The Women's 800m Freestyle at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on the morning of 30 March (prelims) and the evening of 31 March (finals) at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia.

The existing records when the event started were: World Record (WR): 8:16.22, Janet Evans (USA), 20 August 1989 in Tokyo, Japan. Championship Record (CR): 8:23.66, Hannah Stockbauer (Germany), Barcelona 2003 (Jul.26.2003)

Results

Finals Place Name Nationality Time Note 1st Kate Ziegler 8:18.52 CR 2nd Laure Manaudou 8:18.80 ER 3rd Hayley Peirsol 8:26.41 4th Erika Villaécija García 8:27.59 5th Sophie Huber 8:28.23 6th Ai Shibata 8:31.73 7th Wendy Trott 8:32.60 8th Kylie Palmer 8:34.96

Preliminaries Rank Name Nationality Time Note 1 Laure Manaudou 8:25.65 Q 2 Kate Ziegler 8:28.11 Q 3 Kylie Palmer 8:29.36 Q 4 Erika Villaécija García 8:29.56 Q 5 Ai Shibata 8:29.58 Q 6 Sophie Huber 8:29.68 Q 7 Hayley Peirsol 8:29.82 Q 8 Wendy Trott 8:31.53 Q 9 Rebecca Cooke 8:35.25 10 Rebecca Adlington 8:36.26 11 Lotte Friis 8:37.16 12 TAN Miao 8:37.35 13 Brittany Reimer 8:37.56 14 Flavia Rigamonti 8:38.22 15 Camelia Potec 8:38.78 16 Yu Rui 8:39.30 17 Tanya Hunks 8:39.48 18 Stephanie Williams 8:39.68 19 Kristel Köbrich 8:40.46 20 Sachiko Yamada 8:49.45 21 Ionela Cozma 8:50.17 22 Andreina Pinto 8:54.98 23 Monika Mocnik 8:56.84 24 Nimitta Thaveesupsoonthorn 8:59.02 25 Quah Ting Wen 9:00.17 26 Lynette Lim 9:00.27 27 Maroua Mathlouthi 9:02.29 28 Golda Marcus 9:03.16 29 Carmen Nam 9:04.11 30 Ji Yeon Jung 9:05.18 31 Ji Eun Lee 9:05.97 32 Charlotte Johannsen 9:09.80 33 Sarah Hadj Aberrahmane 9:16.62 34 Maria Alejandra Torres 9:18.57 35 Mona Simonsen 9:18.65 NR 36 Cai Lin Khoo 9:21.90 37 Yanel Pinto 9:22.06 38 Shrone Austin 9:27.84 39 Simona Muccioli 9:29.20 40 Ranohon Amanova 9:30.52 41 Fiorella Gomez-Sanchez 9:32.62 42 Jutta Thomsen 9:32.79 43 Valerie Eman 9:43.04 44 Marike Meyer 9:47.48 45 Hsu Jung He 9:53.44 46 Noufissa Chbihi 9:56.05 47 Hiba Bashouti 10:03.84 48 Sakina Ghulam 10:20.23 49 Frances Nagatalevu 10:56.40 -- Gretta Ishaka DNS

References

Women's 800m Freestyle Preliminary results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-01. Women's 800m Freestyle Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-01.