The men's 1500 metre freestyle event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place 29 July. The heats took place 28 July, while the final was held on 29 July.
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. 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.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows: World record 14:41.66 Victoria, Canada 24 August 1994Championship record 14:50.36 Perth, Australia 13 January 1991
The following record was established during the competition: DateRoundNameNationTimeRecord 22 July Final Grant Hackett 14:34.56 WR
Results
Heats Rank Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 Grant Hackett 15:07.19 Q 2 Graeme Smith 15:09.57 Q 3 Craig Stevens 15:14.62 Q 4 Ihor Chervynskyi 15:14.74 Q 5 Chris Thompson 15:14.77 Q 6 Alexei Filipets 15:17.24 Q 7 Massimiliano Rosolino 15:17.74 Q 8 Nicolas Rostoucher 15:18.70 Q 9 Spyridon Gianniotis 15:20.62 10 Ricardo Monasterio 15:20.73 11 Alexei Boutsenine 15:21.21 12 Masato Hirano 15:28.82 13 Dragoș Coman 15:29.70 14 Shunichi Fujita 15:31.92 15 Shilo Ayalon 15:38.59 16 Andrea Righi 15:40.56 17 Andrew Hurd 15:40.61 18 Robert Margalis 15:49.94 19 Jorge Carral 16:00.51 20 Giancarlo Zolezzi 16:01.58 21 Dieung Manggang 16:05.74 22 Leonardo Salinas 16:13.93 23 Yu Nam-Jeong 16:23.76 24 Mohammad Naeem Masri 16:56.37 25 Hsu Kuo-Tung 17:06.43 26 Rony Bakale 18:03.67 – Heiko Hell DNS
Final Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Grant Hackett 14:34.56 WR Graeme Smith 14:58.94 Alexey Filipets 15:01.43 4 Ihor Chevrynskyi 15:06.13 5 Chris Thompson 15:07.67 6 Massimiliano Rosolino 15:10.54 7 Craig Stevens 15:15.02 8 Nicolas Rostoucher 15:18.89
Key: WR = World record
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