| Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad |
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| Swimming events at the 1988 Summer Olympics |
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| 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 1998 Summer Olympics, was contested in the morning of September 24 (preliminaries) and in the afternoon of September 25 (finals).
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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 |
| Place | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| Vladimir Salnikov | Soviet Union | 15:00.40 | ||
| Stefan Pfeiffer | West Germany | 15:02.69 | ||
| Uwe Daßler | East Germany | 15:06.15 | ||
| 4th | Gerry Boyle | Ireland | 15:06.91 | |
| 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 |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 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 |