2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

The Men's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 10 December 2024.

Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Duna Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	10 December
Competitors	26 from 24 nations
Winning time	14:16.40
Medalists
Ahmed Jaouadi   Tunisia   Florian Wellbrock   Germany   Kuzey Tunçelli   Turkey

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record	Florian Wellbrock (GER)	14:06.88	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	21 December 2021
Competition record	Florian Wellbrock (GER)	14:06.88	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	21 December 2021

Results

The slowest heats were started at 11:45, and the fastest heat at 18:50.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	5	Ahmed Jaouadi	Tunisia	14:16.40
	2	5	Florian Wellbrock	Germany	14:17.27
	3	1	Kuzey Tunçelli	Turkey	14:20.64	WJ, NR
4	3	6	Damien Joly	France	14:22.12
5	2	6	Sven Schwarz	Germany	14:22.29
6	2	2	Luca De Tullio	Italy	14:28.44
7	3	3	Kirill Martynychev	Neutral Athletes B	14:28.56
8	3	4	Zalán Sárkány	Hungary	14:32.10
9	3	8	Nathan Wiffen	Ireland	14:32.65
10	3	2	Victor Johansson	Sweden	14:34.27	NR
11	2	8	Daniel Matheson	United States	14:37.56
12	2	3	Andrei Proca	Romania	14:39.42
13	2	4	Charlie Clark	United States	14:41.61
14	3	7	Kazushi Imafuku	Japan	14:48.01
15	2	1	Kris Mihaylov	South Africa	14:52.53
16	2	9	Timothé Barbeau	Canada	15:02.76
17	2	7	Chen Shengxin	China	15:04.43
18	1	7	Mark Iltšišin	Estonia	15:06.05
19	2	0	Muhd Dhuha Bin Zulfikry	Malaysia	15:14.66
20	1	1	Kevin Teixeira	Andorra	15:19.02	NR
21	1	2	Diego Dulieu	Honduras	15:20.52
22	1	6	Larn Hamblyn-Ough	New Zealand	15:20.84
23	1	5	Marin Mogić	Croatia	15:25.18
24	1	4	Hung Pen-han	Chinese Taipei	15:31.46
25	1	8	Timothy Leberl	Mauritius	15:55.08	NR
26	1	3	He Shing Ip	Hong Kong	16:12.57