The Men's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 8 and 9 December 2016.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordGregorio Paltrinieri14:08.06Netanya4 December 2015Championship record14:16.10Doha7 December 2014

The following records were established during the competition: Date Event Name Nation Time Record 11 December Final Park Tae-hwan 14:15.51 CR

Results Heats The heats were held at 12:31.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 4 Gregorio Paltrinieri 14:24.39 Q 2 3 7 Park Tae-hwan 14:30.14 Q 3 3 6 Anton Ipsen 14:30.92 Q 4 4 5 Wojciech Wojdak 14:31.06 Q 5 5 5 Henrik Christiansen 14:33.13 Q 6 4 7 Nicolas Sweetser 14:34.05 Q 7 4 4 Gabriele Detti 14:34.11 Q 8 5 3 Gergely Gyurta 14:38.07 Q 9 4 3 Poul Zellmann 14:42.28 10 5 2 Jan Micka 14:43.30 11 4 2 Qiu Ziao 14:43.43 12 3 4 Brent Szurdoki 14:43.51 13 5 8 Patrick Ransford 14:47.13 14 3 5 Michael Mincham 14:47.85 15 4 0 Shogo Takeda 14:47.94 16 4 6 Joris Bouchaut 14:49.29 17 5 6 Florian Wellbrock 14:52.00 18 3 9 Felix Auböck 14:52.90 NR 19 5 9 Victor Johansson 14:55.68 20 5 0 Ayatsugu Hirai 14:56.55 21 3 1 Bogdan Scarlat 15:00.27 22 2 1 Jarryd Baxter 15:00.36 23 4 8 Martin Bau 15:02.12 24 4 9 Kristóf Rasovszky 15:03.43 25 2 4 Cho Cheng-Chi 15:04.92 26 4 1 Lander Hendrickx 15:05.10 27 5 7 Lucas Kanieski 15:05.46 28 3 3 Erik Gidskehaug 15:07.46 29 3 0 Peter Brothers 15:09.34 30 5 1 Pál Joensen 15:13.84 31 3 8 Oli Mortensen 15:24.57 32 3 2 Pang Sheng Jun 15:27.61 33 2 2 Christian Bayo Punter 15:33.52 34 2 3 Wesley Roberts 15:36.13 NR 35 2 5 Felipe Tapia Salinas 15:36.79 NR 36 2 9 Emilio Avila 15:57.90 NR 37 2 7 Russell Brown 16:10.47 NR 38 2 8 Walter Caballero Quilla 16:10.91 NR 39 1 5 Gabriel Siwady 16:32.62 NR 40 2 0 Amir Amrollahi Biuoki 16:37.69 NR 41 1 4 Frenc Berdaku 16:37.77 NR 42 1 3 Josue Portillo 18:03.62 1 6 Oussama Mellouli 2 6 Joseph Macías Rubio

Final The final was held at 18:37.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Park Tae-hwan 14:15.51 CR, AS 4 Gregorio Paltrinieri 14:21.94 6 Wojciech Wojdak 14:25.37 4 3 Anton Ipsen 14:31.53 5 2 Henrik Christiansen 14:33.56 6 7 Nicolas Sweetser 14:35.51 7 8 Gergely Gyurta 14:39.01 8 1 Gabriele Detti 14:39.34

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