2006 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships – Men's 5K
# 2006 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships – Men's 5K

The Men's 5K race at the 2006 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships was swum on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 in Naples, Italy. It was the second event of the 2006 Open Water Worlds, and one of two events on August 29 (the other being the Women's 5K race). 30 men were entered in the event, 27 of whom swam.

## Results

All times in hour : minutes : seconds

| Place | Swimmer | Country | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Thomas Lurz | Germany | 1:04:32.3 |
| 2 | Chip Peterson | USA | 1:04:32.7 |
| 3 | Simone Ercoli | Italy | 1:04:35:9 |
| 4 | Andrew Beato | Australia | 1:04:36.2 |
| 5 | Luca Ferretti | Italy | 1:04:38.1 |
| 6 | Evgeny Drattsev | Russia | 1:04:38.5 |
| 7 | Alan Bircher | Great Britain | 1:04:40.8 |
| 8 | Christian Hein | Germany | 1:04:41.6 |
| 9 | Josh Santacaterina | Australia | 1:04:41.7 |
| 10 | Igo Chervyskiy | Ukraine | 1:04:42.7 |
| 11 | Loic Branda | France | 1:04:43.8 |
| 12 | Anton Sanachev | Russia | 1:04:44.0 |
| 13 | Oleksandr Bezuglyy | Ukraine | 1:04:44.4 |
| 14 | Jarrod Ballen | Canada | 1:04:58.9 |
| 15 | John Owen | Great Britain | 1:05:07.6 |
| 16 | Iván López | Mexico | 1:05:07.9 |
| 17 | Fabio Alves Lima | Brazil | 1:05:15.8 |
| 18 | Julien Sauvage | France | 1:05:18.4 |
| 19 | Ricardo Monasterio | Venezuela | 1:06:04.9 |
| 20 | Csaba Gercsák | Hungary | 1:06:08.3 |
| 21 | David Creel | Canada | 1:06:59.1 |
| 22 | Guillherme Bento Bier | Brazil | 1:07:12.6 |
| 23 | Daniel Delgadillo | Mexico | 1:07:55.6 |
| 24 | Esteban Enderica | Ecuador | 1:09:07.8 |
| 25 | Oliver Ptak | Hungary | 1:11:51.9 |
| 26 | Gabriel Enderica Ochoa | Ecuador | 1:11:54.3 |
| 27 | Tomislav Soldo | Croatia | 1:22:33.1 |
| -- | Rotislav Vitek | Czech Republic | DNS |
| -- | Dan De Marco | USA | DNS |
| -- | Daniel Katzir | Israel | DNS |
