Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	OR	WR
August 15	Heat 3	Ryan Cochrane Ryan Cochrane (swimmer) Ryan Andrew Cochrane is a Canadian long-distance swimmer. Cochrane is an Olympic bronze medalist as well as the reigning double gold medalist in both the Commonwealth Games and the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. He holds multiple world championship medals...		14:40.84	OR
August 15	Heat 5	Grant Hackett Grant Hackett Grant Hackett OAM is an Australian former swimmer most famous for winning the men's 1500 metres freestyle race at both the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. This achievement has led him to be regarded as one of the greatest distance swimmers in history...		14:38.92	OR

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	5	Florian Janistyn	15:12.46	NR
2	3	Petar Stoychev Petar Stoychev Petar Stoychev is a Bulgarian swimmer who is the most successful long distance marathon swimmer of the last decade. He is one of the greatest marathon swimmers of all time and an honor swimmer in the...	15:28.84
3	6	Ryan Paolo Arabejo Ryan Paolo Arabejo Ryan Paolo Arabejo is a swimmer from the Philippines. He represented his native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Currently Ryan is studying in Drury University in Springfield, Missiouri. He is also the most well liked member of the swim team. His bedside manner is impeccable, and unmatched by...	15:42.77
4	4	Juan Martin Pereyra	15:49.57
5	2	Ediz Yildirimer	16:28.79

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Time
1	3	Nicolas Rostoucher Nicolas Rostoucher Nicolas Rostoucher is a freestyle and medley swimmer from France, who is on the French National Swimming Team since 2000. He has competed for his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000...	15:00.58
2	5	Mads Glæsner Mads Glæsner Mads Glæsner is a Danish swimmer. He participated for the first time at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the disciplines 400 metre freestyle and the 1500 metre freestyle. His swimming club is Vallensbæk-VAT but he trains at the National Training Center in Copenhagen.-References:...	15:03.33
3	2	Tom Vangeneugden Tom Vangeneugden Tom Vangeneugden is a Belgian swimmer who currently resides in Overijse. He holds the 800m, 1500m and 4x200 freestyle long course national records.-External links:*...	15:11.04
4	4	Maciej Hreniak	15:16.16
5	1	Dragoş Coman Dragos Coman Dragoş Coman is an international freestyle swimmer from Romania, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 in Sydney, Australia....	15:24.05
6	7	Fernando Costa	15:26.21
7	8	Ricardo Monasterio Ricardo Monasterio Ricardo Andrés Monasterio Guimaraes is a Venezuelan international swimmer who represented his native country in the 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics.Monasterio was born in Caracas, Venezuela...	15:45.98
-	6	Christian Kubusch	DNS

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	5	Ryan Cochrane Ryan Cochrane (swimmer) Ryan Andrew Cochrane is a Canadian long-distance swimmer. Cochrane is an Olympic bronze medalist as well as the reigning double gold medalist in both the Commonwealth Games and the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. He holds multiple world championship medals...	14:40.84	Q, OR, AM
2	4	Yuriy Prilukov	14:41.13	Q, ER
3	3	David Davies David Davies (swimmer) David Davies is a Welsh Commonwealth Games and Olympic distance swimmer. Born in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Davies swam for Wales at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games and represented Great Britain at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics...	14:46.11	Q
4	6	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...	15:05.55
5	7	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...	15:09.17
6	1	Sergiy Fesenko	15:13.03
7	8	Richard Charlesworth Richard Charlesworth (swimmer) Richard James Charlesworth is an English freestyle swimmer. He first started swimming with Hemel Hempstead Swimming Club and currently represents Hatfield Swimming Club...	15:17.27
8	2	Sébastien Rouault Sébastien Rouault Sébastien Rouault is a male freestyle swimmer from France, who competed for his native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR China.- References :*...	15:21.14

