Swimming at the 2010 Asian Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

Men's 1500 metre freestyle
at the 2010 Asian Games

Venue

Aoti Aquatics Centre

Date

18 November 2010

Competitors

13 from 11 nations

Winning time

14:35.43 AR

Medalists

	Sun Yang	China
	Park Tae-hwan	South Korea
	Zhang Lin	China

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The men's 1500 metre freestyle event at the 2010 Asian Games took place on 18 November 2010 at Guangzhou Aoti Aquatics Centre.

There were 13 competitors from 11 countries who took part in this event. 8 swimmers with the fast qualifying time were in the fast heat, the others were in the slow heat. The final ranking was arranged by the times from both heats.

Sun Yang from China won the gold medal in a new Asian record of 14 minutes 35.43 seconds. It was the second all-time behind only Grant Hackett's world record of 14:34.56 from the 2001 World Championships,^[1] the gap between the world record is less than one second.

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Date	Time	Event
Thursday, 18 November 2010	09:46	Slow heat
Thursday, 18 November 2010	18:56	Fast heat

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

World Record	Grant Hackett (AUS)	14:34.56	Fukuoka, Japan	29 July 2001
Asian Record	Zhang Lin (CHN)	14:45.84	Beijing, China	15 August 2008
Games Record	Park Tae-hwan (KOR)	14:55.03	Doha, Qatar	7 December 2006

Results

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Time	Notes
	2	Sun Yang (CHN)	14:35.43	AR
	2	Park Tae-hwan (KOR)	15:01.72
	2	Zhang Lin (CHN)	15:22.03
4	2	Jang Sang-jin (KOR)	15:49.26
5	2	Sho Uchida (JPN)	15:52.29
6	2	Kevin Yeap (MAS)	15:53.34
7	2	Ryan Arabejo (PHI)	16:11.74
8	1	Mandar Divase (IND)	16:11.84
9	2	Punyawee Sontana (THA)	16:26.21
10	1	Ahmad Al-Shatti (IOC)	16:30.98
11	1	Loai Tashkandi (KSA)	17:16.41
12	1	Ali Adel (IRQ)	18:36.33
13	1	Ibrahim Al-Amadi (QAT)	19:37.04