Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

The men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships occurred on the morning of 30 July (heats) and in the evening of 31 July (final) in the Olympic pool at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Canada. 34 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 33 swam.

Men's 1500 metre freestyle
at the 2005 FINA World Championships
Dates30 July 2005 (heats)
31 July 2005 (final)
Competitors34
Winning time14 minutes 42.58 seconds
Medalists
gold medal    Australia
silver medal    United States
bronze medal    Great Britain
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The existing records at the start of the event were:

Results

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Final

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Place Name Nationality Time Note
1 Grant Hackett   Australia 14:42.58
2 Larsen Jensen   USA 14:47.58
3 David Davies   Great Britain 14:48.11
4 Yuri Prilukov   Russia 14:51.62
5 Mateusz Sawrymowicz   Poland 14:59.38
6 Zhang Lin   China 15:09.79
7 Sébastien Rouault   France 15:09.84
8 Christian Hein   Germany 15:14.91

Heats

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The top-8 swimmers from the 5 preliminary heats qualified for the event final, the next evening. These eight "qualifiers" are denoted by a Q.

Rank Name Nationality Time Note
1 David Davies   Great Britain 14:59.33 Q
2 Grant Hackett   Australia 15:00.18 Q
3 Yuri Prilukov   Russia 15:01.03 Q
4 Mateusz Sawrymowicz   Poland 15:03.56 Q
5 Larsen Jensen   USA 15:07.58 Q
6 Sébastien Rouault   France 15:08.00 Q
7 Christian Hein   Germany 15:12.12 Q
8 Zhang Lin   China 15:12.62 Q
9 Takeshi Matsuda   Japan 15:13.39
10 Sergiy Fesenko   Ukraine 15:14.67
11 Troyden Prinsloo   South Africa 15:16.60
12 Marco Rivera   Spain 15:19.42
13 Dragoș Coman   Romania 15:22.21
14 Fernando Costa   Portugal 15:27.70
15 Igor Chervynskiy   Ukraine 15:28.49
16 Kurtis MacGillivary   Australia 15:28.80
17 Luka Turk   Slovenia 15:30.46
18 Spyridon Gianniotis   Greece 15:30.97
19 Massimiliano Rosolino   Italy 15:39.18
20 Chris Thompson   USA 15:41.66
21 Paul Biedermann   Germany 15:41.88
22 HAN Kuk-In   South Korea 15:47.68
23 Evan Marcus   Guatemala 15:56.20
24 Gard Kvale   Norway 15:57.38
25 YU Cheng   China 16:00.97
26 Nawaf Al-Wazzan   Kuwait 16:04.18 NR
27 Miguel Mendoza   Philippines 16:06.53
28 Sheng-Chieh Tang   Chinese Taipei 16:18.10
29 Irakli Revishvili   Georgia 16:50.60
30 Zhi Cong Lim   Singapore 16:54.29
31 Steven Mangroo   Seychelles 16:59.00 NR
32 Marcus Cheah   Singapore 16:59.08
33 Neil Agius   Malta 16:59.71
-- Aung Kyaw Moe   Myanmar DNS

See also

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References

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