Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle
Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Georgia Tech Aquatic Center | ||||||||||||
Date | 26 July 1996 (heats & final) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 34 from 26 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 14:56.40 | ||||||||||||
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The men's 1500 metre freestyle event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 26 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.[1]
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | Kieren Perkins (AUS) | 14:41.66 | Victoria, Canada | 24 August 1994 |
Olympic record | Kieren Perkins (AUS) | 14:43.48 | Barcelona, Spain | 31 July 1992 |
Results
Heats
Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q).[2]
Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | 4 | 4 | Daniel Kowalski | Australia | 15:12.55 | Q |
2 | 3 | 4 | Graeme Smith | Great Britain | 15:14.81 | Q |
3 | 5 | 5 | Aleksey Akatyev | Russia | 15:16.47 | Q |
4 | 5 | 1 | Emiliano Brembilla | Italy | 15:16.72 | Q, NR |
5 | 4 | 5 | Jörg Hoffmann | Germany | 15:18.61 | Q |
6 | 5 | 2 | Masato Hirano | Japan | 15:19.48 | Q |
7 | 3 | 7 | Ryk Neethling | South Africa | 15:19.98 | Q, AF |
8 | 5 | 4 | Kieren Perkins | Australia | 15:21.42 | Q |
9 | 5 | 6 | Steffen Zesner | Germany | 15:21.65 | |
10 | 3 | 3 | Paul Palmer | Great Britain | 15:22.65 | |
11 | 4 | 7 | Luiz Lima | Brazil | 15:24.16 | |
12 | 4 | 3 | Peter Wright | United States | 15:25.43 | |
13 | 3 | 5 | Carlton Bruner | United States | 15:25.82 | |
14 | 4 | 6 | Alexei Butsenin | Russia | 15:31.27 | |
15 | 3 | 6 | Ihor Snitko | Ukraine | 15:31.40 | |
16 | 4 | 8 | Torlarp Sethsothorn | Thailand | 15:40.04 | NR |
17 | 4 | 1 | Yann de Fabrique | France | 15:40.49 | |
18 | 5 | 3 | Marco Formentini | Italy | 15:41.14 | |
19 | 2 | 2 | Sergey Mikhnovets | Belarus | 15:41.80 | NR |
20 | 2 | 4 | Ricardo Monasterio | Venezuela | 15:42.39 | |
21 | 3 | 1 | Frederik Hviid | Spain | 15:42.40 | |
22 | 5 | 7 | Hisato Yasui | Japan | 15:43.66 | |
23 | 2 | 5 | Jacob Carstensen | Denmark | 15:43.75 | |
24 | 3 | 2 | Denys Zavhorodnyy | Ukraine | 15:46.79 | |
25 | 3 | 8 | Lee Kyu-chang | South Korea | 15:47.92 | |
26 | 2 | 7 | Agustín Fiorilli | Argentina | 15:51.85 | |
27 | 2 | 3 | Scott Cameron | New Zealand | 15:56.60 | |
28 | 4 | 2 | Igor Majcen | Slovenia | 16:10.81 | |
29 | 1 | 4 | Ramón Valle | Honduras | 16:14.76 | |
30 | 2 | 6 | Dimitrios Manganas | Greece | 16:15.94 | |
31 | 2 | 1 | Pedro Ferreira | Portugal | 16:34.55 | |
32 | 5 | 8 | Hisham Al-Masri | Syria | 16:42.35 | |
33 | 1 | 3 | Hamed Rezakhani | Iran | 17:22.86 | |
34 | 1 | 5 | Rashid Salim Al-Ma'shari | Oman | 18:11.59 |
Final
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Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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8 | Kieren Perkins | Australia | 14:56.40 | ||
4 | Daniel Kowalski | Australia | 15:02.43 | ||
5 | Graeme Smith | Great Britain | 15:02.48 | NR | |
4 | 6 | Emiliano Brembilla | Italy | 15:08.58 | NR |
5 | 1 | Ryk Neethling | South Africa | 15:14.63 | AF |
6 | 7 | Masato Hirano | Japan | 15:17.28 | NR |
7 | 2 | Jörg Hoffmann | Germany | 15:18.86 | |
8 | 3 | Aleksey Akatyev | Russia | 15:21.68 |
References
- ^ "Swimming at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Men's 1,500 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
- ^ "Atlanta 1996: Swimming – Men's 1500m Freestyle Heats" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. pp. 40–41. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
- ^ "Atlanta 1996: Swimming – Men's 1500m Freestyle Final" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 41. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
External links
- Official Report
- USA Swimming