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

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.

Men's 1500 metre freestyle
at the 2006 Asian Games
VenueHamad Aquatic Centre
Date7 December 2006
Competitors15 from 12 nations
Medalists
gold medal    South Korea
silver medal    China
bronze medal    Japan
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Schedule edit

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

DateTimeEvent
Thursday, 7 December 200610:49Final 1
18:41Final 2

Records edit

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

World Record  Grant Hackett (AUS)14:34.56Fukuoka, Japan29 July 2001
Asian Record  Zhang Lin (CHN)15:00.27Macau2 November 2005
Games Record  Yu Cheng (CHN)15:10.99Busan, South Korea4 October 2002

Results edit

Legend
  • DNS — Did not start
RankHeatAthleteTimeNotes
2  Park Tae-hwan (KOR)14:55.03AR
2  Zhang Lin (CHN)15:03.13
2  Takeshi Matsuda (JPN)15:17.18
42  Kang Yong-hwan (KOR)15:23.53
52  Kenichi Doki (JPN)15:29.07
62  Zhang Enjian (CHN)15:35.35
72  Tharnawat Thanakornworakiart (THA)16:03.88
81  Marcus Cheah (SIN)16:04.33
91  Naeem Al-Masri (SYR)16:08.68
101  Ryan Arabejo (PHI)16:09.10
112  Nawaf Al-Wazan (KUW)16:18.65
121  Tang Sheng-chieh (TPE)16:31.72
131  Timur Kartabaev (KGZ)18:02.12
1  Mohammad Bidarian (IRI)DNS
1  Anas Abu Yousuf (QAT)DNS

References edit