Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

The men's 1500 metre freestyle event at the 2004 Olympic Games was contested at the Olympic Aquatic Centre of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex in Athens, Greece on August 20 and 21.<ref name="Swimming schedule">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Australian swimmer and world record holder Grant Hackett became the third swimmer in history to defend the title in this event, breaking an Olympic record time of 14:43.40. U.S. swimmer Larsen Jensen set an American record time of 14:45.29 to take the silver. Great Britain's David Davies, on the other hand, fought off a challenge from Russia's Yuri Prilukov in the final lap to earn a bronze medal by a 7-second margin, with a European record of 14:45.95.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
21 August	Final	Grant Hackett	Template:FlagIOC	14:43.40	Template:OlyR

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	David Davies	Template:FlagIOC	14:57.03	Q
2	5	5	Yuri Prilukov	Template:FlagIOC	15:01.02	Q
3	5	4	Grant Hackett	Template:FlagIOC	15:01.89	Q
4	4	4	Larsen Jensen	Template:FlagIOC	15:03.75	Q
5	5	2	Spyridon Gianniotis	Template:FlagIOC	15:03.87	Q
6	3	7	Dragoș Coman	Template:FlagIOC	15:06.33	Q, NR
7	3	2	Graeme Smith	Template:FlagIOC	15:07.45	Q
8	5	3	Craig Stevens	Template:FlagIOC	15:09.54	Q
9	5	7	Paweł Korzeniowski	Template:FlagIOC	15:11.62
10	4	5	Igor Chervynskiy	Template:FlagIOC	15:12.58
11	4	3	Nicolas Rostoucher	Template:FlagIOC	15:13.56
12	5	6	Christian Hein	Template:FlagIOC	15:15.42
13	3	6	Takeshi Matsuda	Template:FlagIOC	15:16.42
14	2	4	Oussama Mellouli	Template:FlagIOC	15:18.98
15	5	1	Ricardo Monasterio	Template:FlagIOC	15:20.89
16	3	5	Erik Vendt	Template:FlagIOC	15:22.00
17	2	5	Petar Stoychev	Template:FlagIOC	15:28.32
18	3	8	Andrew Hurd	Template:FlagIOC	15:28.71
19	3	3	Alexei Filipets	Template:FlagIOC	15:30.05
20	4	8	Bojan Zdešar	Template:FlagIOC	15:31.57
21	5	8	Fernando Costa	Template:FlagIOC	15:32.55
22	4	2	Thomas Lurz	Template:FlagIOC	15:33.81
23	4	1	Gergő Kis	Template:FlagIOC	15:38.06
24	4	7	Christian Minotti	Template:FlagIOC	15:39.31
25	3	1	Cho Sung-mo	Template:FlagIOC	15:43.43
26	2	6	Juan Martín Pereyra	Template:FlagIOC	15:53.29
27	1	5	Charnvudth Saengsri	Template:FlagIOC	15:54.46
28	2	2	Moss Burmester	Template:FlagIOC	15:56.42
29	2	3	Nenad Buljan	Template:FlagIOC	15:56.54
30	1	4	Giancarlo Zolezzi	Template:FlagIOC	16:00.52
31	4	6	Georgios Diamantidis	Template:FlagIOC	16:06.31
32	1	3	Saw Yi Khy	Template:FlagIOC	16:06.38
33	2	7	Xin Tong	Template:FlagIOC	16:10.43
34	2	1	Miguel Mendoza	Template:FlagIOC	16:26.52

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
Template:Gold01	3	Grant Hackett	Template:FlagIOC	14:43.40	Template:OlyR
Template:Silver02	6	Larsen Jensen	Template:FlagIOC	14:45.29	AM
Template:Bronze03	4	David Davies	Template:FlagIOC	14:45.95	ER
4	5	Yuri Prilukov	Template:FlagIOC	14:52.48	NR
5	2	Spyridon Gianniotis	Template:FlagIOC	15:03.69
6	1	Graeme Smith	Template:FlagIOC	15:09.71
7	7	Dragoș Coman	Template:FlagIOC	15:10.21
8	8	Craig Stevens	Template:FlagIOC	15:13.66

External links

• Official Olympic Report