Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 1500 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Women's 1500 metre freestyle
Championship:	2015 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	3 August (heats) 4 August (final)
Competitors:	25
Nations:	21
Win Value:	15:25.48
Gold:	Katie Ledecky
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Lauren Boyle
Silvernoc:	NZL
Bronze:	Boglárka Kapás
Bronzenoc:	HUN
Prev:	2013
Next:	2017

The Women's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 3 August with the heats and 4 August with the final.^[1]

Records

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

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
3 August	Heats	align=left		align=left		15:27.71	, CR
4 August	Final	align=left		align=left		15:25.48	, CR

Results

Heats

The Heats were held at 10:56.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	4	15:27.71	Q,
2	2	5	15:54.23	Q
3	3	5	15:56.52	Q
4	2	8	16:01.63	Q
5	2	4	16:02.84	Q
6	3	3	16:06.25	Q
7	2	3	16:09.12	Q
8	3	7	16:12.01	Q
9	3	2	16:13.73
10	2	7	16:21.21
11	2	0	16:24.83
12	2	6	16:25.04
13	3	6	16:27.13
14	3	0	16:28.18
15	2	2	16:31.22
16	2	1	16:32.04
17	1	5	16:34.81
18	3	1	16:39.98
19	1	4	16:43.21
20	2	9	16:43.64
21	3	8	16:48.52
22	3	9	16:50.22
23	1	3	17:26.53
24	1	6	18:21.09
25	1	2	18:57.27

Final

The final was held on 4 August at 18:05.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
	4	15:25.48
	2	15:40.14	OC
	7	15:47.09	NR
4	5	15:49.00
5	3	15:52.17	NR
6	1	16:03.74
7	6	16:06.55
8	8	16:09.57

Notes and References

http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010F020001001900FFFFFFFFFFFF01 Start list
http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010F020001001900FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Heats results
http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010F020001001902FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Final results