Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

Men's 1500 metre freestyle
at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
Men's 1500 metre freestyle ; at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center
Location	Gwangju, South Korea
Dates	27 July (heats); 28 July (final)
Competitors	35 from 28 nations
Winning time	14:36.54
Medalists
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The Men's 1500 metre freestyle competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 27 and 28 July 2019.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

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

The heats were started on 27 July at 11:17.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	5	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	14:45.80	Q
2	4	4	Florian Wellbrock	Germany	14:47.52	Q
3	3	4	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	14:47.54	Q
4	4	1	Alexander Norgaard	Denmark	14:47.75	Q, NR
5	4	2	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	14:50.28	Q
6	3	2	Domenico Acerenza	Italy	14:52.03	Q
7	3	7	David Aubry	France	14:53.38	Q
8	3	1	Serhiy Frolov	Ukraine	14:55.06	Q
9	4	7	Damien Joly	France	14:55.51
10	3	6	Jan Micka	Czech Republic	14:59.05
11	4	3	Jordan Wilimovsky	United States	14:59.94
12	2	4	Ákos Kalmár	Hungary	15:00.99
13	3	5	Daniel Jervis	Great Britain	15:01.50
14	3	9	Nguyễn Huy Hoàng	Vietnam	15:02.35
15	4	8	Anton Ipsen	Denmark	15:04.02
16	3	3	Jack McLoughlin	Australia	15:04.64
17	3	8	Ruwen Straub	Germany	15:05.51
18	4	0	Ilya Druzhinin	Russia	15:07.93
19	2	9	Ahmed Akram	Egypt	15:13.25
20	2	3	Gergely Gyurta	Hungary	15:14.20
21	2	5	Ji Xinjie	China	15:15.41
22	2	6	Diogo Villarinho	Brazil	15:15.91
23	4	9	Wojciech Wojdak	Poland	15:16.14
24	2	7	Vuk Čelić	Serbia	15:17.79
25	3	0	Guilherme Costa	Brazil	15:20.73
26	4	6	Zane Grothe	United States	15:21.43
27	2	2	Dimitrios Negris	Greece	15:25.71
28	2	0	Kim Woo-min	South Korea	15:26.17
29	2	8	Huang Guo-ting	Chinese Taipei	15:33.53
30	2	1	Aflah Prawira	Indonesia	15:38.34
31	1	5	Joaquín Moreno	Argentina	15:48.98
32	1	3	Aryan Nehra	India	15:59.47
33	1	6	Cheuk Ming Ho	Hong Kong	16:03.96
34	1	4	Oli Mortensen	Faroe Islands	16:17.71
35	1	2	Adib Khalil	Lebanon	16:19.51

The final was held on 28 July at 20:17.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Florian Wellbrock	Germany	14:36.54
	3	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	14:37.63
	4	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	14:38.75
4	1	David Aubry	France	14:44.72	NR
5	2	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	14:45.35	NR
6	7	Domenico Acerenza	Italy	14:52.05
7	8	Serhiy Frolov	Ukraine	15:01.04
8	6	Alexander Norgaard	Denmark	15:20.47