title: Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle
text: # Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle
  
  The men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships was held on the morning of 31 March (heats) and the evening of 1 April (final) at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 50 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 47 swam.
  
  The existing records at the start of the event were:
  
  * World record (WR): 14:34.56, Grant Hackett (Australia), 29 July 2001, Fukuoka, Japan
  * Championship record (CR): same
  
  ## Results
  
  ### Final
  
  | Place | Lane | Swimmer | Nationality | Time |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 3 | Mateusz Sawrymowicz | Poland | 14:45.94 |
  | | 1 | Yury Prilukov | Russia | 14:47.29 |
  | | 4 | David Davies | Great Britain | 14:51.21 |
  | 4th | 5 | Larsen Jensen | USA | 14:52.98 |
  | 5th | 6 | Federico Colbertaldo | Italy | 14:56.22 |
  | 6th | 8 | Craig Stevens | Australia | 14:59.11 |
  | 7th | 2 | Grant Hackett | Australia | 14:59.59 |
  | 8th | 7 | Erik Vendt | USA | 15:07.76 |
  
  ### Heats
  
  "Q" marks those swimmers who qualified for finals.
  
  | Rank | Heat : Lane | Swimmer | Nationality | Time | Q |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | 7 : 5 | David Davies | Great Britain | 14:53.57 | Q |
  | 2 | 6 : 7 | Larsen Jensen | USA | 14:56.28 | Q |
  | 3 | 6 : 4 | Mateusz Sawrymowicz | Poland | 14:56.65 | Q |
  | 4 | 6 : 6 | Federico Colbertaldo | Italy | 14:58.26 | Q |
  | 5 | 5 : 5 | Grant Hackett | Australia | 14:59.24 | Q |
  | 6 | 5 : 6 | Erik Vendt | USA | 14:59.82 | Q |
  | 7 | 7 : 4 | Yury Prilukov | Russia | 15:01.67 | Q |
  | 8 | 7 : 3 | Craig Stevens | Australia | 15:02.16 | Q |
  | 9 | 5 : 4 | Park Tae-Hwan | Korea | 15:03.62 |
  | 10 | 7 : 2 | Nikita Lobintsev | Russia | 15:06.03 |
  | 11 | 5 : 2 | Takeshi Matsuda | Japan | 15:06.28 |
  | 12 | 7 : 7 | Luka Turk | Slovenia | 15:07.59 |
  | 13 | 7 : 1 | Sergiy Fesenko | Ukraine | 15:08.05 |
  | 14 | 6 : 8 | Marcos Rivera Miranda | Spain | 15:08.95 |
  | 15 | 6 : 1 | Ryan Cochrane | Canada | 15:09.88 |
  | 16 | 6 : 3 | Thomas Lurz | Germany | 15:11.26 |
  | 17 | 4 : 5 | Mads Glæsner | Denmark | 15:12.10 |
  | 18 | 7 : 6 | Zhang Lin | China | 15:13.27 |
  | 19 | 4 : 4 | Dávid Verrasztó | Hungary | 15:14.68 |
  | 20 | 5 : 8 | Spyridon Gianniotis | Greece | 15:15.85 |
  | 21 | 6 : 2 | Dragoş Coman | Romania | 15:18.73 |
  | 22 | 4 : 6 | Tom Vangeneugen | Belgium | 15:22.98 |
  | 23 | 5 : 3 | Nicolas Rostoucher | France | 15:23.98 |
  | 24 | 6 : 5 | Sébastien Rouault | France | 15:24.90 |
  | 25 | 7 : 8 | Zhang Enjian | China | 15:29.71 |
  | 26 | 4 : 2 | Ricardo Monasterio | Venezuela | 15:30.00 |
  | 27 | 5 : 7 | Maciej Hreniak | Poland | 15:31.35 |
  | 28 | 3 : 7 | Ryan Arabejo | Philippines | 15:39.86 |
  | 29 | 4 : 7 | Florian Janistyn | Austria | 15:43.64 |
  | 30 | 4 : 3 | Fernando Costa | Portugal | 15:46.73 |
  | 31 | 3 : 4 | Jarrod Ballem | Canada | 15:47.64 |
  | 32 | 4 : 1 | Caglar Gokbulut | Turkey | 15:48.67 |
  | 33 | 2 : 4 | Banjamin Guzman Blanco | Chile | 16:05.25 |
  | 33 | 3 : 3 | Tharnawat Thanakornworakiart | Thailand | 16:05.25 |
  | 35 | 3 : 1 | Emanuel Nicolini | San Marino | 16:20.46 |
  | 36 | 2 : 5 | Pál Joensen | Faroe Islands | 16:23.56 |
  | 37 | 3 : 8 | Kevin Soow Choy Yeap | Malaysia | 16:27.69 |
  | 38 | 3 : 6 | Mihajlo Ristovski | Macedonia | 16:41.60 |
  | 39 | 4 : 8 | Erwin Maldonado | Venezuela | 16:47.50 |
  | 40 | 2 : 6 | Sobitjon Amilov | Uzbekistan | 16:49.05 |
  | 41 | 2 : 7 | Neil Agius | Malta | 17:05.05 |
  | 42 | 2 : 3 | Davor Trnovljakovic | Bosnia & Herzegovina | 17:11.74 |
  | 43 | 1 : 4 | Omar Núñez | Nicaragua | 17:23.31 |
  | 44 | 1 : 5 | Heimanu Sichan | Tahiti | 17:32.53 |
  | 45 | 2 : 1 | Juan Lagos | Honduras | 17:33.31 |
  | 46 | 2 : 2 | Timur Kartabaev | Kyrgyzstan | 17:55.11 |
  | 47 | 1 : 3 | Cooper Graf | Northern Mariana Islands | 19:33.41 |
  | 999 | 3 : 2 | Ahmed Mathlouthi | Tunisia | DNS |
  | 999 | 3 : 5 | Mohammed Naeem Masri | Syria | DNS |
  | 999 | 5 : 1 | Christian Hein | Germany | DNS |
  
  DNS= Did not swim
  
  