| Men 1500m Freestyle Swimming II World Championship 1975 Cali, Colombia - Wednesday, 23rd July - Gold Medal: Tim Shaw | 
| Final |   | time |   | gap | L | ag |  | 1. Tim Shaw |   United States | 15:28.92 |   | - | 4 | 17 |  | 2. Brian Goodell |   United States | 15:39.00 |   | +10.08s | 5 | 16 |  | 3. David Parker |   Great Britain | 15:58.21 |   | +29.29s | 4 | 16 |  | 4. Frank Pfutze |   East Germany | 16:05.32 |   | +36.40s | 7 | 16 |  | 5. Rainer Strohbach |   East Germany | 16:09.75 |   | +40.83s | 3 | 17 |  | 6. Mark Treffers |   New Zealand | 16:11.17 |   | +42.25s | 1 | 21 |  | 7. Igor Yevgrafov |   Soviet Union | 16:11.20 |   | +42.28s | 8 | _ |  | 8. Max Metzker |   Australia | 16:16.02 |   | +47.10s | 2 | 15 |   
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 Heats - Tuesday, 22nd July |  | Best 8 times advanced to Final>. |   
| Heat 3 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk  |  | 1. Tim Shaw |   United States | 15:58.30 |   | - | - | 17 | 1. |  | 3. Rainer Strohbach |   East Germany | 16:09.18 |   | +10.88s | - | 17 | 2. |  | 6. Frank Pfutze |   East Germany | 16:16.61 |   | +18.31s | - | 16 | 3. |  | 7. Mark Treffers |   New Zealand | 16:18.12 |   | +19.82s | - | 21 | 4. |  | 10.Michael Ker |   Canada | 16:23.90 |   | +25.60s | - | 18 | 5. |  | 13.Brett Naylor |   New Zealand | 16:33.57 |   | +35.27s | - | 18 | 6. |  | 14.Jose Bas |   Spain | 16:35.13 |   | +36.83s | - | 23 | 7. |  | 19.Giorgio Dini |   Colombia | 18:13.92 |   | +2:15.62 | - | _ | 8. |   
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| Heat 2 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk  |  | 2. Brian Goodell |   United States | 16:06.40 |   | +8.10s | - | 16 | 1. |  | 8. Igor Yevgrafov |   Soviet Union | 16:19.23 |   | +20.93s | - | _ | 2. |  | 9. Peter Pettersson |   Sweden | 16:21.63 |   | +23.33s | - | 17 | 3. |  | 12.Henk Elzerman |   Netherlands | 16:32.54 |   | +34.24s | - | 16 | 4. |  | 17.Sergey Rusin |   Soviet Union | 16:46.04 |   | +47.74s | - | 15 | 5. |   
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| Heat 1 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk  |  | 4. David Parker |   Great Britain | 16:14.58 |   | +16.28s | - | 16 | 1. |  | 5. Max Metzker |   Australia | 16:16.24 |   | +17.94s | - | 15 | 2. |  | 11.Djan Madruga |   Brazil | 16:30.77 |   | +32.47s | - | 16 | 3. |  | 15.Csaba Toth |   Hungary | 16:38.14 |   | +39.84s | - | _ | 4. |  | 16.Paul Midgley |   Canada | 16:45.71 |   | +47.41s | - | 17 | 5. |  | 18.Sergio Affronte |   Italy | 16:57.93 |   | +59.63s | - | _ | 6. |   
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