Open water swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 5 km

Men's 5 km at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships
Standort	Rome
Dates	21 July
Competitors	41 from 24 nations

Main article: Open Water Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships

The men's 5 km race at the 2009 World Championships occurred on Tuesday, 21 July at Ostia Beach in Rome, Italy. In total, 41 participants from 24 countries competed in the race.

Note: The women's and men's 5 km races at the 2009 Worlds were originally scheduled to be held on Sunday, July 19; however, high wind and surf conditions on-course caused the FINA Bureau to postpone the race until July 21.

Results

Rank	Swimmer	Nationality	Zeit
	Thomas Lurz	Deutschland	56:26.9
	Spyridon Gianniotis	Griechenland	56:27.2
	Chad Ho	Südafrika	56:41.9
4	Luca Ferretti	Italien	56:44.3
5	Andrew Gemmell	USA	56:44.9
6	Loic Branda	Frankreich	56:47.0
7	Fran Crippen	USA	56:47.1
8	Diego Nogueira Montero	Spanien	56:47.2
9	Simone Ruffini	Italien	56:47.3
10	Francisco Hervás	Spanien	56:47.9
10	Vladimir Dyatchin	Russland	56:47.9
12	Evgeny Drattsev	Russland	56:48.5
13	Andrew Beato	Australien	56:52.4
14	Rodrigo Elorza	Mexiko	56:55.3
15	Csaba Gercsák	Ungarn	57:07.1
16	Trent Grimsey	Australien	57:07.2
17	Jan Posmourny	Tschechische Republik	57:07.8
18	Julien Sauvage	Frankreich	57:09.6
19	Luiz Eduardo Lima	Brasilien	57:11.1
20	Jakub Fichtl	Tschechische Republik	57:21.1
21	Jan Wolfgarten	Deutschland	57:31.7
22	David Creel	Kanada	57:37.1
23	Konstiantyn Ukradyga	Ukraine	57:48.8
24	Richard Charlesworth	Great Britain	57:57.4
25	Igor Snitko	Ukraine	57:58.1
26	Luis Rogerio Arapiraca	Brasilien	58:04.9
27	Daniel Viegas	Portugal	58:05.0
28	Daniel Delgadillo	Mexiko	58:17.7
29	Kurt Niehaus	Costa Rica	58:17.8
30	Esteban Enderica	Ecuador	58:17.9
31	Gergely Gyurta	Ungarn	58:20.8
32	Daniel Marais	Südafrika	58:21.9
33	Alfie Howes	Great Britain	59:36.8
34	Ivan Enderica	Ecuador	59:40.1
35	Yvan Hernandez	Venezuela	1:01:53.9
36	Angel Moreira	Venezuela	1:01:57.1
37	Thomas Vachan	Slowakei	1:02:06.8
38	Juan Prem Biere	Guatemala	1:07:45.3
39	Mohammed Jassim Alghareeb	Saudi-Arabien	1:07:49.8
--	Orel Jeffrey	Netherlands Antilles	OTL
--	Kareem Valentine	Netherlands Antilles	OTL

Key: OTL = Outside time limit

See also

• Open water swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 5 km

References

• 2009 Worlds results: Men's 5K from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-21.