Sun Yang Wins 3rd Straight 800 Free World Title at 2015 FINA World Championships

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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

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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

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Kevin

8 years ago

That race was great! Sun Yang is back!

Andrew Webber

8 years ago

Straight? Hmmm.

Tamas Fekete

8 years ago

Yefimova, Sun-Yang Hmmm …