The Men's 5 km competition at the 2026 European Aquatics Championships was held on 5 August 2026.

Results The race was started at 10:00.

Rank Swimmer Nationality Time Florian Wellbrock 55:40.25 Dávid Betlehem 55:42.62 Gregorio Paltrinieri 55:44.76 4 Sacha Velly 55:51.50 5 Domenico Acerenza 55:54.46 6 Marcello Guidi 55:54.92 7 Kristóf Rasovszky 55:55.81 8 Athanasios Kynigakis 56:02.50 9 Luca Karl 56:28.64 10 Oliver Klemet 56:34.00 11 Mario Méndez 57:07.27 12 Jesper Lietzen 57:07.60 13 Paul Niederberger 57:09.51 14 Diogo Cardoso 57:09.82 15 Vladimir Muratov Neutral Athletes B 57:10.56 16 Denis Borovka 57:11.57 17 Bartosz Kapała 57:11.59 18 Martin Straka 57:11.73 19 Vladimir Ivanov Neutral Athletes B 57:13.40 20 Aleksandr Stepanov Neutral Athletes B 57:15.96 21 Hunor Kovács-Seres 57:16.04 22 Logan Fontaine 57:16.56 23 Mateo García 57:27.19 24 Christian Schreiber 59:24.87 25 Francisco Amaral 59:26.66 26 Emir Batur Albayrak 27 Yonatan Ahdut 28 Muhammed Yavuz Selim Oğuz 29 Petar Cekov 30 Esteban Faure 31 Nolan Carrel 32 Doğukan Ulaç 33 Tomáš Peciar Marc-Antoine Olivier Did not finishThéo Druenne Did not start

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