Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

The men's 1500 metre freestyle event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 26 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.^[1]

Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia Tech Aquatic Center
Date	26 July 1996 (heats & final)
Competitors	34 from 26 nations
Winning time	14:56.40
Medalists
Kieren Perkins  Australia Daniel Kowalski  Australia Graeme Smith  Great Britain
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Records

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

World record	Kieren Perkins (AUS)	14:41.66	Victoria, Canada	24 August 1994
Olympic record	Kieren Perkins (AUS)	14:43.48	Barcelona, Spain	31 July 1992

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q).^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Daniel Kowalski	Australia	15:12.55	Q
2	3	4	Graeme Smith	Great Britain	15:14.81	Q
3	5	5	Aleksey Akatyev	Russia	15:16.47	Q
4	5	1	Emiliano Brembilla	Italy	15:16.72	Q, NR
5	4	5	Jörg Hoffmann	Germany	15:18.61	Q
6	5	2	Masato Hirano	Japan	15:19.48	Q
7	3	7	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	15:19.98	Q, AF
8	5	4	Kieren Perkins	Australia	15:21.42	Q
9	5	6	Steffen Zesner	Germany	15:21.65
10	3	3	Paul Palmer	Great Britain	15:22.65
11	4	7	Luiz Lima	Brazil	15:24.16
12	4	3	Peter Wright	United States	15:25.43
13	3	5	Carlton Bruner	United States	15:25.82
14	4	6	Alexei Butsenin	Russia	15:31.27
15	3	6	Ihor Snitko	Ukraine	15:31.40
16	4	8	Torlarp Sethsothorn	Thailand	15:40.04	NR
17	4	1	Yann de Fabrique	France	15:40.49
18	5	3	Marco Formentini	Italy	15:41.14
19	2	2	Sergey Mikhnovets	Belarus	15:41.80	NR
20	2	4	Ricardo Monasterio	Venezuela	15:42.39
21	3	1	Frederik Hviid	Spain	15:42.40
22	5	7	Hisato Yasui	Japan	15:43.66
23	2	5	Jacob Carstensen	Denmark	15:43.75
24	3	2	Denys Zavhorodnyy	Ukraine	15:46.79
25	3	8	Lee Kyu-chang	South Korea	15:47.92
26	2	7	Agustín Fiorilli	Argentina	15:51.85
27	2	3	Scott Cameron	New Zealand	15:56.60
28	4	2	Igor Majcen	Slovenia	16:10.81
29	1	4	Ramón Valle	Honduras	16:14.76
30	2	6	Dimitrios Manganas	Greece	16:15.94
31	2	1	Pedro Ferreira	Portugal	16:34.55
32	5	8	Hisham Al-Masri	Syria	16:42.35
33	1	3	Hamed Rezakhani	Iran	17:22.86
34	1	5	Rashid Salim Al-Ma'shari	Oman	18:11.59

Final

^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	8	Kieren Perkins	Australia	14:56.40
	4	Daniel Kowalski	Australia	15:02.43
	5	Graeme Smith	Great Britain	15:02.48	NR
4	6	Emiliano Brembilla	Italy	15:08.58	NR
5	1	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	15:14.63	AF
6	7	Masato Hirano	Japan	15:17.28	NR
7	2	Jörg Hoffmann	Germany	15:18.86
8	3	Aleksey Akatyev	Russia	15:21.68

References

1. "Swimming at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Men's 1,500 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
2. "Atlanta 1996: Swimming – Men's 1500m Freestyle Heats" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. pp. 40–41. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
3. "Atlanta 1996: Swimming – Men's 1500m Freestyle Final" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 41. Retrieved 10 September 2017.

External links

• Official Report
• USA Swimming