Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle


The men's 1500 metre freestyle event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place on 23 September at the Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool in Seoul, South Korea.

Records

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

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A.
RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
15Matt Cetlinski15:07.41Q
24Vladimir Salnikov15:07.83Q
33Stefan Pfeiffer15:07.85Q
44Uwe Daßler15:08.91Q
54Mariusz Podkościelny15:11.19Q
64Jörg Hoffmann15:14.13Q,
75Rainer Henkel15:14.64Q
85Darjan Petrič15:16.99Q
93Kevin Boyd15:17.56Q
105Luca Pellegrini15:18.80
114Michael McKenzie15:19.36
123Christophe Marchand15:22.19
134Franck Iacono15:22.66
145Jason Plummer15:22.85
152Valter Kalaus15:23.01
163Christopher Chalmers15:23.22
175Stefan Persson15:24.33
184Igor Majcen15:29.16
193Harry Taylor15:30.31
203Stefano Battistelli15:36.54
214Artur Wojdat15:37.52
225Tony Day15:38.75
233Lars Jorgensen15:39.51
245Wang Dali15:45.96
252Masashi Kato15:47.35
262Cristiano Michelena15:50.50
272Yoshiyuki Mizumoto15:52.06
282Norbert Ágh15:52.80
292Jeffrey Ong15:53.67
302Artur Costa15:56.13
312Ragnar Guðmundsson15:57.54
323David Castro15:57.89
331Wu Ming-hsun15:59.74
341Yang Wook16:21.10
351Jonathan Sakovich16:26.77

Final

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
5Vladimir Salnikov15:00.40
3Stefan Pfeiffer15:02.69
6Uwe Daßler15:06.15
44Matthew Cetlinski15:06.42
52Mariusz Podkościelny15:14.76
67Rainer Henkel15:18.19
78Kevin Boyd15:21.16
81Darjan Petrič15:37.12