Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 800 metre freestyle

Women's 800 metre freestyle
at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates July 29, 2011 (heats)
July 30, 2011 (final)
Competitors 34 from 28 nations
Winning time 8:17.51
Medalists
    Great Britain
    Denmark
    United States
2011 FINA
World Championships

Shanghai, China
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
Team team
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

The women's 800 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 29 with the heats and July 30 with the final.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

Name Nation Time Location Date
World recordRebecca Adlington United Kingdom 8:14.10 BeijingAugust 16, 2008
Championship recordLotte Friis Denmark 8:15.92 RomeAugust 1, 2009

Results

Heats

32 swimmers participated in 5 heats.[1]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 4 Rebecca Adlington  Great Britain 8:22.27 Q
2 5 5 Lotte Friis  Denmark 8:23.07 Q
3 3 5 Chloe Sutton  United States 8:27.72 Q
4 4 4 Kate Ziegler  United States 8:28.28 Q
5 3 4 Katie Goldman  Australia 8:28.35 Q
6 3 7 Boglárka Kapás  Hungary 8:28.40 Q
7 5 1 Lauren Boyle  New Zealand 8:28.50 Q, NR
8 3 6 Wendy Trott  South Africa 8:28.75 Q
9 3 2 Kristel Köbrich  Chile 8:28.76
10 4 5 Shao Yiwen  China 8:29.05
11 5 2 Erika Villaécija García  Spain 8:29.13
12 5 7 Éva Risztov  Hungary 8:29.16
13 4 7 Melissa Gorman  Australia 8:30.00
14 4 6 Camelia Potec  Romania 8:32.35
15 4 1 Andreina Pinto  Venezuela 8:33.62
16 5 6 Jazmin Carlin  Great Britain 8:34.33
17 3 3 Gráinne Murphy  Ireland 8:35.17
18 4 8 Savannah King  Canada 8:41.93
19 5 3 Chen Qian  China 8:42.15
20 2 4 Patricia Castañeda  Mexico 8:42.65
21 3 8 Nina Dittrich  Austria 8:43.89
22 5 8 Cecilia Biagioli  Argentina 8:44.01
23 2 5 Spela Bohinc  Slovenia 8:45.86
24 2 2 Julia Hassler  Liechtenstein 8:46.00 NR
25 3 1 Marianna Lymperta  Greece 8:51.93
26 2 6 Cai Lin Khoo  Malaysia 8:57.17
27 2 3 Alexia Benitez  El Salvador 9:00.04
28 1 6 Samantha Arevalo  Ecuador 9:00.96
29 1 5 Shahd Osman  Egypt 9:01.84
30 1 4 Daniela Kaori Miyahara  Peru 9:02.28 NR
31 2 7 Benjaporn Sriphanomthorn  Thailand 9:08.40
32 1 3 Simona Marinova  Macedonia 9:12.47
4 2 Mireia Belmonte García  Spain DNS
4 3 Federica Pellegrini  Italy DNS

Final

The final was held at 19:30.[2]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) 4 Rebecca Adlington  Great Britain 8:17.51
2nd, silver medalist(s) 5 Lotte Friis  Denmark 8:18.20
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 6 Kate Ziegler  United States 8:23.36
4 3 Chloe Sutton  United States 8:24.05
5 7 Boglárka Kapás  Hungary 8:24.79 NR
6 2 Katie Goldman  Australia 8:29.20
7 8 Wendy Trott  South Africa 8:30.45
8 1 Lauren Boyle  New Zealand 8:32.72

References

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