Swimming at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle

The Men's 800 metre freestyle competition of the 2020 European Aquatics Championships was held on 21 and 22 May 2021.^[1][2]

Men's 800 metre freestyle at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Dates	21 May 2021 (heats) 22 May 2021 (final)
Competitors	41 from 22 nations
Winning time	7:42.61
Medalists
Mykhailo Romanchuk    Ukraine   Gregorio Paltrinieri    Italy   Gabriele Detti    Italy
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Records

Before the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World record	Zhang Lin	China	7:32.12	Rome	29 July 2009
European record	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:39.27	Gwangju	24 July 2019
Championship record			7:42.33	London	20 May 2016

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 21 May at 11:28.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	5	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	7:48.31	Q
2	4	4	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	7:50.11	Q
3	5	3	Gabriele Detti	Italy	7:50.61	Q
4	5	4	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:51.33	Q
5	5	6	Sergiy Frolov	Ukraine	7:51.73	Q
6	5	2	Anton Ipsen	Denmark	7:52.37	Q
7	2	1	José Paulo Lopes	Portugal	7:52.81	Q, NR
8	3	5	Joris Bouchaut	France	7:53.07	Q
9	4	6	Aleksandr Egorov	Russia	7:53.32
10	4	7	Damien Joly	France	7:54.23
11	4	9	Daniel Wiffen	Ireland	7:55.02
12	2	3	Victor Johansson	Sweden	7:55.34
13	3	7	Yiğit Aslan	Turkey	7:55.99
14	3	3	Kristóf Rasovszky	Hungary	7:56.27
15	4	0	Ákos Kalmár	Hungary	7:56.56
16	5	9	Alexander Nørgaard	Denmark	7:57.24
17	5	7	Daniel Jervis	Great Britain	7:57.39
18	2	6	Dimitrios Markos	Greece	8:00.32
19	5	8	Marco De Tullio	Italy	8:01.33
20	2	7	Arthur Dalén Ellegaard	Denmark	8:02.69
21	5	0	Ilya Druzhinin	Russia	8:03.01
22	3	0	Gergely Gyurta	Hungary	8:03.83
23	3	2	Dimitrios Negris	Greece	8:05.07
24	2	9	Jon Jøntvedt	Norway	8:06.90
25	2	8	Alejandro Puebla	Spain	8:07.28
26	4	2	Jan Micka	Czech Republic	8:07.60
27	2	2	Ilya Borodin	Russia	8:07.88
28	4	1	Kieran Bird	Great Britain	8:08.36
29	3	4	Vuk Čelić	Serbia	8:09.65
30	2	0	Márk Kovacsics	Hungary	8:09.98
31	2	5	Oskar Lindholm	Denmark	8:10.20
32	3	1	Martin Bau	Slovenia	8:10.30
33	2	4	Bar Soloveychik	Israel	8:13.62
34	3	9	Miguel Durán	Spain	8:14.02
35	5	5	David Aubry	France	8:14.25
36	3	6	Mert Kılavuz	Turkey	8:15.92
37	3	8	Marin Mogić	Croatia	8:22.50
38	1	5	Loris Bianchi	San Marino	8:24.30	NR
39	1	4	Arti Krasniqi	Kosovo	8:25.68
40	4	8	Konstantinos Englezakis	Greece	8:27.61
41	1	3	Théo Druenne	Monaco	8:46.10
	4	3	Franko Grgić	Croatia	Did not start
	5	1	Marc-Antoine Olivier	France

Final

The final was held on 22 May 2021 at 18:00.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	7:42.61
	6	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	7:43.62
	3	Gabriele Detti	Italy	7:46.10
4	5	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	7:47.99
5	7	Anton Ipsen	Denmark	7:52.07
6	1	José Paulo Lopes	Portugal	7:52.68	NR
7	8	Joris Bouchaut	France	7:52.85
8	2	Sergiy Frolov	Ukraine	7:56.12