The open water swimming events at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships were held from 18 to 25 March, at St. Kilda Beach near Melbourne, Australia.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	4	2	2	8
2	Germany (GER)	2	1	0	3
3	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
6	Australia (AUS)	0	0	2	2
7	Egypt (EGY)	0	0	1	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		6	6	6	18

• Record(*)

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km details	Thomas Lurz (GER) 56:49.6	Evgeny Drattsev (RUS) 56:50.7	Spyridon Gianniotis (GRE) 56:56.6
10 km details	Vladimir Dyatchin (RUS) 1:55:32.52	Thomas Lurz (GER) 1:55:32.58	Evgeny Drattsev (RUS) 1:55:47.31
25 km details	Yuri Kudinov (RUS) 5:16:45.55	Marco Formentini (ITA) 5:18:36.80	Mohamed Zanaty (EGY) 5:19:23.23

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km details	Larisa Ilchenko (RUS) 1:00:41.3	Ekaterina Seliverstova (RUS) 1:00:43.6	Kate Brookes-Peterson (AUS) 1:00:47.6
10 km details	Larisa Ilchenko (RUS) 2:03:57.9	Cassandra Patten (GBR) 2:03:58.9	Kate Brookes-Peterson (AUS) 2:03:59.5
25 km details	Britta Kamrau (GER) 5:37:11.66	Kalyn Keller (USA) 5:39:39.62	Ksenia Popova (RUS) 5:39:51.51