Open water swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 5 km
Introduction 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  Time    Thomas Lurz    56:26.9   Spyridon Gianniotis    56:27.2   Chad Ho    56:41.9 4  Luca Ferretti    56:44.3  5  Andrew Gemmell    56:44.9  6  Loic Branda    56:47.0  7  Fran Crippen    56:47.1 8  Diego Nogueira Montero    56:47.2 9  Simone Ruffini    56:47.3 10  Francisco Hervás    56:47.9 10  Vladimir Dyatchin    56:47.9 12  Evgeny Drattsev    56:48.5 13  Andrew Beato    56:52.4 14  Rodrigo Elorza    56:55.3 15  Csaba Gercsák    57:07.1 16  Trent Grimsey    57:07.2 17  Jan Posmourny    57:07.8 18  Julien Sauvage    57:09.6 19  Luiz Eduardo Lima    57:11.1 20  Jakub Fichtl    57:21.1 21  Jan Wolfgarten    57:31.7 22  David Creel    57:37.1 23 Konstiantyn Ukradyga  57:48.8 24 Richard Charlesworth  57:57.4 25 Igor Snitko  57:58.1 26 Luis Rogerio Arapiraca  58:04.9 27 Daniel Viegas  58:05.0 28 Daniel Delgadillo  58:17.7 29 Kurt Niehaus  58:17.8 30  Esteban Enderica  58:17.9 31 Gergely Gyurta  58:20.8 32 Daniel Marais  58:21.9 33 Alfie Howes  59:36.8 34 Ivan Enderica  59:40.1 35 Yvan Hernandez  1:01:53.9 36 Angel Moreira  1:01:57.1 37 Thomas Vachan  1:02:06.8 38 Juan Prem Biere  1:07:45.3 39 Mohammed Jassim Alghareeb  1:07:49.8 --  Orel Jeffrey    OTL --  Kareem Valentine    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.