Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

The men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships was held on the morning of 31 March (heats) and the evening of 1 April (final) at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 50 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 47 swam.

Men's 1500 metre freestyle
at the 2007 FINA World Championships
VenueRod Laver Arena
Dates31 March 2007 (heats)
1 April 2007 (final)
Competitors50
Winning timeseconds
Medalists
gold medal    Poland
silver medal    Russia
bronze medal    Great Britain
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The existing records at the start of the event were:

Results edit

Final edit

Place Lane Swimmer Nationality Splits Time
  3 Mateusz Sawrymowicz   Poland 14:45.94
  1 Yury Prilukov   Russia 14:47.29
  4 David Davies   Great Britain 14:51.21
4th 5 Larsen Jensen   USA 14:52.98
5th 6 Federico Colbertaldo   Italy 14:56.22
6th 8 Craig Stevens   Australia 14:59.11
7th 2 Grant Hackett   Australia 14:59.59
8th 7 Erik Vendt   USA 15:07.76

Heats edit

"Q" marks those swimmers who qualified for finals.

Rank Heat :
Lane
Swimmer Nationality Splits Time Q
1 7 : 5 David Davies   Great Britain 14:53.57 Q
2 6 : 7 Larsen Jensen   USA 14:56.28 Q
3 6 : 4 Mateusz Sawrymowicz   Poland 14:56.65 Q
4 6 : 6 Federico Colbertaldo   Italy 14:58.26 Q
5 5 : 5 Grant Hackett   Australia 14:59.24 Q
6 5 : 6 Erik Vendt   USA 14:59.82 Q
7 7 : 4 Yury Prilukov   Russia 15:01.67 Q
8 7 : 3 Craig Stevens   Australia 15:02.16 Q
9 5 : 4 Park Tae-Hwan   Korea 15:03.62
10 7 : 2 Nikita Lobintsev   Russia 15:06.03
11 5 : 2 Takeshi Matsuda   Japan 15:06.28
12 7 : 7 Luka Turk   Slovenia 15:07.59
13 7 : 1 Sergiy Fesenko   Ukraine 15:08.05
14 6 : 8 Marcos Rivera Miranda   Spain 15:08.95
15 6 : 1 Ryan Cochrane   Canada 15:09.88
16 6 : 3 Thomas Lurz   Germany 15:11.26
17 4 : 5 Mads Glæsner   Denmark 15:12.10
18 7 : 6 Zhang Lin   China 15:13.27
19 4 : 4 Dávid Verrasztó   Hungary 15:14.68
20 5 : 8 Spyridon Gianniotis   Greece 15:15.85
21 6 : 2 Dragoş Coman   Romania 15:18.73
22 4 : 6 Tom Vangeneugen   Belgium 15:22.98
23 5 : 3 Nicolas Rostoucher   France 15:23.98
24 6 : 5 Sébastien Rouault   France 15:24.90
25 7 : 8 Zhang Enjian   China 15:29.71
26 4 : 2 Ricardo Monasterio   Venezuela 15:30.00
27 5 : 7 Maciej Hreniak   Poland 15:31.35
28 3 : 7 Ryan Arabejo   Philippines 15:39.86
29 4 : 7 Florian Janistyn   Austria 15:43.64
30 4 : 3 Fernando Costa   Portugal 15:46.73
31 3 : 4 Jarrod Ballem   Canada 15:47.64
32 4 : 1 Caglar Gokbulut   Turkey 15:48.67
33 2 : 4 Banjamin Guzman Blanco   Chile 16:05.25
33 3 : 3 Tharnawat Thanakornworakiart   Thailand 16:05.25
35 3 : 1 Emanuel Nicolini   San Marino 16:20.46
36 2 : 5 Pál Joensen   Faroe Islands 16:23.56
37 3 : 8 Kevin Soow Choy Yeap   Malaysia 16:27.69
38 3 : 6 Mihajlo Ristovski   Macedonia 16:41.60
39 4 : 8 Erwin Maldonado   Venezuela 16:47.50
40 2 : 6 Sobitjon Amilov   Uzbekistan 16:49.05
41 2 : 7 Neil Agius   Malta 17:05.05
42 2 : 3 Davor Trnovljakovic   Bosnia & Herzegovina 17:11.74
43 1 : 4 Omar Núñez   Nicaragua 17:23.31
44 1 : 5 Heimanu Sichan   Tahiti 17:32.53
45 2 : 1 Juan Lagos   Honduras 17:33.31
46 2 : 2 Timur Kartabaev   Kyrgyzstan 17:55.11
47 1 : 3 Cooper Graf   Northern Mariana Islands 19:33.41
999 3 : 2 Ahmed Mathlouthi   Tunisia DNS
999 3 : 5 Mohammed Naeem Masri   Syria DNS
999 5 : 1 Christian Hein   Germany DNS

DNS= Did not swim

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