2006 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships – Men's 5K

The Men's 5K race at the 2006 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships
2006 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships
rightThe 4th FINA Open Water Swimming World Championships were held August 29-September 3, 2006 in Naples, Italy.The championships featured 98 swimmers from 29 countries competing in race distances of 5-kilometer , 10-kilometer and 25-kilometer...

was swum on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 in Naples, Italy

Naples

Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...

. It was the second event of the 2006 Open Water Worlds, and one of two events on August 29 (the other being the Women's 5K race

2006 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships – Women's 5K

The Women's 5K race at the 2006 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships was swum on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 in Naples, Italy. It was the first event of the 2006 Open Water Worlds, and one of two events on August 29...

). 30 men were entered in the event, 27 of whom swam.

Results

All times in hour : minutes : seconds

Place	Swimmer	Country	Time
1	Thomas Lurz Thomas Lurz Thomas Lurz is a German swimmer who specializes is long-distance freestyle swimming, especially open water swimming...	Germany	1:04:32.3
2	Chip Peterson Chip Peterson Charles Bowne Peterson is an American swimmer who specializes is long-distance freestyle swimming, especially open water swimming, in which he is a world champion.-Career:...	United States	1:04:32.7
3	Simone Ercoli Simone Ercoli Simone Ercoli is a male open water swimmer from Italy.He has swum for Italy at the:World Championships: 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009Open Water Worlds: 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006...	Italy	1:04:35:9
4	Andrew Beato	Australia	1:04:36.2
5	Luca Ferretti	Italy	1:04:38.1
6	Evgeny Drattsev	Russia	1:04:38.5
7	Alan Bircher Alan Bircher Alan Bircher is a British long-distance swimmer. He currently swims for the Wyre Forest Swimming Club , where he is the head coach and works alongside Stefanie Biller....	United Kingdom	1:04:40.8
8	Christian Hein	Germany	1:04:41.6
9	Josh Santacaterina Josh Santacaterina Josh Santacaterina is a World Champion open water swimmer from Australia. At the 2006 Open Water Worlds, he won the Men's 25 km race.He has swum for Australia at the:*World Championships: 2003, 2005, 2007...	Australia	1:04:41.7
10	Igo Chervyskiy	Ukraine	1:04:42.7
11	Loic Branda	Early Modern France	1:04:43.8
12	Anton Sanachev	Russia	1:04:44.0
13	Oleksandr Bezuglyy	Ukraine	1:04:44.4
14	Jarrod Ballen	Canada	1:04:58.9
15	John Owen	United Kingdom	1:05:07.6
16	Iván López Ivan Lopez (swimmer) Iván López is a National Record holding distance swimmer from Mexico. He has swum for Mexico at:2006 Central American and Caribbean Games2007 Pan American Games2008 Open Water Worlds2009 World Championships...	Mexico	1:05:07.9
17	Fabio Alves Lima	Brazil	1:05:15.8
18	Julien Sauvage	Early Modern France	1:05:18.4
19	Ricardo Monasterio Ricardo Monasterio Ricardo Andrés Monasterio Guimaraes is a Venezuelan international swimmer who represented his native country in the 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics.Monasterio was born in Caracas, Venezuela...	Venezuela	1:06:04.9
20	Csaba Gercsak Csaba Gercsák Csaba Gercsák is a Hungarian long-distance swimmer and Olympic participant, who won the bronze medal at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships in the 25 km open water event.-External links:* *...	Hungary	1:06:08.3
21	David Creel	Canada	1:06:59.1
22	Guillherme Bento Bier	Brazil	1:07:12.6
23	Daniel Delgadillo	Mexico	1:07:55.6
24	Esteban Enderica Selgado	Ecuador	1:09:07.8
25	Oliver Ptak	Hungary	1:11:51.9
26	Gabriel Enderica Ochoa	Ecuador	1:11:54.3
27	Tomislav Soldo	Independent State of Croatia	1:22:33.1
--	Rotislav Vitek	Czech Republic	DNS
--	Dan De Marco	United States	DNS
--	Daniel Katzir	Israel	DNS

Results

See also