Swimming at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

Men's 800 metre freestyle at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	May 24, 2012 (heats) May 25, 2012 (final)
Competitors	20 from 12 nations
Winning time	7:49.46
Medalists
Gergő Kis    Hungary   Gregorio Paltrinieri    Italy   Sergiy Frolov    Ukraine

The men's 800 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 24 and 25. The heats took place on May 24, the final on May 25.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Zhang Lin	China	7:32.12	Rome	July 29, 2009
European record	Federico Colbertaldo	Italy	7:43.84	Rome	July 29, 2009
Championship record	Sébastien Rouault	France	7:48.28	Budapest	August 13, 2010

Results

Heats

21 swimmers participated in 3 heats.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	2	Sergiy Frolov	Ukraine	7:57.54	Q
2	3	6	Gabriele Detti	Italy	7:57.61	Q
3	1	4	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:57.92	Q
4	2	4	Sébastien Rouault	France	7:57.94	Q
5	3	4	Gergő Kis	Hungary	7:58.09	Q
6	2	3	Evgeny Kulikov	Russia	8:00.86	Q
7	1	1	Maxym Shemberyev	Ukraine	8:02.41	Q
8	3	2	David Brandl	Austria	8:03.73	Q
9	3	1	Sören Meissner	Germany	8:03.82
10	2	5	Anthony Pannier	France	8:04.00
11	3	3	Gergely Gyurta	Hungary	8:04.03
12	1	6	Anton Goncharov	Ukraine	8:06.81
13	1	5	Federico Colbertaldo	Italy	8:08.04
14	1	7	Anton Sveinn McKee	Iceland	8:08.58	NR
15	3	5	Rocco Potenza	Italy	8:08.60
16	1	3	Jan Wolfgarten	Germany	8:12.79
17	1	2	Uladzimir Zhyharau	Belarus	8:15.48
18	2	1	Ventsislav Aydarski	Bulgaria	8:16.03
19	3	7	Jovan Mitrovic	Switzerland	8:16.08
20	2	7	Jan Karel Petric	Slovenia	8:23.42
	2	6	Michal Szuba	Poland	DNS

Final

The final was held at 17:02.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	Gergő Kis	Hungary	7:49.46
	3	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:52.23
	4	Sergiy Frolov	Ukraine	7:52.81
4	6	Sébastien Rouault	France	7:53.78
5	5	Gabriele Detti	Italy	7:56.16
6	7	Evgeny Kulikov	Russia	7:59.90
7	1	Maxym Shemberyev	Ukraine	8:00.96
8	8	David Brandl	Austria	8:03.28

References

1. 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 800 metre freestyle entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-23.
2. 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 800 metre freestyle Heats results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-24.
3. 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 800 metre freestyle Final results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-25.