The Japanese swimmer Kohei Yamamoto won in the men's 800m freestyle event at the Summer Universiade in Kazan.
Yamamoto finished in 7 minutes 49.96 seconds, Sergey Frolov of Ukraine took silver (7:51.02), bronze went to Eric William Hedlin of Canada (7:53.78). Russia's Evgeny Kulikov came second with the result of 7:56.78 (5th place), another Russian Evgeny Eliseev became 8th (8:04.05).