Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 1500 metre freestyle

Women's 1500 metre freestyle
at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 1500 metre freestyle ; at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	July 25, 2011 (heats); July 26, 2011 (final)
Competitors	26 from 23 nations
Winning time	15:49.59
Medalists
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The Women's 1500 Freestyle event at the 2011 FINA World Championships was held on July 25 and 26, 2011 in Shanghai, China. Preliminary heats were swum July 25, with the top-8 swimmers advancing to swim again in the final on July 26.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Kate Ziegler	United States	15:42.54	Mission Viejo	June 17, 2007
Championship record	Alessia Filippi	Italy	15:44.93	Rome	July 28, 2009

Results

Heats

26 swimmer participated in 4 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Lotte Friis	Denmark	16:00.47	Q
2	3	7	Shao Yiwen	China	16:01.72	Q
3	4	5	Kate Ziegler	United States	16:02.53	Q
4	3	6	Kristel Köbrich	Chile	16:03.50	Q
5	4	7	Wendy Trott	South Africa	16:05.63	Q, AF, NR
6	4	3	Li Xuanxu	China	16:05.82	Q
7	3	4	Melissa Gorman	Australia	16:07.39	Q
8	3	5	Erika Villaécija García	Spain	16:12.45	Q
9	4	6	Chloe Sutton	United States	16:13.20
10	2	4	Gráinne Murphy	Ireland	16:14.81
11	3	3	Éva Risztov	Hungary	16:22.60
12	2	5	Keri-Anne Payne	Great Britain	16:23.11
13	3	2	Martina Rita Caramignoli	Italy	16:23.75
14	4	2	Andreina Pinto	Venezuela	16:23.96
15	2	3	Jessica Ashwood	Australia	16:25.85
16	4	8	Patricia Castañeda	Mexico	16:26.36	NR
17	2	6	Camelia Potec	Romania	16:29.79
18	2	8	Julia Hassler	Liechtenstein	16:34.74	NR
19	2	2	Marianna Lymperta	Greece	16:35.16
20	3	1	Savannah King	Canada	16:35.67
21	2	7	Nina Dittrich	Austria	16:37.15
22	2	1	Charetzeni Escobar	Mexico	16:40.09
23	1	4	Han Na-Kyeong	South Korea	17:06.37
24	3	8	Maja Cesar	Slovenia	17:22.42
25	1	5	Yesim Giresunlu	Turkey	17:23.60
26	1	3	Simona Marinova	North Macedonia	17:44.99
–	4	1	Cecilia Biagioli	Argentina		DNS

Final

The final was held at 18:35.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Lotte Friis	Denmark	15:49.59
	3	Kate Ziegler	United States	15:55.60
	7	Li Xuanxu	China	15:58.02	AS
4	6	Kristel Köbrich	Chile	16:05.11
5	1	Melissa Gorman	Australia	16:05.98
6	2	Wendy Trott	South Africa	16:06.02
7	8	Erika Villaécija García	Spain	16:09.71
8	5	Shao Yiwen	China	16:12.01