The men's 800 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 4 August with the heats and 5 August with the final.Start list
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
Results Heats The heats were held at 10:30.Heats results
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes1 5 3 Connor Jaeger 7:44.77 Q2 5 4 Gregorio Paltrinieri 7:45.15 Q 3 5 2 Stephen Milne 7:46.61 Q4 5 6 Michael McBroom 7:47.05 Q 5 5 5 Mack Horton 7:47.08 Q6 4 5 Sun Yang 7:47.87 Q7 5 8 Wojciech Wojdak 7:48.95 Q8 3 6 Henrik Christiansen 7:49.70 Q, NR9 5 1 Ahmed Akram 7:49.83 NR10 4 4 Ryan Cochrane 7:50.28 11 4 2 Damien Joly 7:50.30 12 4 0 Marc Sánchez 7:51.19 13 3 0 Mads Glæsner 7:51.24 NR14 3 5 Joris Bouchaut 7:52.37 15 4 1 Florian Vogel 7:53.61 16 4 9 Maarten Brzoskowski 7:54.31 17 4 3 Pál Joensen 7:55.01 18 3 4 Richárd Nagy 7:55.31 NR19 5 9 Wang Kecheng 7:56.05 20 3 7 Nathan Capp 7:57.61 NR21 3 8 Martín Naidich 7:57.72 22 4 8 Sören Meißner 7:57.93 23 5 7 Gergely Gyurta 7:58.7024 4 6 Péter Bernek 7:59.56 25 3 1 Serhiy Frolov 8:02.17 26 3 2 Esteban Enderica 8:03.17 27 3 9 Martin Bau 8:04.11 28 5 0 Myles Brown 8:04.47 29 2 5 Vuk Čelić 8:05.68 30 4 7 Jan Micka 8:05.76 31 3 3 Matias Koski 8:07.28 32 2 6 Sven Arnar Saemundsson 8:07.40 NR33 2 1 Ido Haber 8:07.78 34 2 2 Alexei Sancov 8:10.8335 2 3 Marcelo Acosta 8:12.52 36 2 4 Ernest Maksumov 8:12.6537 1 4 Alin Artimon 8:17.16 38 2 8 8:18.20 39 2 7 Andy Arteta 8:19.39 40 1 5 Felipe Tapia 8:21.27 41 1 3 Pol Arias 8:28.11
Final
The final was held at 18:58.Final results
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 7 Sun Yang 7:39.96 5 Gregorio Paltrinieri 7:40.81 ER 2 Mack Horton 7:44.02 4 4 Connor Jaeger 7:44.51 5 8 Henrik Christiansen 7:45.66 NR 6 1 Wojciech Wojdak 7:45.90 NR 7 3 Stephen Milne 7:49.86 8 6 Michael McBroom 7:55.30
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