The FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships, or more commonly "Open Water Worlds", was a bi-annual FINA (now World Aquatics) championship for open water swimmingHistoFINA, volume 10 , published by FINA on 2009-07-01; retrieved 2012-03-03. ("HistoFINA" is FINA's self-history, volumen 10 deals with Open Water.2010 edition brings the best in Roberval , published by FINA; retrieved 2012-03-03. 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 were part of the World Aquatics Championships and six edition were held stand alone editions. Starting in 2011, the biannual event was merged to the World Aquatics Championships.

EditionYearVenueCountryEvents1st 1991 Perth 2 2nd 1994 Rome 2 3d 1998 Perth 6 4h 2000 Honolulu 9 5th 2001 Fukuoka 6 6th 2002 Sharm El Sheikh 9 7th 2003 Barcelona 68th 2004 Dubai 9 9th 2005 Montreal 6 10th 2006 Naples 6 11th 2007 Melbourne 6 12th 2008 Sevilla 6 13th 2009 Rome 6 14th 2010 Roberval 6 15th 2011 Shanghai 7 16th 2013 Barcelona 7 17th 2015 Kazan 7 18th 2017 Budapest 7 19th 2019 Gwangju 7 20th 2022 Budapest 7 21st 2023 Fukuoka 522nd 2024 Doha 5 120

Stand alone editions Starting in 2000, the FINA Open Water World Championships were held in the years between the World Aquatics Championships, providing an annual championships for Open Water Swimming. At its January 2010 meeting, the FINA Bureau decided 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 2002 2 Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt 3 (m), 3 (w), 2 (mixed) 5 km, 10 km, 25 km 2004 3 Dubai, UAE 3 (m), 3 (w), 2 (mixed) 5 km, 10 km, 25 km 2006 4 Naples, Italy 3 (m), 3 (w) 5 km, 10 km, 25 km 2008 5 Seville, Spain 3 (m), 3 (w) 5 km, 10 km, 25 km 2010 6 Roberval, Canada 3 (m), 3 (w) 5 km, 10 km, 25 km

Events Below is a table of the events held at each year of the competition.

Edition1991199419982001200320052007200920112013201520172019202220232024Men5 km X X X X X X X X X X X X X X10 km X X X X X X X X X X X X X25 km X X X X X X X X X X X X X XWomen5 km X X X X X X X X X X X X X X10 km X X X X X X X X X X X X X25 km X X X X X X X X X X X X X XMixed5/6 km X X X X X X X X X25 km X Number of events2266666677777755

All-time medal table

Multiple medalists

The best swimmers:

Men # SwimmerTotal 1 Thomas Lurz 12 4 4 20 2 Yuri Koudinov 5 2 1 8 3 Vladimir Dyatchin 3 3 4 10 4 David Meca 2 4 1 7 5 Spyridon Gianniotis 2 3 2 7

Women # SwimmerTotal 1 Larisa Ilchenko 8 1 0 9 2 Ana Marcela Cunha 7 2 8 17 3 Edith van Dijk 6 5 4 15 4 Viola Valli 5 2 1 8 5 Britta Kamrau 4 2 4 10

See also Open water swimming at the World Aquatics Championships FINA Marathon Swim World Series Open Water Swimmers of the Year

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