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2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 800 metre freestyle

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Women's 800m Freestyle
at the 2012 Short Course Worlds
Dates13 December
Winning time8:08.62
Medalists
gold medal    New Zealand
silver medal    Denmark
bronze medal    United States
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The women's 800 metre freestyle event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 13 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome. 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

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

Name Nation Time Location Date
World record Camille Muffat  France 8:01.06 Angers 16 November 2012
Championship record Rebecca Adlington  United Kingdom 8:08.25 Manchester 10 April 2008

No new records were set during this competition.

Results

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Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 7 Lauren Boyle  New Zealand 8:08.62 OC
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 4 Lotte Friis  Denmark 8:10.99
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 4 3 Chloe Sutton  United States 8:15.53
4 4 2 Hannah Miley  Great Britain 8:16.09
5 4 5 Erika Villaécija García  Spain 8:16.90
6 4 1 Rebecca Mann  United States 8:19.27
7 1 5 Xu Danlu  China 8:22.88
8 4 8 Ellie Faulkner  Great Britain 8:22.96
9 4 6 Melanie Costa  Spain 8:23.56
10 1 4 Zhou Lili  China 8:25.19
11 3 5 Marie Kamimura  Japan 8:28.09
12 3 1 Samantha Arévalo  Ecuador 8:28.31 NR
13 3 2 Asami Chida  Japan 8:28.60
14 3 6 Julia Hassler  Liechtenstein 8:29.77
15 3 0 Evelyn Verrasztó  Hungary 8:30.42
16 3 3 Tjasa Oder  Slovenia 8:31.14
17 3 8 Michelle Weber  South Africa 8:35.62
18 3 7 Virginia Bardach  Argentina 8:42.35
19 3 4 Jessica Pengelly  South Africa 8:49.07
20 2 8 Lani Cabrera  Barbados 8:57.56 NR
21 2 3 Maria Gabriela Santis Mejia  Guatemala 8:59.19
22 3 9 Raina Saumi Grahana  Indonesia 8:59.74
23 2 5 Daniela Miyahara  Peru 9:01.06
24 2 7 Fatima Eugenia Flores  El Salvador 9:09.66
25 2 1 Angie Galdamez  Honduras 9:14.38
26 2 6 Ana Semiruncic  Moldova 9:14.46
27 2 2 Erika García-Naranjo  Peru 9:21.55
28 2 4 Valerie Gruest  Guatemala 9:22.55
29 1 3 Monica Saili  Samoa 9:23.63
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