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Women's 800 metre freestyle
at the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Women's 800 metre freestyle ; at the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre
Location	Melbourne, Australia
Dates	14 December
Competitors	22 from 18 nations
Winning time	8:04.07
Medalists
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The Women's 800 metre freestyle competition of the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 14 December 2022.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Katie Ledecky (USA)	7:57.42	Indianapolis, United States of America	5 November 2022
Competition record	Li Bingjie (CHN)	8:02.90	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	18 December 2021

The slowest heats were held at 11:19, and the fastest heat at 19:42.^[2]^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	4	Lani Pallister	Australia	8:04.07
	3	7	Erika Fairweather	New Zealand	8:10.41
	3	6	Miyu Namba	Japan	8:12.98	NR
4	3	5	Leah Smith	United States	8:14.24
5	3	2	Merve Tuncel	Turkey	8:17.89
6	3	8	Jillian Cox	United States	8:20.95
7	3	3	Zhang Ke	China	8:24.24
8	2	3	Gabrielle Roncatto	Brazil	8:25.45
9	2	4	Yukimi Moriyama	Japan	8:25.46
10	2	6	Imani de Jong	Netherlands	8:25.84
11	2	5	Deniz Ertan	Turkey	8:29.92
12	2	2	Alexa Reyna	France	8:35.32
13	2	7	Jamie Perkins	Australia	8:36.26
14	2	1	Paula Otero	Spain	8:37.61
15	1	5	Stephanie Houtman	South Africa	8:39.15
16	1	4	Sasha Gatt	Malta	8:40.76
17	1	3	Klara Bošnjak	Croatia	8:49.67
18	2	8	Iman Avdić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	8:58.28
19	1	6	Kuo Jui-an	Chinese Taipei	9:01.45
20	1	7	Natalia Kuipers	United States Virgin Islands	9:03.17
21	1	2	Gabriella Doueihy	Lebanon	9:11.60
	3	1	Gan Ching Hwee	Singapore	DNS