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

Men's 1500 metre freestyle
at the 2001 FINA World Championships
Men's 1500 metre freestyle ; at the 2001 FINA World Championships
Dates	29 July 2001
Competitors	26 from 20 nations
Winning time	14:34.56 WR
Medalists
	← 1998 2003 →

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:

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

Heats

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

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Grant Hackett	Australia	14:34.56	WR
	Graeme Smith	United Kingdom	14:58.94
	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

^ "Heats Results". FINA. Archived from the original on 24 October 2004. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
^ "Final Results". FINA. Archived from the original on 19 October 2004. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
^ "Hackett shatters world record". BBC Sport. 29 July 2001. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
^ "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.