The men's 800 metre freestyle competition of the

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events at the

2015 World Aquatics Championships The 16th FINA World Aquatics Championships, FINA World Championships (russian: Чемпионат мира по водным видам спорта 2015), also Aquatics 2015, were held in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015. Russia host ...

was held on 4 August with the heats and 5 August with the final.

Records

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

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:30.

Final

The final was held at 18:58.Final results
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References

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World Aquatics Championships The FINA World Championships or World Aquatics Championships are the World Championships for aquatics sports: swimming, diving, high diving, open water swimming, artistic swimming, and water polo. They are run by FINA, and all swimming events ar ...