Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 2009 FINA World Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Dates	1 August 2009 (heats, semifinals) 2 August 2009 (final)
Competitors	49 from 35 nations
Winning time	14 minutes 37.28 seconds
Medalists
Oussama Mellouli    Tunisia   Ryan Cochrane    Canada   Sun Yang    China

The heats for the men's 1500 m freestyle race at the 2009 World Championships took place on the morning of 1 August, with the final in the evening session of 2 August at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship record were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Grant Hackett	Australia	14:34.56	Fukuoka	July 29, 2001

Results

Heats

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Sun Yang	China	14:54.54	5	3
2	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	14:54.56	5	4
3	Ryan Cochrane	Canada	14:56.56	4	4
4	Marco Rivera	Spain	14:57.47	4	7	NR
5	Zhang Lin	China	14:58.46	4	5
6	Federico Colbertaldo	Italy	14:58.98	3	5
7	David Davies	Great Britain	15:00.52	5	5
8	Samuel Pizzetti	Italy	15:00.70	4	6
9	Park Tae-Hwan	South Korea	15:00.87	4	3
10	Mads Glæsner	Denmark	15:01.80	5	6
11	Ryan Napoleon	Australia	15:09.55	3	6
12	Jackson Wilcox	United States	15:09.66	5	1
13	Tom Vangeneugden	Belgium	15:12.95	3	7
14	Robert Hurley	Australia	15:14.75	3	2
15	Brennan Morris	United States	15:16.37	3	1
16	Nicolas Rostoucher	France	15:16.49	3	3
17	Pál Joensen	Faroe Islands	15:21.37	5	2
18	Ryoji Sononaka	Japan	15:24.13	4	2
19	Igor Snitko	Ukraine	15:26.97	4	8
20	Esteban Paz	Argentina	15:31.45	4	0	NR
21	David Brandl	Austria	15:31.46	5	8
22	Richard Charlesworth	Great Britain	15:36.64	5	7
23	Ricardo Monasterio	Venezuela	15:37.48	3	9
24	Alejandro Gómez	Venezuela	15:38.93	2	4
25	Oleksandr Lutchenko	Ukraine	15:39.57	3	8
26	Pi Seungyeop	South Korea	15:47.94	5	9
27	Luis Escobar	Mexico	15:52.60	5	0
28	Daniel Delgadillo	Mexico	15:56.42	3	0
29	Florian Janistyn	Austria	15:57.96	4	1
30	Mateo De Angulo Velasco	Colombia	16:03.31	2	6
31	Esteban Enderica	Ecuador	16:07.59	2	7
32	Mandar Divase	India	16:12.28	1	0
33	Pan Kai-Wen	Chinese Taipei	16:18.38	4	9
34	Chien Jui-Ting	Chinese Taipei	16:22.09	2	3
35	Hajder Ensar	Bosnia and Herzegovina	16:32.01	1	1
36	Ivan Alejandro Enderica	Ecuador	16:32.83	2	0
37	Roberto Penailillo Garcia	Chile	16:38.70	2	1
38	Luis Andres Martorell Name	Honduras	16:50.12	1	6
39	Vitalii Khudiakov	Kyrgyzstan	16:50.18	1	4
40	Aleksandr Slepchenko	Kyrgyzstan	16:52.35	2	9
41	Allan Gutierrez Castro	Honduras	16:52.71	1	5
42	Heimanu Sichan	French Polynesia	17:08.44	1	2	NR
43	Paul Elaisa	Fiji	17:58.23	1	7
–	Omar Nunez	Nicaragua	DNS	1	3
–	Naser Aldaya	Palestine	DNS	1	8
–	Ignacio Quevedo Bubba	Bolivia	DNS	1	9
–	Mohamed Farhoud	Egypt	DNS	2	2
–	Jan Karel Petric	Slovenia	DNS	2	5
–	Yury Prilukov	Russia	DNS	3	4

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Lane	Time	Notes
	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	5	14:37.28	AF
	Ryan Cochrane	Canada	3	14:41.38
	Sun Yang	China	4	14:46.84
4	Federico Colbertaldo	Italy	7	14:48.28	NR
5	Zhang Lin	China	2	14:54.23
6	David Davies	Great Britain	1	14:57.03
7	Marco Rivera	Spain	6	15:01.92
8	Samuel Pizzetti	Italy	8	15:19.38

External links

• Heats Results
• Final Results