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


The routine competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 17 and 18 May 2016.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.
NameNationTimeLocationDate
World recordSun Yang14:31.02London4 August 2012
European recordGregorio Paltrinieri14:39.67Kazan8 August 2015
Championship recordGregorio Paltrinieri14:39.93Berlin20 August 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 17 May at 11:29.
RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
144Gregorio Paltrinieri14:46.81Q
234Gabriele Detti14:58.56Q
332Jan Micka14:58.62Q
446Mykhailo Romanchuk14:59.13Q
545Henrik Christiansen15:00.27Q
647Serhiy Frolov15:02.33Q
735Gergely Gyurta15:05.34Q
831Wojciech Wojdak15:06.56Q
940Joris Bouchaut15:07.41
1049Antonio Arroyo15:07.71
1141Ruwen Straub15:08.11
1233Timothy Shuttleworth15:08.84
1342Daniel Jervis15:09.69
1443Stephen Milne15:09.73
1530Marc Sánchez15:10.06
1639Kristóf Rasovszky15:11.34
1738Anton Ipsen15:11.91
1837Richárd Nagy15:16.17
1921Nezir Karap15:16.29
2036Pál Joensen15:16.44
2124Martin Bau15:16.71
2223Marc Hinawi15:19.28
2327Victor Johansson15:20.44
2422Filip Zaborowski15:20.68
2548Nicolas D'Oriano15:25.80
2625Lander Hendrickx15:25.90
2726Vuk Čelić15:31.65
2829Ediz Yıldırımer15:34.16
2914Truls Wigdel15:36.78
3013Roman Dmitriyev15:36.81
3115Grega Popović15:41.01
3228Ján Kútnik15:50.53
3320Oli Mortensen16:24.42
3412Franc Aleksi16:36.10
3516Andrej Stojanoski17:24.96

Final

The final was held on 18 May at 18:02.
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
4Gregorio Paltrinieri14:34.04ER, CR
5Gabriele Detti14:48.75
6Mykhailo Romanchuk14:50.33
41Gergely Gyurta14:57.06
53Jan Micka14:58.73
68Wojciech Wojdak14:59.66
72Henrik Christiansen15:04.60
87Serhiy Frolov15:05.05