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Women's 1500 metre freestyle
at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Women's 1500 metre freestyle ; at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	20–21 May
Competitors	15 from 10 nations
Winning time	15:50.22
Medalists
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The Women's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 20 and 21 May 2016.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Katie Ledecky	United States	15:25.48	Kazan	4 August 2015
European record	Lotte Friis	Denmark	15:38.88	Barcelona	30 July 2013
Championship record	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	15:57.29	Berlin	23 August 2014

The heats were held on 20 May at 11:29.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	16:14.43	Q
2	1	5	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	16:14.74	Q
3	2	3	María Vilas	Spain	16:15.50	Q
4	2	2	Tjasa Oder	Slovenia	16:19.95	Q
5	2	5	Simona Quadarella	Italy	16:26.45	Q
6	1	3	Adél Juhász	Hungary	16:28.05	Q
7	1	2	Julia Hassler	Liechtenstein	16:30.82	Q
8	2	6	Gaja Natlačen	Slovenia	16:31.56	Q
9	2	0	Fantine Lesaffre	France	16:38.84
10	1	1	Milena Karpisz	Poland	16:51.68
11	2	1	Tereza Závadová	Czech Republic	16:51.71
12	2	8	Alice Dearing	Great Britain	16:52.84
13	1	7	Paulina Piechota	Poland	16:59.79
14	2	7	Martina Elhenická	Czech Republic	17:08.01
15	1	8	Nejla Karić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	17:43.58
	1	4	Sharon van Rouwendaal	Netherlands	DNS
	1	6	Diletta Carli	Italy	DNS

The final was held on 21 May at 16:02.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	15:50.22	CR
	5	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	16:00.20
	3	María Vilas	Spain	16:01.25
4	6	Tjasa Oder	Slovenia	16:08.67
5	2	Simona Quadarella	Italy	16:22.64
6	7	Adél Juhász	Hungary	16:22.69
7	1	Julia Hassler	Liechtenstein	16:25.83
8	8	Gaja Natlačen	Slovenia	16:26.08