2016 Summer Olympics Results - Swimming
| Men's 1500m Freestyle | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| August 12 - Final | |||
 |  ITAItaly | Gregorio Paltrinieri | 14:34.57 |
 |  USAUnited States | Connor Jaeger | 14:39.48 |
 | ITAItaly | Gabriele Detti | 14:40.86 |
| 4 | USAUnited States | Jordan Wilimovsky | 14:45.03 |
| 5 |  AUSAustralia | Mack Horton | 14:49.54 |
| 6 |  CANCanada | Ryan Cochrane | 14:49.61 |
| 7 |  FRAFrance | Damien Joly | 14:52.73 |
| 8 |  NORNorway | Henrik Christiansen | 15:02.66 |
| 9 | AUSAustralia | Jack McLoughlin | 14:56.02 |
| 10 |  GBRGreat Britain | Stephen Milne | 14:57.23 |
| 11 |  EGYEgypt | Ahmed Akram Abbas | 14:58.37 |
| 12 |  CZECzechia | Jan Micka | 14:58.69 |
| 13 |  RUSRussia | Ilya Druzhinin | 14:59.56 |
| 14 | RUSRussia | Yaroslav Potapov | 15:00.99 |
| 15 |  UKRUkraine | Mykhaylo Romanchuk | 15:01.35 |
| 16 |  CHNChina | Sun Yang | 15:01.97 |
| 17 | UKRUkraine | Sergii Frolov | 15:04.61 |
| 18 |  DENDenmark | Anton Ipsen | 15:05.91 |
| 19 |  HUNHungary | Gergely Gyurta | 15:06.24 |
| 20 | CHNChina | Qiu Ziao | 15:06.71 |
| 21 |  TUNTunisia | Oussama Mellouli | 15:07.78 |
| 22 |  ESAEl Salvador | Marcelo Acosta | 15:08.17 |
| 23 |  ECUEcuador | Esteban Enderica | 15:10.15 |
| 24 |  ESPSpain | Marc Sanchez | 15:11.38 |
| 25 |  MEXMexico | Ricardo Vargas Jacobo | 15:11.53 |
| 26 | ESPSpain | Antonio Arroyo | 15:12.61 |
| 27 | GBRGreat Britain | Timothy Shuttleworth | 15:13.01 |
| 28 |  POLPoland | Wojciech Wojdak | 15:13.18 |
| 29 |  BRABrazil | Brandon Almeida | 15:14.73 |
| 30 | DENDenmark | Pal Joensen | 15:18.49 |
| 31 | BRABrazil | Miguel Valente | 15:22.57 |
| 32 |  GERGermany | Florian Wellbrock | 15:23.88 |
| 33 | POLPoland | Mateusz Sawrymowicz | 15:26.33 |
| 34 |  SVKSlovakia | Richard Nagy | 15:26.48 |
| 35 | HUNHungary | Kristóf Rasovszky | 15:29.36 |
| 36 |  SLOSlovenia | Martin Bau | 15:29.95 |
| 37 |  BIHBosnia and Herzegovina | Mihajlo Ceprkalo | 15:31.62 |
| 38 |  NZLNew Zealand | Matthew Hutchins | 15:32.60 |
| 39 |  MASMalaysia | Welson Sim | 15:32.63 |
| 40 | FRAFrance | Nicolas D'Oriano | 15:33.62 |
| 41 |  RSASouth Africa | Matthew Meyer | 15:36.22 |
| 42 |  AUTAustria | Felix Auböck | 15:36.24 |
| 43 |  ARGArgentina | Martin Naidich | 15:39.93 |
| 44 |  COKCook Islands | Wesley Roberts | 15:44.32 |
| 45 |  CHIChile | Felipe Tapia | 16:02.44 |
 KORSouth Korea | Park Tae-Hwan | DNS | |
| Men's 1500m Freestyle, Heats | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| August 12 - Final | |||
| 1 | ITAItaly | Gregorio Paltrinieri | 14:44.51 Q |
| 2 | USAUnited States | Connor Jaeger | 14:45.74 Q |
| 3 | USAUnited States | Jordan Wilimovsky | 14:48.23 Q |
| 4 | AUSAustralia | Mack Horton | 14:48.47 Q |
