The men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany was held from 19 to 20 July 2025. Aleksandr Stepanov from Individual Neutral Athletes won the gold medal, Ivan Giovannoni from Italy took the silver medal and Davide Marchello from Italy earned the bronze medal.
Schedule All times are Central European Time (UTC+1) Date Time Round 19 July 10:03 Heats 20 July 19:16 Final
Records Prior to the competition, the world and Universiade records were as follows. Category Swimmer Record Date Place Event World record Bobby Finke 14:30.67 4 August 2024 Paris, France 2024 Summer Olympics Universiade record Gregorio Paltrinieri 14:47.75 22 August 2017 Taipei, Chinese Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade
Results Heats All entered athletes competed across multiple seeded heats in the morning session. Swimmers with the top 8 fastest times advanced, regardless of which individual heat they swam.
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 2 2 15:12.87 2 2 5 15:17.29 3 1 3 15:19.94 4 1 4 15:20.26 5 1 5 15:20.70 6 2 3 15:20.90 7 2 4 15:23.20 8 1 6 15:26.70 9 1 2 15:29.96 10 2 6 15:33.35 11 2 7 15:43.19
Final The fastest 8 swimmers competed in a single race to determine the gold, silver and bronze medalists.
Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 14:55.98 7 14:56.10 5 15:06.95 4 4 15:11.44 5 3 15:15.10 6 6 15:17.45 7 8 15:27.08 8 2 15:31.41
External links Swimming Rhine Ruhr 2025
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