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

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 edit

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 Loic Branda   France 5:30:20.9
6 Bertrand Venturi   France 5:30:22.9
7 Brendan Capell   Australia 5:30:27.5
8 Rostislav Vitek   Czech Republic 5:32:38.8
9 Simon Tobin-Daignault   Canada 5:34:48.2
10 Libor Smolka   Czech Republic 5:35:06.4
11 Sean Ryan   United States 5:36:22.2
12 Andrea Volpini   Italy 5:36:37.9
13 Manuel Chiu   Mexico 5:39:12.1
14 Rodrigo Elorza   Mexico 5:43:26.4
15 Danill Serebrennikov   Russia 5:46:21.7
16 Arseniy Lavrentyev   Portugal 5:48:43.0
17 Saleh Mohammad   Syria 5:49:30.6
18 Adel El-Behary   Egypt 5:54:00.3
-- Evgenij Pop Avec   Macedonia OTL
-- Mohammed Jassim Alghareeb   Saudi Arabia DNF
-- Alex Meyer   United States DSQ
-- Mazen Metwaly   Egypt DNS
-- Diego Nogueira Montero   Spain DNS

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

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Worlds results: Men's 25 km Archived 2009-08-06 at the Wayback Machine published by OmegaTiming.com, official timer of the 2009 Worlds. Retrieved 2009-07-26.