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Men's 1500 metre freestyle
at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships
Men's 1500 metre freestyle ; at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Marine Messe Fukuoka
Location	Fukuoka, Japan
Dates	29 July (heats); 30 July (final)
Competitors	29 from 24 nations
Winning time	14:31.54
Medalists
	← 2022 2024 →

The men's 1500 metre freestyle competition at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships was held on 29 and 30 July 2023.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.^[4]

World record	Sun Yang (CHN)	14:31.02	London, England	4 August 2012
Competition record	Gregorio Paltrinieri (ITA)	14:32.80	Budapest, Hungary	25 June 2022

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
30 July	Final	Ahmed Hafnaoui	Tunisia	14:31.54	CR

The heats were started on 29 July at 11:52.^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Bobby Finke	United States	14:43.06	Q
2	2	4	Daniel Wiffen	Ireland	14:43.50	Q
3	3	8	Ahmed Hafnaoui	Tunisia	14:49.53	Q
4	3	3	Lukas Märtens	Germany	14:51.20	Q
5	3	5	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	14:52.15	Q
6	3	6	Samuel Short	Australia	14:53.38	Q
7	3	7	Kristóf Rasovszky	Hungary	14:54.09	Q
8	3	1	David Aubry	France	14:54.29	Q
9	3	0	Marwan Elkamash	Egypt	14:55.19
10	2	2	Damien Joly	France	14:56.31
11	3	2	Charlie Clark	United States	14:57.16
12	2	3	Fei Liwei	China	14:57.50
13	2	8	Luca De Tullio	Italy	14:57.68
14	2	6	Daniel Jervis	Great Britain	14:57.88
15	2	1	Dávid Betlehem	Hungary	14:59.76
16	1	4	Krzysztof Chmielewski	Poland	15:01.89
17	2	0	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	15:02.31
18	1	5	Dimitrios Markos	Greece	15:07.61
19	2	7	Carlos Garach	Spain	15:08.02
20	3	4	Florian Wellbrock	Germany	15:10.33
21	2	9	Ahmed Akaram	Egypt	15:11.06
22	1	3	Alfonso Mestre	Venezuela	15:14.10	NR
23	1	7	Righardt Muller	South Africa	15:33.82
24	1	1	Ratthawit Thammananthachote	Thailand	15:39.46
25	1	2	Aryan Nehra	India	15:39.47
26	1	8	Rodolfo Falcón Jr.	Cuba	15:49.72
27	1	6	Nguyễn Hữu Kim Sơn	Vietnam	16:20.45
28	1	0	Timothy Leberl	Mauritius	16:27.67	NR
29	1	9	Hendrik Powdar	Suriname	17:58.15
	3	9	Kim Woo-min	South Korea	DNS

The final started on 30 July at 20:16.^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Ahmed Hafnaoui	Tunisia	14:31.54	CR, AF
	4	Bobby Finke	United States	14:31.59	AM
	7	Samuel Short	Australia	14:37.28
4	5	Daniel Wiffen	Ireland	14:43.01
5	6	Lukas Märtens	Germany	14:44.51
6	1	Kristóf Rasovszky	Hungary	14:51.46
7	2	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	14:53.21
8	8	David Aubry	France	14:56.63

^ "Schedule" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
^ Sutherland, James (13 January 2023). "World Aquatics Announces Competition Schedule For 2023 World Championships In Fukuoka". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
^ "Start list" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 November 2023.
^ "Records book" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024.
^ "Heats results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 29 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 July 2023.
^ "Final results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 30 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 November 2023.