Open water swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 25 km

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The Men's 25 km Open Water swimming race took place on Saturday, 25 July, at Ostia beach in Rome. 23 men from 15 different countries competed. Valerio Cleri of Italy took home the gold with a time of 5:26:31.6.^[1]

Results[]

Rank	Swimmer	Nationality	Time
	Valerio Cleri	Italy	5:26:31.6
	Trent Grimsey	Australia	5:26:50.7
	Vladimir Dyatchin	Russia	5:29:29.3
4	Brian Ryckeman	Belgium	5:30:18.4
5		France	5:30:20.9
6		France	5:30:22.9
7		Australia	5:30:27.5
8	Rostislav Vitek	Czech Republic	5:32:38.8
9		Canada	5:34:48.2
10		Czech Republic	5:35:06.4
11	Sean Ryan	United States	5:36:22.2
12		Italy	5:36:37.9
13		Mexico	5:39:12.1
14		Mexico	5:43:26.4
15		Russia	5:46:21.7
16	Arseniy Lavrentyev	Portugal	5:48:43.0
17	Saleh Mohammad	Syria	5:49:30.6
18		Egypt	5:54:00.3
--		North Macedonia	OTL
--		Saudi Arabia	DNF
--	Alex Meyer	United States	DSQ
--	Mazen Metwaly	Egypt	DNS
--		Spain	DNS

Key: OTL = Over Time Limit, DSQ = Disqualified, DNF = Did not finish, DNS = Did not start

See also[]

• Open water swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 25 km

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