Swimming at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	28 July 2014 (2014-07-28) (heats) 29 July 2014 (2014-07-29) (final)
Competitors	19 from 10 nations
Winning time	14:44.03
Medalists
Ryan Cochrane    Canada   Mack Horton    Australia   Daniel Jervis    Wales
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The men's 1500 metre freestyle event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games as part of the swimming programme took place on 28 and 29 July at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre in Glasgow, Scotland.

The medals were presented by Peter Sirett, Chairman of the Guernsey Commonwealth Games Association and the quaichs were presented by Jon Doig, chief executive officer of Commonwealth Games Scotland.

Records

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

World record	Sun Yang  (CHN)	14:31.02	London, United Kingdom	4 August 2012	[1] [2]
Commonwealth record	Grant Hackett  (AUS)	14:34.56	Fukuoka, Japan	29 July 2001
Games record	Kieren Perkins  (AUS)	14:41.66	Victoria, Canada	18 August 1994	[3]

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Ryan Cochrane	Canada	15:03.29	Q
2	3	2	Stephen Milne	Scotland	15:03.38	Q
3	2	2	Daniel Jervis	Wales	15:06.60	Q
4	2	4	Mack Horton	Australia	15:08.43	Q
5	3	6	Devon Brown	South Africa	15:10.87	Q
=6	2	5	Daniel Fogg	England	15:10.88	Q
	3	5	Jordan Harrison	Australia
8	2	3	Jay Lelliott	England	15:11.89	Q
9	3	3	Matthew Levings	Australia	15:13.53
10	2	6	Will Brothers	Canada	15:22.92
11	2	7	Martin Cremin	Scotland	15:27.30
12	1	3	Max Litchfield	England	15:33.87
13	3	1	Kevin Yeap	Malaysia	15:35.50
14	3	7	Craig Hamilton	Scotland	15:35.60
15	3	8	Vernon Lee	Malaysia	16:10.53
16	2	8	Geoffrey Butler	Cayman Islands	16:14.39
17	2	1	Welson Sim	Malaysia	16:18.24
18	1	4	Iacovos Hadjiconstantinou	Cyprus	16:41:00
19	1	5	Dominic Walter	Jamaica	16:56.28

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Ryan Cochrane	Canada	14:44.03
	6	Mack Horton	Australia	14:48.76
	3	Daniel Jervis	Wales	14:55.33
4	1	Jordan Harrison	Australia	14:55.71
5	5	Stephen Milne	Scotland	15:04.90
6	8	Jay Lelliott	England	15:05.83
7	7	Daniel Fogg	England	15:13.72
8	2	Devon Brown	South Africa	15:17.89

References

1. Tucker, Jim (5 August 2012). "Sun Yang smashes 1500m freestyle world record at London Olympics". The Daily Telegraph. Sydney. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
2. Auerbach, Nicole (4 August 2012). "China's Sun crushes world record by 3 seconds in 1,500". USA Today. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
3. Poirier-Leroy, Olivier (15 July 2014). "Commonwealth Games Flashback: Kieren Perkins Rocks the 800 & 1500m Freestyle World Records". swimswam.com. Retrieved 23 July 2014.