Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

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Men's 1,500 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
London 2012 Aquatics Centre March.jpg
Aquatics centre during the British Championships in March 2012
Venue London Aquatics Centre
DatesAugust 3, 2012 (heats)
August 4, 2012 (final)
Competitors31 from 25 nations
Winning time14:31.02 WR
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Sun Yang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Silver medal icon.svg Ryan Cochrane Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Bronze medal icon.svg Oussama Mellouli Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia
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The men's 1,500 metre freestyle event at the 2012 Summer Olympics took place on 3–4 August at the London Aquatics Centre in London, United Kingdom. [1]

Shaking off a potential false start due to fan noise, China's Sun Yang put together a marvelous swim with a relentless attack on his world record to strike a long-distance freestyle double at the Olympic Games for the first time, since the Soviet Union's Vladimir Salnikov did so in 1980. Leading from the start, Sun quickly dropped two seconds under a world-record pace, as he pulled away further from the rest of the field to smash his own standard with a stunning gold-medal time in 14:31.02. [2] [3] Trailing behind the leader by 8.61 seconds on a dominant fashion, Canada's Ryan Cochrane held off a close battle from Tunisia's defending champion Oussama Mellouli for the silver in an American record of 14:39.63. [4] [5] Meanwhile, Mellouli faded down the stretch to pick up a bronze in 14:40.31, edging out of South Korea's Park Tae-hwan (14:50.61) by a wide margin of 10.3 seconds. [6]

Italian teenager Gregorio Paltrinieri finished fifth in 14:51.92, while U.S. swimmer Connor Jaeger posted a sixth-place time of 14:52.99. [7] Poland's Mateusz Sawrymowicz (14:54.32) and Great Britain's Daniel Fogg (15:00.76) rounded out a historic finale. [6] [8]

Notable swimmers missed the final including Jaeger's teammate Andrew Gemmell, Ukraine's Sergiy Frolov, Hungary's Gergő Kis, and British home favorite David Davies, bronze medalist in Athens eight years earlier. [9] [10]

Records

At the start of this event, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World recordFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Sun Yang  (CHN)14:34.14 Shanghai, China 31 July 2011 [11] [12]
Olympic recordFlag of Australia.svg  Grant Hackett  (AUS)14:38.92 Beijing, China 15 August 2008 [13]

The following records were established during the competition:

DateEventNameNationalityTimeRecord
August 4Final Sun Yang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 14:31.02 WR

Results

Heats

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RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
144 Sun Yang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 14:43.25Q
247 Oussama Mellouli Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia 14:46.23Q
334 Ryan Cochrane Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 14:49.31Q
425 Gregorio Paltrinieri Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 14:50.11Q
523 Daniel Fogg Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 14:56.12Q
635 Park Tae-hwan Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 14:56.89Q
733 Connor Jaeger Flag of the United States.svg  United States 14:57.56Q
826 Mateusz Sawrymowicz Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 14:57.59Q
943 Andrew Gemmell Flag of the United States.svg  United States 14:59.05
1041 Sergiy Frolov Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 14:59.19 NR
1146 Job Kienhuis Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 15:03.16
1237 Gergely Gyurta Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 15:04.22
1322 Gabriele Detti Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 15:06.22
1432 Damien Joly Flag of France.svg  France 15:08.50
1531 Dai Jun Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 15:13.90
1636 David Davies Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 15:14.77
1745 Pál Joensen Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 15:18.42
1848 Jarrod Poort Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 15:20.82
1924 Gergő Kis Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 15:21.74
2042 Anthony Pannier Flag of France.svg  France 15:24.08
2127 Heerden Herman Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 15:25.71
2214 Arturo Pérez Vertti Ferrer Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 15:25.91
2328 Alejandro Gómez Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela 15:27.38
2417 Jan Micka Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 15:29.34
2516 Anton Sveinn McKee Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland 15:29.40 NR
2615 Ediz Yıldırımer Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 15:29.97
2721 Matias Koski Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 15:34.80
2813 Ventsislav Aydarski Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 15:34.86
2938 Juan Martín Pereyra Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 15:36.72
3012 Uladzimir Zhyharau Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 15:48.67
3111 Ullalmath Gagan Flag of India.svg  India 16:31.14

Final

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Sun Yang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 14:31.02 WR
Silver medal icon.svg3 Ryan Cochrane Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 14:39.63 AM
Bronze medal icon.svg5 Oussama Mellouli Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia 14:40.31
47 Park Tae-hwan Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 14:50.61
56 Gregorio Paltrinieri Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 14:51.92
61 Connor Jaeger Flag of the United States.svg  United States 14:52.99
78 Mateusz Sawrymowicz Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 14:54.32
82 Daniel Fogg Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 15:00.76

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