# Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

The Men's 1500 metre freestyle competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 29 and 30 July 2017.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| World record | Sun Yang (CHN) | 14:31.02 | London, Great Britain | 4 August 2012 |
| Competition record | Sun Yang (CHN) | 14:34.14 | Shanghai, China | 31 July 2011 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held on 29 July at 10:44.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 3 | Mykhailo Romanchuk | Ukraine | 14:44.11 | Q, NR |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | Gregorio Paltrinieri | Italy | 14:44.31 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | 5 | Gabriele Detti | Italy | 14:50.10 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 7 | Jan Micka | Czech Republic | 14:55.47 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | 6 | Wojciech Wojdak | Poland | 14:57.39 | Q |
| 6 | 4 | 6 | Henrik Christiansen | Norway | 14:57.41 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 4 | Mack Horton | Australia | 14:59.24 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Serhiy Frolov | Ukraine | 14:59.32 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | 4 | Park Tae-hwan | South Korea | 14:59.44 | |
| 10 | 3 | 2 | Ahmed Akram | Egypt | 14:59.56 | |
| 11 | 3 | 5 | Jack McLoughlin | Australia | 15:01.55 | |
| 12 | 3 | 1 | Felix Auböck | Austria | 15:02.78 | |
| 13 | 3 | 7 | Ilya Druzhinin | Russia | 15:03.05 | |
| 14 | 2 | 3 | Marcelo Acosta | El Salvador | 15:04.79 | |
| 15 | 2 | 0 | Victor Johansson | Sweden | 15:05.91 | NR |
| 16 | 4 | 1 | True Sweetser | United States | 15:07.38 | |
| 17 | 4 | 2 | Florian Wellbrock | Germany | 15:07.43 | |
| 18 | 3 | 3 | Daniel Jervis | Great Britain | 15:07.97 | |
| 19 | 3 | 9 | Guilherme Costa | Brazil | 15:08.09 | |
| 20 | 4 | 9 | Anton Ipsen | Denmark | 15:10.02 | |
| 21 | 4 | 8 | Robert Finke | United States | 15:15.15 | |
| 22 | 3 | 0 | Antonio Arroyo | Spain | 15:18.50 | |
| 23 | 2 | 2 | Brent Szurdoki | South Africa | 15:18.84 | |
| 24 | 2 | 7 | Kristóf Rasovszky | Hungary | 15:23.87 | |
| 25 | 2 | 5 | Ji Xinjie | China | 15:23.91 | |
| 26 | 2 | 6 | Ákos Kalmár | Hungary | 15:23.96 | |
| 27 | 2 | 1 | Ricardo Vargas | Mexico | 15:24.79 | |
| 28 | 2 | 8 | Guilherme Pina | Portugal | 15:26.10 | |
| 29 | 2 | 9 | Bogdan Scarlat | Romania | 15:26.18 | |
| 30 | 1 | 9 | Nguyễn Hữu Kim Sơn | Vietnam | 15:29.90 | NR |
| 31 | 1 | 3 | Huang Guo-ting | Chinese Taipei | 15:31.10 | |
| 32 | 1 | 2 | Aflah Fadlan Prawira | Indonesia | 15:31.27 | NR |
| 33 | 1 | 5 | Dimitrios Negris | Greece | 15:35.55 | |
| 34 | 1 | 1 | Óli Mortensen | Faroe Islands | 15:37.77 | |
| 35 | 1 | 7 | Christian Bayo | Puerto Rico | 15:52.78 | |
| 36 | 1 | 6 | Wesley Roberts | Cook Islands | 16:15.04 | |
| 37 | 1 | 0 | Franci Aleksi | Albania | 16:42.97 | |
| | 1 | 4 | Martín Naidich | Argentina | DNS | DNS |
| | 1 | 8 | Felipe Tapia | Chile | DNS | DNS |
| | 3 | 8 | Sun Yang | China | DNS | DNS |

### Final

The final was held on 30 July at 18:38.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Gregorio Paltrinieri | Italy | 14:35.85 | |
| | 4 | Mykhailo Romanchuk | Ukraine | 14:37.14 | NR |
| | 1 | Mack Horton | Australia | 14:47.70 | |
| 4 | 3 | Gabriele Detti | Italy | 14:52.07 | |
| 5 | 7 | Henrik Christiansen | Norway | 14:54.58 | |
| 6 | 8 | Serhiy Frolov | Ukraine | 14:55.10 | |
| 7 | 2 | Wojciech Wojdak | Poland | 15:01.27 | |
| 8 | 6 | Jan Micka | Czech Republic | 15:09.28 | |