2024 WORLD AQUATIC CHAMPIONSHIPS
MEN’S 800 FREESTYLE – FINAL
- World Report: Zhang Lin, China – 7:32.12 (2009)
- World Junior Report: Lorenzo Galossi, Italy – 7:43.37 (2022)
- Championship Report: Zhang Lin, China – 7:32.12 (2009)
- 2023 World Champion: Ahmed Hafnaoui, Tunisia – 7:37.00
- Olympic ‘A’ Qualifying Time: 7:51.65, Olympic ‘B’ Qualifying Time: 7:54.01
Last:
- Daniel Wiffen (IRL) — 7:40.94
- Elijah Winnington (AUS) – -7:42.95
- Gregorio Paltrinieri (ITA) — 7:42.98
- Sven Schwarz (GER) — 7:44.29
- Kristof Rasovsky (HUN) — 7:44.42
- Victor Johansson (SWE) — 7:47.08
- Luca de Tullio (ITA) — 7:49.79
- Mykhailo Romanchuk (UKR) — 7:54.51
Kristof Rasovszky set a brand new Hungarian Nationwide Report within the males’s 800 free together with his fifth place end on the 2024 World Championships. Rasovszky touched in a 7:44.42 to interrupt the previous report of a 7:44.94 that Gergo Gos set to win bronze on the 2011 World Championships.
Break up Comparability:
| Rasovszky | Kis | |
| 100 | 56.2 | 57.45 |
| 200 | 58.29 | 59.05 |
| 300 | 58.37 | 58.82 |
| 400 | 58.62 | 59.34 |
| 500 | 58.85 | 58.87 |
| 600 | 59.07 | 58.78 |
| 700 | 58.79 | 58.48 |
| 800 | 56.23 | 54.15 |
| 7:44.42 | 7:44.94 |
As see by the splits, the 2 swam the race a bit in another way. Rasovszky was sooner on the entire first 5 splits of the race whereas Kis had a robust remaining 300. Though Kis got here dwelling over two seconds sooner than Rasovszky on the ultimate 100, Rasovszky was already far sufficient forward of report tempo.
Coming into the meet, Rasovszky’s earlier private greatest stood at a 7:47.93 which he swam in prelims of the 2023 World Championships in Fukuoka. Notably, Rasovszky gained the boys’s open water 10km marathon title in Doha simply over every week in the past.
