The 6th FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships was being held July 15–23, 2010 in Lac Saint-Jean near Roberval, Quebec, Canada.^[1]

The championships featured 3 race distances: 5-kilometre (5K), 10-kilometre (10K) and 25-kilometre (25K). Schedule for the championships was:^[2]

• Saturday, July 17: Women's 10K (11:30 a.m.)
• Sunday, July 18: Men's 10K (11:30 a.m.)
• Tuesday, July 20: Women's 5K (10:30 a.m.), Men's 5K (2:00 p.m.)
• Thursday, July 22: Women's 25K (9:15 a.m. start), Men's 25K (9:00 a.m. start)

2010 FINA Open Water Worlds
5 km	men	women
10 km	men	women
25 km	men	women
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The 2010 edition of the Open Water Worlds were the last stand-alone "open" (meaning no age limit) championships, and a Junior Open Water Worlds is to be created in its place. However, the Open Water events will remain in the biennial World Championships. This change brings the open water discipline closer to matching FINA's other disciplines in championships structuring.^[3]

Participating countries

On 14 June 2010, the event organizers announced that 144 athletes from 30 countries have entered the championships.^[4] Countries entered are:

^*Syria and the UAE are both listed in the overview of teams attending; however, neither have entries on the athlete roster for the Championships.^[5]

Results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Women's 5K   details	Eva Fabian   USA	1:02:00.9	Giorgia Consiglio   Italy	1:02:01.0	Ana Marcela Cunha   Brazil	1:02:02.6
Men's 5K   details	Thomas Lurz   Germany	57:42.6	Evgeny Drattsev   Russia	57:44.1	Fran Crippen   USA	57:46.5
Women's 10K   details	Martina Grimaldi   Italy	2:05:45.2	Giorgia Consiglio   Italy	2:05:57.4	Melissa Gorman   Australia	2:05:57.9
Men's 10K   details	Valerio Cleri   Italy	2:00:59.3	Evgeny Drattsev   Russia	2:01:00.6	Vladimir Dyatchin   Russia	2:01:03.0
Women's 25K   details	Linsy Heister   Netherlands	5:52:13.06	Margarita Dominguez   Spain	5:55:59.29	Celia Barrot   France	5:57:02.87
Men's 25K   details	Alex Meyer   USA	5:32:39.38	Valerio Cleri   Italy	5:32:40.40	Petar Stoychev   Bulgaria	5:33:50.29

Overall standings

Medals

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	2	3	0	5
2	United States (USA)	2	0	1	3
3	Germany (GER)	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	0	1
5	Russia (RUS)	0	2	1	3
6	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
7	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		6	6	6	18

Points

Overall point standings for the 6th Open Water Worlds are:^[6]

Rank	Country	Points Women	Points Men	Total
1	Italy	52	64	116
2	USA	55	56	111
3	Russia	16	46	62
4	France	24	16	40
5	Brazil	33	3	36
	Germany	10	26	36
7	Australia	14	10	24
8	Spain	21	–	21
	Netherlands	21	–	21
10	Bulgaria	–	18	18
11	Ukraine	–	17	17
12	Greece	6	10	16
13	Canada	5	8	13
14	China	12	–	12
15	Argentina	4	4	8
16	Czech Republic	–	8	8
17	South Africa	–	6	6
18	Great Britain	5	–	5
	Slovenia	5	–	5
20	New Zealand	4	–	4
21	Croatia	3	0	3
	Mexico	1	2	3
23	Azerbaijan	–	2	2
24	Ecuador	–	1	1