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

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.