The Men's 1500 metre Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on July 26–27, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary heats swam in the morning session on July 26,Worlds 2003 results: Men's 1500 Free - prelims from Omega Timing (official timer). Published 2003-07-26; retrieved 2013-06-06. with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim again in the Final during the evening session on July 27.Worlds 2003 results: Men's 1500 Free - final from Omega Timing (official timer). Published 2003-07-27; retrieved 2013-06-06.
Prior to the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were both: WR & CR: 14:34.56 swum by Grant Hackett (Australia) on July 29, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan
Results Final Place Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 Grant Hackett 14:43.14 2 Igor Chervynskyi 15:01.04 3 Erik Vendt 15:01.28 4 David Davies 15:05.04 5 Larsen Jensen 15:08.25 6 Graeme Smith 15:12.64 7 Christian Minotti 15:13.28 8 Paweł Korzeniowski 15:13.98
Preliminaries Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 H5 L4 Grant Hackett 15:08.79 q 2 H4 L3 Graeme Smith 15:12.74 q 3 H3 L4 Erik Vendt 15:13.41 q 4 H3 L3 David Davies 15:13.93 q 5 H5 L3 Ihor Chervynskyi 15:14.01 q 6 H3 L5 Christian Minotti 15:14.84 q 7 H4 L4 Larsen Jensen 15:15.63 q 8 H2 L4 Paweł Korzeniowski 15:16.07 q 9 H3 L2 Kurtis MacGillivary 15:17.02 10 H4 L5 Yuri Prilukov 15:17.26 11 H3 L6 Thomas Lurz 15:17.85 12 H5 L1 Alexey Filipets 15:20.77 13 H3 L8 Bojan Zdešar 15:22.31 14 H5 L5 Craig Stevens 15:22.44 15 H5 L2 Andrew Hurd 15:22.92 16 H5 L8 Hannes Kalteis 15:24.77 17 H3 L7 Spyridon Gianniotis 15:25.16 18 H4 L2 Shilo Ayalon 15:26.86 19 H5 L6 Dragoș Coman 15:33.04 20 H5 L7 Dzmitry Koptur 15:34.24 21 H4 L1 Shunichi Fujita 15:36.56 22 H4 L8 Lin Zhang 15:37.03 23 H2 L3 Luiz Lima 15:43.07 24 H2 L5 Bruno Bonfim 15:48.41 25 H4 L7 Georgios Diamantidis 15:49.56 26 H1 L3 Gian Carlo Zolezzi 15:55.89 27 H4 L6 Cheng Yu 16:02.74 28 H2 L2 Yi-Khy Saw 16:03.81 29 H2 L6 Erwin Maldonado 16:04.08 30 H1 L4 Mohammad Naeem Masri 16:18.28 31 H2 L1 Raouf Benabid 16:21.67 32 H2 L7 Kwok Leung Chung 16:24.39 33 H2 L8 Roberto Peñailillo 16:36.02 34 H1 L5 Jonathan Mauri 16:53.32 35 H1 L2 Rony Bakale 17:11.08 36 H1 L6 Ivan Grougnet 17:35.25 37 H1 L1 Steven Mangroo 17:35.84 - - Nicolas Rostoucher DNS - - Jean-Luc Razakarivony DNS
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