The women's 800 metre freestyle event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 13 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome. This event was a timed-final where each swimmer swam just once. The top 8 seeded swimmers swam in the evening, and the remaining swimmers swam in the morning session.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordCamille Muffat 8:01.06 Angers 16 November 2012 Championship record Rebecca Adlington 8:08.25 Manchester 10 April 2008
No new records were set during this competition.
Results
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 7 Lauren Boyle 8:08.62 OC 4 4 Lotte Friis 8:10.99 4 3 Chloe Sutton 8:15.53 4 4 2 Hannah Miley 8:16.09 5 4 5 Erika Villaécija García 8:16.90 6 4 1 Rebecca Mann 8:19.27 7 1 5 Xu Danlu 8:22.88 8 4 8 Ellie Faulkner 8:22.96 9 4 6 Melanie Costa 8:23.56 10 1 4 Zhou Lili 8:25.19 11 3 5 Marie Kamimura 8:28.09 12 3 1 Samantha Arévalo 8:28.31 NR 13 3 2 Asami Chida 8:28.60 14 3 6 Julia Hassler 8:29.77 15 3 0 Evelyn Verrasztó 8:30.42 16 3 3 Tjasa Oder 8:31.14 17 3 8 Michelle Weber 8:35.62 18 3 7 Virginia Bardach 8:42.35 19 3 4 Jessica Pengelly 8:49.07 20 2 8 Lani Cabrera 8:57.56 NR 21 2 3 Maria Gabriela Santis Mejia 8:59.19 22 3 9 Raina Saumi Grahana 8:59.74 23 2 5 Daniela Miyahara 9:01.06 24 2 7 Fatima Eugenia Flores 9:09.66 25 2 1 Angie Galdamez 9:14.38 26 2 6 Ana Semiruncic 9:14.46 27 2 2 Erika García-Naranjo 9:21.55 28 2 4 Valerie Gruest 9:22.55 29 1 3 Monica Saili 9:23.63
External links 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m): Women's 800 metre freestyle (final rankings), from OmegaTiming.com.