Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 1500 metre freestyle
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| Women's 1500 metre freestyle at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships |
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| File:Kazan 2015 - Victory Ceremony 1500m freestyle W.JPG
Medallists
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| Dates | 3 August (heats) 4 August (final) |
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| Competitors | 25 from 21 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 15:25.48 | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| 2015 FINA World Championships Kazan, Russia |
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| Diving | |||||
| Individual | |||||
| 1 m | men | women | |||
| 3 m | men | women | |||
| 10 m | men | women | |||
| Synchronised | |||||
| 3 m | men | women | |||
| 10 m | men | women | |||
| Mixed | 3 m | 10 m | |||
| Team | |||||
| High diving | |||||
| Open water swimming | |||||
| 5 km | men | women | |||
| 10 km | men | women | |||
| 25 km | men | women | |||
| Team | team | ||||
| Swimming | |||||
| Freestyle | |||||
| 50 m | men | women | |||
| 100 m | men | women | |||
| 200 m | men | women | |||
| 400 m | men | women | |||
| 800 m | men | women | |||
| 1500 m | men | women | |||
| Backstroke | |||||
| 50 m | men | women | |||
| 100 m | men | women | |||
| 200 m | men | women | |||
| Breaststroke | |||||
| 50 m | men | women | |||
| 100 m | men | women | |||
| 200 m | men | women | |||
| Butterfly | |||||
| 50 m | men | women | |||
| 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 | |||
| Mixed relay | |||||
| 4×100 m | freestyle | medley | |||
| Synchronised swimming | |||||
| Solo | technical | free | |||
| Duet | technical | free | |||
| Team | technical | free | |||
| combination | |||||
| Mixed duet | technical | free | |||
| Water polo | |||||
The Women's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 3 August with the heats and 4 August with the final.[1]
Contents
Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| World record |  Katie Ledecky (USA) |
15:28.36 | Gold Coast, Australia | 24 August 2014 |
| Championship record | Katie Ledecky (USA) |
15:36.53 | Barcelona, Spain | 30 July 2013 |
The following new records were set during this competition.
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
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| 3 August | Heats | Katie Ledecky | United States |
15:27.71 | WR |
| 4 August | Final | Katie Ledecky | United States |
15:25.48 | WR |
Results
Heats
The Heats were held at 10:56.[2]
Final
The final was held on 4 August at 18:05.[3]
File:Kazan 2015 - Katie Ledecky swims to 1500m gold.JPG
Ledecky swims to gold and WR
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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4 | Katie Ledecky | United States |
15:25.48 | WR |
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2 | Lauren Boyle |  New Zealand |
15:40.14 | OC |
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7 | Boglárka Kapás |  Hungary |
15:47.09 | NR |
| 4 | 5 | Lotte Friis |  Denmark |
15:49.00 | |
| 5 | 3 | Jessica Ashwood |  Australia |
15:52.17 | NR |
| 6 | 1 | Sharon van Rouwendaal |  Netherlands |
16:03.74 | |
| 7 | 6 | Kristel Köbrich |  Chile |
16:06.55 | |
| 8 | 8 | Aurora Ponsele |  Italy |
16:09.57 |
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