Swimming at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

Men's 800 metre freestyle at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Aspire Dome
Location	Doha, Qatar
Dates	13 February (heats) 14 February (final)
Competitors	43 from 36 nations
Winning time	7:40.94
Medalists
Daniel Wiffen   Ireland   Elijah Winnington   Australia   Gregorio Paltrinieri   Italy

The men's 800 metre freestyle competition at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships was held on 13 and 14 February 2024.

Records

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

World record	Zhang Lin (CHN)	7:32.12	Rome, Italy	26 July 2009
Competition record	Zhang Lin (CHN)	7:32.12	Rome, Italy	26 July 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 13 February at 10:22

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	2	Luca De Tullio	Italy	7:46.52	Q
2	4	4	Daniel Wiffen	Ireland	7:46.90	Q
3	5	5	Sven Schwarz	Germany	7:46.95	Q
4	4	9	Victor Johansson	Sweden	7:47.04	Q, NR
5	5	1	Kristóf Rasovszky	Hungary	7:47.19	Q
6	5	3	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	7:47.20	Q
7	4	3	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:47.38	Q
8	5	6	Elijah Winnington	Australia	7:47.59	Q
9	5	7	David Betlehem	Hungary	7:48.06
10	4	5	Florian Wellbrock	Germany	7:48.17
11	3	7	David Johnston	United States	7:48.20
12	5	8	Kuzey Tuncelli	Turkey	7:48.53	NR
13	4	1	Alfonso Mestre	Venezuela	7:48.84
14	2	4	Dimitrios Markos	Greece	7:49.97	NR
15	3	3	Carlos Garach Benito	Spain	7:50.56
16	3	1	Fei Liwei	China	7:51.18
17	5	0	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	7:51.21
18	5	4	Ahmed Hafnaoui	Tunisia	7:51.72
19	2	3	Lucas Henveaux	Belgium	7:52.10	NR
20	4	7	Damien Joly	France	7:53.42
21	3	8	Ilia Sibirtsev	Uzbekistan	7:53.87	NR
22	3	5	Charlie Clark	United States	7:54.87
23	5	9	Zhang Zhanshuo	China	7:55.86
24	4	8	Jon Joentvedt	Norway	7:56.28
25	3	9	Shogo Takeda	Japan	7:57.54
26	3	6	Felix Auböck	Austria	7:57.63
27	4	6	Guilherme Costa	Brazil	7:58.02
28	2	2	Khiew Hoe Yean	Malaysia	8:02.78	NR
29	3	2	Nguyễn Huy Hoàng	Vietnam	8:05.17
30	2	6	Dylan Porges	Mexico	8:05.83
31	4	0	Vlad Stancu	Romania	8:06.50
32	2	1	Ratthawit Thammananthachote	Thailand	8:06.82	NR
33	3	4	Marc-Antoine Olivier	France	8:08.54
34	2	7	Glen Lim Jun Wei	Singapore	8:09.34
35	3	0	Juan Morales	Colombia	8:11.31
36	2	8	Diego Dulieu	Honduras	8:11.97
37	2	9	Loris Bianchi	San Marino	8:17.70	NR
38	1	4	Ilias El Fallaki	Morocco	8:27.22
39	1	5	Alberto Vega	Costa Rica	8:30.93
40	1	3	Liggjas Joensen	Faroe Islands	8:32.54
41	1	6	Mal Gashi	Kosovo	8:35.97
42	2	0	Rodolfo Falcón Jr.	Cuba	8:38.90
43	1	2	Mohammed Al-Zaki	Saudi Arabia	9:06.29
–	2	5	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	Did not start
	5	2	Kim Woo-min	South Korea

Final

The final was started on 14 February at 19:02.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Daniel Wiffen	Ireland	7:40.94
	8	Elijah Winnington	Australia	7:42.95
	1	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:42.98
4	3	Sven Schwarz	Germany	7:44.29
5	2	Kristóf Rasovszky	Hungary	7:44.42	NR
6	6	Victor Johansson	Sweden	7:47.08
7	4	Luca De Tullio	Italy	7:49.79
8	7	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	7:54.51