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

Men's 1500 metre freestyle
at the 2006 Asian Games
VenueHamad Aquatic Centre
DateDecember 7, 2006 (2006-12-07)
Competitors15 from 12 nations
Medalists
   South Korea
   China
   Japan
20022010
Swimming at the
2006 Asian Games

Freestyle
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m women
1500 m men
Backstroke
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men women
Medley relay
4×100 m men women

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.

Schedule

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

Date Time Event
Thursday, 7 December 2006 10:49 Final 1
18:41 Final 2

Records

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

World Record  Grant Hackett (AUS) 14:34.56 Fukuoka, Japan 29 July 2001
Asian Record  Zhang Lin (CHN) 15:00.27 Macau 2 November 2005
Games Record  Yu Cheng (CHN) 15:10.99 Busan, South Korea 4 October 2002

Results

Legend
Rank Heat Athlete Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s)2  Park Tae-hwan (KOR) 14:55.03 AR
2nd, silver medalist(s)2  Zhang Lin (CHN) 15:03.13
3rd, bronze medalist(s)2  Takeshi Matsuda (JPN) 15:17.18
4 2  Kang Yong-hwan (KOR) 15:23.53
5 2  Kenichi Doki (JPN) 15:29.07
6 2  Zhang Enjian (CHN) 15:35.35
7 2  Tharnawat Thanakornworakiart (THA) 16:03.88
8 1  Marcus Cheah (SIN) 16:04.33
9 1  Naeem Al-Masri (SYR) 16:08.68
10 1  Ryan Arabejo (PHI) 16:09.10
11 2  Nawaf Al-Wazan (KUW) 16:18.65
12 1  Tang Sheng-chieh (TPE) 16:31.72
13 1  Timur Kartabaev (KGZ) 18:02.12
1  Mohammad Bidarian (IRI) DNS
1  Anas Abu-Yousuf (QAT) DNS

References

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