Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Men's 800 Metre Freestyle
Competition:	Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	21–22 August 2014
Competitors:	35
Nations:	20
Win Value:	7:44.98
Gold:	Gregorio Paltrinieri
Goldnoc:	ITA
Silver:	Pál Joensen
Silvernoc:	FRO
Bronze:	Gabriele Detti
Bronzenoc:	ITA

The Men's 800 metre freestyle competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 21–22 August 2014.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	align=left	Zhang Lin	align=left		align=left	7:32.12	Rome	29 July 2009
European record	align=left	Gabriele Detti	align=left		align=left	7:42.74	Riccione	8 April 2014
Championship record	Sebastien Rouault		7:48.28	Budapest	13 August 2010

The heats were held at 10.16.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	5	7:53.09	Q
2	4	7	7:53.38	Q
3	4	4	7:53.51	Q
4	4	3	7:55.34	Q
5	3	4	7:55.35	Q
6	3	9	7:56.40	Q
7	2	4	7:56.74	Q
8	3	7	7:57.80	Q
9	2	5	7:58.17
10	3	0	7:58.34
11	3	5	7:58.55
12	3	3	7:58.66
13	2	3	7:58.82
14	4	2	7:58.99
15	1	4	7:59.76
16	3	6	8:01.65
17	3	1	8:02.89
18	3	2	8:03.00
19	4	6	8:05.07
20	4	8	8:05.29
21	4	1	8:06.14
22	2	0	8:06.78
23	2	8	8:08.05
24	1	3	8:10.48
25	2	2	8:10.66
26	1	5	8:11.71
27	3	8	8:12.50
28	4	9	8:12.81
29	2	9	8:13.11
30	2	1	8:13.67
31	1	2	8:19.29
32	1	6	8:20.70
33	2	6	8:21.41
34	2	7	8:23.95
35	1	7	8:33.16
—	4	0		DNS

The final was held at 18:07.^[3]