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

Event:	Women's 1500 metre freestyle
Competition:	Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	22–23 August
Competitors:	25
Nations:	12
Win Value:	15:57.29
Gold:	Mireia Belmonte
Goldnoc:	ESP
Silver:	Boglárka Kapás
Silvernoc:	HUN
Bronze:	Martina Caramignoli
Bronzenoc:	ITA

The Women's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 22–23 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	Katie Ledecky	align=left		align=left	15:34.23	Shenandoah	19 June 2014
European record	align=left	Lotte Friis	align=left		align=left	15:38.88	Barcelona	30 July 2013
Championship record	Flavia Rigamonti		15:58.54	Eindhoven	23 March 2008

The heats were held at 10:34.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	2	4	16:11.22	Q
2	3	2	16:14.46	Q
3	3	5	16:17.23	Q
4	2	2	16:18.81	Q
5	3	3	16:19.68	Q
6	3	7	16:21.06	Q
7	2	5	16:22.48	Q
8	3	6	16:25.05	Q
9	2	8	16:26.53
10	2	6	16:31.84
11	3	8	16:37.41
12	2	3	16:37.84
13	3	0	16:39.78
14	3	1	16:41.11
15	2	1	16:44.87
16	2	0	16:45.50
17	2	9	16:45.67
18	3	9	16:57.82
19	1	5	17:06.29
20	2	7	17:11.50
21	1	4	17:20.73
22	1	3	17:21.16
23	1	6	17:28.34
24	1	2	17:30.36
25	1	7	18:15.11
—	3	4		DNS

The final was held at 16:02.^[3]