Open water swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 5 kilometres

2001 FINA World Championships Fukuoka, Japan
Diving
Individual
1 m	men	women
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Synchronised
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Open water swimming
5 km	men	women
10 km	men	women
25 km	men	women
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
Synchronised swimming
Solo		women
Duet		women
Team		women
Water polo
men • women

The Women's 5km Open Water event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 16, 2001 in Fukuoka.

Results

Rank	Swimmer	Nationality	Time
1 !	Viola Valli	Italy	1:00:23
2 !	Peggy Büchse	Germany	1:00:49
3 !	Hayley Lewis	Great Britain	1:00:52
4	Angela Maurer	Germany	1:00:54
5	Valeria Casprini	Italy	1:01:06
6	Edith van Dijk	Netherlands	1:01:08
7	Erica Rose	USA	1:01:11
8	Olga Guseva	Russia	1:01:57
9	Hanna Miluska	Switzerland	1:02:05
10	Audrey Boitte	France	1:02:06
11	Paula Wood	Great Britain	1:02:07
12	Irina Abysova	Russia	1:02:08
13	Trudee Hutchinson	Australia	1:02:09
14	Briley Bergen	USA	1:02:09
15	Kate Brookes-Peterson	New Zealand	1:02:10
16	Denise Schrader	Switzerland	1:02:10
17	Rebecca Linton	New Zealand	1:02.11
18	Etta van der Weijden	Netherlands	1:02.11
19	Karley Stutzel	Canada	1:02.12
20	Viviane Motti	Brazil	1:03:44
21	Marieke Theunissen	South Africa	1:03:44
22	Noako Nojiri	Japan	1:06:15
23	Claudia Barsi	Hungary	1:07:44
24	Katarína Kuníková	Slovakia	1:08:58
25	Fabiana Oliveira	Brazil	1:12:33
26	Rola Harres	Lebanon	1:19:50
--	Yvetta Hlaváčová	Czech Republic	DQ
--	Karolína Benoczová	Slovakia	DQ

Key: DQ = Disqualified