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

Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Medalists
Vladimir Salnikov   Soviet Union   Stefan Pfeiffer   West Germany   Uwe Daßler   East Germany

Swimming events at the 1988 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
Medley relay
4×100 m		men		women

The men's 1500 freestyle at the 1988 Summer Olympics, was contested in the morning of September 24 (preliminaries) and in the afternoon of September 25 (finals).

Records

The existing World and Olympic records at the time of the event were:

World record	Vladimir Salnikov (URS)	14:54.76	Moscow, USSR	22 February 1983
Olympic record	Vladimir Salnikov (URS)	14:58.27	Moscow, USSR	22 July 1980

Finals

A Final

Place	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Vladimir Salnikov	Soviet Union	15:00.40
	Stefan Pfeiffer	West Germany	15:02.69
	Uwe Daßler	East Germany	15:06.15
4th	Matt Cetlinski	United States	15:06.42
5th	Mariusz Podkościelny	Poland	15:14.76
6th	Rainer Henkel	West Germany	15:18.19
7th	Kevin Boyd	Great Britain	15:21.16
8th	Darjan Petrič	Yugoslavia	15:37.12

Preliminary heats

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Matt Cetlinski	United States	15:07.41	q-A
2	Vladimir Salnikov	Soviet Union	15:07.83	q-A
3	Stefan Pfeiffer	West Germany	15:07.85	q-A
4	Uwe Daßler	East Germany	15:08.91	q-A
5	Mariusz Podkościelny	Poland	15:11.19	q-A
6	Jörg Hoffmann	East Germany	15:14.13	q-A Scratched final
7	Rainer Henkel	West Germany	15:14.64	q-A
8	Darjan Petrič	Yugoslavia	15:16.99	q-A
9	Kevin Boyd	Great Britain	15:17.56
10	Luca Pellegrini	Italy	15:18.80
11	Michael Bruce McKenzie	Australia	15:19.36
12	Christophe Marchand	France	15:22.19
13	Franck Iacono	France	15:22.66
14	Jason Plummer	Australia	15:22.85
15	Walter Kalaus	Hungary	15:23.01
16	Chris Chalmers	Canada	15:23.22
17	Stefan Persson	Sweden	15:24.33
18	Igor Majcen	Yugoslavia	15:29.16
19	Harry Taylor	Canada	15:30.31
20	Stefano Battistelli	Italy	15:36.54
21	Artur Wojdat	Poland	15:37.52
22	Tony Day	Great Britain	15:38.75
23	Lars Jorgensen	United States	15:39.51
24	Dali Wang	China	15:45.96
25	Masashi Kato	Japan	15:47.35
26	Cristiano Michelena	Brazil	15:50.50
27	Yoshiyuki Mizumoto	Japan	15:52.06
28	Norbert Agh	Hungary	15:52.80
29	Kuan Seng J. Ong	Malaysia	15:53.67
30	Artur Costa	Portugal	15:56.13
31	Ragnar Guðmundsson	Iceland	15:57.54
32	David Castro	Brazil	15:57.89
33	Ming-Hsun Wu	Chinese Taipei	15:59.74
34	Wook Yang	South Korea	16:21.10
35	Jonathan Sakovich	Guam	16:26.77

References

• Swimming World Magazine, November 1988.