Swimming at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's 1500m freestyle
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The Men's 1500m Freestyle swimming
event at the 2006 Asian Games
was held on December 7, 2006 at the Hamad Aquatic Centre in Doha, Qatar. This was a timed-final event, meaning that each swimmer only swam once, with the fastest eight (8) entrants swimming in the finals, and the remainder swimming in prelims.
DNS= Did not swim/show
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event at the 2006 Asian Games
2006 Asian Games
The 15th Asian Games, officially known as the XV Asiad, is Asia's Olympic-style sporting event that was held in Doha, Qatar from December 1 to December 15, 2006. Doha was the first city in its region and only the second in West Asia to host the games...
was held on December 7, 2006 at the Hamad Aquatic Centre in Doha, Qatar. This was a timed-final event, meaning that each swimmer only swam once, with the fastest eight (8) entrants swimming in the finals, and the remainder swimming in prelims.
Results
| Place | Swimmer | Country | Time | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Park Tae-Hwan Park Tae-hwan Park Tae-hwan is a South Korean swimmer. He is a member of the South Korean national swimming team, based in Taereung, Seoul. He won a gold medal in the 400 meter freestyle and a silver in the 200 meter freestyle events at the 2008 Summer Olympics... |
14:55.03 | AS | |
| 2 | Zhang Lin Zhang Lin (swimmer) Zhang Lin is a Chinese swimmer specializing in the 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m freestyle events. He is China's most successful male swimmer.Zhang, who began swimming at six, is China's fastest freestyle swimmer. He was selected for the national team in 2002... |
15:03.13 | ||
| 3 | Takeshi Matsuda Takeshi Matsuda is a Japanese Olympic and Asian and National Record holding swimmer. He swam for Japan at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. At the latter event, he won a bronze medal in the men's 200m long course butterfly in an Asian Record of 1:52.97; in doing so, he also set the Japanese Record in the event... |
15:17.18 | ||
| 4 | Kang Yong-Hwan | 15:23.53 | ||
| 5 | Kenichi Doki | 15:29.07 | ||
| 6 | Zhang Enjian Zhang Enjian Zhang Enjian is a Chinese swimmer, who will compete for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Major achievements:*2006 Asian Games – 2nd 4x200m free relay;*2007 Japan Open – 2nd 200m free;... |
15:35.35 | ||
| 7 | Tharnawat Thanakornworakiart | 16:03.88 | ||
| 8 | Marcus Cheah Mingzhe | 16:04.33 | ||
| 9 | Mhd Naeem Nasri | 16:08.68 | ||
| 10 | Ryan Paolo Arabejo | 16:09.10 | ||
| 11 | Nawaf Al-Wazan | 16:18.65 | ||
| 12 | Tang Sheng-Chieh | 16:31.72 | ||
| 13 | Timur Kartabaev | 18:02.12 | ||
| 14 | Mohammad Bidaryan | DNS | ||
| 15 | Anass Abu Yousuf | DNS |
DNS= Did not swim/show