The Women's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 3 August with the heats and 4 August with the final.Start list
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
The following new records were set during this competition. Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 3 August Heats Katie Ledecky 15:27.71 4 August Final Katie Ledecky 15:25.48
Results
Heats The Heats were held at 10:56.Heats results
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 4 Katie Ledecky 15:27.71 Q, 2 2 5 Lotte Friis 15:54.23 Q 3 3 5 Jessica Ashwood 15:56.52 Q, NR 4 2 8 Kristel Köbrich 16:01.63 Q 5 2 4 Lauren Boyle 16:02.84 Q 6 3 3 Boglárka Kapás 16:06.25 Q 7 2 3 16:09.12 Q 8 3 7 Aurora Ponsele 16:12.01 Q 9 3 2 Leonie Beck 16:13.73 10 2 7 Jessica Thielmann 16:21.21 11 2 0 Gaja Natlačen 16:24.83 12 2 6 Isabelle Härle 16:25.04 13 3 6 Martina Caramignoli 16:27.13 14 3 0 Wang Guoyue 16:28.18 15 2 2 Tjasa Oder 16:31.22 16 2 1 Julia Hassler 16:32.04 17 1 5 Valerie Gruest 16:34.81 18 3 1 Katy Campbell 16:39.98 19 1 4 Monique Olivier 16:43.21 20 2 9 Montserrat Ortuño 16:43.64 21 3 8 Samantha Arévalo 16:48.52 22 3 9 Martina Elhenická 16:50.22 23 1 3 Rachel Tseng 17:26.53 24 1 6 Lena Rannvaardottir 18:21.09 25 1 2 Bo-Anne Bos 18:57.27
Final The final was held on 4 August at 18:05.Final results
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Katie Ledecky 15:25.48 2 Lauren Boyle 15:40.14 OC 7 Boglárka Kapás 15:47.09 NR 4 5 Lotte Friis 15:49.00 5 3 Jessica Ashwood 15:52.17 NR 6 1 Sharon van Rouwendaal 16:03.74 7 6 Kristel Köbrich 16:06.55 8 8 Aurora Ponsele 16:09.57
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