2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 800 metre freestyle

Men's 800 metre freestyle at the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Duna Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	14 December
Competitors	42
Winning time	7:30.56
Medalists
Zalan Sarkany   Hungary   Florian Wellbrock   Germany   Ahmed Jaouadi   Tunisia

The Men's 800 metre freestyle competition of the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 14 December 2024.

Records

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

World record	Daniel Wiffen (IRL)	7:20.46	Otopeni, Romania	10 December 2023
Competition record	Gregorio Paltrinieri (ITA)	7:29.99	Melbourne, Australia	17 December 2022

Results

The slowest heats were started at 11:13, and the fastest heat at 18:54.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	7	Zalan Sarkany	Hungary	7:30.56
	3	2	Florian Wellbrock	Germany	7:31.90
	5	5	Ahmed Jaouadi	Tunisia	7:31.93	AF
4	4	5	Sven Schwarz	Germany	7:33.24
5	5	6	Luca De Tullio	Italy	7:34.32
6	5	4	Victor Johansson	Sweden	7:34.65
7	3	5	Elijah Winnington	Australia	7:35.34
8	5	1	Nathan Wiffen	Ireland	7:35.92
9	5	3	Savelii Luzin	Neutral Athletes B	7:36.19
10	3	1	Daniel Matheson	United States	7:37.14
11	5	8	Dimitrios Markos	Greece	7:37.32
12	5	2	Kirill Martynychev	Neutral Athletes B	7:39.26
13	3	8	Krzysztof Chmielewski	Poland	7:39.75
14	4	4	Damien Joly	France	7:40.77
15	3	4	Carlos Garach Benito	Spain	7:41.70
16	4	1	Kuzey Tuncelli	Turkey	7:42.39
17	4	2	Ondrej Gemov	Czech Republic	7:42.50
18	4	9	Charlie Clark	United States	7:43.87
19	4	6	Kazushi Imafuku	Japan	7:44.10
20	4	7	Rami Rahmouni	Tunisia	7:44.40
21	3	6	Heting Zhao	China	7:45.40
22	2	4	Saso Boskan	Slovenia	7:45.58
23	3	7	Andrei-Theodor Proca	Romania	7:46.86
24	4	0	Muhammed Yusuf Ozden	Turkey	7:47.94
25	3	9	Timothe Barbeau	Canada	7:48.20
26	4	3	Junwoo Kim	South Korea	7:49.71
27	4	8	Jose Lopes	Portugal	7:51.23
28	3	3	Kris Mihaylov	South Africa	7:53.06
29	2	5	Mark Iltsisin	Estonia	7:55.30
30	2	7	Marin Mogic	Croatia	7:55.55
31	3	0	Muhd Dhuha Bin Zulfikry	Malaysia	7:56.81
32	2	0	Liggjas Joensen	Faroe Islands	8:00.75
33	2	1	Diego Dulieu	Honduras	8:01.94
34	2	6	Larn Hamblyn-Ough	New Zealand	8:06.19
35	2	9	Nikola Gjuretanovikj	North Macedonia	8:06.79
36	2	3	Yi Shun Wang	Hong Kong	8:08.22
37	2	8	Chirill Chirsanov	Moldova	8:10.89
38	1	4	Alberto Vega	Costa Rica	8:11.18
39	1	3	Va Hernandez Mojarrieta	Cuba	8:34.19
40	1	5	Christian Chang-Chipolina	Gibraltar	8:59.87
0	1	6	A.M.A.J. Jaafar	Iraq	0:00.00
0	2	2	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	0:00.00