2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 800 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Women's 800 metre freestyle
Competition:	2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:	WFCU Centre
Dates:	7 December (heats) 8 December (final)
Competitors:	32
Nations:	27
Win Value:	8:10.17
Gold:	Leah Smith
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Ashley Twichell
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Kiah Melverton
Bronzenoc:	AUS
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Women's 800 metre freestyle competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 7 and 8 December 2016.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Mireia Belmonte		7:59.34	Berlin	10 August 2013
Championship record	Mireia Belmonte		8:03.41	Doha	4 December 2014

The heats were held at 11:31.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	4	8:07.67	Q, AM
2	3	4	8:16.08	Q
3	3	3	8:23.51	Q
4	4	2	8:24.65	Q
5	4	5	8:25.00	Q
6	2	4	8:25.05	Q, NR
7	3	2	8:25.33	Q
8	4	8	8:25.85	Q
9	4	3	8:27.41
10	4	7	8:28.50
11	4	6	8:29.58
12	3	1	8:30.96
13	3	8	8:33.06
14	3	7	8:34.59
15	4	0	8:34.60
16	3	6	8:35.69
17	3	9	8:36.08
18	4	1	8:38.61
19	4	9	8:39.95
20	3	0	8:41.46
21	2	6	8:44.01	NR
22	2	7	8:45.40	NR
23	2	5	8:45.47
24	2	3	8:54.90	NR
25	2	8	8:57.87	NR
26	2	1	8:58.72	NR
27	2	2	8:59.57
28	1	4	9:02.19	NR
29	1	5	9:03.93	NR
30	2	9	9:12.08
31	1	3	9:25.50	NR
32	1	6	10:15.29	NR
	2	0
	3	5

The final was held at 20:06.^[3]

Web site: Schedule . 2016-12-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161206122713/http://www.finawindsor2016.com/content/competition-schedule . 2016-12-06 . dead .
Web site: Heats results.
Web site: Final results. 2017-06-14. 2017-03-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20170329113011/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D01001802FFFFFFFFFFFF02. dead.