Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle
Introduction The heats for the '''men's 1500 m freestyle''' race at the 2009 World Championships took place on the morning of 1 August, with the final in the evening session of 2 August at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship record were as follows:'''World record'''    '''14:34.56'''  Fukuoka, Japan  29 July 2001'''Championship record'''    '''14:34.56'''  Fukuoka, Japan  29 July 2001
Results ===Heats=== Rank  Name  Nationality  Time  Heat  Lane  Notes 1   Sun Yang    14:54.54  5  3  2   Oussama Mellouli    14:54.56  5  4  3  Ryan Cochrane    14:56.56  4  4  4  Marco Rivera    14:57.47  4  7   '''NR''' 5  Zhang Lin    14:58.46  4  5   6  Federico Colbertaldo    14:58.98  3  5   7  David Davies    15:00.52  5  5    8  Samuel Pizzetti    15:00.70  4  6   9  Park Tae-Hwan    15:00.87  4  3  10  Mads Glæsner    15:01.80  5  6  11  Ryan Napoleon    15:09.55  3  6   12  Jackson Wilcox    15:09.66  5  1  13  Tom Vangeneugden    15:12.95  3  7  14  Robert Hurley    15:14.75  3  2  15  Brennan Morris    15:16.37  3  1  16  Nicolas Rostoucher    15:16.49  3  3  17  Pál Joensen    15:21.37  5  2  18  Ryoji Sononaka    15:24.13  4  2  19  Igor Snitko    15:26.97  4  8  20  Esteban Paz    15:31.45  4  0  '''NR''' 21  David Brandl    15:31.46  5  8   22  Richard Charlesworth    15:36.64  5  7  23  Ricardo Monasterio    15:37.48  3  9  24  Alejandro Gómez    15:38.93  2  4  25  Oleksandr Lutchenko    15:39.57  3  8  26  Pi Seungyeop    15:47.94  5  9  27  Luis Escobar    15:52.60  5  0  28  Daniel Delgadillo    15:56.42  3  0  29  Florian Janistyn    15:57.96  4  1  30  Mateo de Angulo    16:03.31  2  6   31  Esteban Enderica    16:07.59  2  7   32  Mandar Divase    16:12.28  1  0  33  Pan Kai-Wen    16:18.38  4  9  34  Chien Jui-Ting    16:22.09  2  3  35  Hajder Ensar    16:32.01  1  1  36  Ivan Alejandro Enderica    16:32.83  2  0  37  Roberto Peñailillo Garcia    16:38.70  2  1  38  Luis Andres Martorell Name    16:50.12  1  6  39  Vitalii Khudiakov    16:50.18  1  4  40  Aleksandr Slepchenko    16:52.35  2  9  41  Allan Gutierrez Castro    16:52.71  1  5   42  Heimanu Sichan    17:08.44  1  2 '''NR''' 43  Paul Elaisa    17:58.23  1  7  –  Omar Núñez    DNS  1  3  –  Naser Aldaya    DNS  1  8  –  Ignacio Quevedo Bubba    DNS  1  9   –  Mohamed Farhoud    DNS  2  2  –  Jan Karel Petric    DNS  2  5  –  Yury Prilukov    DNS  3  4 ===Final=== Rank  Name  Nationality  Lane  Time   Notes  Oussama Mellouli   5  14:37.28  '''AF'''  Ryan Cochrane   3  14:41.38   Sun Yang   4  14:46.84   4 Federico Colbertaldo   7  14:48.28  '''NR''' 5 Zhang Lin   2  14:54.23   6 David Davies   1  14:57.03  7 Marco Rivera   6  15:01.92  8 Samuel Pizzetti   8  15:19.38
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