Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 800 metre freestyle explained

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The heats for the Women's 800 m Freestyle race at the 2009 World Championships took place on the morning of 31 July and the final will take place in the evening session of 1 August at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Records

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

World record		8:14.10	Beijing, China	align=right	16 August 2008
Championship record		8:18.52	Melbourne, Australia	align=right	31 March 2007

The following records were established during the competition:

Heats

Rank	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	8:20.53	5	4
2	8:20.80	3	4
3	8:22.03	4	4
4	8:24.03	5	5
5	8:25.72	4	5
6	8:26.58	5	3
7	8:27.26	3	3
8	8:27.90	3	2	SA
8	8:27.90	4	6
10	8:29.25	5	6
11	8:31.39	4	3
12	8:33.51	4	2
13	8:34.17	3	6
14	8:36.14	4	1
15	8:36.37	3	7
16	8:36.82	5	8
17	8:36.98	3	9	NR
18	8:38.10	5	2
19	8:39.09	3	5
20	8:39.17	4	9	NR
21	8:40.18	5	1
22	8:40.23	5	9
23	8:41.10	4	8
24	8:42.16	2	2
25	8:44.43	3	1
26	8:44.93	2	4
27	8:45.45	2	1
28	8:45.91	4	7
29	8:47.51	5	7
30	8:48.01	5	0
31	8:49.28	2	5
32	8:49.70	2	6
33	8:51.65	3	0
34	8:53.34	2	8	NR
35	8:56.08	2	7
36	8:56.71	3	8
37	9:05.74	2	0
38	9:05.77	2	3
39	9:10.25	1	5
40	9:14.90	1	4
41	9:15.62	2	9
42	9:20.80	1	3
43	9:25.02	1	6
44	9:39.87	1	2
45	9:53.98	1	7
46	10:05.79	1	1	NR
47	10:52.89	1	8
—	DNS	1	0
—	DNS	1	9
—	DNS	4	0

Final

Rank	Name	Time	Lane	Notes
	Lotte Friis^[1]	8:15.92	2	CR, NR
	Joanne Jackson^[2]	8:16.66	5
	Alessia Filippi^[3]	8:17.21	6	NR
4	Rebecca Adlington^[4]	8:17.90	4
5		8:20.44	3
6		8:25.97	7
7		8:26.35	8
8		8:29.61	1
9		8:30.10	0

Notes and References

Web site: Dane Friis controls final for freestyle gold. Virgo, Paul . Oxley, Sonia . 2009-08-01. Reuters. Thomson Reuters . 2009-08-01 .
Web site: Britain's Jackson secures silver . BBC. 2009-08-01. 2009-08-01.
Web site: Phelps rises to challenge in triumph over Cavic. https://archive.today/20130124191630/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g--zS9IWSybuHXF6BPOO4OekY4yQ. dead. January 24, 2013. Bryan, Rebecca. 2009-08-01. AFP. Google. 2009-08-01.
Web site: Rebecca Adlington fourth as Michael Phelps breaks 100m butterfly world record in Rome. https://web.archive.org/web/20090804075823/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/swimming/5956510/Rebecca-Adlington-fourth-as-Michael-Phelps-breaks-100m-butterfly-world-record-in-Rome.html. dead. 2009-08-04. Hart, Simon. 2009-08-01. The Telegraph. 2009-08-01.