Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

Men's 800 metre freestyle at the 2001 FINA World Championships
Dates	24 July 2001
Competitors	25
Winning time	7:39.16 WR
Medalists
Ian Thorpe    Australia   Grant Hackett    Australia   Graeme Smith    Great Britain
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The men's 800 metre freestyle event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place 24 July. The heats took place 23 July, and the final was held on 24 July.^[1][2]

Records

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

World record	Ian Thorpe (AUS)	7:41.59	Hobart, Australia	26 March 2001
Championship record	New event

The following record was established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nation	Time	Record
23 July 2001	Heat 4	Ian Thorpe	Australia	7:52.74	CR
24 July 2001	Final	Ian Thorpe	Australia	7:39.16	WR

Results

Heats

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Ian Thorpe	Australia	7:52.74	Q, CR
2	Grant Hackett	Australia	7:54.22	Q
3	Graeme Smith	United Kingdom	7:56.73	Q
4	Alexey Filipets	Russia	7:56.89	Q
5	Chris Thompson	United States	7:57.11	Q
6	Shunichi Fujita	Japan	7:57.99	Q
7	Andrea Righi	Italy	8:00.46	Q
8	Heiko Hell	Germany	8:00.55	Q
9	Christian Minotti	Italy	8:00.70
10	Adam Faulkner	United Kingdom	8:01.15
11	Dragoș Coman	Romania	8:01.20
12	Ihor Chervynskyy	Ukraine	8:01.52
13	Masato Hirano	Japan	8:01.69
14	Ricardo Monasterio	Venezuela	8:02.19
15	Robert Margalis	United States	8:02.39
16	Alexei Boutsenine	Russia	8:02.63
17	Nicolas Rostoucher	France	8:02.92
18	Spyridon Gianniotis	Greece	8:07.53
19	Andrew Hurd	Canada	8:10.56
20	Shilo Ayalon	Israel	8:13.49
21	Zheng Shibin	China	8:16.57
22	Leonardo Salinas	Mexico	8:22.63
23	Giancarlo Zolezzi	Chile	8:22.79
24	Jorge Carral	Mexico	8:23.28
25	Hsu Kuo-Tung	Chinese Taipei	8:58.48

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ian Thorpe	Australia	7:39.16	WR
	Grant Hackett	Australia	7:40.34
	Graeme Smith	United Kingdom	7:51.12
4	Chris Thompson	United States	7:53.95
5	Alexey Filipets	Russia	7:56.30
6	Andrea Righi	Italy	7:57.69
7	Heiko Hell	Germany	7:59.47
8	Shunichi Fujita	Japan	7:59.57

Key: WR = World record

References

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