The Men's 800 metre freestyle competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 7 and 8 August 2018.ScheduleStart list
Records Before the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordZhang Lin7:32.12Rome29 July 2009European recordGabriele Detti7:40.77Budapest26 July 2017Championship recordGregorio Paltrinieri7:42.33London20 May 2016
Results Heats The heats were started on 7 August at 10:18.Heats results
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 5 Mykhailo Romanchuk 7:49.96 Q 2 2 4 Gregorio Paltrinieri 7:50.08 Q 3 1 4 Marin Mogić 7:51.78 Q 4 2 2 Jan Micka 7:52.14 Q 5 2 7 Damien Joly 7:52.54 Q 6 2 1 Domenico Acerenza 7:52.80 Q 7 3 3 Florian Wellbrock 7:53.62 Q 8 3 5 Henrik Christiansen 7:53.94 Q 9 3 2 Serhiy Frolov 7:54.31 9 3 6 Victor Johansson 7:54.31 11 3 1 Anton Ipsen 7:54.34 12 2 3 Felix Auböck 7:55.56 13 1 6 Vuk Čelić 7:56.58 14 3 4 Wojciech Wojdak 7:56.83 15 2 8 Ilya Druzhinin 7:57.54 16 1 5 Tom Derbyshire 7:58.26 17 3 0 Jay Lelliott 7:58.67 18 3 7 Henning Mühlleitner 7:58.77 19 1 3 Albert Escrits 8:01.39 20 3 8 Poul Zellmann 8:03.07 21 1 2 Bogdan-Andrei Scarlat 8:03.98 22 2 0 Filip Zaborowski 8:06.48 23 2 9 Dávid Lakatos 8:07.51 24 1 1 Guilherme Pina 8:07.96 25 1 7 Andreas Georgakopoulos 8:25.42 26 1 0 Frenc Berdaku 8:44.70 — 1 8 Maksym Shemberev Did not start 1 9 Spiro Goga 2 6 David Aubry
Final The final was started on 8 August at 16:30.Final results
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Mykhailo Romanchuk 7:42.96 5 Gregorio Paltrinieri 7:45.12 1 Florian Wellbrock 7:45.60 4 8 Henrik Christiansen 7:46.75 5 6 Jan Micka 7:49.73 6 7 Domenico Acerenza 7:51.64 7 2 Damien Joly 7:56.75 8 3 Marin Mogić 7:58.03
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