{"id":594722,"date":"2024-08-04T10:02:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T17:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=594722"},"modified":"2024-08-04T12:59:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T19:59:28","slug":"flash-bobby-finke-crushes-1500-free-world-record-in-1430-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/flash-bobby-finke-crushes-1500-free-world-record-in-1430-67\/","title":{"rendered":"FLASH! Bobby Finke Crushes 1500 Free World Record In 14:30.67; WJR For Kuzey Tuncelli"},"content":{"rendered":"

FLASH! Bobby Finke Crushes 1500 Free World Record In 14:30.67; WJR For Kuzey Tuncelli<\/h4>\n

Bobby Finke<\/strong> set a new 1500 free world record of 14:30.67, 12 years to the day since Sun Yang<\/strong> set the previous mark at London 2012.<\/p>\n

The American was 0.94 inside Sun’s WR at 1450 and came home in 26.27 to take 0.35 off the Chinese athlete’s long-standing mark and defend the title he won in Tokyo three years ago.<\/p>\n

Finke, coached by Anthony Nesty<\/strong> at the University of Florida, becomes the fourth man to win back-to-back titles in the longest race in the pool, joining fellow American Mike Burton (1968\/1972) and Australian great Kieren Perkins<\/strong> (1992\/1996) and Grant Hackett<\/strong> (2000\/2004).<\/p>\n

Vladimir Salnikov<\/strong> also won two titles but eight years apart in 1980 and 1988.<\/p>\n

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Gregorio Paltrinieri, Bobby Finke & Daniel Wiffen: Photo Courtesy: Andrea Masini \/ Deepbluemeida\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n

Gregorio Paltrinieri<\/strong> was second in 14:34.55, adding silver to his Rio 2016 gold, with Daniel Wiffen adding bronze to his 800 title in 14:39.63.<\/p>\n

David Betlehem<\/strong> of Hungary was fourth in 14:40.91 while also of note was Kuzey Tuncelli<\/strong> who lowered his WJR to 14:41.22, as the 16-year-old finished fifth.<\/p>\n

The Turkish teenager demolished the previous record last month when he went 14:41.89 at the European Junior Championships<\/a> to take 4.2secs off the previous standard of 14:46.09 held by Croatian\u00a0Franko Grgic<\/strong> since 2019.<\/p>\n

Ahmed Jaouadi<\/strong> of Tunisia was sixth in 14:43.35 followed by French pair David Aubry<\/strong> (14:44.66) and Damien Joly<\/strong> (14:52.61)<\/p>\n