The Men's 800 Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on July 24–25, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary heats of the event were swum during the morning session on July 24,Worlds 2003 results: Men's 800 Free -- Prelims from Omega Timing (official timer). Published 2003-07-24, retrieved 2013-06-06. with the Final being held during the evening session on July 25.Worlds 2003 results: Men's 800 Free -- Final from Omega Timing (official timer). Published 2003-07-25, retrieved 2013-06-06.
Prior to the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were both: WR & CR: 7:39.16 swum by Ian Thorpe (Australia) on July 24, 2001, in Fukuoka, Japan
Results
Final Place Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 Grant Hackett 7:43.82 2 Larsen Jensen 7:48.09 NR 3 Ihor Chervynskyi 7:53.15 4 Graeme Smith 7:53.48 5 Dragoș Coman 7:57.22 6 Kurtis MacGillivary 8:01.75 7 Shunichi Fujita 8:02.38 8 Lin Zhang 8:04.10
Preliminaries Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 H4 L4 Grant Hackett 7:55.15 q 2 H2 L4 Graeme Smith 7:58.66 q 3 H3 L4 Larsen Jensen 7:59.18 q 4 H4 L3 Kurtis MacGillivary 7:59.58 q 5 H2 L3 Dragoș Coman 8:00.44 q 6 H3 L2 Ihor Chervynskyi 8:00.61 q 7 H2 L2 Shunichi Fujita 8:02.84 q 8 H3 L1 Lin Zhang 8:04.74 q 9 H3 L5 Stephen Penfold 8:06.48 10 H3 L7 Shilo Ayalon 8:07.85 11 H2 L1 Hannes Kalteis 8:08.17 12 H4 L7 Chad Carvin 8:08.48 13 H2 L6 Dimitros Manganas 8:10.07 14 H2 L7 Felipe Araujo 8:10.56 15 H3 L6 Kyu Chul Han 8:13.47 16 H4 L8 Gian Carlo Zolezzi 8:14.62 17 H4 L1 Luiz Lima 8:15.08 18 H4 L2 Cheng Yu 8:16.23 19 H3 L3 Rick Say 8:17.31 20 H3 L8 Yi-Khy Saw 8:22.99 21 H2 L8 Shai Livant 8:24.14 22 H1 L4 Mohammad Naeem Masri 8:30.00 23 H1 L3 Kwok Leung Chung 8:31.10 24 H1 L5 Roberto Peñailillo 8:34.10 25 H1 L6 Neils Agius 9:09.73 26 H1 L2 Steven Mangroo 9:16.60 27 H1 L7 Barnsley Albert 9:27.30 - - David Davies DNS - - Emiliano Brembilla DNS - - Trevor Kakunze DNS
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