Swimming at the 2010 Asian Games – Women's 800 metre freestyle

Women's 800 metre freestyle
at the 2010 Asian Games

Venue

Aoti Aquatics Centre

Date

17 November 2010

Competitors

12 from 8 nations

Medalists

	Li Xuanxu	China
	Shao Yiwen	China
	Maiko Fujino	Japan

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The women's 800 metre freestyle event at the 2010 Asian Games took place on 17 November 2010 at Guangzhou Aoti Aquatics Centre.

There were 12 competitors from 8 countries who took part in this event. 8 swimmers with the fast qualifying time were in the fast heat, the others were in the slow heat. The final ranking was arranged by the times from both heats.

Li Xuanxu and Shao Yiwen from China won the gold and silver medal respectively, Japanese swimmer Maiko Fujino won the bronze medal.

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Date	Time	Event
Wednesday, 17 November 2010	10:13	Slow heat
Wednesday, 17 November 2010	19:14	Fast heat

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

World Record	Rebecca Adlington (GBR)	8:14.10	Beijing, China	16 August 2008
Asian Record	Chen Qian (CHN)	8:20.36	Jinan, China	23 October 2009
Games Record	Chen Hua (CHN)	8:25.36	Busan, South Korea	5 October 2002

Results

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Time	Notes
	2	Li Xuanxu (CHN)	8:23.55	GR
	2	Shao Yiwen (CHN)	8:24.14
	2	Maiko Fujino (JPN)	8:33.55
4	1	Seo Youn-jeong (KOR)	8:48.74
5	1	Benjaporn Sriphanomthorn (THA)	8:52.94
6	1	Erica Totten (PHI)	8:54.11
7	2	Khoo Cai Lin (MAS)	8:54.34
8	2	Rutai Santadvatana (THA)	8:55.93
9	1	Carmen Nam (HKG)	9:01.93
10	2	Lynette Lim (SIN)	9:02.60
11	2	Natasha Tang (HKG)	9:05.37
12	2	Kim Ga-eul (KOR)	9:13.16