Thousands of competitive adult swimmers descended upon Riccione, Italy for the 14th FINA World Masters Championships.

45 heats took off in separate waves on the triangular course with an in-the-water start and finish. The event was held over two days on June 16th and 17th due to the tremendous interest in the 3 km open water race.

The top men in their respective age group divisions are as follows:

25-29
1. David Carrillo Rozo (VEN) 34:23.1
2. Philip Emslie (RSA) 35:43.0
3. Tyron Venter (RSA) 36:07.4
4. Marco Urbani (ITA) 36:12.1
5. Massimiliano Colombi (ITA) 36:19.2

30-34
1. Julien Baillod (SUI) 27:32.4
2. Roman Evgrafov (RUS) 28:18.6
3. Alessio Morellato (ITA) 28:59.1
4. Gergely Molnar (HUN) 29:08.0
5. Geoff Twinning (GBR) 29:44.6

35-39
1. Jan Grefe (GER) 28:08.3
2. Igor Piovesan (ITA) 28:38.3
3. Diego Taddei (ITA) 28:43.3
4. Trippodo Antonino (ITA) 28:53.1
5. Fabrizio Pescatori (ITA) 28:53.5

40-44
1. Fabio Calmasini (ITA) 29:13.4
2. David Warren (GBR) 29:32.6
3. Yan Cardineau (USA) 30:04.2
4. Victor Manuel Moreno Vidal (ESP) 31:25.0
5. Alexandre Lopes (BRA) 31:28.3

45-49
1. Paul Lemmon (AUS) 28:18.1
2. Marco Tenderini (ITA) 28:18.4
3. Luca Di Iacovo (ITA) 28:23.9
4. Alessandro Gesini (ITA) 28:39.9
5. Michael Prefert (GER) 28:46.4

50-54
1. Marcus Mattioli (BRA) 29:12.6
2. Arnaldo Perez (PUR) 30:19.4
3. Pascal Mercuri (FRA) 30:20.9
4. Paolo Perrotti (ITA) 230:21.8
5. Bernardo Bordonali (ITA) 30:22.5

55-59
1. Glenn Carlsen (CAN) 31:25.6
2. Dirk Zeterberg (GER) 31:56.0
3. Evgeny Zeleniy (RUS) 31:56.4
4. Klaus Dahlinger (GER) 31:58.3
5. Rainer Fritsche (GER) 32:00.6

60-64
1. Marugo Lorenzo (ITA) 33:15.6
2. Jean-Daniel Moussay (FRA) 33:16.7
3. Giannantonio Scaramel (ITA) 33:21.6
4. Graham Croft (AUS) 33:32.3
5. Scott Lautman (USA) 33:33.3

65-69
1. Donald Uijtenbogaart (NED) 33:50.5
2. Federico Di Carlo (ITA) 34:34.7
3. Salvatore Deiana (ITA) 34:51.8
4. Mario Paterni (ITA) 36:13.2
5. Khamis Adawy (EGY) 37:23.3

70-74
1. Joachim Hintze (GER) 34:52.2
2. Joaquin Mari Canales De Mendoza (ESP) 39:13.6
3. Jean-Pierre Guilbert (FRA) 39;15.7
4. Tony Cherrington (GBR) 39:16.3
5. Nic Geers (NED) 39:41.4

75-79
1. Lauri Malk (FIN) 40:30.1
2. Giuseppe Bilotta (ITA) 42:15.5
3. Josef Krejci (SUI) 42:19.0
4. Michael Stollmeyer (COL) 43:31.8
5. Claudio Negri (ITA) 43:37.8

80-84
1. Igor Brovin (RUS) 43:42.6
2. Guiho Gabriel (FRA) 48:39.2
3. Stephen Mullins (USA) 51:14.5
4. Sidney Salek (NZL) 59:54.1
5. Franco Turco (ITA) 59:56.5

85-89
1. Domenicantonio Casolino (ITA) 45:04.7
2. Gabriel Villalonga (FRA) 1:12:36.8
3. Emiliano Llano Salas (MEX) 1:28:32.2

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