Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

The men's 1500 metre freestyle swimming competition at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan was held on 4 October at the Sajik Swimming Pool. This was a timed-final event, meaning that each swimmer only swam once, with the fastest eight (8) entrants swimming in the finals.

Men's 1500 metre freestyle
at the 2002 Asian Games
VenueSajik Swimming Pool
Date4 October 2002
Competitors12 from 7 nations
Medalists
gold medal    China
silver medal    South Korea
bronze medal    South Korea
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Schedule

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All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

Date Time Event
Friday, 4 October 2002 10:00 Final 1
19:00 Final 2

Records

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Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

World Record   Grant Hackett (AUS) 14:34.56 Fukuoka, Japan 29 July 2001
Asian Record   Masato Hirano (JPN) 15:14.43 Sydney, Australia 22 September 2000
Games Record   Masato Hirano (JPN) 15:22.20 Bangkok, Thailand 6 December 1998

Results

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Legend
  • DNS — Did not start
Rank Heat Athlete Time Notes
  2   Yu Cheng (CHN) 15:10.99 AR
  2   Cho Sung-mo (KOR) 15:12.32
  2   Han Kyu-chul (KOR) 15:22.38
4 2   Shunichi Fujita (JPN) 15:24.64
5 2   Zheng Shibin (CHN) 15:46.13
6 2   Miguel Mendoza (PHI) 15:46.40
7 2   Takeshi Matsuda (JPN) 15:57.29
8 1   Chung Kwok Leung (HKG) 16:05.79
9 1   Naeem Al-Masri (SYR) 16:37.91
10 1   Anas Abu Yousuf (QAT) 17:41.59
11 1   Ahmed Salamoun (QAT) 19:12.90
2   Carlo Piccio (PHI) DNS

References

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