Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 1500 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Women's 1500 metre freestyle
Competition:	2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	July 25, 2011 (heats) July 26, 2011 (final)
Competitors:	26
Nations:	23
Win Value:	15:49.59
Gold:	Lotte Friis
Goldnoc:	DEN
Silver:	Kate Ziegler
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Li Xuanxu
Bronzenoc:	CHN
Prev:	2009
Next:	2013

The Women's 1500 Freestyle event at the 2011 FINA World Championships was held on July 25 and 26, 2011 in Shanghai, China. Preliminary heats were swum July 25, with the top-8 swimmers advancing to swim again in the final on July 26.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Kate Ziegler		align=left	15:42.54	Mission Viejo	June 17, 2007
Championship record	Alessia Filippi		align=left	15:44.93	Rome	July 28, 2009

Results

Heats

26 swimmer participated in 4 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	4	16:00.47	Q
2	3	7	16:01.72	Q
3	4	5	16:02.53	Q
4	3	6	16:03.50	Q
5	4	7	16:05.63	Q, AF, NR
6	4	3	16:05.82	Q
7	3	4	16:07.39	Q
8	3	5	16:12.45	Q
9	4	6	16:13.20
10	2	4	16:14.81
11	3	3	16:22.60
12	2	5	16:23.11
13	3	2	16:23.75
14	4	2	16:23.96
15	2	3	16:25.85
16	4	8	16:26.36	NR
17	2	6	16:29.79
18	2	8	16:34.74	NR
19	2	2	16:35.16
20	3	1	16:35.67
21	2	7	16:37.15
22	2	1	16:40.09
23	1	4	17:06.37
24	3	8	17:22.42
25	1	5	17:23.60
26	1	3	17:44.99
–	4	1		DNS

Final

The final was held at 18:35.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
	4	15:49.59
	3	15:55.60
	7	15:58.02	AS
4	6	16:05.11
5	1	16:05.98
6	2	16:06.02
7	8	16:09.71
8	5	16:12.01

External links

2011 World Aquatics Championships: Women's 1500 metre freestyle start list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.

Notes and References

Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 1500 metre freestyle (heats). Omega Timing. 2011-07-25.
Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 1500 metre freestyle (final). Omega Timing. 2011-07-26.