2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 1500 metre freestyle
# 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

The Men's 1500 Freestyle at the 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) was swum 19 December 2010. 30 individuals swam the event, which was a timed-final where each swimmer swam just once. The top 8 seeded swimmers swam in the evening, and the remain swimmers swam in the morning session.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship records (CR) were:

| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| WR | Grant Hackett | Australia | 14:10.10 | Perth | 7 August 2001 |
| CR | Yury Prilukov | Russia | 14:22.98 | Manchester | 13 April 2008 |

No new world or competition records were set during this competition.

## Results

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 2 | 4 | Oussama Mellouli | Tunisia | 14:24.16 |
| | 4 | 5 | Mads Glæsner | Denmark | 14:29.52 |
| | 4 | 1 | Gergely Gyurta | Hungary | 14:31.47 |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | Federico Colbertaldo | Italy | 14:33.92 |
| 5 | 3 | 2 | Peter Vanderkaay | United States | 14:35.25 |
| 6 | 4 | 3 | Sébastien Rouault | France | 14:42.79 |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | Ahmed Mathlouthi | Tunisia | 14:43.25 |
| 8 | 4 | 8 | Lucas Kanieski | Brazil | 14:45.51 |
| 9 | 3 | 1 | Sean Ryan | United States | 14:46.38 |
| 10 | 3 | 4 | Heerden Herman | South Africa | 14:50.10 |
| 11 | 4 | 2 | Samuel Pizzetti | Italy | 14:52.81 |
| 12 | 1 | 2 | Dai Jun | China | 14:53.80 |
| 13 | 4 | 6 | Pál Joensen | Faroe Islands | 14:54.94 |
| 14 | 1 | 4 | Cristian Quintero | Venezuela | 14:58.50 |
| 15 | 2 | 3 | Esteban Enderica | Ecuador | 15:04.41 |
| 16 | 2 | 1 | Alejandro Gómez | Venezuela | 15:06.80 |
| 17 | 4 | 7 | Serhiy Frolov | Ukraine | 15:07.74 |
| 18 | 3 | 5 | Sergey Bolshakov | Russia | 15:09.15 |
| 19 | 3 | 8 | Christian Scherübl | Austria | 15:12.63 |
| 20 | 3 | 7 | Ventsislav Aydarski | Bulgaria | 15:16.37 |
| 21 | 3 | 6 | Esteban Paz | Argentina | 15:24.31 |
| 22 | 2 | 6 | Ivan Enderica Ochoa | Ecuador | 15:26.84 |
| 23 | 1 | 7 | Zhang Zhongchao | China | 15:28.31 |
| 24 | 2 | 2 | Sebastián Jahnsen Madico | Peru | 15:30.29 |
| 25 | 2 | 7 | Andres Olvik | Estonia | 15:41.81 |
| 26 | 2 | 5 | Gabriel Villagoiz | Argentina | 15:51.06 |
| 27 | 1 | 5 | Irakli Revishvili | Georgia | 15:55.17 |
| 28 | 2 | 8 | Mohamed Farhoud | Egypt | 16:04.64 |
| 29 | 1 | 6 | Jackson Niyomugabo | Rwanda | 23:27.92 |
| | 1 | 3 | Derrick Bakhuis | Netherlands Antilles | DNF |
