The men's 1500 metre freestyle event at the 2004 Olympic Games was contested at the Olympic Aquatic Centre of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex in Athens, Greece on August 20 and 21.

Australian swimmer and world record holder Grant Hackett became the third swimmer in history to defend the title in this event, breaking an Olympic record time of 14:43.40. U.S. swimmer Larsen Jensen set an American record time of 14:45.29 to take the silver. Great Britain's David Davies, on the other hand, fought off a challenge from Russia's Yuri Prilukov in the final lap to earn a bronze medal by a 7-second margin, with a European record of 14:45.95.

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 21 August Final Grant Hackett 14:43.40

Results

Heats Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 4 David Davies 14:57.03 Q 2 5 5 Yuri Prilukov 15:01.02 Q 3 5 4 Grant Hackett 15:01.89 Q 4 4 4 Larsen Jensen 15:03.75 Q 5 5 2 Spyridon Gianniotis 15:03.87 Q 6 3 7 Dragoș Coman 15:06.33 Q, NR 7 3 2 Graeme Smith 15:07.45 Q 8 5 3 Craig Stevens 15:09.54 Q 9 5 7 Paweł Korzeniowski 15:11.62 10 4 5 Igor Chervynskiy 15:12.58 11 4 3 Nicolas Rostoucher 15:13.56 12 5 6 Christian Hein 15:15.42 13 3 6 Takeshi Matsuda 15:16.42 14 2 4 Oussama Mellouli 15:18.98 15 5 1 Ricardo Monasterio 15:20.89 16 3 5 Erik Vendt 15:22.00 17 2 5 Petar Stoychev 15:28.32 18 3 8 Andrew Hurd 15:28.71 19 3 3 Alexei Filipets 15:30.05 20 4 8 Bojan Zdešar 15:31.57 21 5 8 Fernando Costa 15:32.55 22 4 2 Thomas Lurz 15:33.81 23 4 1 Gergő Kis 15:38.06 24 4 7 Christian Minotti 15:39.31 25 3 1 Cho Sung-mo 15:43.43 26 2 6 Juan Martín Pereyra 15:53.29 27 1 5 Charnvudth Saengsri 15:54.46 28 2 2 Moss Burmester 15:56.42 29 2 3 Nenad Buljan 15:56.54 30 1 4 Giancarlo Zolezzi 16:00.52 31 4 6 Georgios Diamantidis 16:06.31 32 1 3 Saw Yi Khy 16:06.38 33 2 7 Xin Tong 16:10.43 34 2 1 Miguel Mendoza 16:26.52

Final Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 3 Grant Hackett 14:43.40 6 Larsen Jensen 14:45.29 AM 4 David Davies 14:45.95 ER 4 5 Yuri Prilukov 14:52.48 NR 5 2 Spyridon Gianniotis 15:03.69 6 1 Graeme Smith 15:09.71 7 7 Dragoș Coman 15:10.21 8 8 Craig Stevens 15:13.66

References

External links Official Olympic Report