Swimming at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 800 metre freestyle

The Women's 800 metre freestyle competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 11 and 12 August 2022.^[1]

Women's 800 metre freestyle at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Dates	11 August (heats) 12 August (final)
Competitors	25 from 16 nations
Winning time	8:20.54
Medalists
Simona Quadarella    Italy   Isabel Gose    Germany   Merve Tuncel    Turkey
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Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Katie Ledecky	United States	8:04.79	Rio de Janeiro	12 August 2016
European record	Rebecca Adlington	Great Britain	8:14.10	Beijing	16 August 2008
Championship record	Jazmin Carlin		8:15.54	Berlin	21 August 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 11 August at 10:37.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Simona Quadarella	Italy	8:23.46	Q
2	2	4	Isabel Gose	Germany	8:30.01	Q
3	3	5	Merve Tuncel	Turkey	8:31.12	Q
4	3	3	Martina Caramignoli	Italy	8:33.25	Q
5	3	6	Tamila Holub	Portugal	8:34.25	Q
6	2	6	Paula Otero	Spain	8:35.60	Q
7	2	5	Deniz Ertan	Turkey	8:36.27	Q
8	2	3	Leonie Beck	Germany	8:36.43	Q
9	2	2	Ángela Martínez	Spain	8:39.32
10	3	8	Imani de Jong	Netherlands	8:40.48
11	2	7	Bettina Fábián	Hungary	8:40.83
12	2	8	Alisée Pisane	Belgium	8:44.88
13	3	1	Paulina Piechota	Poland	8:45.19
14	3	7	Diana Durães	Portugal	8:47.42
15	3	2	Celine Rieder	Germany	8:47.43
16	3	9	Lucie Hanquet	Belgium	8:48.44
17	2	1	Klaudia Tarasiewicz	Poland	8:50.65
18	2	9	Lena Opatril	Austria	8:54.66
19	1	5	Grace Hodgins	Ireland	8:57.87
20	1	3	Noemi Freimann	Switzerland	8:59.60
21	3	0	Duru Tanrıverdi	Turkey	9:00.48
22	2	0	Thilda Häll	Sweden	9:01.63
22	1	4	Zhanet Angelova	Bulgaria	9:13.74
24	1	6	Vár Erlingsdóttir Eidesgaard	Faroe Islands	9:18.49
25	1	2	Sara Dande	Albania	9:55.43

Final

The final was held on 12 August at 19:27.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Simona Quadarella	Italy	8:20.54
	5	Isabel Gose	Germany	8:22.01
	3	Merve Tuncel	Turkey	8:24.33
4	1	Deniz Ertan	Turkey	8:24.94
5	6	Martina Caramignoli	Italy	8:31.30
6	2	Tamila Holub	Portugal	8:36.36
7	7	Paula Otero	Spain	8:36.51
8	8	Leonie Beck	Germany	8:39.04