The Men's 25 km Open Water swimming race took place on Saturday, 25 July, at Ostia beach in Rome. 23 men from 15 countries competed. Valerio Cleri of Italy took home the gold with a time of 5:26:31.6.Worlds results: Men's 25 km published by OmegaTiming.com, official timer of the 2009 Worlds. Retrieved 2009-07-26.

Results Rank Swimmer Nationality Time Valerio Cleri 5:26:31.6 Trent Grimsey 5:26:50.7 Vladimir Dyatchin 5:29:29.3 4 Brian Ryckeman 5:30:18.4 5 Loic Branda 5:30:20.9 6 Bertrand Venturi 5:30:22.9 7 Brendan Capell 5:30:27.5 8 Rostislav Vitek 5:32:38.8 9 Simon Tobin-Daignault 5:34:48.2 10 Libor Smolka 5:35:06.4 11 Sean Ryan 5:36:22.2 12 Andrea Volpini 5:36:37.9 13 Manuel Chiu 5:39:12.1 14 Rodrigo Elorza 5:43:26.4 15 Danill Serebrennikov 5:46:21.7 16 Arseniy Lavrentyev 5:48:43.0 17 Saleh Mohammad 5:49:30.6 18 Adel El-Behary 5:54:00.3 -- Evgenij Pop Avec OTL -- Mohammed Jassim Alghareeb DNF -- Alex Meyer DSQ -- Mazen Metwaly DNS -- Diego Nogueira Montero DNS

Key: OTL = Over Time Limit, DSQ = Disqualified, DNF = Did not finish, DNS = Did not start

See also Open water swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 25 km

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