The heats for the Women's 1500 m Freestyle race at the 2009 World Championships took place on the morning of 27 July and the final was held in the evening session of 28 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows: World record 15:42.54 Mission Viejo, United States 27 June 2007Championship record 15:53.05 Melbourne, Australia 27 March 2007
The following records were established during the competition:
DateRoundNameNationalityTimeRecord 28 July Final Alessia Filippi Italy 15:44.93 CR
Heats Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes 1 Lotte Friis 15:58.23 2 4 NR 2 Kristel Köbrich 15:58.75 2 5 SA 3 Camelia Potec 16:02.21 4 4 4 Alessia Filippi 16:04.34 3 4 5 Erika Villaécija García 16:04.78 4 5 6 Wendy Trott 16:08.96 3 5 AF 7 Chloe Sutton 16:12.56 2 3 8 Melissa Gorman 16:16.83 2 6 9 Haley Anderson 16:20.62 4 2 10 Maiko Fujino 16:21.09 3 3 11 Eider Santamaria 16:21.75 4 3 12 Andreina Pinto 16:22.29 4 7 NR 13 Ren Junni 16:27.74 1 3 14 Patricia Castañeda Miyamoto 16:28.03 4 1 NR 15 Gráinne Murphy 16:28.47 2 1 NR 16 Susana Escobar 16:31.30 3 8 17 Martina Rita Caramignoli 16:33.40 3 7 18 Isabelle Harle 16:33.79 3 6 19 Nina Dittrich 16:34.02 3 2 20 Ekaterina Seliverstova 16:36.37 2 2 21 Natsumi Iwashita 16:37.22 2 7 22 Tjasa Oder 16:37.73 4 6 23 Nuala Murphy 16:37.97 2 0 24 Ionela Cozma 16:38.48 2 8 25 Lynette Lim 16:41.49 4 9 NR 26 Savannah King 16:43.25 4 0 27 Swann Oberson 16:44.08 3 1 28 Iris Matthey 16:51.99 3 0 29 Teja Zupan 17:09.79 4 8 30 Cho Youn Soo 17:12.67 3 9 31 Darneyis Orozco 17:31.44 1 4 32 Nada Abbas 17:39.57 1 5
Final Rank Name Nationality Time Lane Notes Alessia Filippi 15:44.93 6 ER, CR Lotte Friis 15:46.30 4 NR Camelia Potec 15:55.63 3 4 Kristel Köbrich 15:57.57 5 SA 5 Erika Villaécija García 16:00.25 2 NR 6 Wendy Trott 16:09.22 7 7 Melissa Gorman 16:09.66 8 8 Chloe Sutton 16:16.10 1
See also Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 1500 metre freestyle
External links 2009 Worlds results: Women's 1500m Free Prelims from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 World Championships); retrieved 2009-07-28. 2009 Worlds results: Women's 1500m Free Final from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 World Championships); retrieved 2009-07-28.