Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 800 metre freestyle

Women's 800 metre freestyle
at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
Venue Palau Sant Jordi
Dates August 2, 2013 (heats)
August 3, 2013 (final)
Competitors 38 from 32 nations
Winning time 8:13.86 WR
Medalists
    United States
    Denmark
    New Zealand
2013 FINA
World Championships

Barcelona, Spain
Diving
Individual
1 m men women
3 m men women
10 m men women
Synchronised
3 m men women
10 m men women
High diving
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 event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 2–3 August at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.[1][2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:

World record  Rebecca Adlington (GBR) 8:14.10 Beijing, China 16 August 2008 [3][4]
Championship record  Lotte Friis (DEN) 8:15.92 Rome, Italy 1 August 2009 [5]

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date Event Name Nationality Time Record
3 August Final Katie Ledecky  United States 8:13.86 WR, CR

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 2 August.[6]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 4 Katie Ledecky  United States 8:20.65 Q
2 2 5 Lauren Boyle  New Zealand 8:21.00 Q, OC
3 4 5 Lotte Friis  Denmark 8:23.00 Q
4 2 4 Mireia Belmonte  Spain 8:25.03 Q
5 3 3 Boglárka Kapás  Hungary 8:25.26 Q
6 3 7 Martina de Memme  Italy 8:26.95 Q
7 3 6 Andreina Pinto  Venezuela 8:27.03 Q
8 4 3 Chloe Sutton  United States 8:27.41 Q
9 3 4 Jazmin Carlin  Great Britain 8:27.48
10 2 3 Jessica Ashwood  Australia 8:27.74
11 2 2 Kristel Köbrich  Chile 8:29.32
12 4 2 Shao Yiwen  China 8:29.71
13 3 2 Alexa Komarnycky  Canada 8:29.87
14 3 5 Xu Danlu  China 8:29.98
15 3 1 Sarah Köhler  Germany 8:34.72
16 3 0 Samantha Arevalo  Ecuador 8:35.99 NR
17 4 6 Eleanor Faulkner  Great Britain 8:36.04
18 4 1 Isabelle Härle  Germany 8:36.83
19 2 6 Beatriz Gómez Cortes  Spain 8:37.26
20 4 7 Savannah King  Canada 8:40.35
21 2 1 Julia Hassler  Liechtenstein 8:40.89
22 4 0 Susana Escobar  Mexico 8:42.84
23 2 8 Tjasa Oder  Slovenia 8:42.96
24 4 8 Katya Bachrouche  Lebanon 8:50.08
25 3 9 Khoo Cai Lin  Malaysia 8:51.87
26 3 8 Carolina Bilich  Brazil 8:52.10
27 4 9 Virginia Bardach  Argentina 8:52.79
28 2 0 Kyna Pereira  South Africa 8:54.10
29 2 9 Andrea Basaraba  Serbia 8:58.04
30 1 6 Valerie Gruest  Guatemala 8:59.70
31 1 4 Benjaporn Sriphanomithorn  Thailand 9:05.32
32 1 3 Lani Cabrera  Barbados 9:08.84
33 1 5 Raina Ramdhani  Indonesia 9:10.75
34 1 2 Daniela Miyahara  Peru 9:15.94
35 1 7 Daniela Benavides  Cuba 9:38.20
36 1 8 San Khant Khant Su  Myanmar 10:03.20
37 1 1 Monica Saili  Samoa 10:11.46
38 1 0 Victoria Chentsova  Northern Mariana Islands 10:14.63
39 2 7 Camille Muffat  France 99.99 DNS

Final

The final was held at 19:26.[7]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) 4 Katie Ledecky  United States 8:13.86 WR
2nd, silver medalist(s) 3 Lotte Friis  Denmark 8:16.32
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 5 Lauren Boyle  New Zealand 8:18.58 OC
4 2 Boglárka Kapás  Hungary 8:21.21 NR
5 6 Mireia Belmonte  Spain 8:21.99
6 8 Chloe Sutton  United States 8:27.75
7 1 Andreina Pinto  Venezuela 8:29.37
8 7 Martina de Memme  Italy 8:37.29

References

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