Open water world championships

The open water world championships were held by the international swimming federation FINA every two years from 2000 to 2010 in open water swimming .

Open water swimming competitions have been held as part of the World Swimming Championships since 1991. In 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010, these competitions were given an additional, independent framework with the open water world championships.

There are individual competitions for women and men over distances of 5, 10 and 25 kilometers.

The official name of the Open Water World Championships is FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships .

Most successful participant

The most successful participants in open water swimming at open water and swimming world championships are shown in the following table. (Status: Including the 2010 Open Water World Championships )

Women

space	Participant				Competitions	Period
1	Larissa Iltschenko	8th	1	0	5 and 10 km	2004-2009
2	Edith van Dijk	6th	5	4th	5, 10 and 25 km	1998-2008
3	Viola Valli	5	2	1	5, 10 and 25 km	2000-2003

Men

space	Attendees				Competitions	Period
1	Thomas Lurz	9	2	2	5 and 10 km	2002-2010
2	Yuri Kudinov	5	2	1	25 km	2000-2008
3	Vladimir Djatchin	3	2	4th	5, 10 and 25 km	2001-2010

Event dates

No.	year	place	items
1	1991	Perth	Details
2	1994	Rome	Details
3	1998	Perth	Details
4th	2000	Honolulu	Details
5	2001	Fukuoka	Details
6th	2002	Sharm El Sheikh	Details
7th	2003	Barcelona	Details
8th	2004	Dubai	Details
9	2005	Montréal	Details
10	2006	Naples	Details
11	2007	Melbourne	Details
12	2008	Seville	Details
13	2009	Rome	Details
14th	2010	Roberval	Details

See also

• Open water European championships

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ http://www.the-sports.org/swimming-ilchenko-larisa-results-identity-s10-c2-b4-o9-w22374.html
3. ↑ http://www.the-sports.org/swimming-van-dijk-edith-results-identity-s10-c2-b4-o40-w22376.html
4. ↑ http://www.the-sports.org/swimming-valli-viola-results-identity-s10-c2-b4-o2-w22557.html
5. ↑ http://www.the-sports.org/swimming-lurz-thomas-results-identity-s10-c2-b4-o10-w22354.html
6. ↑ http://www.the-sports.org/swimming-kudinov-yuriy-results-identity-s10-c2-b4-o9-w22373.html
7. ↑ http://www.the-sports.org/swimming-dyatchin-vladimir-results-identity-s10-c2-b4-o9-w56163.html
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Competition in the context of swimming world championships.

Web links

• Sports123
• HistoFINA - Open Water : Data collection from the FINA open water world championships (PDF file; 297 kB)