The 2nd FINA Open Water Swimming World Championships were held September 23-28, 2002 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The championships featured 89 swimmers from 26 countries competing in 6 races:

• 5-kilometer (5K)--Men's and Women's
• 10-kilometer (10K)--Men's and Women's
• 25-kilometer (25K)--Men's and Women's

Results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Women's 5K   details	Viola Valli   Italy	56:52	Edith van Dijk   Netherlands	57:01	Hanna Miluska   Switzerland	58:13
Men's 5K   details	Luca Baldini   Italy	51:49.78	Stefano Rubando   Italy	51:51.20	Thomas Lurz   Germany	51:52.43
Women's 10K   details	Britta Kamrau   Germany	1:56:42.25	Viola Valli   Italy	1:56:42.28	Angela Maurer   Germany	1:56:49
Men's 10K   details	Ivgueni Kochkarov   Russia	1:49:30	Simone Ercoli   Italy	1:49:34	Vladimir Dyatchin   Russia	1:49:35
Women's 25K   details	Edith van Dijk   Netherlands	6:11:21	Angela Maurer   Germany	6:11:22.43	Britta Kamrau   Germany	6:11:22.70
Men's 25K   details	Yuri Kudinov   Russia	5:39:14	Anton Sanatchev   Russia	5:41:14	Gabriel Chaillou   Argentina	5:51:16

Team medals

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
5K   details	Italy (ITA)		Germany (GER)		Switzerland (SUI)
10K   details	Germany (GER)		Italy (ITA)		Russia (RUS)