Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metre freestyle

Men's 800 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Centre, Paris La Défense Arena
Dates	29 July 2024 (Heats) 30 July 2024 (Final)
Competitors	32

The men's 800 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics will be held from July 29 to July 30 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing records were as follows.

Record	Time	Name	Nation	Event	Date	Notes
World
Olympic

Qualification

Main article: Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them have attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). One athlete per event can potentially enter if they meet the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), or if the total quota of 852 athletes has not been targeted. NOCs may also permit swimmers regardless of time (one per gender) under a Universality place since they have no swimmers attaining either of the standard entry times (OQT/OCT).

Following the end of the qualification window, World Aquatics will assess the number of swimmers who have achieved the OQT, the number of relay-only swimmers, and the number of Universality places, before inviting those with OCT to fulfill the total quota of 852. Additionally, OCT places will be distributed by event according to the position of the World Aquatics Rankings during the qualifying deadline.

Time standards

The qualifying time standards must be obtained at the 2023 and 2024 World Championships, continental championships, continental swimming meets, national championships and selection trials, and various international meets approved by World Aquatics in the period between 1 March 2023 and 23 June 2024.

The following table outlines the qualifying time standards for Paris 2024 for this event:

Men's events
Event	OQT*	OCT^
800 m freestyle	7:51.65	7:54.01

* OQTs correspond to the time achieved by a fourteenth-place swimmer in his or her respective preliminary heat of each event at the previous Games.

ª Because the fourteenth-place swimmer achieved a standard slower than the OQT in Tokyo 2020, the OQT used at the previous Games will remain constant.

^ OCTs are derived by adding 0.5% of the OQT standard.

Competition format

The competition consists of three rounds: heats and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advance to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.

Schedule

All times are Central European time (UTC+1)

Date	Time	Round
July 29 2024	10:00	Heats
July 30 2024	20:03	Final

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
			Samuel Short	Australia
			Bobby Finke	United States
			Daniel Wiffen	Ireland
			Sven Schwarz	Germany
			Elijah Winnington	Australia
			Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy
			Florian Wellbrock	Germany
			Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine
			Luke Whitlock	United States
			Ahmed Jaouadi	Tunisia
			Luca De Tullio	Italy
			Guilherme Costa	Brazil
			Woomin Kim	South Korea
			Marwan Elkamash	Egypt
			Victor Johansson	Sweden
			Zhanshuo Zhang	China
			Liwei Fei	China
			Kuzey Tuncelli	Turkey
			Dimitrios Markos	Greece
			Pacome Bricout	France
			Alfonso Enrique Mestre Vivas	Venezuela
			Jon Joentvedt	Norway
			Zalan Sarkany	Hungary
			Henrik Christiansen	Norway
			David Aubry	France
			Vlad Stefan Stancu	Romania
			Ilia Sibirtsev	Uzbekistan
			Carlos Garach Benito	Spain
			Felix Auboeck	Austria
			Huy Hoang Nguyen	Vietnam
			Lucas Pierre A Henveaux	Belgium
			Theo Druenne	Monaco

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes