Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

Men's 1500 metre freestyle
at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Men's 1500 metre freestyle ; at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	29 July (heats); 30 July (final)
Competitors	37 from 32 nations
Winning time	14:35.85
Medalists
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The Men's 1500 metre freestyle competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 29 and 30 July 2017.^[1]^[2]

Men's 1500M Freestyle Final

Records

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

World record	Sun Yang (CHN)	14:31.02	London, Great Britain	4 August 2012
Competition record	Sun Yang (CHN)	14:34.14	Shanghai, China	31 July 2011

The heats were held on 29 July at 10:44.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	3	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	14:44.11	Q, NR
2	4	4	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	14:44.31	Q
3	4	5	Gabriele Detti	Italy	14:50.10	Q
4	4	7	Jan Micka	Czech Republic	14:55.47	Q
5	3	6	Wojciech Wojdak	Poland	14:57.39	Q
6	4	6	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	14:57.41	Q
7	3	4	Mack Horton	Australia	14:59.24	Q
8	4	0	Serhiy Frolov	Ukraine	14:59.32	Q
9	2	4	Park Tae-hwan	South Korea	14:59.44
10	3	2	Ahmed Akram	Egypt	14:59.56
11	3	5	Jack McLoughlin	Australia	15:01.55
12	3	1	Felix Auböck	Austria	15:02.78
13	3	7	Ilya Druzhinin	Russia	15:03.05
14	2	3	Marcelo Acosta	El Salvador	15:04.79
15	2	0	Victor Johansson	Sweden	15:05.91	NR
16	4	1	True Sweetser	United States	15:07.38
17	4	2	Florian Wellbrock	Germany	15:07.43
18	3	3	Daniel Jervis	Great Britain	15:07.97
19	3	9	Guilherme Costa	Brazil	15:08.09
20	4	9	Anton Ipsen	Denmark	15:10.02
21	4	8	Robert Finke	United States	15:15.15
22	3	0	Antonio Arroyo	Spain	15:18.50
23	2	2	Brent Szurdoki	South Africa	15:18.84
24	2	7	Kristóf Rasovszky	Hungary	15:23.87
25	2	5	Ji Xinjie	China	15:23.91
26	2	6	Ákos Kalmár	Hungary	15:23.96
27	2	1	Ricardo Vargas	Mexico	15:24.79
28	2	8	Guilherme Pina	Portugal	15:26.10
29	2	9	Bogdan Scarlat	Romania	15:26.18
30	1	9	Nguyễn Hữu Kim Sơn	Vietnam	15:29.90	NR
31	1	3	Huang Guo-ting	Chinese Taipei	15:31.10
32	1	2	Aflah Fadlan Prawira	Indonesia	15:31.27	NR
33	1	5	Dimitrios Negris	Greece	15:35.55
34	1	1	Óli Mortensen	Faroe Islands	15:37.77
35	1	7	Christian Bayo	Puerto Rico	15:52.78
36	1	6	Wesley Roberts	Cook Islands	16:15.04
37	1	0	Franci Aleksi	Albania	16:42.97
	1	4	Martín Naidich	Argentina	DNS
	1	8	Felipe Tapia	Chile
	3	8	Sun Yang	China

The final was held on 30 July at 18:38.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	14:35.85
	4	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	14:37.14	NR
	1	Mack Horton	Australia	14:47.70
4	3	Gabriele Detti	Italy	14:52.07
5	7	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	14:54.58
6	8	Serhiy Frolov	Ukraine	14:55.10
7	2	Wojciech Wojdak	Poland	15:01.27
8	6	Jan Micka	Czech Republic	15:09.28