The Women's 800 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 7 August with the heats and 8 August with the final.Start list

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

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 4 August Final* Katie Ledecky 8:13.25 CR 8 August Final Katie Ledecky 8:07.39 * Split from the women's 1500 metre freestyle

Results

Heats The heats were held at 11:17Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 4 Katie Ledecky 8:19.42 Q 2 4 5 Jessica Ashwood 8:22.17 Q 3 5 6 Lotte Friis 8:23.12 Q 4 5 5 Lauren Boyle 8:23.66 Q 5 4 4 Jazmin Carlin 8:23.83 Q 6 4 6 Sharon van Rouwendaal 8:24.83 Q, NR 7 4 2 Sarah Köhler 8:26.16 Q 8 5 3 Boglárka Kapás 8:26.96 Q 9 5 2 Leonie Beck 8:28.39 10 4 3 Becca Mann 8:28.44 11 3 2 Kristel Köbrich 8:33.12 12 5 8 Andreina Pinto 8:33.33 13 4 7 Melani Costa 8:34.89 14 5 9 Zhang Yuhan 8:35.17 15 4 1 Jessica Thielmann 8:36.88 16 5 7 Martina Caramignoli 8:38.56 17 4 8 Tjasa Oder 8:38.85 18 3 7 Julia Hassler 8:39.12 19 5 1 Erica Musso 8:39.55 20 2 5 Valerie Gruest 8:39.88 21 3 3 Samantha Arévalo 8:41.15 22 4 0 Beatriz Gómez Cortés 8:41.72 23 2 3 María Álvarez 8:42.14 NR 24 3 0 Montserrat Ortuño 8:42.83 25 3 4 Cao Yue 8:43.24 26 3 5 Leah Neale 8:44.38 27 4 9 Emma Robinson 8:44.86 28 3 9 Monique Olivier 8:45.37 29 3 6 Joanna Evans 8:49.96 30 2 4 Martina Elhenická 8:53.08 31 2 6 Khoo Cai Lin 8:55.20 32 3 1 Jo Hyun-ju 8:57.66 33 2 1 Daniela Miyahara 9:00.30 34 2 2 Rachel Tseng 9:01.19 35 2 7 Daniella van den Berg 9:03.71 36 2 9 Helena Moreno 9:09.27 37 3 8 Valeriya Salamatina 9:11.78 38 2 8 Hannah Gill 9:16.23 39 2 0 Talita Te Flan 9:16.89 40 1 4 Gabriella Doueihy 9:18.30 41 1 5 Lena Rannvaardottir 9:35.53 42 1 3 Makaela Holowchak 9:37.68 43 1 6 Victoria Chentsova 9:48.87 5 0 Coralie Balmy DNS

Final The final was held on 8 August at 18:55.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Katie Ledecky 8:07.39 6 Lauren Boyle 8:17.65 OC 2 Jazmin Carlin 8:18.15 4 5 Jessica Ashwood 8:18.41 NR 5 3 Lotte Friis 8:21.36 6 8 Boglárka Kapás 8:22.93 7 1 Sarah Köhler 8:23.67 8 7 Sharon van Rouwendaal 8:24.12 NR

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