	7:41.92	5	AM
4	Federico Colbertaldo	Italy	7:43.84	3	ER
5	David Davies	Great Britain	7:44.32	6	NR
6	Peter Vanderkaay	United States	7:48.44	8
7	Marco Rivera	Spain	7:49.46	1
7	Yuriy Prilukov	Russia	7:49.46	2

See also[]

• Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle (previous World Championships)

References[]

• "Men's 800m Freestyle Heats: Results Summary" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-08-06. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
• "Men's 800m Freestyle Final: Results Summary" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-08-06. Retrieved 2009-07-29.