Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle
Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 2001 FINA World Championships | ||||||||||
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Dates | 29 July 2001 | |||||||||
Competitors | 26 from 20 nations | |||||||||
Winning time | 14:34.56 WR | |||||||||
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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 |
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22 July | Final | Grant Hackett | Australia | 14:34.56 | WR |
Results
Heats
Rank | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
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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 |
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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.