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

Women's 800 metre freestyle
at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Women's 800 metre freestyle ; at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	18–19 May
Competitors	25 from 13 nations
Winning time	8:21.40
Medalists
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The Women's 800 metre freestyle competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18 and 19 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	Katie Ledecky	United States	8:06.68	Austin	17 January 2016
European record	Rebecca Adlington	Great Britain	8:14.10	Beijing	16 August 2008
Championship record	Jazmin Carlin	Great Britain	8:15.54	Berlin	21 August 2014

The heats were held on 18 May at 11:13.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	8:27.75	Q
2	3	4	Jazmin Carlin	Great Britain	8:29.53	Q
3	3	3	Diletta Carli	Italy	8:30.41	Q
4	3	6	Tjaša Oder	Slovenia	8:31.02	Q
5	2	2	Jimena Pérez	Spain	8:31.19	Q
6	2	3	María Vilas	Spain	8:33.75	Q
7	3	5	Sharon van Rouwendaal	Netherlands	8:36.49	Q
8	2	5	Simona Quadarella	Italy	8:37.25	Q
9	2	7	Ajna Késely	Hungary	8:38.02
10	3	2	Adél Juhász	Hungary	8:38.45
11	3	7	Anja Klinar	Slovenia	8:39.72
12	2	6	Éva Risztov	Hungary	8:39.81
13	3	8	Gaja Natlačen	Slovenia	8:40.78
14	2	8	Špela Bohinc	Slovenia	8:42.19
15	3	1	Julia Hassler	Liechtenstein	8:42.69
16	2	1	Milena Karpisz	Poland	8:46.33
17	1	3	Abbie Wood	Great Britain	8:47.04
18	1	5	Antonia Massone	Germany	8:47.05
19	2	0	Alice Dearing	Great Britain	8:47.39
20	1	4	Tereza Závadová	Czech Republic	8:49.10
21	2	9	Martina Elhenická	Czech Republic	8:56.61
22	3	9	Paulina Piechota	Poland	8:58.51
23	3	0	Diana Duraes	Portugal	9:01.65
24	1	6	Laura Lajunen	Finland	9:15.75
25	1	2	Nejla Karić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	9:18.39

The final was held on 19 May at 18:02.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	8:21.40
	5	Jazmin Carlin	Great Britain	8:23.52
	6	Tjasa Oder	Slovenia	8:25.68
4	7	María Vilas	Spain	8:26.61
5	8	Simona Quadarella	Italy	8:31.43
6	2	Jimena Pérez	Spain	8:31.62
7	3	Diletta Carli	Italy	8:31.78
8	1	Sharon van Rouwendaal	Netherlands	8:35.76