FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships

The FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships, or more commonly "Open Water Worlds", was a bi-annual FINA championship for open water swimming[1][2] held in even years from 2000 to 2010, inclusive. Race distances were 5, 10, and 25 kilometers (also known as 5K, 10K, and 25K).

The 10 km race at the 2008 edition served as the main qualifying event for the 2008 Olympics 10 km event.

Editions

Twelve editions was part of the World Aquatics Championships, and six edition was stand alone editions. From 2011 the biannual event is included only into the World Aquatics Championships.

  stand alone edition
Edition Year Venue CountryEvents
1st 1991Perth Australia 2
2nd 1994Rome Italy 2
3d 1998Perth Australia 6
4h 2000Honolulu United States 9
5th 2001Fukuoka Japan 6
6th 2002Sharm El Sheikh Egypt 9
7th 2003Barcelona Spain 6
8th 2004Dubai United Arab Emirates 9
9th 2005Montreal Canada 6
10th 2006Naples Italy 6
11th 2007Melbourne Australia 6
12th 2008Sevilla Spain 6
13th 2009Rome Italy 6
14th 2010Roberval Canada 6
15th 2011Shanghai China 7
16th 2013Barcelona Spain 7
17th 2015Kazan Russia 7
18th 2017Budapest Hungary 7
19th 2019Gwangju South Korea 7
120

Stand alone editions

The Open Water Worlds were held in the years between the FINA's main World Championships, providing an annual championships for Open Water Swimming. At its January 2010 meeting, the FINA Bureau decided that to replace this event with a junior (18 and under) championships, making the 2010 Open Water Worlds the last edition of these championships, and 2012 seeing the first of a Junior Open Water Worlds.

Year Edition Location Events Distances competed Winner of the medal table Second in the medal table Third in the medal table
2000 1 Honolulu, USA 3 (m), 3 (w), 2 (mixed) 5 km, 10 km, 25 km  Russia  Germany  Netherlands
2002 2 Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt 3 (m), 3 (w), 2 (mixed) 5 km, 10 km, 25 km  Italy  Germany  Russia
2004 3 Dubai, UAE 3 (m), 3 (w), 2 (mixed) 5 km, 10 km, 25 km  Germany  Australia  Russia
2006 4 Naples, Italy 3 (m), 3 (w) 5 km, 10 km, 25 km  Germany  Russia  Australia
2008 5 Seville, Spain 3 (m), 3 (w) 5 km, 10 km, 25 km  Russia  Netherlands  Germany
2010 6 Roberval, Canada 3 (m), 3 (w) 5 km, 10 km, 25 km  Italy  United States  Germany
 Netherlands

All-time medal table
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Russia (RUS)23182162
2 Germany (GER)21161754
3 Italy (ITA)12151643
4 United States (USA)1111729
5 Netherlands (NED)99523
6 Australia (AUS)65819
7 France (FRA)53311
8 Brazil (BRA)45716
9 Spain (ESP)2529
10 Greece (GRE)2439
11 Great Britain (GBR)2417
12 Bulgaria (BUL)1157
13 Canada (CAN)1102
14 South Africa (RSA)1012
  Switzerland (SUI)1012
 Tunisia (TUN)1012
17 Hungary (HUN)0213
18 Czech Republic (CZE)0202
19 Belgium (BEL)0101
 Ecuador (ECU)0101
21 Argentina (ARG)0022
22 Egypt (EGY)0011
Totals (22 nations)102103102307

Multiple medalists
For a more comprehensive list, see List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in open water swimming § Multiple medalists.

The best swimmers:[3]

Men
# SwimmerTotal
1 Thomas Lurz 124420
2 Yuri Koudinov 5218
3 Vladimir Dyatchin 33410
4 David Meca 2417
5 Spyridon Gianniotis 2327

Women
# SwimmerTotal
1 Larisa Ilchenko 8109
2 Edith van Dijk 65415
3 Ana Marcela Cunha 52512
4 Viola Valli 5218
5 Britta Kamrau 42410

See also

References
  1. HistoFINA, volume 10 Archived 2015-09-08 at the Wayback Machine, published by FINA on 2009-07-01; retrieved 2012-03-03. ("HistoFINA" is FINA's self-history, volumen 10 deals with Open Water.
  2. 2010 edition brings the best in Roberval Archived 2010-07-23 at the Wayback Machine, published by FINA; retrieved 2012-03-03.
  3. "OPEN WATER MEDALLISTS AND STATISTICS" (PDF). fina.org. 3 December 2015. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
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