2000 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships

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2000 FINA Open Water Worlds
5K	men's 5K
	women 5K
	5K team
10K	men's 10K
	women's 10K
	10K team
25K	men's 25K
	women's 25K

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. 164 swimmers from 34 countries swam in the championships, in race distances of 5-kilometer (5K), 10-kilometer (10K) and 25-kilometer (25K).

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

See also

• 2002 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships