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.

The existing records at the start of the event were: World record (WR): 14:34.56, Grant Hackett (Australia), July 21, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan. Championship record (CR): same

Results

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

Heats 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 14:59.33 Q 2 Grant Hackett 15:00.18 Q 3 Yuri Prilukov 15:01.03 Q 4 Mateusz Sawrymowicz 15:03.56 Q 5 Larsen Jensen 15:07.58 Q 6 Sébastien Rouault 15:08.00 Q 7 Christian Hein 15:12.12 Q 8 Zhang Lin 15:12.62 Q 9 Takeshi Matsuda 15:13.39 10 Sergiy Fesenko 15:14.67 11 Troyden Prinsloo 15:16.60 12 Marco Rivera 15:19.42 13 Dragoș Coman 15:22.21 14 Fernando Costa 15:27.70 15 Igor Chervynskiy 15:28.49 16 Kurtis MacGillivary 15:28.80 17 Luka Turk 15:30.46 18 Spyridon Gianniotis 15:30.97 19 Massimiliano Rosolino 15:39.18 20 Chris Thompson 15:41.66 21 Paul Biedermann 15:41.88 22 HAN Kuk-In 15:47.68 23 Evan Marcus 15:56.20 24 Gard Kvale 15:57.38 25 YU Cheng 16:00.97 26 Nawaf Al-Wazzan 16:04.18 NR 27 Miguel Mendoza 16:06.53 28 Sheng-Chieh Tang 16:18.10 29 Irakli Revishvili 16:50.60 30 Zhi Cong Lim 16:54.29 31 Steven Mangroo 16:59.00 NR 32 Marcus Cheah 16:59.08 33 Neil Agius 16:59.71 -- Aung Kyaw Moe DNS

See also Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

References

FINA Worlds 2005: Men's 1500 Freestyle heats results from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds). Published 2005-07-30, retrieved 2009-08-21. FINA Worlds 2005: Men's 1500 Freestyle final results from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds). Published 2005-07-30, retrieved 2009-08-21.