The Women's 1500 metre freestyle competition at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships was held on 12 and 13 February 2024.
Qualification
Each National Federation was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the "A" standard qualification time at approved qualifying events. For this event, the "A" standard qualification time was 16:29.57. Federations could enter one athlete into the event if they met the "B" standard qualification time. For this event, the "B" standard qualification time was 17:04.20. Athletes could also enter the event if they had met an "A" or "B" standard in a different event and their Federation had not entered anyone else. Additional considerations applied to Federations who had few swimmers enter through the standard qualification times. Federations in this category could at least enter two men and two women into the competition, all of whom could enter into up to two events.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
Results Heats The heats were started on 12 February at 10:46.
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 4 Simona Quadarella 16:02.96 Q 2 3 5 Isabel Gose 16:10.60 Q 3 2 5 Li Bingjie 16:13.61 Q 4 2 3 Maddy Gough 16:14.48 Q 5 2 4 Anastasiia Kirpichnikova 16:14.76 Q 6 2 6 Yang Peiqi 16:14.85 Q 7 2 2 Eve Thomas 16:16.43 Q 8 3 2 Kristel Köbrich 16:16.62 Q 9 3 6 Kate Hurst 16:17.83 10 2 1 Caitlin Deans 16:17.98 11 3 7 Agostina Hein 16:21.68 12 3 3 Beatriz Dizotti 16:25.90 13 3 0 Ichika Kajimoto 16:27.96 14 3 8 Gan Ching Hwee 16:29.74 15 2 7 Tamila Holub 16:31.64 16 2 0 Ajna Késely 16:34.84 17 3 1 Kayla Han 16:35.02 18 1 4 Stephanie Houtman 16:35.39 19 2 8 Alisee Pisane 16:37.91 20 3 9 Imani de Jong 16:43.55 21 2 9 Lucie Hanquet 16:48.23 22 1 5 Nip Tsz Yin 17:04.85 23 1 3 Malak Meqdar 18:06.86
Final The final were was on 13 February at 19:10.
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Simona Quadarella 15:46.99 3 Li Bingjie 15:56.62 5 Isabel Gose 15:57.55 4 1 Eve Thomas 16:09.43 5 2 Anastasiia Kirpichnikova 16:12.98 6 7 Yang Peiqi 16:13.08 7 6 Maddy Gough 16:16.85 8 8 Kristel Köbrich 16:18.90
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