Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle
# Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

The men's 1500 metre freestyle swimming competition at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan was held on 4 October at the Sajik Swimming Pool. This was a timed-final event, meaning that each swimmer only swam once, with the fastest eight (8) entrants swimming in the finals.

## Schedule

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

| Date | Time | Event |
| - | - | - |
| Friday, 4 October 2002 | 10:00 | Final 1 |
| Friday, 4 October 2002 | 19:00 | Final 2 |

## Records

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

| World Record | Grant Hackett (AUS) | 14:34.56 | Fukuoka, Japan | 29 July 2001 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Asian Record | Masato Hirano (JPN) | 15:14.43 | Sydney, Australia | 22 September 2000 |
| Games Record | Masato Hirano (JPN) | 15:22.20 | Bangkok, Thailand | 6 December 1998 |

## Results

### Legend

* DNS — Did not start

| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | 2 | Yu Cheng (CHN) | 15:10.99 | AR |
| | 2 | Cho Sung-mo (KOR) | 15:12.32 | |
| | 2 | Han Kyu-chul (KOR) | 15:22.38 | |
| 4 | 2 | Shunichi Fujita (JPN) | 15:24.64 | |
| 5 | 2 | Zheng Shibin (CHN) | 15:46.13 | |
| 6 | 2 | Miguel Mendoza (PHI) | 15:46.40 | |
| 7 | 2 | Takeshi Matsuda (JPN) | 15:57.29 | |
| 8 | 1 | Chung Kwok Leung (HKG) | 16:05.79 | |
| 9 | 1 | Naeem Al-Masri (SYR) | 16:37.91 | |
| 10 | 1 | Anas Abu Yousuf (QAT) | 17:41.59 | |
| 11 | 1 | Ahmed Salamoun (QAT) | 19:12.90 | |
| — | 2 | Carlo Piccio (PHI) | DNS | |
