Swimming at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Dates	18 May 2021 (heats) 19 May 2021 (final)
Competitors	24 from 16 nations
Winning time	14:39.89
Medalists
Mykhailo Romanchuk    Ukraine   Gregorio Paltrinieri    Italy   Domenico Acerenza    Italy
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The Men's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the 2020 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18 and 19 May 2021. ^{[1] [2]}

Records

Before the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World record	Sun Yang	China	14:31.02	London	28 July 2012
European record	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	14:33.10	Rome	13 August 2020
Championship record			14:34.04	London	18 May 2016

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 18 May at 11:21. ^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	14:52.07	Q
2	2	7	Damien Joly	France	14:56.09	Q
3	2	6	Domenico Acerenza	Italy	14:59.47	Q
4	3	2	Ákos Kalmár	Hungary	15:02.97	Q
5	3	3	Daniel Jervis	Great Britain	15:07.54	Q
6	2	5	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	15:08.28	Q
7	3	4	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	15:08.84	Q
8	3	1	Aleksandr Egorov	Russia	15:09.95	Q
9	2	2	Serhiy Frolov	Ukraine	15:10.41
10	3	9	Yiğit Aslan	Turkey	15:14.80
11	2	1	Ilya Druzhinin	Russia	15:16.47
12	2	0	Dávid Betlehem	Hungary	15:18.18
13	3	8	Gergely Gyurta	Hungary	15:18.85
14	3	6	Jan Micka	Czech Republic	15:28.10
15	3	7	Marc-Antoine Olivier	France	15:30.04
16	2	9	Alejandro Puebla	Spain	15:30.35
17	1	4	Márk Kovacsics	Hungary	15:35.95
18	3	5	David Aubry	France	15:36.51
19	3	0	Vuk Čelić	Serbia	15:37.16
20	2	3	Alexander Asla Nørgaard	Denmark	15:39.39
21	1	5	Bar Soloveychik	Israel	15:40.53
22	2	8	Dimitrios Negris	Greece	15:46.78
23	1	3	Loris Bianchi	San Marino	16:14.61
24	1	6	Théo Druenne	Monaco	16:37.80

Final

The final was held on 19 May at 18:00. ^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	14:39.89
	1	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	14:42.91
	3	Domenico Acerenza	Italy	14:54.36
4	5	Damien Joly	France	14:56.38
5	2	Daniel Jervis	Great Britain	14:58.42
6	6	Ákos Kalmár	Hungary	15:04.61
7	7	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	15:05.19
8	8	Aleksandr Egorov	Russia	15:10.43

References

1. Schedule
2. Start list
3. Heats results
4. Final results