Other Sports
1,500 metres is also an event in swimming and speed skating. The world records for the distance in swimming for men are 14:10.10 (swum in a 25 metre pool) swum by Grant Hackett; 14:31.02 (swum in a 50 metre pool) by Sun Yang, and by women 15:32.90 (swum in a 25 metre pool); 15:42.54 (swum in a 50 metre pool) by Kate Ziegler.
The world records for the distance in speed skating are 1:41.04 by Shani Davis and 1:51.79 by Cindy Klassen.
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