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Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

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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    Australia
silver medal    Great Britain
bronze medal    Russia
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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

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

World record  Kieren Perkins (AUS) 14:41.66 Victoria, Canada 24 August 1994
Championship record  Jörg Hoffmann (GER) 14:50.36 Perth, Australia 13 January 1991

The following record was established during the competition:

Date Round Name Nation Time Record
22 July Final Grant Hackett  Australia 14:34.56 WR

Results

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Heats

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Rank Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 Grant Hackett  Australia 15:07.19 Q
2 Graeme Smith  United Kingdom 15:09.57 Q
3 Craig Stevens  Australia 15:14.62 Q
4 Ihor Chervynskyi  Ukraine 15:14.74 Q
5 Chris Thompson  United States 15:14.77 Q
6 Alexei Filipets  Russia 15:17.24 Q
7 Massimiliano Rosolino  Italy 15:17.74 Q
8 Nicolas Rostoucher  France 15:18.70 Q
9 Spyridon Gianniotis  Greece 15:20.62
10 Ricardo Monasterio  Venezuela 15:20.73
11 Alexei Boutsenine  Russia 15:21.21
12 Masato Hirano  Japan 15:28.82
13 Dragoș Coman  Romania 15:29.70
14 Shunichi Fujita  Japan 15:31.92
15 Shilo Ayalon  Israel 15:38.59
16 Andrea Righi  Italy 15:40.56
17 Andrew Hurd  Canada 15:40.61
18 Robert Margalis  United States 15:49.94
19 Jorge Carral  Mexico 16:00.51
20 Giancarlo Zolezzi  Chile 16:01.58
21 Dieung Manggang  Malaysia 16:05.74
22 Leonardo Salinas  Mexico 16:13.93
23 Yu Nam-Jeong  South Korea 16:23.76
24 Mohammad Naeem Masri  Syria 16:56.37
25 Hsu Kuo-Tung  Chinese Taipei 17:06.43
26 Rony Bakale  Republic of the Congo 18:03.67
Heiko Hell  Germany DNS

Final

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Grant Hackett  Australia 14:34.56 WR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Graeme Smith  United Kingdom 14:58.94
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Alexey Filipets  Russia 15:01.43
4 Ihor Chevrynskyi  Ukraine 15:06.13
5 Chris Thompson  United States 15:07.67
6 Massimiliano Rosolino  Italy 15:10.54
7 Craig Stevens  Australia 15:15.02
8 Nicolas Rostoucher  France 15:18.89

Key: WR = World record

References

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  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.