Swimming at the 2024 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

Men's 800 metre freestyle
at the 2024 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 800 metre freestyle ; at the 2024 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Sports Centre Milan Gale Muškatirović
Dates	18 June (heats); 19 June (final)
Winning time	7:46.20
Medalists

The Men's 800 metre freestyle competition of the 2024 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18 and 19 June 2024.^[1]^[2]

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	29 July 2009
European record	Daniel Wiffen	Ireland	7:39.19	Fukuoka	26 July 2023
Championship record	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:40.86	Rome	13 August 2022

The heats were started on 18 June at 10:35.
Qualification Rules: The 8 fastest from the heats qualify to the final.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	7:48.22	Q
2	3	6	Zalán Sárkány	Hungary	7:50.36	Q
3	3	3	Dimitrios Markos	Greece	7:50.38	Q
4	3	2	Krzysztof Chmielewski	Poland	7:50.51	Q
5	2	4	Kuzey Tunçelli	Turkey	7:53.92	Q
6	2	3	Nathan Wiffen	Ireland	7:54.60	Q
7	2	6	Muhammed Özden	Turkey	7:55.56	Q
8	2	5	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	7:55.62	Q
9	3	5	Jon Jøntvedt	Norway	8:01.04
10	2	7	Džiugas Miškinis	Lithuania	8:04.06
11	2	1	Marin Mogić	Croatia	8:08.63
12	3	8	Nikola Ratkov	Serbia	8:09.34
13	2	2	László Gálicz	Hungary	8:11.78
14	3	9	Loris Bianchi	San Marino	8:12.19	NR
15	2	0	Filip Kuruzović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	8:12.37
16	1	4	Mihailo Gašić	Serbia	8:16.14
17	2	8	Michal Judickij	Czech Republic	8:16.66
18	3	0	Nikola Simić	Serbia	8:18.33
19	3	7	Bartosz Kapala	Poland	8:18.51
20	2	9	Kevin Pereira Teixeira	Andorra	8:21.90
21	3	1	Yordan Yanchev	Bulgaria	8:24.04
22	1	5	Nikola Ǵuretanoviḱ	North Macedonia	8:31.13
	1	3	Jovan Lekić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Did not start

The final was held on 19 June at 20:07.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	7:46.20
	3	Dimitrios Markos	Greece	7:48.59	NR
	5	Zalán Sárkány	Hungary	7:49.29
4	6	Krzysztof Chmielewski	Poland	7:49.44
5	8	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	7:50.88
6	2	Kuzey Tunçelli	Turkey	7:54.12
7	1	Muhammed Özden	Turkey	7:55.32
8	7	Nathan Wiffen	Ireland	8:03.74

2024 European Aquatics Championships

Artistic swimming
Solo
Technical	men	women
Free	men	women
Duet
Technical		women
Technical	mixed
Free		women
Free	mixed
Team
Technical	open
Free	open
Acrobatic	open
Diving
Individual
1 m	men	women
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
3 m & 10 m	mixed team
Synchronised
3 m	men	women
	mixed
10 m	men	women
	mixed
Open water swimming
5 km	men	women
10 km	men	women
25 km	men	women
Team	team
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 m	men	women
	mixed
4 × 200 m	men	women
	mixed
Medley relay
4 × 100 m	men	women
	mixed