Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 800 metre freestyle
| Men's 800 metre freestyle at the 2007 FINA World Championships |
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| Venue | Rod Laver Arena | |||||||||
| Dates | 27 March 2007 (heats) 28 March 2007 (final) |
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| Competitors | 46 | |||||||||
| Winning time | 7 minutes 47.91 seconds | |||||||||
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The men's 800 metre freestyle was the 17th event of the swimming program at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships held in Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. The event was swum on the morning of 27 March (heats) and in the evening of 28 March. 46 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 43 swam in one of 6 preliminary heats. The top-8 finishers from the prelims qualified ("Q") to swim in the final the next evening.
The existing records at the start of the event were:
On 11 September 2007, the Court of Arbitration for Sport stripped Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia of his gold medal, and nullified his result, as part of a retroactive 18-month suspension for earlier doping violation.
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