The Men's 800 metre freestyle competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 19 and 20 May 2016.Entry listStart list
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordZhang Lin7:32.12Rome29 July 2009European recordGregorio Paltrinieri7:40.81Kazan5 August 2015Championship recordGregorio Paltrinieri7:44.98Berlin22 August 2014
Results Heats The heats were held on 19 May at 10:53.Heats results
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 4 Gregorio Paltrinieri 7:49.87 Q 2 4 5 Gabriele Detti 7:51.40 Q 3 3 6 Mykhailo Romanchuk 7:51.83 Q 4 1 5 Timothy Shuttleworth 7:52.33 Q 5 3 2 Jan Micka 7:52.76 Q 6 3 4 Henrik Christiansen 7:53.09 Q 7 3 3 Joris Bouchaut 7:54.41 Q 8 4 3 Gergely Gyurta 7:56.50 Q 9 4 2 Ruwen Straub 7:57.05 10 4 1 Filip Zaborowski 7:57.62 11 4 7 Daniel Jervis 7:58.45 12 3 5 Serhiy Frolov 7:58.54 13 4 6 Richárd Nagy 7:58.93 14 2 4 Nezir Karap 7:59.20 15 4 8 Miguel Durán 8:01.12 16 2 5 Victor Johansson 8:01.63 17 2 6 Marc Hinawi 8:01.70 18 3 8 Kristóf Rasovszky 8:01.82 19 3 9 Martin Bau 8:03.35 20 3 1 Anton Ipsen 8:03.37 21 3 7 Antonio Arroyo 8:04.40 22 4 9 Henning Muehlleitner 8:12.21 23 2 3 Grega Popović 8:14.56 24 4 0 Vuk Čelić 8:14.86 25 2 1 Ján Kútnik 8:16.47 26 2 7 Truls Wigdel 8:17.80 27 3 0 Ediz Yıldırımer 8:17.99 28 2 8 Dimitrios Dimitriou 8:29.63 29 1 4 Irakli Revishvili 8:33.31 30 1 3 Franc Aleksi 8:35.94 2 2 Oli Mortensen
Final The final was held on 20 May at 18:02.Final results
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Gregorio Paltrinieri 7:42.33 CR 5 Gabriele Detti 7:43.52 3 Mykhailo Romanchuk 7:47.99 4 2 Jan Micka 7:50.38 5 6 Timothy Shuttleworth 7:50.52 6 7 Henrik Christiansen 7:51.84 7 8 Gergely Gyurta 7:54.32 8 1 Joris Bouchaut 7:58.54
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