Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metre freestyle

The women's 800 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 2 to 3 August 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre.^[1]

Women's 800 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Centre, Paris La Défense Arena
Dates	2 August 2024 (Heats) 3 August 2024 (Final)
Competitors	16 from 13 nations
Winning time	8:11.04
Medalists
Katie Ledecky  United States Ariarne Titmus  Australia Paige Madden  United States
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Records

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

World record	Katie Ledecky (USA)	8:04.79	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	12 August 2016	[2]
Olympic record	Katie Ledecky (USA)	8:04.79	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	12 August 2016	[2]

Qualification

Further information: Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT).^[3] For this event, the OQT was 8:26.71. World Aquatics then considered athletes qualifying through universality; NOCs were given one event entry for each gender, which could be used by any athlete regardless of qualification time, providing the spaces had not already been taken by athletes from that nation who had achieved the OQT.^[3][4] Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 8:29.24 for this event.^[3] In total, 11 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, 12 athletes qualified through universality places and two athletes qualified through achieving the OCT.^[4]

Competition format

The competition consists of two rounds: heats and a final. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the heats advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.

Schedule

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Date	Time	Round
2 August 2024	11:40	Heats
3 August 2024	21:28	Final

Results

Heats

Results^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Katie Ledecky	United States	8:16.62	Q
2	2	6	Paige Madden	United States	8:18.48	Q
3	2	5	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	8:19.87	Q
4	1	5	Lani Pallister	Australia	8:20.21	Q
5	1	3	Isabel Marie Gose	Germany	8:20.63	Q
6	2	3	Simona Quadarella	Italy	8:20.89	Q
7	1	6	Erika Fairweather	New Zealand	8:22.22	Q
8	1	2	Anastasiya Kirpichnikova	France	8:22.99	Q
9	1	4	Li Bingjie	China	8:27.92
10	1	7	Maria Fernanda Costa	Brazil	8:32.20
11	1	1	Gan Ching Hwee	Singapore	8:32.37	NR
12	2	2	Eve Thomas	New Zealand	8:33.25
13	2	7	Ajna Késely	Hungary	8:36.13
14	2	1	Agostina Hein	Argentina	8:37.43
15	2	8	Kristel Köbrich	Chile	8:46.46
16	1	8	Jamila Boulakbech	Tunisia	9:21.38

Final

Results^[6]

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	4	Katie Ledecky	United States	8:11.04
	3	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	8:12.29	OC
	5	Paige Madden	United States	8:13.00
4	7	Simona Quadarella	Italy	8:14.55	NR
5	2	Isabel Marie Gose	Germany	8:17.82
6	6	Lani Pallister	Australia	8:21.09
7	8	Anastasiya Kirpichnikova	France	8:22.80
8	1	Erika Fairweather	New Zealand	8:23.27

Statistics^[7]

Name	200 metre split	400 metre split	600 metre split	Time	Stroke rate (strokes/min)
Katie Ledecky	01:58.71	04:03.20	06:08.01	8:11.04	46.0
Ariarne Titmus	01:58.97	04:03.49	06:08.83	8:12.29	42.0
Paige Madden	02:01.80	04:06.50	06:10.07	8:13.00	40.5
Simona Quadarella	02:01.72	04:06.29	06:10.92	8:14.55	49.7
Isabel Marie Gose	02:02.44	04:06.96	06:12.52	8:17.82	45.8
Lani Pallister	02:01.07	04:06.26	05:09.55	8:21.09	44.4
Anastasiya Kirpichnikova	02:02.38	04:08.31	06:15.40	8:22.80	47.3
Erika Fairweather	02:02.37	04:08.46	06:17.51	8:23.27	40.1

References

1. "Swimming – Women's 50m Freestyle Schedule". Paris 2024.
2. Crouse, Karen (12 August 2016). "Katie Ledecky Smashes World Record in the 800-Meter Freestyle". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
3. "Paris 2024 – Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 5 April 2022. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
4. Entries list - Swimming, World Aquatics, archived from the original on 12 July 2024, retrieved 18 December 2024
5. "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
6. "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
7. Bodard, Simon; Decron, Nathan; Dernoncourt, Eric; Hui, Pierre; Jambu, Clément; Loisel, Camille; Pla, Robin; Raineteau, Yannis. "Jeux Olympiques 2024: Analyses de course des Finales" (PDF). French Swimming Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 August 2024. Retrieved 17 December 2024.