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Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

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Men's 1500 metre freestyle
at the 2002 Asian Games
VenueSajik Swimming Pool
Date4 October 2002
Competitors12 from 7 nations
Medalists
gold medal    China
silver medal    South Korea
bronze medal    South Korea
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The men's 1500 metre freestyle swimming competition at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan was held on 4 October at the Sajik Swimming Pool. This was a timed-final event, meaning that each swimmer only swam once, with the fastest eight (8) entrants swimming in the finals.

Schedule

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All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

Date Time Event
Friday, 4 October 2002 10:00 Final 1
19:00 Final 2

Records

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Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

World Record  Grant Hackett (AUS) 14:34.56 Fukuoka, Japan 29 July 2001
Asian Record  Masato Hirano (JPN) 15:14.43 Sydney, Australia 22 September 2000
Games Record  Masato Hirano (JPN) 15:22.20 Bangkok, Thailand 6 December 1998

Results

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Legend
  • DNS — Did not start
Rank Heat Athlete Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 2  Yu Cheng (CHN) 15:10.99 AR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2  Cho Sung-mo (KOR) 15:12.32
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2  Han Kyu-chul (KOR) 15:22.38
4 2  Shunichi Fujita (JPN) 15:24.64
5 2  Zheng Shibin (CHN) 15:46.13
6 2  Miguel Mendoza (PHI) 15:46.40
7 2  Takeshi Matsuda (JPN) 15:57.29
8 1  Chung Kwok Leung (HKG) 16:05.79
9 1  Naeem Al-Masri (SYR) 16:37.91
10 1  Anas Abu Yousuf (QAT) 17:41.59
11 1  Ahmed Salamoun (QAT) 19:12.90
2  Carlo Piccio (PHI) DNS

References

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