# Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

The heats for the men's 1500 m freestyle race at the 2009 World Championships took place on the morning of 1 August, with the final in the evening session of 2 August at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship record were as follows:
| World record | Grant Hackett (AUS) | 14:34.56 | Fukuoka, Japan | 29 July 2001 |
| Championship record | Grant Hackett (AUS) | 14:34.56 | Fukuoka, Japan | 29 July 2001 |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Heat | Lane | Notes |
| 1 | Sun Yang | China | 14:54.54 | 5 | 3 | |
| 2 | Oussama Mellouli | Tunisia | 14:54.56 | 5 | 4 | |
| 3 | Ryan Cochrane | Canada | 14:56.56 | 4 | 4 | |
| 4 | Marco Rivera | Spain | 14:57.47 | 4 | 7 | NR |
| 5 | Zhang Lin | China | 14:58.46 | 4 | 5 | |
| 6 | Federico Colbertaldo | Italy | 14:58.98 | 3 | 5 | |
| 7 | David Davies | United Kingdom | 15:00.52 | 5 | 5 | |
| 8 | Samuel Pizzetti | Italy | 15:00.70 | 4 | 6 | |
| 9 | Park Tae-Hwan | South Korea | 15:00.87 | 4 | 3 | |
| 10 | Mads Glæsner | Denmark | 15:01.80 | 5 | 6 | |
| 11 | Ryan Napoleon | Australia | 15:09.55 | 3 | 6 | |
| 12 | Jackson Wilcox | United States | 15:09.66 | 5 | 1 | |
| 13 | Tom Vangeneugden | Belgium | 15:12.95 | 3 | 7 | |
| 14 | Robert Hurley | Australia | 15:14.75 | 3 | 2 | |
| 15 | Brennan Morris | United States | 15:16.37 | 3 | 1 | |
| 16 | Nicolas Rostoucher | France | 15:16.49 | 3 | 3 | |
| 17 | Pál Joensen | Faroe Islands | 15:21.37 | 5 | 2 | |
| 18 | Ryoji Sononaka | Japan | 15:24.13 | 4 | 2 | |
| 19 | Igor Snitko | Ukraine | 15:26.97 | 4 | 8 | |
| 20 | Esteban Paz | Argentina | 15:31.45 | 4 | 0 | NR |
| 21 | David Brandl | Austria | 15:31.46 | 5 | 8 | |
| 22 | Richard Charlesworth | United Kingdom | 15:36.64 | 5 | 7 | |
| 23 | Ricardo Monasterio | Venezuela | 15:37.48 | 3 | 9 | |
| 24 | Alejandro Gómez | Venezuela | 15:38.93 | 2 | 4 | |
| 25 | Oleksandr Lutchenko | Ukraine | 15:39.57 | 3 | 8 | |
| 26 | Pi Seungyeop | South Korea | 15:47.94 | 5 | 9 | |
| 27 | Luis Escobar | Mexico | 15:52.60 | 5 | 0 | |
| 28 | Daniel Delgadillo | Mexico | 15:56.42 | 3 | 0 | |
| 29 | Florian Janistyn | Austria | 15:57.96 | 4 | 1 | |
| 30 | Mateo de Angulo | Colombia | 16:03.31 | 2 | 6 | |
| 31 | Esteban Enderica | Ecuador | 16:07.59 | 2 | 7 | |
| 32 | Mandar Divase | India | 16:12.28 | 1 | 0 | |
| 33 | Pan Kai-Wen | Chinese Taipei | 16:18.38 | 4 | 9 | |
| 34 | Chien Jui-Ting | Chinese Taipei | 16:22.09 | 2 | 3 | |
| 35 | Hajder Ensar | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 16:32.01 | 1 | 1 | |
| 36 | Ivan Alejandro Enderica | Ecuador | 16:32.83 | 2 | 0 | |
| 37 | Roberto Peñailillo Garcia | Chile | 16:38.70 | 2 | 1 | |
| 38 | Luis Andres Martorell Name | Honduras | 16:50.12 | 1 | 6 | |
| 39 | Vitalii Khudiakov | Kyrgyzstan | 16:50.18 | 1 | 4 | |
| 40 | Aleksandr Slepchenko | Kyrgyzstan | 16:52.35 | 2 | 9 | |
| 41 | Allan Gutierrez Castro | Honduras | 16:52.71 | 1 | 5 | |
| 42 | Heimanu Sichan | French Polynesia | 17:08.44 | 1 | 2 | NR |
| 43 | Paul Elaisa | Fiji | 17:58.23 | 1 | 7 | |
| – | Omar Núñez | Nicaragua | DNS | 1 | 3 | |
| – | Naser Aldaya | Palestine | DNS | 1 | 8 | |
| – | Ignacio Quevedo Bubba | Bolivia | DNS | 1 | 9 | |
| – | Mohamed Farhoud | Egypt | DNS | 2 | 2 | |
| – | Jan Karel Petric | Slovenia | DNS | 2 | 5 | |
| – | Yury Prilukov | Russia | DNS | 3 | 4 | |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Lane | Time | Notes |
| | Oussama Mellouli | Tunisia | 5 | 14:37.28 | AF |
| | Ryan Cochrane | Canada | 3 | 14:41.38 | |
| | Sun Yang | China | 4 | 14:46.84 | |
| 4 | Federico Colbertaldo | Italy | 7 | 14:48.28 | NR |
| 5 | Zhang Lin | China | 2 | 14:54.23 | |
| 6 | David Davies | United Kingdom | 1 | 14:57.03 | |
| 7 | Marco Rivera | Spain | 6 | 15:01.92 | |
| 8 | Samuel Pizzetti | Italy | 8 | 15:19.38 | |