Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle
Introduction The '''men's 1500 metre freestyle''' at the '''2005 World Aquatics Championships''' occurred on the morning of 30 July (heats) and in the evening of 31 July (final) in the Olympic pool at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Canada. 34 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 33 swam.The existing records at the start of the event were:*World record (WR): 14:34.56, Grant Hackett (Australia), July 21, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan. *Championship record (CR): ''same''
Results ===Final=== Place  Name  Nationality  Time  Note 1  Grant Hackett    14:42.58  2  Larsen Jensen    14:47.58  3  David Davies    14:48.11  4  Yuri Prilukov    14:51.62  5  Mateusz Sawrymowicz    14:59.38  6  Zhang Lin    15:09.79  7  Sébastien Rouault    15:09.84  8  Christian Hein    15:14.91 ===Heats===The top-8 swimmers from the 5 preliminary heats qualified for the event final, the next evening. These eight "qualifiers" are denoted by a '''Q'''. Rank  Name  Nationality  Time  Note 1  David Davies    14:59.33  '''Q''' 2  Grant Hackett    15:00.18  '''Q''' 3  Yuri Prilukov    15:01.03  '''Q''' 4  Mateusz Sawrymowicz    15:03.56  '''Q''' 5  Larsen Jensen    15:07.58  '''Q''' 6  Sébastien Rouault    15:08.00  '''Q''' 7  Christian Hein    15:12.12  '''Q''' 8  Zhang Lin    15:12.62  '''Q''' 9  Takeshi Matsuda    15:13.39   10  Sergiy Fesenko    15:14.67   11  Troyden Prinsloo    15:16.60   12  Marco Rivera    15:19.42   13  Dragoș Coman    15:22.21   14  Fernando Costa    15:27.70   15  Igor Chervynskiy    15:28.49   16  Kurtis MacGillivary    15:28.80   17  Luka Turk    15:30.46   18  Spyridon Gianniotis    15:30.97   19  Massimiliano Rosolino    15:39.18   20  Chris Thompson    15:41.66   21  Paul Biedermann    15:41.88   22  HAN Kuk-In    15:47.68   23  Evan Marcus    15:56.20   24  Gard Kvale    15:57.38   25  YU Cheng    16:00.97   26  Nawaf Al-Wazzan    16:04.18  '''NR''' 27  Miguel Mendoza    16:06.53   28  Sheng-Chieh Tang    16:18.10   29  Irakli Revishvili    16:50.60   30  Zhi Cong Lim    16:54.29   31  Steven Mangroo    16:59.00  '''NR''' 32  Marcus Cheah    16:59.08   33  Neil Agius    16:59.71   --  Aung Kyaw Moe    DNS
See also *Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle*Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle*Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle
References * FINA Worlds 2005: Men's 1500 Freestyle '''heats''' results from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds). Published 2005-07-30, retrieved 2009-08-21. * FINA Worlds 2005: Men's 1500 Freestyle '''final''' results from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds). Published 2005-07-30, retrieved 2009-08-21.