Men's 1500 metre freestyle
at the 2001 FINA World Championships
Dates29 July 2001
Competitors26 from 20 nations
Winning time14:34.56 WR
Medalists
gold medal Grant Hackett   Australia
silver medal Graeme Smith   Great Britain
bronze medal Alexei Filipets   Russia

The men's 1500 metre freestyle event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place 29 July. The heats took place 28 July,[1] while the final was held on 29 July.[2]

In the final, Australian swimmer Grant Hackett broke the world record with a time of 14:34.56, bettering the previous record held by his compatriot Kieren Perkins by seven seconds.[3] This record would stand for a decade until Chinese swimmer Sun Yang broke it at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships and at the time, it was the oldest world record in swimming.[4]

Records

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

NameNationTimeLocationDate
World recordKieren Perkins Australia14:41.46Victoria24 August 1994
Championship recordJörg Hoffmann Germany14:50.36Perth13 January 1991

The following record was established during the competition:

DateRoundNameNationTimeRecord
22 July 2001FinalGrant Hackett Australia14:34.56WR

Results

Heats

RankSwimmerNationTimeNotes
1Grant Hackett Australia15:07.19Q
2Graeme Smith United Kingdom15:09.57Q
3Craig Stevens Australia15:14.62Q
4Ihor Chervynskyi Ukraine15:14.74Q
5Chris Thompson United States15:14.77Q
6Alexei Filipets Russia15:17.24Q
7Massimiliano Rosolino Italy15:17.74Q
8Nicolas Rostoucher France15:18.70Q
9Spyridon Gianniotis Greece15:20.62
10Ricardo Monasterio Venezuela15:20.73
11Alexei Boutsenine Russia15:21.21
12Masato Hirano Japan15:28.82
13Dragoș Coman Romania15:29.70
14Shunichi Fujita Japan15:31.92
15Shilo Ayalon Israel15:38.59
16Andrea Righi Italy15:40.56
17Andrew Hurd Canada15:40.61
18Robert Margalis United States15:49.94
19Jorge Carral Mexico16:00.51
20Giancarlo Zolezzi Chile16:01.58
21Dieung Manggang Malaysia16:05.74
22Leonardo Salinas Mexico16:13.93
23Yu Nam-Jeong South Korea16:23.76
24Mohammad Naeem Masri Syria16:56.37
25Hsu Kuo-Tung Chinese Taipei17:06.43
26Rony Bakale Republic of the Congo18:03.67
–Heiko Hell GermanyDNS

Final

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st place, gold medalist(s)Grant Hackett Australia14:34.56WR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Graeme Smith United Kingdom14:58.94
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Alexey Filipets Russia15:01.43
4Ihor Chevrynskyi Ukraine15:06.13
5Chris Thompson United States15:07.67
6Massimiliano Rosolino Italy15:10.54
7Craig Stevens Australia15:15.02
8Nicolas Rostoucher France15:18.89

Key: WR = World record

References

  1. ↑ "Heats Results". FINA. Archived from the original on 24 October 2004. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  2. ↑ "Final Results". FINA. Archived from the original on 19 October 2004. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  3. ↑ "Hackett shatters world record". BBC Sport. 29 July 2001. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
  4. ↑ "Sun Yang Downs Grant Hackett's 1500 Free World Record". Swimming World Magazine. 31 July 2011. Archived from the original on 30 October 2013. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
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