Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Men's 1500 metre freestyle
Competition:	Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	19–20 August
Competitors:	27
Nations:	15
Win Value:	14:39.93
Gold:	Gregorio Paltrinieri
Goldnoc:	ITA
Silver:	Pál Joensen
Silvernoc:	FRO
Bronzenoc:	ITA

The Men's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 19–20 August.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	align=left	Sun Yang	align=left		align=left	14:31.02	London	4 August 2012
European record	align=left	Yury Prilukov	align=left		align=left	14:41.13	Beijing	15 August 2008
Championship record	Gregorio Paltrinieri		14:48.92	Debrecen	23 May 2012

The heats were held at 10:48.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	4	14:54.75	Q
2	2	4	14:59.24	Q
3	2	3	15:04.86	Q
4	3	5	15:05.13	Q
5	2	6	15:06.88	Q
6	2	8	15:07.29	Q
7	2	5	15:08.02	Q
8	3	8	15:11.86	Q
9	3	2	15:13.11
10	3	0	15:17.03
11	2	0	15:17.14
12	3	7	15:18.11
13	2	2	15:19.17
14	2	7	15:23.61
15	2	9	15:23.67
16	3	6	15:32.01
17	1	5	15:32.64
18	1	1	15:32.65
19	3	3	15:33.17
20	2	1	15:40.77
21	1	2	15:43.18
22	1	4	15:50.93
23	1	6	15:51.27
24	3	1	15:52.09
25	3	9	15:53.64
26	1	7	15:58.52
27	1	3	16:09.28

The final was held at 18:07.^[3]