Swimming at the 2005 Maccabiah Games – Women's 800 metre freestyle

Swimming events at the
2005 Maccabiah Games
Freestyle
50 m   men   women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men women
Medley relay
4×100 m men women

The women's 800 metre freestyle event at the 2005 Maccabiah Games took place 14 June, at the Wingate Institute. This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of sixteen lengths of the pool.

No heats were held.

The women's 800 metre event was unusual on the 2005 Maccabiah swimming programme in that there was no direct equivalent for men. Instead, the men's longest freestyle event was at 1500 metres and men did not swim an 800 metre freestyle event. For all other swimming events in 2005, the men's and women's programmes were identical.

Medalists

Games Gold Silver Bronze
800 m freestyle Israel Olga Beresnyev
Israel (ISR)
Israel Chen Pauker
Israel (ISR)
United States Andrea Lippin
United States (USA)

Final

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st ? Olga Beresnyev  Israel 8:52.58
2nd ? Chen Pauker  Israel 9:23.97
3rd ? Andrea Lippin  United States 9:25.80
4 ? Danielle Arad  United States 9:26.70
5 ? Rebecca Smock  United States 9:29.62
6 ? Marva Harpak  Israel 9:30.57
7 ? Cherie Silver  Australia 9:49.49
8 ? Shir Mesice  Israel 9:56.54

References

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