Swimming at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

The men's 1500m freestyle swimming event at the 2006 Asian Games was held on December 7, 2006 at the Hamad Aquatic Centre in Doha, Qatar. This was a timed-final event, meaning that each swimmer only swam once, with the fastest eight (8) entrants swimming in the finals.

Men's 1500 metre freestyle
at the 2006 Asian Games
VenueHamad Aquatic Centre
Date7 December
Competitors15 from 12 nations
Medalists
    South Korea
    China
    Japan

Schedule

All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

Date Time Event
Thursday, 7 December 200610:49Final 1
18:41Final 2

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

World Record Grant Hackett (AUS)14:34.56Fukuoka, Japan29 July 2001
Asian Record Zhang Lin (CHN)15:00.27Macau2 November 2005
Games Record Yu Cheng (CHN)15:10.99Busan, South Korea4 October 2002

Results

Legend
  • DNS — Did not start
Rank Heat Athlete Time Notes
2 Park Tae-hwan (KOR)14:55.03AR
2 Zhang Lin (CHN)15:03.13
2 Takeshi Matsuda (JPN)15:17.18
42 Kang Yong-hwan (KOR)15:23.53
52 Kenichi Doki (JPN)15:29.07
62 Zhang Enjian (CHN)15:35.35
72 Tharnawat Thanakornworakiart (THA)16:03.88
81 Marcus Cheah (SIN)16:04.33
91 Naeem Al-Masri (SYR)16:08.68
101 Ryan Arabejo (PHI)16:09.10
112 Nawaf Al-Wazan (KUW)16:18.65
121 Tang Sheng-chieh (TPE)16:31.72
131 Timur Kartabaev (KGZ)18:02.12
1 Mohammad Bidarian (IRI)DNS
1 Anas Abu-Yousuf (QAT)DNS

References

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