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
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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		15:08.79	q
2	H4 L3	Graeme Smith		15:12.74	q
3	H3 L4	Erik Vendt		15:13.41	q
4	H3 L3	David Davies		15:13.93	q
5	H5 L3	Ihor Chervynskyi		15:14.01	q
6	H3 L5	Christian Minotti		15:14.84	q
7	H4 L4	Larsen Jensen		15:15.63	q
8	H2 L4	Paweł Korzeniowski		15:16.07	q
9	H3 L2			15:17.02
10	H4 L5	Yuri Prilukov		15:17.26
11	H3 L6	Thomas Lurz		15:17.85
12	H5 L1	Alexey Filipets		15:20.77
13	H3 L8	Bojan Zdešar		15:22.31
14	H5 L5	Craig Stevens		15:22.44
15	H5 L2	Andrew Hurd		15:22.92
16	H5 L8	Hannes Kalteis		15:24.77
17	H3 L7	Spyridon Gianniotis		15:25.16
18	H4 L2			15:26.86
19	H5 L6	Dragoș Coman		15:33.04
20	H5 L7	Dzmitry Koptur		15:34.24
21	H4 L1			15:36.56
22	H4 L8	Lin Zhang		15:37.03
23	H2 L3	Luiz Lima		15:43.07
24	H2 L5	Bruno Bonfim		15:48.41
25	H4 L7	Georgios Diamantidis		15:49.56
26	H1 L3	Gian Carlo Zolezzi		15:55.89
27	H4 L6			16:02.74
28	H2 L2	Yi-Khy Saw		16:03.81
29	H2 L6	Erwin Maldonado		16:04.08
30	H1 L4			16:18.28
31	H2 L1	Raouf Benabid		16:21.67
32	H2 L7			16:24.39
33	H2 L8			16:36.02
34	H1 L5	Jonathan Mauri		16:53.32
35	H1 L2	Rony Bakale		17:11.08
36	H1 L6			17:35.25
37	H1 L1			17:35.84
-	-	Nicolas Rostoucher		DNS
-	-	Jean-Luc Razakarivony		DNS

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