Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

The men's 800 metre freestyle was the 17th event of the swimming program at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships held in Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. The event was swum on the morning of 27 March (heats)[1] and in the evening of 28 March.[2] 46 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 43 swam in one of 6 preliminary heats. The top-8 finishers from the prelims qualified ("Q") to swim in the final the next evening.

Men's 800 metre freestyle
at the 2007 FINA World Championships
VenueRod Laver Arena
Dates27 March 2007 (heats)
28 March 2007 (final)
Competitors46
Winning time7 minutes 47.91 seconds
Medalists
gold medal    Poland
silver medal    Australia
bronze medal    Italy
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The existing records at the start of the event were:

On 11 September 2007, the Court of Arbitration for Sport stripped Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia of his gold medal and nullified his result as part of a retroactive 18-month suspension for an earlier doping violation.

Results edit

Final edit

Place Lane Swimmer Nationality 100m 200m 300m 400m 500m 600m 700m Time Note
  7 Przemysław Stańczyk   Poland 57.31 1:57.10 2:56.02 3:55.36 4:54.21 5:52.59 6:50.91 7:47.91
  4 Craig Stevens   Australia 57.35 1:56.34 2:55.90 3:55.72 4:55.08 5:54.45 6:52.69 7:48.67
  5 Federico Colbertaldo   Italy 57.66 1:56.77 2:56.04 3:55.37 4:54.48 5:53.53 6:52.58 7:49.98
4th 8 Sébastien Rouault   France 55.67 1:54.40 2:53.46 3:52.93 4:52.85 5:53.03 6:53.34 7:52.04
5th 1 Sergiy Fesenko   Ukraine 57.34 1:57.26 2:57.10 3:57.12 4:57.03 5:56.31 6:55.07 7:53.43
6th 2 Grant Hackett   Australia 57.34 1:57.21 2:56.95 3:57.00 4:56.96 5:57.10 6:57.44 7:55.39
7th 6 Ryan Cochrane   Canada 57.84 1:57.26 2:56.64 3:56.34 4:56.15 5:56.99 6:57.69 7:56.56
DSQ 3 Oussama Mellouli   Tunisia 57.31 1:56.44 2:55.94 3:55.49 4:54.19 5:52.92 6:50.80 7:46.95

