Swimming at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games – Men's 800 metre freestyle

Swimming at the 2006 Central American & Caribbean Games
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
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 men's 800m Freestyle event at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games occurred on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at the S.U. Pedro de Heredia Aquatic Complex in Cartagena, Colombia. This was a time-final event, meaning that the swimmers only swam it once and whatever their time from that swim was then used for the final ranking.

Records

World Record	Grant Hackett (AUS)	7:38.65	2005-07-27	Montreal
CAC Record	—	—	—	—

Results

Place	Swimmer	Country	Time	Note
1	Iván López	Mexico	8:07.30	GR, NR
2	Ricardo Monasterio	Venezuela	8:11.58
3	Erwin Maldonado	Venezuela	8:21.66
4	Luis Enrique González	Mexico	8:28.54
5	Raul Enrique Martínez	Puerto Rico	8:30.45
6	Mario Montoya	Costa Rica	8:33.29
7	Evan Marcus	Guatemala	8:35.34
8	Mateo de Angulo	Colombia	8:35.40
9	Micky van der Vaart	Aruba	8:38.88
10	Carlos Vivero	Colombia	8:47.48

References

• Men's 800 Free results from the official website of the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games; retrieved 2009-06-29.