The men's 1500 metre freestyle competition at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships was held on 29 and 30 July 2023. Swimming World called the race an "epic duel".
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
The following new records were set during this competition. Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 30 July Final Ahmed Hafnaoui 14:31.54 CR
Results Heats The heats were started on 29 July at 11:52.
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 5 Bobby Finke 14:43.06 Q 2 2 4 Daniel Wiffen 14:43.50 Q 3 3 8 Ahmed Hafnaoui 14:49.53 Q 4 3 3 Lukas Märtens 14:51.20 Q 5 3 5 Mykhailo Romanchuk 14:52.15 Q 6 3 6 Samuel Short 14:53.38 Q 7 3 7 Kristóf Rasovszky 14:54.09 Q 8 3 1 David Aubry 14:54.29 Q 9 3 0 Marwan Elkamash 14:55.19 10 2 2 Damien Joly 14:56.31 11 3 2 Charlie Clark 14:57.16 12 2 3 Fei Liwei 14:57.50 13 2 8 Luca De Tullio 14:57.68 14 2 6 Daniel Jervis 14:57.88 15 2 1 Dávid Betlehem 14:59.76 16 1 4 Krzysztof Chmielewski 15:01.89 17 2 0 Henrik Christiansen 15:02.31 18 1 5 Dimitrios Markos 15:07.61 19 2 7 Carlos Garach 15:08.02 20 3 4 Florian Wellbrock 15:10.33 21 2 9 Ahmed Akaram 15:11.06 22 1 3 Alfonso Mestre 15:14.10 NR 23 1 7 Righardt Muller 15:33.82 24 1 1 Ratthawit Thammananthachote 15:39.46 25 1 2 Aryan Nehra 15:39.47 26 1 8 Rodolfo Falcón Jr. 15:49.72 27 1 6 Nguyễn Hữu Kim Sơn 16:20.45 28 1 0 Timothy Leberl 16:27.67 NR 29 1 9 Hendrik Powdar 17:58.15 3 9 Kim Woo-min
Final The final started on 30 July at 20:16.
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 3 Ahmed Hafnaoui 14:31.54 CR, AF 4 Bobby Finke 14:31.59 AM 7 Samuel Short 14:37.28 4 5 Daniel Wiffen 14:43.01 5 6 Lukas Märtens 14:44.51 6 1 Kristóf Rasovszky 14:51.46 7 2 Mykhailo Romanchuk 14:53.21 8 8 David Aubry 14:56.63
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