Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

Men's 1500m Freestyle at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	26 July (prelims) 27 July (final)
Winning time	14 minute 43.14 seconds
Medalists
Grant Hackett    Australia   Igor Chervynskyi    Ukraine   Erik Vendt    United States

2003 FINA World Championships Barcelona, Spain
Diving
Individual
1 m	men	women
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Synchronised
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Open water swimming
5 km	men	women
10 km	men	women
25 km	men	women
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
Synchronised swimming
Solo		women
Duet		women
Team		women
Combination		women
Water polo
Team	men	women

The Men's 1500 metre Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on July 26–27, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary heats swam in the morning session on July 26,^[1] with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim again in the Final during the evening session on July 27.^[2]

Prior to the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were both:

• WR & CR: 14:34.56 swum by Grant Hackett (Australia) on July 29, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Grant Hackett	Australia	14:43.14
2	Igor Chervynskyi	Ukraine	15:01.04
3	Erik Vendt	USA	15:01.28
4	David Davies	Great Britain	15:05.04
5	Larsen Jensen	USA	15:08.25
6	Graeme Smith	Great Britain	15:12.64
7	Christian Minotti	Italy	15:13.28
8	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	15:13.98

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H5 L4	Grant Hackett	Australia	15:08.79	q
2	H4 L3	Graeme Smith	Great Britain	15:12.74	q
3	H3 L4	Erik Vendt	United States	15:13.41	q
4	H3 L3	David Davies	Great Britain	15:13.93	q
5	H5 L3	Ihor Chervynskyi	Ukraine	15:14.01	q
6	H3 L5	Christian Minotti	Italy	15:14.84	q
7	H4 L4	Larsen Jensen	United States	15:15.63	q
8	H2 L4	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	15:16.07	q
9	H3 L2	Kurtis MacGillivary	Canada	15:17.02
10	H4 L5	Yuri Prilukov	Russia	15:17.26
11	H3 L6	Thomas Lurz	Germany	15:17.85
12	H5 L1	Alexey Filipets	Russia	15:20.77
13	H3 L8	Bojan Zdešar	Slovenia	15:22.31
14	H5 L5	Craig Stevens	Australia	15:22.44
15	H5 L2	Andrew Hurd	Canada	15:22.92
16	H5 L8	Hannes Kalteis	Austria	15:24.77
17	H3 L7	Spyridon Gianniotis	Greece	15:25.16
18	H4 L2	Shilo Ayalon	Israel	15:26.86
19	H5 L6	Dragoș Coman	Romania	15:33.04
20	H5 L7	Dzmitry Koptur	Belarus	15:34.24
21	H4 L1	Shunichi Fujita	Japan	15:36.56
22	H4 L8	Lin Zhang	China	15:37.03
23	H2 L3	Luiz Lima	Brazil	15:43.07
24	H2 L5	Bruno Bonfim	Brazil	15:48.41
25	H4 L7	Georgios Diamantidis	Greece	15:49.56
26	H1 L3	Gian Carlo Zolezzi	Chile	15:55.89
27	H4 L6	Cheng Yu	China	16:02.74
28	H2 L2	Yi-Khy Saw	Malaysia	16:03.81
29	H2 L6	Erwin Maldonado	Venezuela	16:04.08
30	H1 L4	Mohammad Naeem Masri	Syria	16:18.28
31	H2 L1	Raouf Benabid	Algeria	16:21.67
32	H2 L7	Kwok Leung Chung	Hong Kong	16:24.39
33	H2 L8	Roberto Peñailillo	Chile	16:36.02
34	H1 L5	Jonathan Mauri	Costa Rica	16:53.32
35	H1 L2	Rony Bakale	Congo	17:11.08
36	H1 L6	Ivan Grougnet	Andorra	17:35.25
37	H1 L1	Steven Mangroo	Seychelles	17:35.84
-	-	Nicolas Rostoucher	France	DNS
-	-	Jean-Luc Razakarivony	Madagascar	DNS

References

1. Worlds 2003 results: Men's 1500 Free - prelims from Omega Timing (official timer). Published 2003-07-26; retrieved 2013-06-06.
2. Worlds 2003 results: Men's 1500 Free - final from Omega Timing (official timer). Published 2003-07-27; retrieved 2013-06-06.