2000 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships

Main article: FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships

The 1st FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships were held on October 29-November 4, 2000 in the waters off Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. ^[1] 164 swimmers from 34 countries swam in the championships, in race distances of 5-kilometer (5K), 10-kilometer (10K) and 25-kilometer (25K). ^[2]

Results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Women's 5K	Peggy Büchse   Germany	1:02:36.29	Kalyn Keller   USA	1:02:40.42	Viola Valli   Italy	1:02:41.18
Men's 5K	Yevgeny Bezruchenko   Russia	59:18.23	David Meca   Spain	59:20.64	Luca Baldini   Italy	59:20.86
Women's 10K	Edith van Dijk   Netherlands	2:06:44.44	Melissa Pasquali   Italy	2:07:38.85	Peggy Büchse   Germany	2:08:00.30
Men's 10K	David Meca   Spain	1:57:10.50	Petar Stoychev   Bulgaria	1:57:14.44	Yevgeny Bezruchenko   Russia	1:57:15.02
Women's 25K	Edith van Dijk   Netherlands	5:30:04.07	Viola Valli   Italy	5:30:06.06	Angela Maurer   Germany	5:30:08.06
Men's 25K	Yuri Kudinov   Russia	4:55:51.12	David Meca   Spain	4:56:11.42	Aleksey Akatyev   Russia	4:57:03.12

Team medals

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
5K	Italy  (ITA) Luca Baldini Fabio Venturini Viola Valli	3:01:24.74	Russia  (RUS) Yevgeny Bezruchenko Aleksey Akatyev Irina Abysova	3:01:34.65	Germany  (GER) Christof Wandratsch Ben Hoffman Peggy Büchse	3:01:57.76
10K	Germany  (GER) Christof Wandratsch Andres Maurer Peggy Büchse	6:03:03.64	Russia  (RUS) Yevgeny Bezruchenko Vladimir Dyatchin Irina Abysova	6:03:33.95	United States  (USA) Ben Hanley Matt Martin Dawn Heckman	6:03:39.81
25K	Russia  (RUS) Yuri Kudinov Aleksey Akatyev Natalia Pankina	15:24:19.59	Italy  (ITA) Claudio Gargaro Fabio Fusi Viola Valli	15:25:33.68	France  (FRA) Stéphane Gomez Stéphane Lecat Audy Boitte	15:35:55.73

See also

• 2002 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships

References

1. HistoFINA, volume 10 Archived 2015-09-08 at the Wayback Machine ; published by FINA; published=2009-07-01, retrieved=2012-03-03 (FINA's self-history, 2009 edition; volume 10 deals with Open Water Swimming).
2. 1st FINA World Championships from web.archive.org; published originally by FINA (fina.org) in 2000-10. Retrieved 2012-03-03.