Men's 800 metre freestyle
at the 2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
VenueGold Coast Aquatic Centre
DatesAugust 24, 2014 (heats &
finals)
Competitors9
Winning time7:45.39
Medalists
gold medal    Canada
silver medal    Australia
bronze medal    United States

The men's 800 metre freestyle competition at the 2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 24 at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.[1] The last champion was Ryan Cochrane of Canada.[2]

This event was a timed-final where each swimmer swam just once. The top 8 seeded swimmers swam in the evening and the remaining swimmers swam in the morning session.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:

World record  Zhang Lin (CHN) 7:32.12 Rome, Italy July 29, 2009
Pan Pacific Championships record  Grant Hackett (AUS) 7:44.78 Yokohama, Japan August 24, 2002

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified CRChampionships record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

The first and final round were held on August 24, at 19:16.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st place, gold medalist(s)Ryan Cochrane Canada7:45.39
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Mack Horton Australia7:47.73
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Connor Jaeger United States7:47.75
4Jordan Harrison Australia7:48.20
5Michael McBroom United States7:52.84
6Kohei Yamamoto Japan7:54.07
7Shogo Takeda Japan8:01.53
8Ayatsugu Hirai Japan8:04.23
9Will Brothers Canada8:06.51

References

  1. 1 2 "Results of the 800-metre freestyle at 2014 Pan Pacific". Australia Swimming. August 23, 2014. Archived from the original on August 26, 2014. Retrieved October 9, 2014.
  2. "Results of the 800-metre freestyle finals at 2010 Pan Pacific". OmegaTiming. August 20, 2010. Retrieved October 9, 2014.
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