Tags: Olympic Event, Olympics.
The men’s 1500 metre freestyle event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 15 and 17 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center in Beijing China.Competing at his third Games Oussama Mellouli made an Olympic milestone to become Tunisia’s first ever gold medalist in 48 years. He denied Australia’s Grant Hackett a third straight title in the event touching the wall first in an African record of 14:40.84.