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	6	Oussama Mellouli Oussama Mellouli Oussama "Ous" Mellouli is a Tunisian swimmer who competes in the freestyle and medley events. He currently is an African Record holder, and trains with the USA club based at the University of Southern California, where he went to school and swam, collegiately....	14:47.76	Q
2	2	Sun Yang Sun Yang Sun Yang is an Olympic and world-record-holding distance swimmer from China. He swam for China at the 2008 Olympics. At the 2010 Asian Games, he won the men's 1500m freestyle in an Asian Record; this swim and his two other medals at the Games were cited in his being named the Rookie of the Year...	14:48.39	Q
3	4	Mateusz Sawrymowicz Mateusz Sawrymowicz Mateusz Sawrymowicz is a Polish swimmer who specializes in the 1500 m freestyle. Having won in Melbourne in 2007 he became the first person to beat Grant Hackett at the 1500 m in the World Championships for 10 years...	14:50.30
4	5	Federico Colbertaldo Federico Colbertaldo Federico Colbertaldo is an Italian freestyle swimmer.In 2006, Colbertaldo was Junior European Champion in 400 m freestyle and won the silver medal in 200 m and 1500 m of the same stroke....	14:51.44
5	3	Craig Stevens Craig Stevens (swimmer) Craig Stevens is an Australian freestyle swimmer specialising in the 400 m. 800 m and 1500 m freestyle events....	15:04.82
6	7	Samuel Pizzetti	15:07.02
7	8	Marco Rivera	15:18.98
-	1	Luka Turk	DNS

Heat 5

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	5	Grant Hackett Grant Hackett Grant Hackett OAM is an Australian former swimmer most famous for winning the men's 1500 metres freestyle race at both the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. This achievement has led him to be regarded as one of the greatest distance swimmers in history...	14:38.92	Q, OR
2	6	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...	14:45.84	Q, AS
3	3	Larsen Jensen Larsen Jensen Larsen Alan Jensen is a former American freestyle swimmer. He is a two-time Olympic medalist.-Career:...	14:49.53	Q
4	4	Peter Vanderkaay Peter Vanderkaay Peter Vanderkaay is an American middle-distance freestyle swimmer. He is a three-time Olympic medalist.-Personal life:...	14:52.11
5	1	Spyridon Gianniotis Spyridon Gianniotis Spyridon "Spyros" Gianniotis is a freestyle swimmer from Greece, who was born in England. He won three individual medals at the 2005 Mediterranean Games, and represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000. In 2011 he became world champion in the 10 km open...	14:53.32
6	8	Gergő Kis Gergo Kis Gergő Kis is a Hungarian freestyle swimmer.Kis participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's 1500 m freestyle, ranking 23rd in the heats...	15:09.67
7	7	Troy Prinsloo	15:12.64
8	2	Nikita Lobintsev Nikita Lobintsev Nikita Konstantinovich Lobintsev is a freestyle swimmer from Russia, who won the silver medal in the 4x200m freestyle relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-External links:*...	15:35.47

Legend: OR=Olympic Record; AM=Americas Record; ER=European Record; AS=Asian Record

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
	7	Oussama Mellouli Oussama Mellouli Oussama "Ous" Mellouli is a Tunisian swimmer who competes in the freestyle and medley events. He currently is an African Record holder, and trains with the USA club based at the University of Southern California, where he went to school and swam, collegiately....	14:40.84	AF
	4	Grant Hackett Grant Hackett Grant Hackett OAM is an Australian former swimmer most famous for winning the men's 1500 metres freestyle race at both the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. This achievement has led him to be regarded as one of the greatest distance swimmers in history...	14:41.53
	5	Ryan Cochrane Ryan Cochrane (swimmer) Ryan Andrew Cochrane is a Canadian long-distance swimmer. Cochrane is an Olympic bronze medalist as well as the reigning double gold medalist in both the Commonwealth Games and the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. He holds multiple world championship medals...	14:42.69
4	3	Yuriy Prilukov	14:43.21
5	8	Larsen Jensen Larsen Jensen Larsen Alan Jensen is a former American freestyle swimmer. He is a two-time Olympic medalist.-Career:...	14:48.16
6	2	David Davies David Davies (swimmer) David Davies is a Welsh Commonwealth Games and Olympic distance swimmer. Born in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Davies swam for Wales at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games and represented Great Britain at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics...	14:52.11
7	6	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...	14:55.20
8	1	Sun Yang Sun Yang Sun Yang is an Olympic and world-record-holding distance swimmer from China. He swam for China at the 2008 Olympics. At the 2010 Asian Games, he won the men's 1500m freestyle in an Asian Record; this swim and his two other medals at the Games were cited in his being named the Rookie of the Year...	15:05.12

Legend: AF=African Record

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