Open water swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships

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These are the results from the open water swimming competition at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships, which took place in Fukuoka, Japan.

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	3	0	2	5
2	Russia (RUS)	2	3	0	5
3	Germany (GER)	1	1	1	3
4	France (FRA)	0	1	1	2
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	1	2
6	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 nations)		6	6	6	18

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km details	Luca Baldini (ITA) 55:37	Yevgeny Bezruchenko (RUS) 56:31	Marco Formentini (ITA) 56:42
10 km details	Yevgeny Bezruchenko (RUS) 2:01:04	Vladimir Dyatchin (RUS) 2:01:06	(ITA) 2:01:11
25 km details	Yuri Kudinov (RUS) 5:25:32	Stéphane Gomez (FRA) 5:26:00	Stéphane Lecat (FRA) 5:26:36

Women[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km details	Viola Valli (ITA) 1:00:23	Peggy Büchse (GER) 1:00:49	Hayley Lewis (AUS) 1:00:52
10 km details	Peggy Büchse (GER) 2:17:32	Irina Abysova (RUS) 2:17:47	Edith van Dijk (NED) 2:17:52
25 km details	Viola Valli (ITA) 5:56:51	Edith van Dijk (NED) 6:00:36	Angela Maurer (GER) 6:06:19