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

Men's 800 metre freestyle2009 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

2009 FINA World Championships Rome, Italy
Diving
Individual
1 m	men	women
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Synchronised
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Open water swimming
5 km	men	women
10 km	men	women
25 km	men	women
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
Synchronised swimming
Solo	Technical	Free
Duet	Technical	Free
Team	Technical	Free
	Combination
Water polo
men (rosters) women (rosters)

Main article: Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships

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	Esteban Paz	Argentina	8:03.27	4	1	NR
21	Ryoji Sononaka	Japan	8:05.12	4	8
22	Kang Yonghwan	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	Oleksandr Lutchenko	Ukraine	8:12.36	1	2
29	Alejandro Gómez	Venezuela	8:13.16	3	2
30	Mohamed Farhoud	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	Jan Karel Petric	Slovenia	8:20.94	5	9
34	Mateo De Angulo Velasco	Colombia	8:22.12	3	4
35	Daniel Delgadillo	Mexico	8:25.81	6	0
36	Pan Kai-Wen	Chinese Taipei	8:29.57	4	9
37	Lin Kuan-Ting	Chinese Taipei	8:33.44	3	8
38	Hajder Ensar	Bosnia and Herzegovina	8:35.57	2	9
39	Ivan Alejandro Enderica	Ecuador	8:36.04	3	1
40	Pang Sheng Jun	Singapore	8:39.69	2	3
41	Roberto Penailillo Garcia	Chile	8:43.89	3	0
42	Lim Clement	Singapore	8:44.09	2	5
43	Allan Gabriel Gutierrez Castro	Honduras	8:45.18	2	7
44	Vitalii Khudiakov	Kyrgyzstan	8:54.03	3	9
45	Neil Agius	Malta	8:54.06	2	6
46	Heimanu Sichan	French Polynesia	8:55.64	2	1	NR
47	Ngou Pok Man	Macau	8:56.92	2	2
48	Omar Nunez	Nicaragua	8:59.14	2	8
49	Luis Andres Martorell Name	Honduras	8:59.58	2	0
50	Vincent Perry	French Polynesia	9:11.37	1	4
51	Cooper Graf	Northern Mariana Islands	9:38.96	1	3
52	Shin Kimura	Northern Mariana Islands	9:40.57	1	5
–	Naser Aldaya	Palestine	DNS	1	6
–	Yamine Jordan	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)