2008 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships – Women's 10K

2008 FINA
Open Water Worlds
5K men's 5K
women 5K
10K men's 10K
women's 10K
25K men's 25K
women's 25K

The Women's 10K race at the 2008 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships was swum on Saturday, May 3, 2008 in Seville, Spain. It was the first event of the 2008 Open Water Worlds.

The race began at 10:00 a.m., and was swum in the Guadalquivir River in the city center. 51 women swam the event.[1]

The 10 kilometer distance of the race was reached by completed 4 laps of the 2.5-kilometer course set up for the championships.

2008 Olympics qualifying

The Women's 10K was one of two races at the 2008 Open Water Worlds that served as a qualifier for the 2008 Olympics (the other qualifying race was the men's 10K, the next day).

The top-10 finishers and the next top finisher from each Continent (5) qualified for the 2008 Olympics (this comprised 15 of the 25 spots for the event at the 2008 Olympics). However, the 5 continental qualifiers could not be from a country that had someone in the top-10 (i.e. the second qualifier from a country couldn't be a continental qualifier). As Africa only had entrants from South Africa, and Natalie du Toit qualified via the top-10, the Africa Continental spot was re-allocated to the second qualify event later in 2008.

Also of note on du Toit: she became the first Paralympic athlete to qualify for an Olympics with her fourth-place finish in the race. She would go on to swim at both the 2008 Olympics and 2008 Paralympics.

Results

All times in hours:minutes:seconds

Place Swimmer Country Time Notes
1 Larisa Ilchenko  Russia 2:02:02.7 Olympic
2 Cassandra Patten  Great Britain 2:02:05.8 Olympic
3 Yurema Requena  Spain 2:02:07.2 Olympic
4 Natalie du Toit  South Africa 2:02:07.8 Olympic
5 Jana Pechanová  Czech Republic 2:02:12.6 Olympic
6 Poliana Okimoto  Brazil 2:02:13.5 Olympic
7 Angela Maurer  Germany 2:02:13.6 Olympic
8 Keri-Anne Payne  Great Britain 2:02:14.1 Olympic
9 Aurelie Muller  France 2:02:14.2 Olympic
10 Ana Marcela Cunha  Brazil 2:02:16.3 Olympic
11 Edith van Dijk  Netherlands 2:02:18.6 Olympic (Europe)
12 FANG Yanqiao  China 2:02:23.3 Olympic (Asia)
13 Teja Zupan  Slovenia 2:02:26.1
14 Alice Franco  Italy 2:02:27.8
15 Marianna Lymperta  Greece 2:02:28.0
16 Margarita Dominguez  Spain 2:02:36.6
17 Andreina Pinto  Venezuela 2:02:39.8 Olympic (Americas)
18 Ksenia Popova  Russia 2:02:51.3
19 Rita Kovács  Hungary 2:02:54.8
20 Erika Hajnal  Hungary 2:02:55.1
21 Kirsten Groome  USA 2:02:57.3
22 Imelda Martinez  Mexico 2:03:11.5
23 Linsy Heister  Netherlands 2:03:13.2
24 Alejandra Gonzalez  Mexico 2:03:17.9
25 Melissa Gorman  Australia 2:03:18.4 Olympic (Oceania)
26 Martina Grimaldi  Italy 2:03:23.7
27 Olga Beresneva  Israel 2:03:30.1
28 Eva Berglund  Sweden 2:04:10.2
29 Yanel Pinto  Venezuela 2:04:30.1
30 Nataliya Samorodina  Ukraine 2:04:37.5
31 Micha Burden  USA 2:04:39.4
32 Karley Stutzel  Canada 2:04:41.9
33 Kristel Köbrich  Chile 2:04:43.4
34 Velia Janse Van Rensburg  South Africa 2:04:44.7
35 LI Xue  China 2:04:59.7
36 Cathy Dietrich  France 2:04:59.8
37 Nika Kozamernik  Slovenia 2:05:01.4
38 Karla Sitic  Croatia 2:05:15.8
39 Britta Kamrau-Corestein  Germany 2:05:27.8
40 Pilar Geijo  Argentina 2:06:07.1
41 Antonella Bogarin  Argentina 2:06:17.9
42 Zsofia Balazs  Canada 2:08:02.8
43 Brooke Fletcher  Australia 2:10:24.6
44 Natasha Tang Wing Yung  Hong Kong 2:14:24.6
45 Daniela Inacio  Portugal 2:16:47.8
46 Nina Rangelova  Bulgaria 2:17:02.2
47 Darija Pop  Montenegro 2:17:29.6
48 Cindy Carolina Toscano  Guatemala 2:23:06.7
49 Inha Kotsur  Belarus 2:23:26.1
50 Militza Rios  Puerto Rico 2:30:04.1
-- Swann Oberson   Switzerland DNF

See also

References

  1. ↑ Start List for Women's 10K at the 2008 Open Water Worlds. From OmegaTiming.com, official timer for event. Retrieved 2009-08-15.


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