Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

The Men's 800m Freestyle at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships occurred on the morning of 26 July 2005 (preliminary heats) and in the evening of 27 July 2005 (final heat) in the Olympic pool at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Canada. 45 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 44 swam. The top-8 swimmers from the morning heats advanced to the next day's final heat.

Men's 800m Freestyle at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	26 July (prelims) 27 July (final)
Competitors	45
Winning time	seconds
Medalists
Grant Hackett    Australia   Larsen Jensen    United States   Yuri Prilukov    Russia

The existing records at the start of the event were:

• World record (WR): 7:39.16, Ian Thorpe (Australia), July 24, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan.
• Championship record (CR): same

Results

Final

Place	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	Grant Hackett	Australia	7:38.65	WR
2	Larsen Jensen	USA	7:45.63	NR
3	Yuri Prilukov	Russia	7:46.64	NR
4	Przemysław Stańczyk	Poland	7:50.83
5	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	7:51.03
6	David Davies	Great Britain	7:51.54
7	Lukasz Drzewinski	Poland	7:58.62
8	Sébastien Rouault	France	8:03.52

Heats

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	Grant Hackett	Australia	7:47.63	Q
2	Larsen Jensen	USA	7:48.89	Q
3	Yuri Prilukov	Russia	7:51.75	Q
4	David Davies	Great Britain	7:51.92	Q
5	Sébastien Rouault	France	7:52.04	Q
6	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	7:52.55	Q
7	Przemysław Stańczyk	Poland	7:52.56	Q
8	Lukasz Drzewinski	Poland	7:53.33	Q
9	Nicolas Rostoucher	France	7:54.55
10	Christian Hein	Germany	7:56.38
11	Sergiy Fesenko	Ukraine	7:57.11
12	Dragoș Coman	Romania	7:57.79
13	Sho Uchida	Japan	7:58.00
14	Igor Chervynskiy	Ukraine	7:59.09
15	Massimiliano Rosolino	Italy	7:59.60
16	Mark Randall	South Africa	7:59.65
17	Marco Rivera	Spain	7:59.66
18	Troyden Prinsloo	South Africa	7:59.69
19	Andrew Hurd	Canada	8:00.06
20	Chris Thompson	USA	8:04.67
21	Taishi Okude	Japan	8:05.65
22	Fernando Costa	Portugal	8:06.98
23	Spyridon Gianniotis	Greece	8:07.46
24	Park Tae-Hwan	South Korea	8:08.52
25	Felipe Araujo	Brazil	8:08.66
26	Kurtis MacGillivary	Australia	8:09.01
27	Luka Turk	Slovenia	8:09.23
28	Gard Kvale	Norway	8:09.32
29	XIN Tong	China	8:12.91
30	Stef Verachten	Belgium	8:16.93
31	HAN Kuk-In	South Korea	8:18.06
32	Mahrez Mebarek	Algeria	8:20.55	NR
33	Evan Marcus	Guatemala	8:23.13
34	Miguel Mendoza	Philippines	8:28.73
35	Nawaf Al-Wazzan	Kuwait	8:29.83
36	Sheng-Chieh Tang	Chinese Taipei	8:29.91
37	Lionel Lee	Singapore	8:39.94
38	Irakli Revishvili	Georgia	8:41.81
39	Marcus Cheah	Singapore	8:48.71
40	Neil Agius	Malta	8:53.14
41	Rony Bakale	Congo	8:54.73
42	Steven Mangroo	Seychelles	8:55.03	NR
43	Omar Nunez	Nicaragua	8:58.55
44	Hei Meng Lao	Macao	9:17.94
--	Emiliano Brembilla	Italy	DNS

See also

• Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle
• Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

References

• FINA Worlds 2005: Men's 800 Freestyle heats results from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds). Published 2005-07-30, retrieved 2009-08-21.
• FINA Worlds 2005: Men's 800 Freestyle final results from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds). Published 2005-07-30, retrieved 2009-08-21.