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Men's 800 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Centre, Paris La Défense Arena
Dates	29 July 2024 (Heats) 30 July 2024 (Final)
Competitors	31 from 24 nations
Winning time	7:38.19 OR
Medalists
Daniel Wiffen  Ireland Robert Finke  United States Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy
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Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Qualification
Freestyle
50 m	men		women
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
400 m	men		women
800 m	men		women
1500 m	men		women
Backstroke
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
Breaststroke
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
Butterfly
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
Individual medley
200 m	men		women
400 m	men		women
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 m	men		women
4 × 200 m	men		women
Medley relay
4 × 100 m	men	mixed	women
Marathon
10 km	men		women
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The men's 800 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 29 July – 30 July 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World record	Zhang Lin (CHN)	7:32.12	Rome, Italy	29 July 2009
Olympic record	Mykhailo Romanchuk (UKR)	7:41.28	Tokyo, Japan	27 July 2021

The following record was established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
30 July	Final	Daniel Wiffen	Ireland	7:38.19	OR

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). For this event, the OQT was 7:51.65 seconds. World Aquatics then considered athletes qualifying through universality; NOCs were given one event entry for each gender, which could be used by any athlete regardless of qualification time, providing the spaces had not already been taken by athletes from that nation who had achieved the OQT. Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 7:54.01 for this event. In total, 30 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, one athlete qualified through a universality place and one athlete qualified through achieving the OCT.

Competition format

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The competition consists of two rounds: heats and a final. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the heats advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.

Schedule

All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Results

Heats

Results

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	5	Daniel Wiffen	Ireland	7:41.53	Q
2	3	2	Ahmed Jaouadi	Tunisia	7:42.07	Q
3	3	3	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:42.48	Q
4	4	3	Elijah Winnington	Australia	7:42.86	Q
5	3	4	Robert Finke	United States	7:43.00	Q
6	3	5	Sven Schwarz	Germany	7:43.67	Q
7	3	7	Luca De Tullio	Italy	7:44.07	Q
8	2	8	David Aubry	France	7:44.59	Q
9	4	4	Samuel Short	Australia	7:46.83
10	3	8	Fei Liwei	China	7:47.11
11	2	4	Kuzey Tunçelli	Turkey	7:47.29	NR
12	4	6	Florian Wellbrock	Germany	7:47.91
13	1	6	Felix Auböck	Austria	7:48.49
14	2	7	Zalán Sárkány	Hungary	7:48.90
15	4	2	Luke Whitlock	United States	7:49.26
16	3	1	Victor Johansson	Sweden	7:49.47
17	3	6	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	7:49.75
18	1	3	Carlos Garach	Spain	7:50.07
19	1	7	Lucas Henveaux	Belgium	7:51.51	NR
20	4	7	Guilherme Costa	Brazil	7:54.41
21	4	8	Zhang Zhanshuo	China	7:54.44
22	1	5	Ilia Sibirtsev	Uzbekistan	7:56.67
23	2	3	Pacome Bricout	France	7:57.32
24	2	2	Jon Jøntvedt	Norway	7:59.16
25	2	1	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	8:00.55
26	2	5	Dimitrios Markos	Greece	8:01.37
27	4	1	Marwan Elkamash	Egypt	8:07.00
28	1	2	Nguyễn Huy Hoàng	Vietnam	8:08.39
29	2	6	Alfonso Mestre	Venezuela	8:12.03
30	1	4	Vlad Stancu	Romania	8:20.78
31	1	1	Théo Druenne	Monaco	8:25.01

Final

Results

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	4	Daniel Wiffen	Ireland	7:38.19	OR, ER
	2	Robert Finke	United States	7:38.75
	3	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:39.38
4	5	Ahmed Jaouadi	Tunisia	7:42.83
5	7	Sven Schwarz	Germany	7:43.59
5	8	David Aubry	France	7:43.59
7	1	Luca De Tullio	Italy	7:46.16
8	6	Elijah Winnington	Australia	7:48.36

References

1. "Competition Schedule | World Aquatics Official". World Aquatics. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
2. ^ "Paris 2024 – Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 5 April 2022. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
3. ^ Entries list - Swimming, World Aquatics, archived from the original on 12 July 2024, retrieved 18 December 2024
4. "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
5. "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 December 2024.

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