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

## Schedule

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

| Date | Time | Event |
| - | - | - |
| Thursday, 7 December 2006 | 10:49 | Final 1 |
| Thursday, 7 December 2006 | 18:41 | 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 | Zhang Lin (CHN) | 15:00.27 | Macau | 2 November 2005 |
| Games Record | Yu Cheng (CHN) | 15:10.99 | Busan, South Korea | 4 October 2002 |

## Results

### Legend

* DNS — Did not start

| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | 2 | Park Tae-hwan (KOR) | 14:55.03 | AR |
| | 2 | Zhang Lin (CHN) | 15:03.13 | |
| | 2 | Takeshi Matsuda (JPN) | 15:17.18 | |
| 4 | 2 | Kang Yong-hwan (KOR) | 15:23.53 | |
| 5 | 2 | Kenichi Doki (JPN) | 15:29.07 | |
| 6 | 2 | Zhang Enjian (CHN) | 15:35.35 | |
| 7 | 2 | Tharnawat Thanakornworakiart (THA) | 16:03.88 | |
| 8 | 1 | Marcus Cheah (SIN) | 16:04.33 | |
| 9 | 1 | Naeem Al-Masri (SYR) | 16:08.68 | |
| 10 | 1 | Ryan Arabejo (PHI) | 16:09.10 | |
| 11 | 2 | Nawaf Al-Wazan (KUW) | 16:18.65 | |
| 12 | 1 | Tang Sheng-chieh (TPE) | 16:31.72 | |
| 13 | 1 | Timur Kartabaev (KGZ) | 18:02.12 | |
| — | 1 | Mohammad Bidarian (IRI) | DNS | |
| — | 1 | Anas Abu Yousuf (QAT) | DNS | |
