Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle
# Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

The Men's 1500 metre Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on July 26–27, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary heats swam in the morning session on July 26, with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim again in the Final during the evening session on July 27.

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

## Results

### Final

| Place | Swimmer | Nation | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Grant Hackett | Australia | 14:43.14 |
| 2 | Igor Chervynskyi | Ukraine | 15:01.04 |
| 3 | Erik Vendt | USA | 15:01.28 |
| 4 | David Davies | Great Britain | 15:05.04 |
| 5 | Larsen Jensen | USA | 15:08.25 |
| 6 | Graeme Smith | Great Britain | 15:12.64 |
| 7 | Christian Minotti | Italy | 15:13.28 |
| 8 | Paweł Korzeniowski | Poland | 15:13.98 |

### Preliminaries

| Rank | Heat+Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | H5 L4 | Grant Hackett | Australia | 15:08.79 | q |
| 2 | H4 L3 | Graeme Smith | Great Britain | 15:12.74 | q |
| 3 | H3 L4 | Erik Vendt | United States | 15:13.41 | q |
| 4 | H3 L3 | David Davies | Great Britain | 15:13.93 | q |
| 5 | H5 L3 | Ihor Chervynskyi | Ukraine | 15:14.01 | q |
| 6 | H3 L5 | Christian Minotti | Italy | 15:14.84 | q |
| 7 | H4 L4 | Larsen Jensen | United States | 15:15.63 | q |
| 8 | H2 L4 | Paweł Korzeniowski | Poland | 15:16.07 | q |
| 9 | H3 L2 | Kurtis MacGillivary | Canada | 15:17.02 | |
| 10 | H4 L5 | Yuri Prilukov | Russia | 15:17.26 | |
| 11 | H3 L6 | Thomas Lurz | Germany | 15:17.85 | |
| 12 | H5 L1 | Alexey Filipets | Russia | 15:20.77 | |
| 13 | H3 L8 | Bojan Zdešar | Slovenia | 15:22.31 | |
| 14 | H5 L5 | Craig Stevens | Australia | 15:22.44 | |
| 15 | H5 L2 | Andrew Hurd | Canada | 15:22.92 | |
| 16 | H5 L8 | Hannes Kalteis | Austria | 15:24.77 | |
| 17 | H3 L7 | Spyridon Gianniotis | Greece | 15:25.16 | |
| 18 | H4 L2 | Shilo Ayalon | Israel | 15:26.86 | |
| 19 | H5 L6 | Dragoș Coman | Romania | 15:33.04 | |
| 20 | H5 L7 | Dzmitry Koptur | Belarus | 15:34.24 | |
| 21 | H4 L1 | Shunichi Fujita | Japan | 15:36.56 | |
| 22 | H4 L8 | Lin Zhang | China | 15:37.03 | |
| 23 | H2 L3 | Luiz Lima | Brazil | 15:43.07 | |
| 24 | H2 L5 | Bruno Bonfim | Brazil | 15:48.41 | |
| 25 | H4 L7 | Georgios Diamantidis | Greece | 15:49.56 | |
| 26 | H1 L3 | Gian Carlo Zolezzi | Chile | 15:55.89 | |
| 27 | H4 L6 | Cheng Yu | China | 16:02.74 | |
| 28 | H2 L2 | Yi-Khy Saw | Malaysia | 16:03.81 | |
| 29 | H2 L6 | Erwin Maldonado | Venezuela | 16:04.08 | |
| 30 | H1 L4 | Mohammad Naeem Masri | Syria | 16:18.28 | |
| 31 | H2 L1 | Raouf Benabid | Algeria | 16:21.67 | |
| 32 | H2 L7 | Kwok Leung Chung | Hong Kong | 16:24.39 | |
| 33 | H2 L8 | Roberto Peñailillo | Chile | 16:36.02 | |
| 34 | H1 L5 | Jonathan Mauri | Costa Rica | 16:53.32 | |
| 35 | H1 L2 | Rony Bakale | Republic of the Congo | 17:11.08 | |
| 36 | H1 L6 | Ivan Grougnet | Andorra | 17:35.25 | |
| 37 | H1 L1 | Steven Mangroo | Seychelles | 17:35.84 | |
| - | - | Nicolas Rostoucher | France | DNS | |
| - | - | Jean-Luc Razakarivony | Madagascar | DNS | |
