| Women's 800 metre freestyle at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships |
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| Dates | July 29, 2011 (heats) July 30, 2011 (final) |
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| Competitors | 34 from 28 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 8:17.51 | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| «2009 | 2013» | |||||||||
| 2011 FINA World Championships Shanghai, China |
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| Diving | ||||
| Individual | ||||
| 1 m | men | women | ||
| 3 m | men | women | ||
| 10 m | men | women | ||
| Synchronised | ||||
| 3 m | men | women | ||
| 10 m | men | women | ||
| 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 | men | 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 | ||
| 4×200 m | men | women | ||
| Medley relay | ||||
| 4×100 m | men | women | ||
| Synchronised swimming | ||||
| Solo | technical | free | ||
| Duet | technical | free | ||
| Team | technical | free | ||
| combination | ||||
| Water polo | ||||
| men • women | ||||
The women's 800 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 29 with the heats and July 30 with the final.
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Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date | |
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| World record | Rebecca Adlington | United Kingdom | 8:14.10 | Beijing | August 16, 2008 |
| Championship record | Lotte Friis | Denmark | 8:15.92 | Rome | August 1, 2009 |
No new world or competition records were set during this competition.
32 swimmers participated in 5 heats.[1]
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 4 | Rebecca Adlington | Great Britain | 8:22.27 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | Lotte Friis | Denmark | 8:23.07 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | 5 | Chloe Sutton | United States | 8:27.72 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | Kate Ziegler | United States | 8:28.28 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | 4 | Katie Goldman | Australia | 8:28.35 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | 7 | Boglárka Kapás | Hungary | 8:28.40 | Q |
| 7 | 5 | 1 | Lauren Boyle | New Zealand | 8:28.50 | Q, NR |
| 8 | 3 | 6 | Wendy Trott | South Africa | 8:28.75 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 2 | Kristel Köbrich | Chile | 8:28.76 | |
| 10 | 4 | 5 | Shao Yiwen | China | 8:29.05 | |
| 11 | 5 | 2 | Erika Villaécija García | Spain | 8:29.13 | |
| 12 | 5 | 7 | Éva Risztov | Hungary | 8:29.16 | |
| 13 | 4 | 7 | Melissa Gorman | Australia | 8:30.00 | |
| 14 | 4 | 6 | Camelia Potec | Romania | 8:32.35 | |
| 15 | 4 | 1 | Andreina Pinto | Venezuela | 8:33.62 | |
| 16 | 5 | 6 | Jazmin Carlin | Great Britain | 8:34.33 | |
| 17 | 3 | 3 | Gráinne Murphy | Ireland | 8:35.17 | |
| 18 | 4 | 8 | Savannah King | Canada | 8:41.93 | |
| 19 | 5 | 3 | Chen Qian | China | 8:42.15 | |
| 20 | 2 | 4 | Patricia Castañeda | Mexico | 8:42.65 | |
| 21 | 3 | 8 | Nina Dittrich | Austria | 8:43.89 | |
| 22 | 5 | 8 | Cecilia Biagioli | Argentina | 8:44.01 | |
| 23 | 2 | 5 | Spela Bohinc | Slovenia | 8:45.86 | |
| 24 | 2 | 2 | Julia Hassler | Liechtenstein | 8:46.00 | NR |
| 25 | 3 | 1 | Marianna Lymperta | Greece | 8:51.93 | |
| 26 | 2 | 6 | Cai Lin Khoo | Malaysia | 8:57.17 | |
| 27 | 2 | 3 | Alexia Benitez | El Salvador | 9:00.04 | |
| 28 | 1 | 6 | Samantha Arevalo | Ecuador | 9:00.96 | |
| 29 | 1 | 5 | Shahd Osman | Egypt | 9:01.84 | |
| 30 | 1 | 4 | Daniela Kaori Miyahara | Peru | 9:02.28 | NR |
| 31 | 2 | 7 | Benjaporn Sriphanomthorn | Thailand | 9:08.40 | |
| 32 | 1 | 3 | Simona Marinova | Macedonia | 9:12.47 | |
| – | 4 | 2 | Mireia Belmonte García | Spain | DNS | |
| – | 4 | 3 | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | DNS |
The final was held at 19:30.[2]
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 4 | Rebecca Adlington | Great Britain | 8:17.51 | ||
| 5 | Lotte Friis | Denmark | 8:18.20 | ||
| 6 | Kate Ziegler | United States | 8:23.36 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Chloe Sutton | United States | 8:24.05 | |
| 5 | 7 | Boglárka Kapás | Hungary | 8:24.79 | NR |
| 6 | 2 | Katie Goldman | Australia | 8:29.20 | |
| 7 | 8 | Wendy Trott | South Africa | 8:30.45 | |
| 8 | 1 | Lauren Boyle | New Zealand | 8:32.72 |