Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

The men's 1500 metre freestyle swimming competition at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan was held on 4 October at the Sajik Swimming Pool. This was a timed-final event, meaning that each swimmer only swam once, with the fastest eight (8) entrants swimming in the finals.

Men's 1500 metre freestyle
at the 2002 Asian Games
VenueSajik Swimming Pool
Date4 October
Competitors12 from 7 nations
Medalists
 Yu Cheng   China
 Cho Sung-mo   South Korea
 Han Kyu-chul   South Korea
Swimming at the
2002 Asian Games
Freestyle
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4×100 mmenwomen
4×200 mmenwomen
Medley relay
4×100 mmenwomen
Main article: Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games

Schedule

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

Date Time Event
Friday, 4 October 200210:00Final 1
19:00Final 2

Records

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

World Record Grant Hackett (AUS)14:34.56Fukuoka, Japan29 July 2001
Asian Record Masato Hirano (JPN)15:14.43Sydney, Australia22 September 2000
Games Record Masato Hirano (JPN)15:22.20Bangkok, Thailand6 December 1998

Results
Legend
  • DNS — Did not start
Rank Heat Athlete Time Notes
2  Yu Cheng (CHN) 15:10.99AR
2  Cho Sung-mo (KOR) 15:12.32
2  Han Kyu-chul (KOR) 15:22.38
42  Shunichi Fujita (JPN) 15:24.64
52  Zheng Shibin (CHN) 15:46.13
62  Miguel Mendoza (PHI) 15:46.40
72  Takeshi Matsuda (JPN) 15:57.29
81  Chung Kwok Leung (HKG) 16:05.79
91  Naeem Al-Masri (SYR) 16:37.91
101  Anas Abu-Yousuf (QAT) 17:41.59
111  Ahmed Salamoun (QAT) 19:12.90
—2  Carlo Piccio (PHI) DNS

References
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