Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Victory Ceremony
Dates	8 August (heats) 9 August (final)
Competitors	45 from 40 nations
Winning time	14:39.67
Medalists
Gregorio Paltrinieri   Italy   Connor Jaeger   United States   Ryan Cochrane   Canada

The Men's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 8 August with the heats and 9 August with the final.

Records

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

World record	Sun Yang (CHN)	14:31.02	London, Great Britain	4 August 2012
Competition record	Sun Yang (CHN)	14:34.14	Shanghai, China	31 July 2011

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:48.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	14:51.04	Q
2	5	3	Connor Jaeger	United States	14:53.34	Q
3	5	5	Sun Yang	China	14:55.11	Q
4	5	6	Stephen Milne	Great Britain	14:55.17	Q
5	5	0	Ahmed Akram	Egypt	14:55.42	Q, NR
6	4	3	Ryan Cochrane	Canada	14:55.96	Q
7	4	6	Michael McBroom	United States	14:57.07	Q
8	4	2	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	14:57.82	Q, NR
9	4	5	Pál Joensen	Faroe Islands	14:58.52
10	5	7	Damien Joly	France	14:58.79
11	4	4	Mack Horton	Australia	15:00.51
12	4	9	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	15:02.37	NR
13	4	0	Richárd Nagy	Slovakia	15:04.03	NR
14	4	8	Ruwen Straub	Germany	15:04.80
15	3	6	Maarten Brzoskowski	Netherlands	15:10.91
16	3	5	Marc Sánchez	Spain	15:12.79
17	4	1	Wojciech Wojdak	Poland	15:14.28
18	2	2	Martín Naidich	Argentina	15:14.38
19	3	2	Wang Kecheng	China	15:16.69
20	5	2	Gergely Gyurta	Hungary	15:16.84
21	3	7	Nathan Capp	New Zealand	15:17.77
22	3	8	Esteban Enderica	Ecuador	15:20.58	NR
23	4	7	Jan Micka	Czech Republic	15:22.16
24	2	7	Martin Bau	Slovenia	15:22.80
25	3	1	Marcelo Acosta	El Salvador	15:25.14
26	1	7	Mihajlo Čeprkalo	Bosnia and Herzegovina	15:26.22
27	2	4	Ernest Maksumov	Russia	15:26.64
28	5	9	Serhiy Frolov	Ukraine	15:29.52
29	5	1	Sören Meißner	Germany	15:30.02
30	3	4	Ferry Weertman	Netherlands	15:32.01
31	3	9	Nezir Karap	Turkey	15:32.60
32	2	3	Alejandro Gómez	Venezuela	15:32.75
33	3	0	Vuk Čelić	Serbia	15:33.71
34	2	9	Cho Cheng-chi	Chinese Taipei	15:37.25
35	1	3	Sajan Prakash	India	15:45.29
36	1	2	Felipe Tapia	Chile	15:45.63
37	5	8	Felix Auböck	Austria	15:45.69
38	2	1	Christian Punter	Puerto Rico	15:46.19
39	2	0	Sven Arnar Saemundsson	Croatia	15:53.43
40	2	8	Alexei Sancov	Moldova	15:53.85
41	2	6	Lâm Quang Nhật	Vietnam	15:54.56
42	1	6	Luis Ventura	Mexico	15:55.92
43	1	4	Welson Sim	Malaysia	16:09.72
44	1	8	Geoffrey Butler	Cayman Islands	16:21.18
45	1	1	Pol Arias	Andorra	16:26.35
	1	5	Matias Koski	Finland		DNS
	2	5	Mateo de Angulo	Colombia		DNS
	3	3	Péter Bernek	Hungary		DNS

Final

The final was held on 9 August at 18:20.

Last lap of final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	14:39.67	ER
	5	Connor Jaeger	United States	14:41.20	NR
	7	Ryan Cochrane	Canada	14:51.08
4	2	Ahmed Akram	Egypt	14:53.66	NR
5	6	Stephen Milne	Great Britain	14:58.62
6	1	Michael McBroom	United States	15:06.81
7	8	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	15:09.77
	3	Sun Yang	China		DNS

• Sun Yang did not swim the final, and he did not tell anyone that he had no intention of swimming. The next man on the list who would have taken his place in the final, was Pál Joensen from the Faroe Islands, but he did not get any message that he could swim in the final, and therefore lane 3 was empty during the final. Sun Yang said after the event that he had felt chest pain after winning the 800 m freestyle. He felt it again shortly before the final of 1500 m free, but he could not say at what time it was.