The men's 1500 metre freestyle event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 26 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Results
Heats Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q).
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 4 Daniel Kowalski 15:12.55 Q 2 3 4 Graeme Smith 15:14.81 Q 3 5 5 Aleksey Akatyev 15:16.47 Q 4 5 1 Emiliano Brembilla 15:16.72 Q, NR 5 4 5 Jörg Hoffmann 15:18.61 Q 6 5 2 Masato Hirano 15:19.48 Q 7 3 7 Ryk Neethling 15:19.98 Q, AF 8 5 4 Kieren Perkins 15:21.42 Q 9 5 6 Steffen Zesner 15:21.65 10 3 3 Paul Palmer 15:22.65 11 4 7 Luiz Lima 15:24.16 12 4 3 Peter Wright 15:25.43 13 3 5 Carlton Bruner 15:25.82 14 4 6 Alexei Butsenin 15:31.27 15 3 6 Ihor Snitko 15:31.40 16 4 8 Torlarp Sethsothorn 15:40.04 NR 17 4 1 Yann de Fabrique 15:40.49 18 5 3 Marco Formentini 15:41.14 19 2 2 Sergey Mikhnovets 15:41.80 NR 20 2 4 Ricardo Monasterio 15:42.39 21 3 1 Frederik Hviid 15:42.40 22 5 7 Hisato Yasui 15:43.66 23 2 5 Jacob Carstensen 15:43.75 24 3 2 Denys Zavhorodnyy 15:46.79 25 3 8 Lee Kyu-chang 15:47.92 26 2 7 Agustín Fiorilli 15:51.85 27 2 3 Scott Cameron 15:56.60 28 4 2 Igor Majcen 16:10.81 29 1 4 Ramón Valle 16:14.76 30 2 6 Dimitrios Manganas 16:15.94 31 2 1 Pedro Ferreira 16:34.55 32 5 8 Hisham Al-Masri 16:42.35 33 1 3 Hamed Rezakhani 17:22.86 34 1 5 Rashid Salim Al-Ma'shari 18:11.59
Final
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 8 Kieren Perkins 14:56.40 4 Daniel Kowalski 15:02.43 5 Graeme Smith 15:02.48 NR 4 6 Emiliano Brembilla 15:08.58 NR 5 1 Ryk Neethling 15:14.63 AF 6 7 Masato Hirano 15:17.28 NR 7 2 Jörg Hoffmann 15:18.86 8 3 Aleksey Akatyev 15:21.68
References
External links Official Report USA Swimming