Swimming at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics – Boys' 800 metre freestyle

Boys' 800 metre freestyle at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
Venue	Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre
Dates	August 21, 2014 (heats)
Competitors	25
Winning time	7:54.29
Medalists
Ahmed Akram   Egypt   Mykhailo Romanchuk   Ukraine   Henrik Christiansen   Norway

The boys' 800 metre freestyle event in swimming at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics took place on 21 August at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre in Nanjing, China.

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 sessions.

Results

The first round was held on August 21, at 10:53, and the final was held on August 21, at 18:00.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	3	Ahmed Akram	Egypt	7:54.29
	4	7	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	7:56.34
	4	5	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	7:57.07
4	4	4	Wojciech Wojdak	Poland	8:02.38
5	3	7	Marcelo Acosta	El Salvador	8:02.69
6	3	3	Patrick Ransford	United States	8:04.46
7	2	3	Alexei Sancov	Moldova	8:06.54
8	4	8	Sven Saemundsson	Croatia	8:06.72
9	3	6	Ido Haber	Israel	8:09.92
10	3	1	Ricardo Vargas Jacobo	Mexico	8:10.55
11	4	2	Rahiti de Vos	France	8:11.82
12	4	1	Vuk Celic	Serbia	8:14.95
13	4	6	Michael Mincham	New Zealand	8:15.47
14	3	4	Brent Szurdoki	South Africa	8:15.50
15	2	5	Welson Sim	Malaysia	8:15.84
16	2	6	Rafael Gil	Portugal	8:16.91
17	2	2	Grega Popovic	Slovenia	8:19.37
18	2	8	Colin Gilbert	Canada	8:20.43
19	3	2	Marc Vivas Egea	Spain	8:23.65
20	3	5	Marc Hinawi	Israel	8:28.67
21	1	4	Luis Vega Torres	Cuba	8:31.85
22	2	7	Yudai Amada	Japan	8:32.43
23	1	5	Alonso Perez	Chile	8:33.17
24	2	4	Tanakrit Kittiya	Thailand	8:34.26
25	2	1	Pol Arias	Andorra	8:47.46
-	3	8	Nils Liess	Switzerland	DNS