The men's 800 metre freestyle at the 2009 World Championships occurred on the morning of Tuesday, 28 July (heats) and the evening Wednesday 29 July (final) at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.
Records
World record 7:38.65 Montreal, Canada 27 July 2005Championship record 7:38.65 Montreal, Canada 27 July 2005
The following records were established during the competition:
DateRoundNameNationalityTimeRecord 29 July Final Zhang Lin China 7:32.12 WR
Results
Heats Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes 1 Oussama Mellouli 7:41.82 6 5 AF 2 Ryan Cochrane 7:43.61 6 4 AM 3 Federico Colbertaldo 7:44.29 4 3 ER 4 David Davies 7:45.89 4 5 NR 5 Yury Prilukov 7:46.05 5 4 NR 6 Zhang Lin 7:48.75 6 3 7 Marco Rivera 7:49.09 6 6 NR 8 Peter Vanderkaay 7:49.71 5 6 9 Jan Wolfgarten 7:50.10 5 5 10 Robert Hurley 7:50.65 4 6 11 Mads Glæsner 7:52.18 6 7 NR 12 Ryan Napoleon 7:53.92 5 2 13 Ahmed Mathlouthi 7:55.43 4 0 14 Jackson Wilcox 7:57.09 5 8 15 Tom Vangeneugden 7:59.16 6 1 16 Samuel Pizzetti 7:59.67 4 4 17 Richard Charlesworth 8:00.50 5 1 18 Pál Joensen 8:01.50 6 2 19 David Brandl 8:02.35 5 7 20 Esteban Paz 8:03.27 4 1 NR 21 Ryoji Sononaka 8:05.12 4 8 22 Kang Yonghwan 8:05.68 3 3 23 Ricardo Monasterio 8:08.64 3 5 24 Igor Snitko 8:09.16 6 8 25 Luis Escobar 8:10.26 1 1 26 Fabio Pereira 8:11.60 5 0 27 Florian Janistyn 8:11.79 4 2 28 Oleksandr Lutchenko 8:12.36 1 2 29 Alejandro Gómez 8:13.16 3 2 30 Mohamed Farhoud 8:14.67 6 9 31 Xin Tong 8:16.93 1 7 32 Irakli Revishvili 8:20.55 3 7 33 Jan Karel Petric 8:20.94 5 9 34 Mateo de Angulo 8:22.12 3 4 35 Daniel Delgadillo 8:25.81 6 0 36 Pan Kai-Wen 8:29.57 4 9 37 Lin Kuan-Ting 8:33.44 3 8 38 Hajder Ensar 8:35.57 2 9 39 Ivan Alejandro Enderica 8:36.04 3 1 40 Pang Sheng Jun 8:39.69 2 3 41 Roberto Peñailillo Garcia 8:43.89 3 0 42 Lim Clement 8:44.09 2 5 43 Allan Gabriel Gutierrez Castro 8:45.18 2 7 44 Vitalii Khudiakov 8:54.03 3 9 45 Neil Agius 8:54.06 2 6 46 Heimanu Sichan 8:55.64 2 1 NR 47 Ngou Pok Man 8:56.92 2 2 48 Omar Núñez 8:59.14 2 8 49 Luis Andres Martorell Name 8:59.58 2 0 50 Vincent Perry 9:11.37 1 4 51 Cooper Graf 9:38.96 1 3 52 Shin Kimura 9:40.57 1 5 – Naser Aldaya DNS 1 6 – Yamine Jordan DNS 2 4 – Sho Uchida DNS 4 7 – Nicolas Rostoucher DNS 5 3
Final Rank Name Nationality Time Lane Notes Zhang Lin 7:32.12 7 WR Oussama Mellouli 7:35.27 4 AF Ryan Cochrane 7:41.92 5 AM 4 Federico Colbertaldo 7:43.84 3 ER 5 David Davies 7:44.32 6 NR 6 Peter Vanderkaay 7:48.44 8 7 Marco Rivera 7:49.46 1 7 Yuriy Prilukov 7:49.46 2
See also Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle (previous World Championships)
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