| 5 | ITAItaly | Gabriele Detti | 14:48.68 Q |
| 6 | FRAFrance | Damien Joly | 14:48.90 Q |
| 7 | CANCanada | Ryan Cochrane | 14:53.44 Q |
| 8 | NORNorway | Henrik Christiansen | 14:55.40 Q |
| 9 | AUSAustralia | Jack McLoughlin | 14:56.02 |
| 10 | GBRGreat Britain | Stephen Milne | 14:57.23 |
| 11 | EGYEgypt | Ahmed Akram Abbas | 14:58.37 |
| 12 | CZECzechia | Jan Micka | 14:58.69 |
| 13 | RUSRussia | Ilya Druzhinin | 14:59.56 |
| 14 | RUSRussia | Yaroslav Potapov | 15:00.99 |
| 15 | UKRUkraine | Mykhaylo Romanchuk | 15:01.35 |
| 16 | CHNChina | Sun Yang | 15:01.97 |
| 17 | UKRUkraine | Sergii Frolov | 15:04.61 |
| 18 | DENDenmark | Anton Ipsen | 15:05.91 |
| 19 | HUNHungary | Gergely Gyurta | 15:06.24 |
| 20 | CHNChina | Qiu Ziao | 15:06.71 |
| 21 | TUNTunisia | Oussama Mellouli | 15:07.78 |
| 22 | ESAEl Salvador | Marcelo Acosta | 15:08.17 |
| 23 | ECUEcuador | Esteban Enderica | 15:10.15 |
| 24 | ESPSpain | Marc Sanchez | 15:11.38 |
| 25 | MEXMexico | Ricardo Vargas Jacobo | 15:11.53 |
| 26 | ESPSpain | Antonio Arroyo | 15:12.61 |
| 27 | GBRGreat Britain | Timothy Shuttleworth | 15:13.01 |
| 28 | POLPoland | Wojciech Wojdak | 15:13.18 |
| 29 | BRABrazil | Brandon Almeida | 15:14.73 |
| 30 | DENDenmark | Pal Joensen | 15:18.49 |
| 31 | BRABrazil | Miguel Valente | 15:22.57 |
| 32 | GERGermany | Florian Wellbrock | 15:23.88 |
| 33 | POLPoland | Mateusz Sawrymowicz | 15:26.33 |
| 34 | SVKSlovakia | Richard Nagy | 15:26.48 |
| 35 | HUNHungary | Kristóf Rasovszky | 15:29.36 |
| 36 | SLOSlovenia | Martin Bau | 15:29.95 |
| 37 | BIHBosnia and Herzegovina | Mihajlo Ceprkalo | 15:31.62 |
| 38 | NZLNew Zealand | Matthew Hutchins | 15:32.60 |
| 39 | MASMalaysia | Welson Sim | 15:32.63 |
| 40 | FRAFrance | Nicolas D'Oriano | 15:33.62 |
| 41 | RSASouth Africa | Matthew Meyer | 15:36.22 |
| 42 | AUTAustria | Felix Auböck | 15:36.24 |
| 43 | ARGArgentina | Martin Naidich | 15:39.93 |
| 44 | COKCook Islands | Wesley Roberts | 15:44.32 |
| 45 | CHIChile | Felipe Tapia | 16:02.44 |
| KORSouth Korea | Park Tae-Hwan | DNS | |
| Men's 1500m Freestyle, Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| August 14 - Final | |||
| 1 | ITAItaly | Gregorio Paltrinieri | 14:34.57 |
| 2 | USAUnited States | Connor Jaeger | 14:39.48 |
| 3 | ITAItaly | Gabriele Detti | 14:40.86 |
| 4 | USAUnited States | Jordan Wilimovsky | 14:45.03 |
| 5 | AUSAustralia | Mack Horton | 14:49.54 |
| 6 | CANCanada | Ryan Cochrane | 14:49.61 |
| 7 | FRAFrance | Damien Joly | 14:52.73 |
| 8 | NORNorway | Henrik Christiansen | 15:02.66 |
| Men's 1500m Freestyle, Heats, Heat 6 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| August 12 - Final | |||
| 1 | ITAItaly | Gregorio Paltrinieri | 14:44.51 |
| 2 | USAUnited States | Connor Jaeger | 14:45.74 |
