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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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Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 m	men	women
4 × 200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4 × 100 m	men	women
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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.

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).

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

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

• Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Men's events at the 1996 Summer Olympics