2016 Summer Olympics / Swimming - 1500m Freestyle (Men)

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 )	14: 31.02	London , UK	4th August 2012
Olympic record

Title holder

Olympic champion	Sun Yang ( People's Republic of China )	14: 31.02 min	London 2012
World Champion	Gregorio Paltrinieri ( Italy )	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
1	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	15: 07.78 min
2	Mihajlo Ceprkalo	Bosnia and Herzegovina	15: 31.62 min
3	Matt Hutchins	New Zealand	15: 32.60 min
4th	Welson sim	Malaysia	15: 32.63 min
5	Wesley Roberts	Cook Islands	15: 44.32 min
6th	Felipe Tapia	Chile	16:02.44 min

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ilya Druzhinin	Russia	14: 59.56 min
2	Marcelo Alberto Acosta Jimenez	El Salvador	15:08.17 min	NO
3	Ricardo Vargas Jacobo	Mexico	15: 11.53 min	NO
4th	Brandonn Almeida	Brazil	15: 14.73 min
5	Miguel Valente	Brazil	15: 22.57 min
6th	Kristóf Rasovszky	Hungary	15: 29.36 min
7th	Martin Bau	Slovenia	15: 29.95 min
8th	Martin Naidich	Argentina	15: 39.93 min

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Anton Ipsen	Denmark	15: 05.91 min
2	Esteban Enderica	Ecuador	15: 10.15 min
3	Marc Sánchez	Spain	15: 11.38 min
4th	Antonio Arroyo	Spain	15: 12.61 min
5	Mateusz Sawrymowicz	Poland	15: 26.33 min
6th	Nicolas D'Oriano	France	15: 33.62 min
7th	Matthew Mark Meyer	South Africa	15: 36.22 min
-	Tae-hwan Park	South Korea	-	Not started

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Jan Micka	Czech Republic	14: 58.69 min
2	Yaroslav Potapov	Russia	15: 00.99 min
3	Serhiy Frolov	Ukraine	15: 04.61 min
4th	Qiu Xiao	People's Republic of China	15: 06.71 min
5	Wojciech Jacek Wojdak	Poland	15: 13.18 min
6th	Pál Joensen	Denmark	15: 18.49 min
7th	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	15: 26.48 min
8th	Felix Auböck	Austria	15: 36.24 min

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Jordan Wilimovsky	United States	14: 48.23 min
2	Mack Horton	Australia	14: 48.47 min
3	Gabriele Detti	Italy	14: 48.68 min
4th	Damien Joly	France	14: 48.90 min	NO
5	Ryan Cochrane	Canada	14: 53.44 min
6th	Henrik Christiensen	Norway	14: 55.40 min	NO
7th	Sun Yang	People's Republic of China	15: 01.97 min
8th	Timothy Shuttleworth	United Kingdom	15: 13.01 min

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	14: 44.51 min
2	Connor Jaeger	United States	14: 45.74 min
3	Jack Mcloughlin	Australia	14: 56.02 min
4th	Stephen Milne	United Kingdom	14: 57.23 min
5	Ahmed Akram	Egypt	14: 58.37 min
6th	Mychajlo Romantschuk	Ukraine	15:01.35 min
7th	Gergely Gyurta	Hungary	15:06:24 min
8th	Florian Wellbrock	Germany	15: 23.88 min

final

August 14, 2016, 3:11 am CET

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	14: 34.57 min
2	Connor Jaeger	United States	14: 39.48 min	NO
3	Gabriele Detti	Italy	14: 40.86 min
4th	Jordan Wilimovsky	United States	14: 45.03 min
5	Mack Horton	Australia	14: 49.54 min
6th	Ryan Cochrane	Canada	14: 49.61 min
7th	Damien Joly	France	14: 52.73 min
8th	Henrik Christiensen	Norway	15: 02.66 min

Web links

• Result of the preliminary runs
• Result of the final