Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 2007 FINA World Championships
Venue	Rod Laver Arena
Dates	31 March 2007 (heats) 1 April 2007 (final)
Competitors	50
Winning time	seconds
Medalists
Mateusz Sawrymowicz    Poland   Yury Prilukov    Russia   David Davies    Great Britain
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The men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships was held on the morning of 31 March (heats) and the evening of 1 April (final) at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 50 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 47 swam.

The existing records at the start of the event were:

• World record (WR): 14:34.56, Grant Hackett (Australia), 29 July 2001, Fukuoka, Japan
• Championship record (CR): same

Results

Final

Place	Lane	Swimmer	Nationality	Splits	Time
	3	Mateusz Sawrymowicz	Poland		14:45.94
	1	Yury Prilukov	Russia		14:47.29
	4	David Davies	Great Britain		14:51.21
4th	5	Larsen Jensen	USA		14:52.98
5th	6	Federico Colbertaldo	Italy		14:56.22
6th	8	Craig Stevens	Australia		14:59.11
7th	2	Grant Hackett	Australia		14:59.59
8th	7	Erik Vendt	USA		15:07.76

Heats

"Q" marks those swimmers who qualified for finals.

Rank	Heat : Lane	Swimmer	Nationality	Splits	Time	Q
1	7 : 5	David Davies	Great Britain		14:53.57	Q
2	6 : 7	Larsen Jensen	USA		14:56.28	Q
3	6 : 4	Mateusz Sawrymowicz	Poland		14:56.65	Q
4	6 : 6	Federico Colbertaldo	Italy		14:58.26	Q
5	5 : 5	Grant Hackett	Australia		14:59.24	Q
6	5 : 6	Erik Vendt	USA		14:59.82	Q
7	7 : 4	Yury Prilukov	Russia		15:01.67	Q
8	7 : 3	Craig Stevens	Australia		15:02.16	Q
9	5 : 4	Park Tae-Hwan	Korea		15:03.62
10	7 : 2	Nikita Lobintsev	Russia		15:06.03
11	5 : 2	Takeshi Matsuda	Japan		15:06.28
12	7 : 7	Luka Turk	Slovenia		15:07.59
13	7 : 1	Sergiy Fesenko	Ukraine		15:08.05
14	6 : 8	Marcos Rivera Miranda	Spain		15:08.95
15	6 : 1	Ryan Cochrane	Canada		15:09.88
16	6 : 3	Thomas Lurz	Germany		15:11.26
17	4 : 5	Mads Glæsner	Denmark		15:12.10
18	7 : 6	Zhang Lin	China		15:13.27
19	4 : 4	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary		15:14.68
20	5 : 8	Spyridon Gianniotis	Greece		15:15.85
21	6 : 2	Dragoş Coman	Romania		15:18.73
22	4 : 6	Tom Vangeneugen	Belgium		15:22.98
23	5 : 3	Nicolas Rostoucher	France		15:23.98
24	6 : 5	Sébastien Rouault	France		15:24.90
25	7 : 8	Zhang Enjian	China		15:29.71
26	4 : 2	Ricardo Monasterio	Venezuela		15:30.00
27	5 : 7	Maciej Hreniak	Poland		15:31.35
28	3 : 7	Ryan Arabejo	Philippines		15:39.86
29	4 : 7	Florian Janistyn	Austria		15:43.64
30	4 : 3	Fernando Costa	Portugal		15:46.73
31	3 : 4	Jarrod Ballem	Canada		15:47.64
32	4 : 1	Caglar Gokbulut	Turkey		15:48.67
33	2 : 4	Banjamin Guzman Blanco	Chile		16:05.25
33	3 : 3	Tharnawat Thanakornworakiart	Thailand		16:05.25
35	3 : 1	Emanuel Nicolini	San Marino		16:20.46
36	2 : 5	Pál Joensen	Faroe Islands		16:23.56
37	3 : 8	Kevin Soow Choy Yeap	Malaysia		16:27.69
38	3 : 6	Mihajlo Ristovski	Macedonia		16:41.60
39	4 : 8	Erwin Maldonado	Venezuela		16:47.50
40	2 : 6	Sobitjon Amilov	Uzbekistan		16:49.05
41	2 : 7	Neil Agius	Malta		17:05.05
42	2 : 3	Davor Trnovljakovic	Bosnia & Herzegovina		17:11.74
43	1 : 4	Omar Núñez	Nicaragua		17:23.31
44	1 : 5	Heimanu Sichan	Tahiti		17:32.53
45	2 : 1	Juan Lagos	Honduras		17:33.31
46	2 : 2	Timur Kartabaev	Kyrgyzstan		17:55.11
47	1 : 3	Cooper Graf	Northern Mariana Islands		19:33.41
999	3 : 2	Ahmed Mathlouthi	Tunisia		DNS
999	3 : 5	Mohammed Naeem Masri	Syria		DNS
999	5 : 1	Christian Hein	Germany		DNS

DNS= Did not swim

See also

• Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle
• Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

References

• Men's 1500m Freestyle Preliminary results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-06-29.
• Men's 1500m Freestyle Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-06-29.