Heats edit

Rank Heat :
Lane
Name Nationality 200m 400m 600m Time Note
1 5 : 4 Craig Stevens   Australia 1:56.32 3:54.72 5:54.41 7:50.72 Q
2 4 : 5 Federico Colbertaldo   Italy 1:56.76 3:55.28 5:53.63 7:50.77 Q
3 6 : 3 Oussama Mellouli   Tunisia 1:56.26 3:55.73 5:55.48 7:51.48 Q
4 6 : 2 Ryan Cochrane   Canada 1:57.40 3:56.87 5:56.18 7:51.55 Q
5 6 : 4 Grant Hackett   Australia 1:56.76 3:56.64 5:56.87 7:51.86 Q
6 5 : 5 Przemysław Stańczyk   Poland 1:56.17 3:54.88 5:54.65 7:52.40 Q
7 4 : 7 Sergiy Fesenko   Ukraine 1:57.56 3:56.92 5:55.94 7:52.64 Q
8 4 : 3 Sébastien Rouault   France 1:57.27 3:56.42 5:55.51 7:52.92 Q
9 5 : 6 Peter Vanderkaay   USA 1:56.49 3:55.99 5:55.49 7:54.37
10 5 : 2 Erik Vendt   USA 1:55.43 3:54.73 5:55.09 7:54.48
11 5 : 1 Luka Turk   Slovenia 1:56.21 3:55.84 5:56.84 7:54.58
12 6 : 6 Nikita Lobintsev   Russia 1:56.01 3:56.03 5:57.57 7:56.91
13 4 : 6 Marcos Rivera Miranda   Spain 1:58.56 3:59.40 5:59.62 7:57.14
14 6 : 7 Mads Glæsner   Denmark 1:56.53 3:57.38 5:59.35 7:59.43
15 4 : 1 Dragoş Coman   Romania 1:57.07 3:56.73 5:57.61 7:59.91
16 4 : 2 Vitaly Romanovich   Russia 1:57.42 3:59.62 6:01.58 7:59.94
17 4 : 4 Christian Hein   Germany 1:58.46 3:59.88 6:01.60 8:00.14
18 6 : 5 Nicolas Rostoucher   France 1:56.88 3:56.50 5:58.29 8:03.03
19 5 : 7 Maciej Hreniak   Poland 1:58.53 4:00.37 6:03.56 8:05.01
20 5 : 8 David Brandl   Austria 1:58.78 4:00.54 6:03.31 8:05.48
21 3 : 4 Ricardo Monasterio   Venezuela 1:59.84 4:02.69 6:06.39 8:05.81
22 3 : 3 Fernando Costa   Portugal 1:59.74 4:02.83 6:06.31 8:06.44
23 1 : 7 Sun Yang   China 2:01.36 4:05.14 6:09.07 8:08.12
24 3 : 7 Ahmed Mathlouthi   Tunisia 2:00.88 4:02.90 6:06.89 8:09.59
25 6 : 1 Felipe Araújo   Brazil 1:59.34 4:02.99 6:07.85 8:10.50
26 6 : 8 Armando Negreiros   Brazil 1:58.09 4:01.80 6:07.77 8:11.01
27 1 : 2 Ren Chen   China 2:02.16 4:07.12 6:11.22 8:12.32
28 3 : 2 Robert Voss   New Zealand 1:59.43 4:03.18 6:08.55 8:13.78
29 3 : 6 Florian Janistyn   Austria 1:59.28 4:02.25 6:08.52 8:14.26
30 3 : 1 Caglar Gokbulut   Turkey 2:04.25 4:09.33 6:15.23 8:19.08
31 4 : 8 Shinya Taniguchi   Japan 2:01.44 4:08.06 6:18.16 8:25.83
32 2 : 3 Benjamin Guzman Blanco   Chile 2:03.37 4:11.60 6:20.56 8:26.24
33 2 : 5 Mario Montoya   Costa Rica 2:03.46 4:11.70 6:20.45 8:27.47 NR
34 2 : 8 Pál Joensen   Faroe Islands 2:05.00 4:13.52 6:22.43 8:30.31
35 3 : 8 Irakli Revishvili   Georgia 2:06.43 4:14.72 6:23.95 8:31.52
36 2 : 4 Kevin Soow Choy Yeap   Malaysia 2:03.59 4:12.79 6:20.46 8:32.35
37 3 : 5 Erwin Maldonado   Venezuela 2:02.19 4:11.67 6:25.34 8:38.69
38 2 : 6 Micky van der Vaart   Aruba 2:03.10 4:12.91 6:25.25 8:39.17
39 1 : 4 Neil Agius   Malta 2:11.17 4:27.57 6:44.13 8:57.63
40 2 : 7 Davor Trnovljakovic   Bosnia and Herzegovina 2:07.86 4:25.91 6:45.41 9:01.70
41 1 : 5 Heimanu Sichan   Tahiti 2:11.61 4:29.77 6:50.87 9:09.79
42 2 : 1 Timur Kartabaev   Kyrgyzstan 2:14.75 4:39.79 7:04.84 9:27.31
43 1 : 3 Cooper Graf   Northern Mariana Islands 2:31.67 5:08.95 7:45.20 10:14.48
999 1 : 6 Ibraihm Assah   Ghana DNS
999 2 : 2 Anas Abuyousuf   Qatar DNS
999 5 : 3 Andrew Hurd   Canada DNS

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "FINA World Championships Men's 800m Freestyle Heats Official Results" (PDF). FINA.
  2. ^ "FINA World Championships Men's 800m Freestyle Final Official Results" (PDF). FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 April 2007.