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Men's 1500 metre freestyle
at the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Men's 1500 metre freestyle ; at the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Etihad Arena
Location	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Dates	20 December (heats); 21 December (final)
Competitors	29 from 26 nations
Winning time	14:06.88 WR
Medalists
	← 2018 2022 →

The Men's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 20 and 21 December 2021.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Gregorio Paltrinieri (ITA)	14:08.06	Netanya, Israel	4 December 2015
Competition record	Mykhailo Romanchuk (UKR)	14:09.14	Hangzhou, China	16 December 2018

The following new records were set during this competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
21 December	Final	Florian Wellbrock	Germany	14:06.88	WR, CR

The heats were started on 20 December at 11:58.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	5	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	14:24.76	Q
2	2	6	Ahmed Hafnaoui	Tunisia	14:25.77	Q
3	3	6	Florian Wellbrock	Germany	14:25.79	Q
4	3	4	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	14:28.11	Q
5	2	5	Damien Joly	France	14:30.90	Q
6	3	1	Daniel Wiffen	Ireland	14:32.13	Q, NR
7	2	3	Domenico Acerenza	Italy	14:34.03	Q
8	2	4	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	14:36.27	Q
9	2	2	Lukas Märtens	Germany	14:37.60
10	3	8	Mert Kılavuz	Turkey	14:39.76	NR
11	2	1	José Paulo Lopes	Portugal	14:39.82	NR
12	2	8	Nguyễn Huy Hoàng	Vietnam	14:41.00	NR
13	3	2	Aleksandr Egorov	Russian Swimming Federation	14:47.39
14	1	5	Marwan Elkamash	Egypt	14:48.68	NR
15	2	0	Krzysztof Chmielewski	Poland	14:51.21
16	3	3	Jan Micka	Czech Republic	14:54.55
17	2	7	Jon Jøntvedt	Norway	15:01.95
18	1	4	Matan Roditi	Israel	15:05.05
19	3	7	Kim Woo-min	South Korea	15:06.13
20	2	9	Dimitrios Markos	Greece	15:07.43
21	1	3	Kushagra Rawat	India	15:07.86
22	3	9	Zhang Ziyang	China	15:18.99
23	1	6	Eduardo Cisternas	Chile	15:23.30	NR
24	1	7	Adib Khalil	Lebanon	15:27.12	NR
25	1	0	Loris Bianchi	San Marino	15:38.63
26	1	2	Joseph Macías	Ecuador	15:47.50
27	1	1	Johan Nónskarð Dam	Faroe Islands	16:09.94
28	1	8	Nikoli Blackman	Trinidad and Tobago	16:34.53
29	1	9	Mark Imazu	Guam	17:59.68
	3	0	Michael Brinegar	United States	DNS

The final was held on 21 December at 18:06.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Florian Wellbrock	Germany	14:06.88	WR
	5	Ahmed Hafnaoui	Tunisia	14:10.94	AF
	4	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	14:11.47
4	6	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	14:21.00
5	1	Domenico Acerenza	Italy	14:24.31
6	2	Damien Joly	France	14:25.62
7	8	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	14:30.78
8	7	Daniel Wiffen	Ireland	14:36.78