Open water swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 5 km

The men's 5 km competition of the open water swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 22.

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Thomas Lurz (GER)	Spyridon Gianniotis (GRE)	Evgeny Drattsev (RUS)

The final was held on July 22.^[1]

Rank	Swimmer	Nationality	Time
	Thomas Lurz	Germany	56:16.6
	Spyridon Gianniotis	Greece	56:17.4
	Evgeny Drattsev	Russia	56:18.5
4		Italy	56:24.3
5	Andrew Gemmell	United States	56:24.8
6	Sergey Bolshakov	Russia	56:26.0
7		France	56:27.4
8		Ireland	56:28.0
9	Simone Ruffini	Italy	56:29.0
10	Csaba Gercsák	Hungary	56:30.1
11	Sean Ryan	United States	56:30.1
12	Yasunari Hirai	Japan	56:30.6
13		Spain	56:31.5
14	Igor Snitko	Ukraine	56:31.6
15		China	56:32.2
16	Trent Grimsey	Australia	56:33.4
17	Richard Weinberger	Canada	56:33.7
18		Israel	56:34.2
19		Ecuador	56:35.3
20		Czech Republic	56:35.9
21	Troy Prinsloo	South Africa	56:37.3
22	Victor Colonese	Brazil	56:39.7
23	Jan Wolfgarten	Germany	56:40.2
24		Australia	56:40.4
25		Mexico	56:42.9
26		France	56:45.6
27	Kane Radford	New Zealand	56:45.7
28		Venezuela	56:45.9
29	Antonios Fokaidis	Greece	56:46.0
30	Igor Chervynskiy	Ukraine	58:28.5
31		Canada	59:09.3
32		South Africa	59:46.9
33		Ecuador	59:52.0
34		Chile	1:00:17.1
35		Venezuela	1:00:19.8
36	Samuel de Bona	Brazil	1:01:20.9
37		China	1:02:03.6
38	Ricky Anggawijaya	Indonesia	1:02:06.2
39		Hong Kong	1:02:09.2
40		Guatemala	1:02:13.1
41	Khalid Al-Kulaibi	Oman	1:02:14.8
42		Oman	1:02:28.7
43		Kazakhstan	1:02:31.9
44		Hong Kong	1:04:14.7
45		Egypt	1:06:21.6
46	Rodolfo Sanchez	Costa Rica	1:08:16.4
47		French Polynesia	1:08:55.6
48		Indonesia	1:09:46.9
49		Costa Rica	1:10:06.1
50		Cook Islands	1:11:02.1
–	Jackson Niyomugabo	Rwanda	OTL
–		Rwanda	OTL
–	Sergey Fesenko	Azerbaijan	DNS
–		Egypt	DSQ