The Women's 1500 metre freestyle competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 19 and 20 June 2022.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

Results Heats The heats were started on 19 June at 10:17.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 4 Katie Ledecky 15:47.02 Q 2 2 4 Simona Quadarella 15:56.19 Q 3 3 5 Katie Grimes 15:57.05 Q 4 2 5 Lani Pallister 15:57.61 Q 5 2 3 Moesha Johnson 15:57.77 Q 6 2 8 Beatriz Dizotti 16:08.35 Q, NR 7 3 7 Viviane Jungblut 16:09.27 Q 8 2 6 Kristel Köbrich 16:13.52 Q 9 3 3 Li Bingjie 16:13.92 10 3 2 Miyu Namba 16:20.45 11 2 0 Diana Durães 16:25.23 12 3 6 Viktória Mihályvári-Farkas 16:26.41 13 3 9 Caitlin Deans 16:30.47 14 1 4 Gan Ching Hwee 16:32.43 NR 15 3 8 Ángela Martínez 16:38.39 16 2 2 Zhang Ke 16:42.92 17 2 1 Abby Dunford 16:46.01 18 2 9 Han Da-kyung 16:47.45 19 3 0 Katrina Bellio 16:54.55 20 2 7 Paula Otero 16:57.76 21 1 5 Stephanie Houtman 17:08.12 22 1 3 Võ Thị Mỹ Thiện 17:14.54 23 1 7 Nip Tsz Yin 17:15.64 24 1 6 Yarinda Sunthornrangsri 17:26.95 25 1 2 Goh Chia Tong 17:33.03 26 1 1 Vár Erlingsdóttir Eidesgaard 17:36.49 3 1 Marlene Kahler

Final The final was held on 20 June at 18:11.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Katie Ledecky 15:30.15 3 Katie Grimes 15:44.89 6 Lani Pallister 15:48.96 4 2 Moesha Johnson 15:55.75 5 5 Simona Quadarella 16:03.84 6 7 Beatriz Dizotti 16:05.25 NR 7 1 Viviane Jungblut 16:13.89 8 8 Kristel Köbrich 16:20.24

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