The Men's 800 metre freestyle competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 23 and 24 July 2019.ScheduleStart list The defending champion was Gabriele Detti, but he finished 5th in the final. The champion, Gregorio Paltrinieri, was the defending bronze medalist.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
Results Heats The heats were held on 23 July at 11:05.Heats results
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 3 Gregorio Paltrinieri 7:45.70 Q 2 3 6 David Aubry 7:46.37 Q 3 4 2 Jack McLoughlin 7:46.42 Q 4 3 5 Gabriele Detti 7:46.46 Q 5 4 3 Henrik Christiansen 7:46.53 Q 6 4 4 Mykhailo Romanchuk 7:47.01 Q 7 4 1 Serhiy Frolov 7:47.25 Q 8 3 2 Sun Yang 7:48.12 Q 9 4 7 Anton Ipsen 7:48.74 NR 10 3 7 Jan Micka 7:48.93 NR 11 4 5 Zane Grothe 7:50.14 12 4 8 Damien Joly 7:50.30 13 2 4 Wojciech Wojdak 7:50.64 14 4 0 Mack Horton 7:52.65 15 4 9 Nguyễn Huy Hoàng 7:52.74 16 4 6 Jordan Wilimovsky 7:53.11 17 3 4 Florian Wellbrock 7:53.75 18 3 8 Ilya Druzhinin 7:54.07 19 3 9 Ákos Kalmár 7:54.55 20 2 6 Zac Reid 7:57.46 21 3 1 Guilherme Costa 7:58.67 22 2 2 Dimitrios Negris 7:58.99 23 3 0 Vuk Čelić 7:59.17 24 2 5 Felix Auböck 8:02.26 25 2 0 Aflah Prawira 8:06.58 26 2 3 Marwan El-Kamash 8:07.97 27 2 8 Huang Guo-ting 8:08.76 28 2 9 Christian Bayo 8:08.78 29 2 7 Page Advait 8:10.35 30 1 5 Glen Lim Jun Wei 8:13.02 31 2 1 Kim Woo-min 8:14.44 32 1 4 Cheuk Ming Ho 8:15.22 33 1 3 Joaquín Moreno 8:18.24 34 1 1 Daniel Jacobs 8:22.96 35 1 2 Pit Brandenburger 8:23.99 36 1 6 Oil Mortensen 8:24.02 37 1 7 Franci Aleksi 8:33.54 38 1 8 Filip Derkoski 8:35.54
Final The final was held on 24 July at 20:02.Final results
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Gregorio Paltrinieri 7:39.27 ER 2 Henrik Christiansen 7:41.28 NR 5 David Aubry 7:42.08 NR 4 3 Jack McLoughlin 7:42.64 5 6 Gabriele Detti 7:43.89 6 8 Sun Yang 7:45.01 7 1 Serhiy Frolov 7:47.32 8 7 Mykhailo Romanchuk 7:49.32
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