Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

Men's 1500 metre freestyle
at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
VenueDanube Arena
LocationBudapest, Hungary
Dates29 July (heats)
30 July (final)
Competitors37 from 32 nations
Winning time14:35.85
Medalists
gold medal    Italy
silver medal    Ukraine
bronze medal    Australia
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Men's 1500M Freestyle Final

The Men's 1500 metre freestyle competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 29 and 30 July 2017.[1][2]

Records[edit]

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record  Sun Yang (CHN) 14:31.02 London, Great Britain 4 August 2012
Competition record  Sun Yang (CHN) 14:34.14 Shanghai, China 31 July 2011

Results[edit]

Heats[edit]

The heats were held on 29 July at 10:44.[3]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 3 Mykhailo Romanchuk  Ukraine 14:44.11 Q, NR
2 4 4 Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy 14:44.31 Q
3 4 5 Gabriele Detti  Italy 14:50.10 Q
4 4 7 Jan Micka  Czech Republic 14:55.47 Q
5 3 6 Wojciech Wojdak  Poland 14:57.39 Q
6 4 6 Henrik Christiansen  Norway 14:57.41 Q
7 3 4 Mack Horton  Australia 14:59.24 Q
8 4 0 Serhiy Frolov  Ukraine 14:59.32 Q
9 2 4 Park Tae-hwan  South Korea 14:59.44
10 3 2 Ahmed Akram  Egypt 14:59.56
11 3 5 Jack McLoughlin  Australia 15:01.55
12 3 1 Felix Auböck  Austria 15:02.78
13 3 7 Ilya Druzhinin  Russia 15:03.05
14 2 3 Marcelo Acosta  El Salvador 15:04.79
15 2 0 Victor Johansson  Sweden 15:05.91 NR
16 4 1 True Sweetser  United States 15:07.38
17 4 2 Florian Wellbrock  Germany 15:07.43
18 3 3 Daniel Jervis  Great Britain 15:07.97
19 3 9 Guilherme Costa  Brazil 15:08.09
20 4 9 Anton Ipsen  Denmark 15:10.02
21 4 8 Robert Finke  United States 15:15.15
22 3 0 Antonio Arroyo  Spain 15:18.50
23 2 2 Brent Szurdoki  South Africa 15:18.84
24 2 7 Kristóf Rasovszky  Hungary 15:23.87
25 2 5 Ji Xinjie  China 15:23.91
26 2 6 Ákos Kalmár  Hungary 15:23.96
27 2 1 Ricardo Vargas  Mexico 15:24.79
28 2 8 Guilherme Pina  Portugal 15:26.10
29 2 9 Bogdan Scarlat  Romania 15:26.18
30 1 9 Nguyễn Hữu Kim Sơn  Vietnam 15:29.90 NR
31 1 3 Huang Guo-ting  Chinese Taipei 15:31.10
32 1 2 Aflah Fadlan Prawira  Indonesia 15:31.27 NR
33 1 5 Dimitrios Negris  Greece 15:35.55
34 1 1 Óli Mortensen  Faroe Islands 15:37.77
35 1 7 Christian Bayo  Puerto Rico 15:52.78
36 1 6 Wesley Roberts  Cook Islands 16:15.04
37 1 0 Franci Aleksi  Albania 16:42.97
1 4 Martín Naidich  Argentina DNS
1 8 Felipe Tapia  Chile
3 8 Sun Yang  China

Final[edit]

The final was held on 30 July at 18:38.[4]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 5 Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy 14:35.85
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 Mykhailo Romanchuk  Ukraine 14:37.14 NR
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1 Mack Horton  Australia 14:47.70
4 3 Gabriele Detti  Italy 14:52.07
5 7 Henrik Christiansen  Norway 14:54.58
6 8 Serhiy Frolov  Ukraine 14:55.10
7 2 Wojciech Wojdak  Poland 15:01.27
8 6 Jan Micka  Czech Republic 15:09.28

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