The heats for the men's 1500 m freestyle race at the 2009 World Championships took place on the morning of 1 August, with the final in the evening session of 2 August at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship record were as follows: World record 14:34.56 Fukuoka, Japan 29 July 2001Championship record 14:34.56 Fukuoka, Japan 29 July 2001
Results
Heats Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes 1 Sun Yang 14:54.54 5 3 2 Oussama Mellouli 14:54.56 5 4 3 Ryan Cochrane 14:56.56 4 4 4 Marco Rivera 14:57.47 4 7 NR 5 Zhang Lin 14:58.46 4 5 6 Federico Colbertaldo 14:58.98 3 5 7 David Davies 15:00.52 5 5 8 Samuel Pizzetti 15:00.70 4 6 9 Park Tae-Hwan 15:00.87 4 3 10 Mads Glæsner 15:01.80 5 6 11 Ryan Napoleon 15:09.55 3 6 12 Jackson Wilcox 15:09.66 5 1 13 Tom Vangeneugden 15:12.95 3 7 14 Robert Hurley 15:14.75 3 2 15 Brennan Morris 15:16.37 3 1 16 Nicolas Rostoucher 15:16.49 3 3 17 Pál Joensen 15:21.37 5 2 18 Ryoji Sononaka 15:24.13 4 2 19 Igor Snitko 15:26.97 4 8 20 Esteban Paz 15:31.45 4 0 NR 21 David Brandl 15:31.46 5 8 22 Richard Charlesworth 15:36.64 5 7 23 Ricardo Monasterio 15:37.48 3 9 24 Alejandro Gómez 15:38.93 2 4 25 Oleksandr Lutchenko 15:39.57 3 8 26 Pi Seungyeop 15:47.94 5 9 27 Luis Escobar 15:52.60 5 0 28 Daniel Delgadillo 15:56.42 3 0 29 Florian Janistyn 15:57.96 4 1 30 Mateo de Angulo 16:03.31 2 6 31 Esteban Enderica 16:07.59 2 7 32 Mandar Divase 16:12.28 1 0 33 Pan Kai-Wen 16:18.38 4 9 34 Chien Jui-Ting 16:22.09 2 3 35 Hajder Ensar 16:32.01 1 1 36 Ivan Alejandro Enderica 16:32.83 2 0 37 Roberto Peñailillo Garcia 16:38.70 2 1 38 Luis Andres Martorell Name 16:50.12 1 6 39 Vitalii Khudiakov 16:50.18 1 4 40 Aleksandr Slepchenko 16:52.35 2 9 41 Allan Gutierrez Castro 16:52.71 1 5 42 Heimanu Sichan 17:08.44 1 2 NR 43 Paul Elaisa 17:58.23 1 7 – Omar Núñez DNS 1 3 – Naser Aldaya DNS 1 8 – Ignacio Quevedo Bubba DNS 1 9 – Mohamed Farhoud DNS 2 2 – Jan Karel Petric DNS 2 5 – Yury Prilukov DNS 3 4
Final Rank Name Nationality Lane Time Notes Oussama Mellouli 5 14:37.28 AF Ryan Cochrane 3 14:41.38 Sun Yang 4 14:46.84 4 Federico Colbertaldo 7 14:48.28 NR 5 Zhang Lin 2 14:54.23 6 David Davies 1 14:57.03 7 Marco Rivera 6 15:01.92 8 Samuel Pizzetti 8 15:19.38
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