Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

Men's 1500 metre freestyle
at the 2002 Asian Games
VenueSajik Swimming Pool
DateOctober 4, 2002 (2002-10-04)
Competitors12 from 7 nations
Medalists
   China
   South Korea
   South Korea
← 19982006
Swimming at the
2002 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
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
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 1500 metre freestyle swimming competition at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan was held on 4 October at the Sajik Swimming Pool. 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 Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

Date Time Event
Friday, 4 October 2002 10:00 Final 1
19:00 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  Masato Hirano (JPN) 15:14.43 Sydney, Australia 22 September 2000
Games Record  Masato Hirano (JPN) 15:22.20 Bangkok, Thailand 6 December 1998

Results

Legend
Rank Heat Athlete Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s)2  Yu Cheng (CHN) 15:10.99 AR
2nd, silver medalist(s)2  Cho Sung-mo (KOR) 15:12.32
3rd, bronze medalist(s)2  Han Kyu-chul (KOR) 15:22.38
42  Shunichi Fujita (JPN) 15:24.64
52  Zheng Shibin (CHN) 15:46.13
62  Miguel Mendoza (PHI) 15:46.40
72  Takeshi Matsuda (JPN) 15:57.29
81  Chung Kwok Leung (HKG) 16:05.79
91  Naeem Al-Masri (SYR) 16:37.91
101  Anas Abu-Yousuf (QAT) 17:41.59
111  Ahmed Salamoun (QAT) 19:12.90
2  Carlo Piccio (PHI) DNS

References

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