Open water swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships

These are the results from the open water swimming competition at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships, which took place in Fukuoka, Japan.

Medals table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	3	0	2	5
2	Russia	2	3	0	5
3	Germany	1	1	1	3
4	Netherlands	0	1	1	2
5	France	0	1	1	2
6	Australia	0	0	1	1

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km	Luca Baldini (ITA) 55:37	Yevgeny Bezruchenko (RUS) 56:31	Marco Formentini (ITA) 56:42
10 km	Yevgeny Bezruchenko (RUS) 2:01:04	Vladimir Dyatchin (RUS) 2:01:06	Fabio Venturini (ITA) 2:01:11
25 km	Yuri Kudinov (RUS) 5:25:32	Stéphane Gomez (FRA) 5:26:00	Stéphane Lecat (FRA) 5:26:36

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km	Viola Valli (ITA) 1:00:23	Peggy Büchse (GER) 1:00:49	Hayley Lewis (AUS) 1:00:52
10 km	Peggy Büchse (GER) 2:17:32	Irina Abysova (RUS) 2:17:47	Edith van Dijk (NED) 2:17:52
25 km	Viola Valli (ITA) 5:56:51	Edith van Dijk (NED) 6:00:36	Angela Maurer (GER) 6:06:19