| 3 | AUSAustralia | Jack McLoughlin | 14:56.02 |
| 4 | GBRGreat Britain | Stephen Milne | 14:57.23 |
| 5 | EGYEgypt | Ahmed Akram Abbas | 14:58.37 |
| 6 | UKRUkraine | Mykhaylo Romanchuk | 15:01.35 |
| 7 | HUNHungary | Gergely Gyurta | 15:06.24 |
| 8 | GERGermany | Florian Wellbrock | 15:23.88 |
| Men's 1500m Freestyle, Heats, Heat 5 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| August 12 - Final | |||
| 1 | USAUnited States | Jordan Wilimovsky | 14:48.23 |
| 2 | AUSAustralia | Mack Horton | 14:48.47 |
| 3 | ITAItaly | Gabriele Detti | 14:48.68 |
| 4 | FRAFrance | Damien Joly | 14:48.90 |
| 5 | CANCanada | Ryan Cochrane | 14:53.44 |
| 6 | NORNorway | Henrik Christiansen | 14:55.40 |
| 7 | CHNChina | Sun Yang | 15:01.97 |
| 8 | GBRGreat Britain | Timothy Shuttleworth | 15:13.01 |
| Men's 1500m Freestyle, Heats, Heat 4 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| August 12 - Final | |||
| 1 | CZECzechia | Jan Micka | 14:58.69 |
| 2 | RUSRussia | Yaroslav Potapov | 15:00.99 |
| 3 | UKRUkraine | Sergii Frolov | 15:04.61 |
| 4 | CHNChina | Qiu Ziao | 15:06.71 |
| 5 | POLPoland | Wojciech Wojdak | 15:13.18 |
| 6 | DENDenmark | Pal Joensen | 15:18.49 |
| 7 | SVKSlovakia | Richard Nagy | 15:26.48 |
| 8 | AUTAustria | Felix Auböck | 15:36.24 |
| Men's 1500m Freestyle, Heats, Heat 3 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| August 12 - Final | |||
| 1 | DENDenmark | Anton Ipsen | 15:05.91 |
| 2 | ECUEcuador | Esteban Enderica | 15:10.15 |
| 3 | ESPSpain | Marc Sanchez | 15:11.38 |
| 4 | ESPSpain | Antonio Arroyo | 15:12.61 |
| 5 | POLPoland | Mateusz Sawrymowicz | 15:26.33 |
| 6 | FRAFrance | Nicolas D'Oriano | 15:33.62 |
| 7 | RSASouth Africa | Matthew Meyer | 15:36.22 |
| KORSouth Korea | Park Tae-Hwan | DNS | |
| Men's 1500m Freestyle, Heats, Heat 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| August 12 - Final | |||
| 1 | RUSRussia | Ilya Druzhinin | 14:59.56 |
| 2 | ESAEl Salvador | Marcelo Acosta | 15:08.17 |
| 3 | MEXMexico | Ricardo Vargas Jacobo | 15:11.53 |
| 4 | BRABrazil | Brandon Almeida | 15:14.73 |
| 5 | BRABrazil | Miguel Valente | 15:22.57 |
| 6 | HUNHungary | Kristóf Rasovszky | 15:29.36 |
| 7 | SLOSlovenia | Martin Bau | 15:29.95 |
| 8 | ARGArgentina | Martin Naidich | 15:39.93 |
| Men's 1500m Freestyle, Heats, Heat 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| August 12 - Final | |||
| 1 | TUNTunisia | Oussama Mellouli | 15:07.78 |
| 2 | BIHBosnia and Herzegovina | Mihajlo Ceprkalo | 15:31.62 |
| 3 | NZLNew Zealand | Matthew Hutchins | 15:32.60 |
| 4 | MASMalaysia | Welson Sim | 15:32.63 |
| 5 | COKCook Islands | Wesley Roberts | 15:44.32 |
| 6 | CHIChile | Felipe Tapia | 16:02.44 |
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