Swimming at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

Men's 800 metre freestyle
at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 800 metre freestyle ; at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Dates	12 August (heats); 13 August (final)
Competitors	21 from 13 nations
Winning time	7:40.86
Medalists
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The Men's 800 metre freestyle competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 12 and 13 August 2022.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World record	Zhang Lin	China	7:32.12	Rome	29 July 2009
European record	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:39.27	Gwangju	24 July 2019
Championship record	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:42.33	London	20 May 2016

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
13 August	Final	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:40.86	CR

The heats were started on 12 August at 10:08.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	7:47.93	Q
2	3	5	Lukas Märtens	Germany	7:48.38	Q
3	2	4	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:48.91	Q
4	3	3	Lorenzo Galossi	Italy	7:49.08	Q
5	3	6	Damien Joly	France	7:49.17	Q
6	2	3	Sven Schwarz	Germany	7:49.30	Q
7	2	5	Gabriele Detti	Italy	7:49.93
8	3	7	Luca De Tullio	Italy	7:51.60
9	3	1	Joris Bouchaut	France	7:51.63	Q
10	2	2	Victor Johansson	Sweden	7:52.48	Q
11	2	1	Dimitrios Markos	Greece	7:52.60
12	2	6	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	7:53.82
13	3	2	Oliver Klemet	Germany	7:59.24
14	2	0	Carlos Garach	Spain	7:59.31
15	3	0	Krzysztof Chmielewski	Poland	7:59.50
16	2	8	Kieran Bird	Great Britain	8:04.48
17	3	8	Bar Soloveychik	Israel	8:05.71
18	1	5	Yoav Romano	Israel	8:11.02
19	1	4	Liam Custer	Ireland	8:15.09
20	3	9	Yordan Yanchev	Bulgaria	8:15.39
21	2	7	Jon Jøntvedt	Norway	8:20.88
	1	3	Franc Aleksi	Albania	Did not start

The final was held on 13 August at 19:37.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:40.86	CR
	5	Lukas Märtens	Germany	7:42.65
	6	Lorenzo Galossi	Italy	7:43.37	WJ
4	4	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	7:45.03
5	7	Sven Schwarz	Germany	7:47.36
6	2	Damien Joly	France	7:48.82
7	1	Joris Bouchaut	France	7:50.69
8	8	Victor Johansson	Sweden	7:54.51