Swimming at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 800 metre freestyle

The Women's 800 metre freestyle competition at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships was held on 16 and 17 February 2024.

Qualification

Each National Federation was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the "A" standard qualification time at approved qualifying events. For this event, the "A" standard qualification time was 8:37.90. Federations could enter one athlete into the event if they met the "B" standard qualification time. For this event, the "B" standard qualification time was 8:56.03. Athletes could also enter the event if they had met an "A" or "B" standard in a different event and their Federation had not entered anyone else. Additional considerations applied to Federations who had few swimmers enter through the standard qualification times. Federations in this category could at least enter two men and two women into the competition, all of whom could enter into up to two events.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

Results Heats The heats were started on 16 February at 11:07.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 4 Isabel Gose 8:26.49 Q 2 3 4 Simona Quadarella 8:27.80 Q 3 3 5 Erika Fairweather 8:28.15 Q 4 3 3 Eve Thomas 8:29.30 Q 5 3 2 Agostina Hein 8:29.44 Q 6 2 3 Ajna Késely 8:32.88 Q 7 2 6 Kiah Melverton 8:35.22 Q 8 2 8 Ichika Kajimoto 8:35.25 Q 8 3 6 Maddy Gough 8:35.25 Q 10 3 7 Yang Peiqi 8:36.75 11 3 9 Gabrielle Roncatto 8:37.00 12 2 7 Ma Yonghui 8:37.66 13 2 0 Merve Tuncel 8:38.10 14 2 9 Kristel Köbrich 8:38.81 15 2 2 Kayla Han 8:40.36 16 1 4 Ella Cosgrove 8:43.33 17 3 1 Beatriz Dizotti 8:43.73 18 2 1 Alisée Pisane 8:45.28 19 3 0 Tamila Holub 8:45.94 20 1 3 Imani de Jong 8:49.08 21 1 6 Ashley Lim 8:54.29 22 1 5 Han Da-kyung 8:54.74 23 1 2 Diana Taszhanova 8:55.78 24 1 1 Eva Petrovska 9:04.27 25 1 8 Lana Hijazi 9:33.90 1 7 Marlene Kahler Did not start 2 5 Anastasiia Kirpichnikova 3 8 Dune Coetzee

Final The final was held on 17 February at 20:23.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Simona Quadarella 8:17.44 4 Isabel Gose 8:17.53 3 Erika Fairweather 8:22.26 4 6 Eve Thomas 8:24.86 5 2 Agostina Hein 8:29.19 6 8 Ichika Kajimoto 8:29.24 7 1 Kiah Melverton 8:29.35 8 7 Ajna Késely 8:29.83 9 0 Maddy Gough 8:36.43

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