The Women's 1500 Freestyle at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on the morning of March 26 (prelims) and the evening of March 27 (finals) at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia.
The existing records when the event started were: World Record (WR): 15:52.10, Janet Evans (USA), March 26, 1988, in Orlando, FL, USA. Championship Record (CR): 16:00.18, Hannah Stockbauer (Germany), Barcelona 2003 (Jul.22.2003)
Results
Finals Place Name Nationality Time Note 1st Kate Ziegler 15:53.05 CR 2nd Flavia Rigamonti 15:55.38 ER 3rd Ai Shibata 15:58.55 AS 4th Erika Villaécija García 16:05.83 5th Hayley Peirsol 16:12.84 6th Lotte Friis 16:20.82 7th Kristel Köbrich 16:27.13 8th Laure Manaudou 16:42.17
Preliminaries Rank Swimmer Nation Time Note 1 Hayley Peirsol 16:02.82 Q 2 Ai Shibata 16:05.92 Q 3 Kate Ziegler 16:07.71 Q 4 Lotte Friis 16:09.39 Q 5 Erika Villaécija García 16:09.40 Q 6 Laure Manaudou 16:12.16 Q 7 Flavia Rigamonti 16:19.33 Q 8 Kristel Köbrich 16:22.18 Q 9 Tan Miao 16:24.02 10 Rebecca Cooke 16:26.83 11 Tanya Hunks 16:26.95 12 Brittany Reimer 16:30.43 13 Sachiko Yamada 16:36.92 14 Yu Rui 16:41.81 15 Evelyn Verrasztó 16:46.97 16 Monika Mocnik 17:02.99 17 Golda Marcus 17:17.04 18 Carmen Nam 17:17.68 19 Ting Wen Quah 17:26.12 20 Lynette Lim 17:28.28 21 Shrone Austin 17:48.07 22 Marja Alejandra Torres 18:11.27 23 Fiorella Gomez-Sanchez 18:13.98 24 Noufissa Chbihi 19:23.12
References
Women's 1500m Freestyle Preliminary results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-06-29. Women's 1500m Freestyle Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-06-29.