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The women's 800 metre freestyle event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 2–3 August at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:

World record	Rebecca Adlington (GBR)	8:14.10	Beijing, China	16 August 2008	^[3]^[4]
Competition record	Lotte Friis (DEN)	8:15.92	Rome, Italy	1 August 2009	^[5]

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
3 August	Final	Katie Ledecky	United States	8:13.86	WR

The heats were held at 2 August.^[6]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Katie Ledecky	United States	8:20.65	Q
2	2	5	Lauren Boyle	New Zealand	8:21.00	Q, OC
3	4	5	Lotte Friis	Denmark	8:23.00	Q
4	2	4	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	8:25.03	Q
5	3	3	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	8:25.26	Q
6	3	7	Martina de Memme	Italy	8:26.95	Q
7	3	6	Andreina Pinto	Venezuela	8:27.03	Q
8	4	3	Chloe Sutton	United States	8:27.41	Q
9	3	4	Jazmin Carlin	Great Britain	8:27.48
10	2	3	Jessica Ashwood	Australia	8:27.74
11	2	2	Kristel Köbrich	Chile	8:29.32
12	4	2	Shao Yiwen	China	8:29.71
13	3	2	Alexa Komarnycky	Canada	8:29.87
14	3	5	Xu Danlu	China	8:29.98
15	3	1	Sarah Köhler	Germany	8:34.72
16	3	0	Samantha Arevalo	Ecuador	8:35.99	NR
17	4	6	Eleanor Faulkner	Great Britain	8:36.04
18	4	1	Isabelle Härle	Germany	8:36.83
19	2	6	Beatriz Gómez Cortes	Spain	8:37.26
20	4	7	Savannah King	Canada	8:40.35
21	2	1	Julia Hassler	Liechtenstein	8:40.89
22	4	0	Susana Escobar	Mexico	8:42.84
23	2	8	Tjasa Oder	Slovenia	8:42.96
24	4	8	Katya Bachrouche	Lebanon	8:50.08
25	3	9	Khoo Cai Lin	Malaysia	8:51.87
26	3	8	Carolina Bilich	Brazil	8:52.10
27	4	9	Virginia Bardach	Argentina	8:52.79
28	2	0	Kyna Pereira	South Africa	8:54.10
29	2	9	Andrea Basaraba	Serbia	8:58.04
30	1	6	Valerie Gruest	Guatemala	8:59.70
31	1	4	Benjaporn Sriphanomithorn	Thailand	9:05.32
32	1	3	Lani Cabrera	Barbados	9:08.84
33	1	5	Raina Ramdhani	Indonesia	9:10.75
34	1	2	Daniela Miyahara	Peru	9:15.94
35	1	7	Daniela Benavides	Cuba	9:38.20
36	1	8	San Khant Khant Su	Myanmar	10:03.20
37	1	1	Monica Saili	Samoa	10:11.46
38	1	0	Victoria Chentsova	Northern Mariana Islands	10:14.63
	2	7	Camille Muffat	France		DNS

The final was held at 19:26.^[7]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Katie Ledecky	United States	8:13.86	WR
	3	Lotte Friis	Denmark	8:16.32
	5	Lauren Boyle	New Zealand	8:18.58	OC
4	2	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	8:21.21	NR
5	6	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	8:21.99
6	8	Chloe Sutton	United States	8:27.75
7	1	Andreina Pinto	Venezuela	8:29.37
8	7	Martina de Memme	Italy	8:37.29