Open water swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 5 km
The men's 5 km competition of the open water swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 22.
Medalists
| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
Results
The final was held on July 22.| Rank | Swimmer | Nationality | Time |
| Thomas Lurz | 56:16.6 | ||
| Spyridon Gianniotis | 56:17.4 | ||
| Evgeny Drattsev | 56:18.5 | ||
| 4 | Nicola Bolzonello | 56:24.3 | |
| 5 | Andrew Gemmell | 56:24.8 | |
| 6 | Sergey Bolshakov | 56:26.0 | |
| 7 | Damien Cattin Vidal | 56:27.4 | |
| 8 | Chris Bryan | 56:28.0 | |
| 9 | Simone Ruffini | 56:29.0 | |
| 10 | Csaba Gercsák | 56:30.1 | |
| 11 | Sean Ryan | 56:30.1 | |
| 12 | Yasunari Hirai | 56:30.6 | |
| 13 | Hector Ruiz Perez | 56:31.5 | |
| 14 | Igor Snitko | 56:31.6 | |
| 15 | Xu Wenchao | 56:32.2 | |
| 16 | Trent Grimsey | 56:33.4 | |
| 17 | Richard Weinberger | 56:33.7 | |
| 18 | Yuval Safra | 56:34.2 | |
| 19 | Ivan Enderica | 56:35.3 | |
| 20 | Jan Posmourny | 56:35.9 | |
| 21 | Troy Prinsloo | 56:37.3 | |
| 22 | Victor Colonese | 56:39.7 | |
| 23 | Jan Wolfgarten | 56:40.2 | |
| 24 | Codie Grimsey | 56:40.4 | |
| 25 | Luis Ricardo Escobar Torres | 56:42.9 | |
| 26 | Sebastien Frayesse | 56:45.6 | |
| 27 | Kane Radford | 56:45.7 | |
| 28 | Johndry Segovia | 56:45.9 | |
| 29 | Antonios Fokaidis | 56:46.0 | |
| 30 | Igor Chervynskiy | 58:28.5 | |
| 31 | Aimeson King | 59:09.3 | |
| 32 | Danie Marais | 59:46.9 | |
| 33 | Santiago Enderica | 59:52.0 | |
| 34 | Alvaro Trewhela | 1:00:17.1 | |
| 35 | David Carrillo | 1:00:19.8 | |
| 36 | Samuel de Bona | 1:01:20.9 | |
| 37 | Yao Han | 1:02:03.6 | |
| 38 | Ricky Anggawijaya | 1:02:06.2 | |
| 39 | Yuen Marcus Yat Ho | 1:02:09.2 | |
| 40 | Kevin Vasquez | 1:02:13.1 | |
| 41 | Khalid Al-Kulaibi | 1:02:14.8 | |
| 42 | Aiman Al-Qasmi | 1:02:28.7 | |
| 43 | Bekshe Zhumagali | 1:02:31.9 | |
| 44 | Ling Tin Yu | 1:04:14.7 | |
| 45 | Islam Mohsen | 1:06:21.6 | |
| 46 | Rodolfo Sanchez | 1:08:16.4 | |
| 47 | Heimanu Sichan | 1:08:55.6 | |
| 48 | Satrio Bagaskara Gunadi Putra | 1:09:46.9 | |
| 49 | Jeffry Villalobos | 1:10:06.1 | |
| 50 | Hayden Vickers | 1:11:02.1 | |
| – | Jackson Niyomugabo | OTL | |
| – | Patrick Rukundo | OTL | |
| – | Sergey Fesenko | DNS | |
| – | Mazen Mohamed Aziz | DSQ |