Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

Men's 800 metre freestyle
at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 800 metre freestyle ; at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	19–20 May
Competitors	30 from 20 nations
Winning time	7:42.33
Medalists
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The Men's 800 metre freestyle competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 19 and 20 May 2016.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Zhang Lin	China	7:32.12	Rome	29 July 2009
European record	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:40.81	Kazan	5 August 2015
Championship record	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:44.98	Berlin	22 August 2014

The heats were held on 19 May at 10:53.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:49.87	Q
2	4	5	Gabriele Detti	Italy	7:51.40	Q
3	3	6	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	7:51.83	Q
4	1	5	Timothy Shuttleworth	Great Britain	7:52.33	Q
5	3	2	Jan Micka	Czech Republic	7:52.76	Q
6	3	4	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	7:53.09	Q
7	3	3	Joris Bouchaut	France	7:54.41	Q
8	4	3	Gergely Gyurta	Hungary	7:56.50	Q
9	4	2	Ruwen Straub	Germany	7:57.05
10	4	1	Filip Zaborowski	Poland	7:57.62
11	4	7	Daniel Jervis	Great Britain	7:58.45
12	3	5	Serhiy Frolov	Ukraine	7:58.54
13	4	6	Richárd Nagy	Slovakia	7:58.93
14	2	4	Nezir Karap	Turkey	7:59.20
15	4	8	Miguel Durán	Spain	8:01.12
16	2	5	Victor Johansson	Sweden	8:01.63
17	2	6	Marc Hinawi	Israel	8:01.70
18	3	8	Kristóf Rasovszky	Hungary	8:01.82
19	3	9	Martin Bau	Slovenia	8:03.35
20	3	1	Anton Ipsen	Denmark	8:03.37
21	3	7	Antonio Arroyo	Spain	8:04.40
22	4	9	Henning Muehlleitner	Germany	8:12.21
23	2	3	Grega Popović	Slovenia	8:14.56
24	4	0	Vuk Čelić	Serbia	8:14.86
25	2	1	Ján Kútnik	Czech Republic	8:16.47
26	2	7	Truls Wigdel	Norway	8:17.80
27	3	0	Ediz Yıldırımer	Turkey	8:17.99
28	2	8	Dimitrios Dimitriou	Greece	8:29.63
29	1	4	Irakli Revishvili	Georgia	8:33.31
30	1	3	Franc Aleksi	Albania	8:35.94
	2	2	Oli Mortensen	Faroe Islands	DNS

The final was held on 20 May at 18:02.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:42.33	CR
	5	Gabriele Detti	Italy	7:43.52
	3	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	7:47.99
4	2	Jan Micka	Czech Republic	7:50.38
5	6	Timothy Shuttleworth	Great Britain	7:50.52
6	7	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	7:51.84
7	8	Gergely Gyurta	Hungary	7:54.32
8	1	Joris Bouchaut	France	7:58.54