Year	Gold			Silver			Bronze
2025 Men 1500m Freestyle	Ahmed Jaouadi	TUN	14:34.41	Sven Schwarz	GER	14:35.69	Bobby Finke	USA	14:36.60
2024 Men 1500m Freestyle	Daniel Wiffen	IRL	14:34.07	Florian Wellbrock	GER	14:44.61	David Aubry	FRA	14:44.85
2023 Men 1500m Freestyle	Ahmed Hafnaoui	TUN	14:31.54	Bobby Finke	USA	14:31.59	Samuel Short	AUS	14:37.28
2022 Men 1500m Freestyle	Gregorio Paltrinieri	ITA	14:32.80	Bobby Finke	USA	14:36.70	Florian Wellbrock	GER	14:36.94
2019 Men_1500m_Freestyle	Florian Wellbrock	GER	14:36.54	Mykhailo Romanchuk	UKR	14:37.63	Gregorio Paltrinieri	ITA	14:38.75
2017 Men_1500m_Freestyle	Gregorio Paltrinieri	ITA	14:35.85	Mykhailo Romanchuk	UKR	14:37.14	Mack Horton	AUS	14:47.70
2015 Men_1500m_Freestyle	Gregorio Paltrinieri	ITA	14:39.67	Connor Jaeger	USA	14:41.20	Ryan Cochrane	CAN	14:51.08
2013 Men_1500m_Freestyle	Yang Sun	CHN	14:41.15	Ryan Cochrane	CAN	14:42.48	Gregorio Paltrinieri	ITA	14:45.37
2011 Men_1500m_Freestyle	Yang Sun	CHN	14:34.14	Ryan Cochrane	CAN	14:44.46	Gergo Kis	HUN	14:45.66
2009 Men_1500m_Freestyle	Oussama Mellouli	TUN	14:37.28	Ryan Cochrane	CAN	14:41.38	Yang Sun	CHN	14:46.84
2005 Men_1500m_Freestyle	Grant Hackett	AUS	14:42.58	Larsen Jensen	USA	14:47.58	David Davies	GBR	14:48.11
2003 Men_1500m_Freestyle	Grant Hackett	AUS	14:43.14	Igor Chervynskyi	UKR	15:01.04	Erik Vendt	USA	15:01.28
2001 Men_1500m_Freestyle	Grant Hackett	AUS	14:34.56	Graeme Smith	GBR	14:58.94	Alexei Filipets	RUS	15:01.43
1998 Men_1500m_Freestyle	Grant Hackett	AUS	14:51.70	Emiliano Brembilla	ITA	15:00.59	Daniel Kowalski	AUS	15:03.94
1994 Men_1500m_Freestyle	Kieren Perkins	AUS	14:50.52	Daniel Kowalski	AUS	14:53.42	Steffen Zesner	GER	15:09.20
1991 Men_1500m_Freestyle	Joerg Hoffmann	GER	14:50.36	Kieren Perkins	AUS	14:50.58	Steffan Pfeiffer	USA	14:59.34
1986 Men_1500m_Freestyle	Rainer Henkel	FRG	15:05.31	Stefano Battistelli	ITA	15:14.80	Daniel Jorgensen	USA	15:16.23
1982 Men_1500m_Freestyle	Vladimir Slanikov	URS	15:01.77	Svyatoslav Semenov	URS	15:05.54	Darjan Petric	YUG	15:10.20
1978 Men_1500m_Freestyle	Vladimir Slanikov	URS	15:03.99	Borut Petric	YUG	15:20.77	Bobby Hackett	USA	15:23.38
1975 Men_1500m_Freestyle	Tim Shaw	USA	15:28.92	Brian Goodell	USA	15:39.00	David Parker	GBR	15:58.21
1973 Men_1500m_Freestyle	Stephen Holland	AUS	15:31.85	Rick Demont	USA	15:35.44	Brad Cooper	AUS	15:45.04

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