The men's 800 metre freestyle competition at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships was held on 25 and 26 July 2023.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
Results Heats The heats were started on 25 July at 11:32.
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 5 Samuel Short 7:40.90 Q 2 3 1 Ahmed Hafnaoui 7:41.97 Q 3 3 3 Lukas Märtens 7:42.04 Q 4 4 6 Daniel Wiffen 7:43.81 Q, NR 5 4 4 Bobby Finke 7:43.87 Q 6 4 5 Mykhailo Romanchuk 7:44.07 Q 7 4 3 Gregorio Paltrinieri 7:44.89 Q 8 3 2 Guilherme Costa 7:45.80 Q 9 3 4 Florian Wellbrock 7:45.87 10 3 9 Marwan Elkamash 7:46.55 NR 11 4 8 Luca De Tullio 7:46.87 12 4 0 Dávid Betlehem 7:47.02 13 4 7 Damien Joly 7:47.44 14 2 6 Kim Woo-min 7:47.69 NR 15 2 2 Kristóf Rasovszky 7:47.93 16 2 7 Alfonso Mestre 7:48.66 NR 17 3 6 Elijah Winnington 7:49.24 18 3 8 Henrik Christiansen 7:50.46 19 4 1 Ross Dant 7:54.23 20 4 9 Pacome Bricout 7:55.20 21 2 3 Dimitrios Markos 7:55.72 22 2 4 Luke Turley 7:55.84 23 3 7 Daniel Jervis 7:55.92 24 3 0 Fei Liwei 7:56.69 25 2 5 Carlos Garach 7:59.52 26 2 8 Bar Soloveychik 7:59.65 27 2 9 Aryan Nehra 8:00.76 =NR 28 2 1 Eric Brown 8:01.41 29 1 5 Khiew Hoe Yean 8:05.11 NR 30 2 0 Zac Reid 8:06.94 31 1 4 Righardt Muller 8:07.08 32 1 3 Mai Trần Tuấn Anh 8:08.56 33 1 6 Glen Lim Jun Wei 8:09.90 34 1 2 Ratthawit Thammananthachote 8:14.87 35 1 7 Eduardo Cisternas 8:18.06 36 1 1 Rodolfo Falcón Jr 8:20.35 37 1 0 Líggjas Joensen 8:41.85 38 1 8 José Campo 8:57.60 4 2 Felix Auböck
Final The final was held on 26 July at 20:02.
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Ahmed Hafnaoui 7:37.00 4 Samuel Short 7:37.76 OC 2 Bobby Finke 7:38.67 AM 4 6 Daniel Wiffen 7:39.19 ER 5 3 Lukas Märtens 7:39.48 NR 6 7 Mykhailo Romanchuk 7:43.08 7 8 Guilherme Costa 7:47.26 8 1 Gregorio Paltrinieri 7:53.68
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