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China’s Sun Yang overtook the field to win the men’s 800-meter free world title for the third straight time at the 2015 FINA World Championships.
Sun, who trailed Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri until the 700-meter mark, turned on the jets to win in 7:39.96. That’s a world best by far, and stands sixth all time in the event’s history.
That’s Sun’s third win to go with his victories in 2011 (7:38.57) and 2013 (7:41.36).
Paltrinieri clocked a European record with a silver-winning time of 7:40.81, crushing the previous record of 7:42.74 from 2014. That time is now the eighth-fastest time ever as he moved to sixth in the all-time performers list.
All Time 800 Free Performances
[table “” not found /]Australia’s Mack Horton put himself on the podium with a silver-winning time of 7:44.02. That’s his first world championship medal for the 19 year old as he smashed his personal best of 7:45.67.
USA’s Connor Jaeger (7:44.51), Norway’s Henrik Christiansen (7:45.66), Poland’s Wojciech Wojdak (7:45.90), Great Britain’s Stephen Milne (7:49.86) and USA’s Michael McBroom (7:55.30) also swam in the finale.
SCHEDULED EVENTS
- Men’s 100 free semis
- Women’s 50 back semis
- Men’s 200 fly finals
- Women’s 200 free finals
- Men’s 50 breast finals
- Women’s 200 fly semis
- Men’s 200 IM semis
- Men’s 800 free finals
- Mixed 400 medley relay finals
That race was great! Sun Yang is back!
Straight? Hmmm.
Yefimova, Sun-Yang Hmmm …