FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships explained

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 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.

EditionYearVenueCountryEvents
1st2
2nd2
3d6
4h9
5th6
6th9
7th6
8th9
9th6
10th6
11th6
12th6
13th6
14th6
15th7
16th7
17th7
18th7
19th7
20th7
21st5
22nd5
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Stand alone editions

Starting in 2000,the FINA Open Water World Championiships 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 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.

YearEditionLocationEventsDistances competedWinner of the medal tableSecond in the medal tableThird in the medal table
20001 Honolulu, USA3 (m), 3 (w), 2 (mixed)5 km, 10 km, 25 km
20022 Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt3 (m), 3 (w), 2 (mixed)5 km, 10 km, 25 km
20043 Dubai, UAE3 (m), 3 (w), 2 (mixed)5 km, 10 km, 25 km
20064 Naples, Italy3 (m), 3 (w)5 km, 10 km, 25 km
20085 Seville, Spain3 (m), 3 (w)5 km, 10 km, 25 km
20106 Roberval, Canada3 (m), 3 (w)5 km, 10 km, 25 km

Multiple medalists

The best swimmers:[3]

Men

SwimmerTotal
1 Thomas Lurz12 4 4 20
2 Yuri Koudinov5 2 1 8
3 Vladimir Dyatchin3 3 4 10
4 David Meca2 4 1 7
5 Spyridon Gianniotis2 3 2 7

Women

SwimmerTotal
1 Larisa Ilchenko8 1 0 9
2 Ana Marcela Cunha7 2 8 17
3 Edith van Dijk6 5 4 15
4 Viola Valli5 2 1 8
5 Britta Kamrau4 2 4 10

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://www.fina.org/project/docs/histoFina/HistoFINA_X.pdf HistoFINA, volume 10
  2. http://www.fina.org/H2O/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1507:2010-edition-brings-the-best-in-roberval-can&catid=113:world-open-water-swimming-championships&Itemid=676 2010 edition brings the best in Roberval
  3. Web site: OPEN WATER MEDALLISTS AND STATISTICS . fina.org . 3 December 2015 . 16 August 2018 .