Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Men's 1500 metre freestyle
Championship:	2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	17–18 May
Competitors:	35
Nations:	21
Win Value:	14:34.04
Gold:	Gregorio Paltrinieri
Goldnoc:	ITA
Silver:	Gabriele Detti
Silvernoc:	ITA
Bronze:	Mykhailo Romanchuk
Bronzenoc:	UKR
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The routine competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 17 and 18 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	align=left	Sun Yang	align=left		align=left	14:31.02		London		4 August 2012
European record	align=left	Gregorio Paltrinieri		align=left	14:39.67		Kazan		8 August 2015
Championship record	Gregorio Paltrinieri		14:39.93	Berlin	20 August 2014

The heats were held on 17 May at 11:29.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	4	14:46.81	Q
2	3	4	14:58.56	Q
3	3	2	14:58.62	Q
4	4	6	14:59.13	Q
5	4	5	15:00.27	Q
6	4	7	15:02.33	Q
7	3	5	15:05.34	Q
8	3	1	15:06.56	Q
9	4	0	15:07.41
10	4	9	15:07.71
11	4	1	15:08.11
12	3	3	15:08.84
13	4	2	15:09.69
14	4	3	15:09.73
15	3	0	15:10.06
16	3	9	15:11.34
17	3	8	15:11.91
18	3	7	15:16.17
19	2	1	15:16.29
20	3	6	15:16.44
21	2	4	15:16.71
22	2	3	15:19.28
23	2	7	15:20.44
24	2	2	15:20.68
25	4	8	15:25.80
26	2	5	15:25.90
27	2	6	15:31.65
28	2	9	15:34.16
29	1	4	15:36.78
30	1	3	15:36.81
31	1	5	15:41.01
32	2	8	15:50.53
33	2	0	16:24.42
34	1	2	16:36.10
35	1	6	17:24.96

The final was held on 18 May at 18:02.^[4]