The women's 800 metre freestyle event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 2–3 August at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.Start list

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:

The following new records were set during this competition. Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 3 August Final Katie Ledecky 8:13.86

Results

Heats The heats were held on 2 August.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 4 Katie Ledecky Q 2 2 5 Lauren Boyle Q, OC 3 4 5 Lotte Friis Q 4 2 4 Mireia Belmonte Q 5 3 3 Boglárka Kapás Q 6 3 7 Martina de Memme Q 7 3 6 Andreina Pinto Q 8 4 3 Chloe Sutton Q 9 3 4 Jazmin Carlin 10 2 3 Jessica Ashwood 11 2 2 Kristel Köbrich 12 4 2 Shao Yiwen 13 3 2 Alexa Komarnycky 14 3 5 Xu Danlu 15 3 1 Sarah Köhler 16 3 0 Samantha Arevalo NR 17 4 6 Eleanor Faulkner 18 4 1 Isabelle Härle 19 2 6 Beatriz Gómez Cortes 20 4 7 Savannah King 21 2 1 Julia Hassler 22 4 0 Susana Escobar 23 2 8 Tjasa Oder 24 4 8 Katya Bachrouche 25 3 9 Khoo Cai Lin 26 3 8 Carolina Bilich 27 4 9 Virginia Bardach 28 2 0 Kyna Pereira 29 2 9 Andrea Basaraba 30 1 6 Valerie Gruest 31 1 4 32 1 3 Lani Cabrera 33 1 5 Raina Ramdhani 34 1 2 Daniela Miyahara 35 1 7 Daniela Benavides 36 1 8 San Khant Khant Su 10:03.20 37 1 1 Monica Saili 10:11.46 38 1 0 Victoria Chentsova 10:14.63 2 7 Camille Muffat

Final The final was held at 19:26.Final Results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Katie Ledecky 8:13.86 3 Lotte Friis 8:16.32 5 Lauren Boyle 8:18.58 OC 4 2 Boglárka Kapás 8:21.21 NR 5 6 Mireia Belmonte 8:21.99 6 8 Chloe Sutton 8:27.75 7 1 Andreina Pinto 8:29.37 8 7 Martina de Memme 8:37.29

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