SwimmingSwimming world record
1500 m freestyle, men, 25 m pool
14 min 06.88 s
- Holder
- Florian Wellbrock
- Date
- Place
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Standing since
- 2021 (4 years)
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What to remember
Florian Wellbrock is at home both in the pool and in open water. On December 21, 2021, at the short course World Championships in Abu Dhabi, the German covered the 1500 m freestyle in 14 min 06.88 s.
Wellbrock specialises in freestyle and open water swimming. At the 2020 Games he won the 10 km open water race and took bronze in the pool 1500 m freestyle, a medal in each discipline.
Olympic for men since 1908, the 1500 m freestyle has also been swum at the World Aquatics Championships from 1973. World Aquatics, formerly FINA, keeps separate records for the 50-metre long course pool and the 25-metre short course pool. In short course, the records belong to Wellbrock and America's Katie Ledecky; his compatriot Johannes Liebmann holds the men's long course mark.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “List of world records in swimming” (revision used 1379527312). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo: Republic of Korea from Seoul, Republic of Korea, Photo licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons).
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