Open water swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships

These are the results of the open water swimming competition at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships, which took place in Barcelona, Spain.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	3	0	1	4
2	Italy	2	0	0	2
3	Netherlands	1	0	1	2
4	Germany	0	4	2	6
5	Spain	0	1	1	2
6	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
7	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km	Evgeni Kochkarov (RUS) 53.11.9	Christian Hein (GER) 53.13.9	Vladimir Dyatchin (RUS) 53.14.8
10 km	Vladimir Dyatchin (RUS) 1:50.58.8	Christian Hein (GER) 1:51.06.5	David Meca (ESP) 1:51.08.4
25 km	Yuri Kudinov (RUS) 5:02.20.0	David Meca (ESP) 5:02.20.4	Petar Stoychev (BUL) 5:02.20.6

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km	Viola Valli (ITA) 57.01.2	Jana Pechanová (CZE) 57.03.9	Britta Kamrau (GER) 59.06.4
10 km	Viola Valli (ITA) 1:59.49.9	Angela Maurer (GER) 1:59.51.1	Edith van Dijk (NED) 1:59.53.0
25 km	Edith van Dijk (NED) 5:35.43.5	Britta Kamrau (GER) 5:35.46.1	Angela Maurer (GER) 5:35.46.5