The men's 800 metre freestyle at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany was held from 21 to 22 July 2025. Aleksandr Stepanov from Individual Neutral Athletes won the gold medal, Tommaso Griffante from Italy took the silver medal and Ryan Erisman from the United States earned the bronze medal.
Schedule All times are Central European Time (UTC+1) Date Time Round 21 July 10:57 Heats 22 July 19:15 Final
Records Prior to the competition, the world and Universiade records were as follows. Category Swimmer Record Date Place Event World record Zhang Lin 7:32.12 29 July 2009 Rome, Italy 2009 World Championships Universiade record Gregorio Paltrinieri 7:45.76 24 August 2017 Taipei, Chinese Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade
Results Heats All entered athletes competed across multiple seeded heats in the morning session. Swimmers with the top 8 fastest times advanced, regardless of which individual heat they swam.
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 2 3 7:55.78 2 2 4 8:00.75 3 2 6 8:02.13 4 2 7 8:02.33 5 2 2 8:02.65 6 1 5 8:02.81 7 1 2 8:03.45 8 1 4 8:04.08 9 1 3 8:04.34 10 1 7 Cho Seung-been 8:13.75 11 1 6 8:38.04
Final The fastest 8 swimmers competed in a single race to determine the gold, silver and bronze medalists.
Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 5 7:46.51 4 7:50.50 7 7:51.74 4 8 7:54.73 5 2 7:56.43 6 1 8:01.16 7 3 8:02.55 8 6 8:10.52
External links Swimming Rhine Ruhr 2025
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