Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 800 metre freestyle

Women's 800 metre freestyle
at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 800 metre freestyle ; at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	28 July (heats); 29 July (final)
Competitors	40 from 34 nations
Winning time	8:12.68
Medalists
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The Women's 800 metre freestyle competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 28 and 29 July 2017.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

World record	Katie Ledecky (USA)	8:04.79	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	12 August 2016
Competition record	Katie Ledecky (USA)	8:07.39	Kazan, Russia	8 August 2015

The heats were held on 28 July at 11:06.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Katie Ledecky	United States	8:20.24	Q
2	3	5	Leah Smith	United States	8:21.19	Q
3	4	3	Li Bingjie	China	8:22.92	Q
4	4	5	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	8:24.98	Q
5	3	6	Simona Quadarella	Italy	8:27.70	Q
6	3	4	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	8:28.93	Q
7	4	6	Zhang Yuhan	China	8:29.52	Q
8	3	1	Holly Hibbott	Great Britain	8:30.66	Q
9	3	2	Ajna Késely	Hungary	8:32.01
10	2	4	Julia Hassler	Liechtenstein	8:34.13	NR
11	4	8	Celine Rieder	Germany	8:34.16
12	3	8	Kristel Köbrich	Chile	8:34.51
13	3	9	Diana Duraes	Portugal	8:35.10
14	3	3	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	8:37.10
15	4	2	Tjaša Oder	Slovenia	8:38.84
16	4	1	Mackenzie Padington	Canada	8:40.68
17	2	3	Choi Jung-min	South Korea	8:40.87
18	4	7	Jimena Pérez	Spain	8:41.41
19	4	9	Gaja Natlačen	Slovenia	8:41.49
20	4	0	Olivia Anderson	Canada	8:43.93
21	3	0	Tamila Holub	Portugal	8:44.85
22	3	7	Emma Robinson	New Zealand	8:44.87
23	2	5	Paulina Piechota	Poland	8:49.76
24	2	7	Martina Elhenická	Czech Republic	8:52.39
25	2	1	Monique Olivier	Luxembourg	8:54.27
26	2	8	Hania Moro	Egypt	8:54.30
27	1	4	María Bramont-Arias	Peru	8:56.12
28	2	2	Helena Moreno	Costa Rica	8:56.43
29	2	9	Kate Beavon	South Africa	8:58.31
30	2	0	Raina Ramdhani	Indonesia	9:02.49
31	1	5	Ho Nam Wai	Hong Kong	9:03.38
32	1	3	Souad Cherouati	Algeria	9:05.67
33	1	7	Talita Te Flan	Ivory Coast	9:07.56
34	2	6	Ayumi Macías	Mexico	9:08.78
35	1	6	Daniella van den Berg	Aruba	9:17.77
36	1	1	Gabriella Doueihy	Lebanon	9:19.43
37	1	2	Sudthirak Watcharabusaracum	Thailand	9:32.44
38	1	8	Hannah Gill	Barbados	9:39.78

The final was held on 29 July at 18:55.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Katie Ledecky	United States	8:12.68
	3	Li Bingjie	China	8:15.46	AS
	5	Leah Smith	United States	8:17.22
4	6	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	8:23.30
5	7	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	8:24.41
6	1	Zhang Yuhan	China	8:26.06
7	2	Simona Quadarella	Italy	8:26.50
8	8	Holly Hibbott	Great Britain	8:38.63