2016 Summer Olympics / Swimming - 1500m Freestyle (Men)
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sport | swim |
discipline | 1500 meters freestyle |
gender | Men |
place | Olympic Aquatics Stadium |
Attendees | 46 athletes from 32 countries |
Competition phase | 12./13. August 2016 |
The men's 1500 meter freestyle competition at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was held on August 12 and 13, 2016 in the Olympic Aquatics Stadium . 46 athletes from 32 countries took part.
There were six preliminary runs. The eight fastest swimmers of all heats qualified for the final.
Abbreviations:
WR = world record, OR = Olympic record, NR = national record, PB = personal best, JWB = annual world record
Existing records
World record |
Sun Yang ( People's Republic of China )
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14: 31.02 | London , UK | 4th August 2012 |
Olympic record |
Title holder
Olympic champion |
Sun Yang ( People's Republic of China )
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14: 31.02 min | London 2012 |
World Champion |
Gregorio Paltrinieri ( Italy )
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14: 39.67 min | Kazan 2015 |
European champion | 14: 34.04 min | London 2016 | |
German champions | Florian Wellbrock | 14: 55.49 min | Berlin 2016 |
leader
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Oussama Mellouli |
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15: 07.78 min | |
2 | Mihajlo Ceprkalo |
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15: 31.62 min | |
3 | Matt Hutchins |
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15: 32.60 min | |
4th | Welson sim |
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15: 32.63 min | |
5 | Wesley Roberts |
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15: 44.32 min | |
6th | Felipe Tapia |
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16:02.44 min |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Ilya Druzhinin |
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14: 59.56 min | |
2 | Marcelo Alberto Acosta Jimenez |
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15:08.17 min | NO |
3 | Ricardo Vargas Jacobo |
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15: 11.53 min | NO |
4th | Brandonn Almeida |
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15: 14.73 min | |
5 | Miguel Valente |
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15: 22.57 min | |
6th | Kristóf Rasovszky |
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15: 29.36 min | |
7th | Martin Bau |
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15: 29.95 min | |
8th | Martin Naidich |
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15: 39.93 min |
Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Anton Ipsen |
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15: 05.91 min | |
2 | Esteban Enderica |
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15: 10.15 min | |
3 | Marc Sánchez |
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15: 11.38 min | |
4th | Antonio Arroyo |
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15: 12.61 min | |
5 | Mateusz Sawrymowicz |
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15: 26.33 min | |
6th | Nicolas D'Oriano |
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15: 33.62 min | |
7th | Matthew Mark Meyer |
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15: 36.22 min | |
- | Tae-hwan Park |
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- | Not started |
Forward 4
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Jan Micka |
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14: 58.69 min | |
2 | Yaroslav Potapov |
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15: 00.99 min | |
3 | Serhiy Frolov |
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15: 04.61 min | |
4th | Qiu Xiao |
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15: 06.71 min | |
5 | Wojciech Jacek Wojdak |
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15: 13.18 min | |
6th | Pál Joensen |
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15: 18.49 min | |
7th | Richard Nagy |
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15: 26.48 min | |
8th | Felix Auböck |
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15: 36.24 min |
Forward 5
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Jordan Wilimovsky |
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14: 48.23 min | |
2 | Mack Horton |
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14: 48.47 min | |
3 | Gabriele Detti |
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14: 48.68 min | |
4th | Damien Joly |
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14: 48.90 min | NO |
5 | Ryan Cochrane |
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14: 53.44 min | |
6th | Henrik Christiensen |
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14: 55.40 min | NO |
7th | Sun Yang |
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15: 01.97 min | |
8th | Timothy Shuttleworth |
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15: 13.01 min |
Forward 6
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Gregorio Paltrinieri |
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14: 44.51 min | |
2 | Connor Jaeger |
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14: 45.74 min | |
3 | Jack Mcloughlin |
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14: 56.02 min | |
4th | Stephen Milne |
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14: 57.23 min | |
5 | Ahmed Akram |
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14: 58.37 min | |
6th | Mychajlo Romantschuk |
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15:01.35 min | |
7th | Gergely Gyurta |
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15:06:24 min | |
8th | Florian Wellbrock |
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15: 23.88 min |
final
August 14, 2016, 3:11 am CET
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Gregorio Paltrinieri |
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14: 34.57 min | |
2 | Connor Jaeger |
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14: 39.48 min | NO |
3 | Gabriele Detti |
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14: 40.86 min | |
4th | Jordan Wilimovsky |
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14: 45.03 min | |
5 | Mack Horton |
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14: 49.54 min | |
6th | Ryan Cochrane |
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14: 49.61 min | |
7th | Damien Joly |
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14: 52.73 min | |
8th | Henrik Christiensen |
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15: 02.66 min |