Open water swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships

The men's 5 km competition of the open water swimming events

The open water swimming portion of the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held between July 19–23 in Shanghai, China at the Jinshan City Beach.- Events :The following events were contested by both men and women in Shanghai:*5 km...

at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships

2011 World Aquatics Championships

The 14th FINA World Championships were held at July 16–31, 2011 in Shanghai, China at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center. The 2011 World Championships featured five aquatics disciplines: swimming, water polo, diving, open water, and synchronised swimming...

was held on July 22.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze

Results

The final was held on July 22.

Rank	Swimmer	Time
	Thomas Lurz Thomas Lurz Thomas Lurz is a German swimmer who specializes is long-distance freestyle swimming, especially open water swimming...	56:16.6
	Spyridon Gianniotis Spyridon Gianniotis Spyridon "Spyros" Gianniotis is a freestyle swimmer from Greece, who was born in England. He won three individual medals at the 2005 Mediterranean Games, and represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000. In 2011 he became world champion in the 10 km open...	56:17.4
	Evgeny Drattsev	56:18.5
4	Nicola Bolzonello	56:24.3
5	Andrew Gemmell Andrew Gemmell Andrew Douglas Gemmell is an American long-distance swimmer. Gemmell currently swims for the University of Georgia.-Career:...	56:24.8
6	Sergey Bolshakov	56:26.0
7	Damien Cattin Vidal	56:27.4
8	Chris Bryan	56:28.0
9	Simone Ruffini	56:29.0
10	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:* *...	56:30.1
11	Sean Ryan Sean Ryan (swimmer) Sean Ryan is an is an American distance swimmer.-Personal:Ryan is a 2010 graduate of The McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tennessee and was the fastest American high school swimmer at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials as a fifteen year old. He swam with the Scenic City Aquatic Club, a USA Swimming...	56:30.1
12	Yasunari Hirai	56:30.6
13	Hector Ruiz Perez	56:31.5
14	Igor Snitko Igor Snitko Ihor Snitko is a retired freestyle swimmer from Ukraine, who was a specialist in the long-distance events. He won the silver medal in the men's 1500 m freestyle event at the 1997 European Championships in Seville, Spain, followed by the gold medal two years later in Istanbul...	56:31.6
15	Xu Wenchao	56:32.2
16	Trent Grimsey	56:33.4
17	Richard Weinberger	56:33.7
18	Yuval Safra	56:34.2
19	Ivan Enderica	56:35.3
20	Jan Posmourny	56:35.9
21	Troy Prinsloo	56:37.3
22	Victor Colonese	56:39.7
23	Jan Wolfgarten Jan Wolfgarten Jan Wolfgarten is a German swimmer. He participates in the open water events.He won the bronze medal at the Team 5 km world championships.-References:...	56:40.2
24	Codie Grimsey	56:40.4
25	Luis Ricardo Escobar Torres	56:42.9
26	Sebastien Frayesse	56:45.6
27	Kane Radford	56:45.7
28	Johndry Segovia	56:45.9
29	Antonis Fokaidis	56:46.0
30	Igor Chervynskiy	58:28.5
31	Aimeson King	59:09.3
32	Danie Marais	59:46.9
33	Santiago Enderica	59:52.0
34	Alvaro Trewhela	1:00:17.1
35	David Carrillo	1:00:19.8
36	Samuel de Bona	1:01:20.9
37	Yao Han	1:02:03.6
38	Ricky Anggawijaya	1:02:06.2
39	Yuen Marcus Yat Ho	1:02:09.2
40	Kevin Vasquez	1:02:13.1
41	Khalid Al-Kulaibi	1:02:14.8
42	Aiman Al-Qasmi	1:02:28.7
43	Bekshe Zhumagali	1:02:31.9
44	Ling Tin Yu	1:04:14.7
45	Islam Mohsen	1:06:21.6
46	Rodolfo Sanchez	1:08:16.4
47	Heimanu Sichan	1:08:55.6
48	Satrio Bagaskara Gunadi Putra	1:09:46.9
49	Jeffry Villalobos	1:10:06.1
50	Hayden Vickers	1:11:02.1
–	Jackson Niyomugabo Jackson Niyomugabo Jackson Niyomugabo is a Rwandan Olympic swimmer. He is originally from Kibuye in Rwanda's western region. He grew up swimming in the waters of Lake Kivu on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo...	OTL
–	Patrick Rukundo	OTL
–	Sergey Fesenko	DNS
–	Mazen Mohamed Aziz	DSQ

External links

2011 World Aquatics Championships: Men's 5 km start list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-21.

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