Open water swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 km

2009 FINA World Championships Rome, Italy
Diving
Individual
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3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Synchronised
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10 m	men	women
Open water swimming
5 km	men	women
10 km	men	women
25 km	men	women
Swimming
Freestyle
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100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
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100 m	men	women
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Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
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Butterfly
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100 m	men	women
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Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
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4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
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Synchronised swimming
Solo	Technical	Free
Duet	Technical	Free
Team	Technical	Free
	Combination
Water polo
men (rosters) women (rosters)

The men's 10K (10 kilometer) race at the 2009 World Championships occurred on Wednesday, July 22 at Ostia Beach in Rome, Italy. In total, 48 males from 27 countries were entered in the race.^[1]

Results

Rank	Swimmer	Nationality	Time
	Thomas Lurz	Germany	1:52:06.9
	Andrew Gemmell	USA	1:52:08.3
	Fran Crippen	USA	1:52:10.7
4	Valerio Cleri	Italy	1:52:11.4
5	Brian Ryckeman	Belgium	1:52:13.1
6	Spyridon Gianniotis	Greece	1:52:13.6
7	Francisco Jose Hervas	Spain	1:52:14.7
8	Trent Grimsey	Australia	1:52:14.8
9	Mazen Metwaly	Egypt	1:52:14.9
10	Evgeny Drattsev	Russia	1:52:15.0
11	Luis Escobar	Mexico	1:52:18.0
12	Jakub Fitchl	Czech Republic	1:52:24.0
13	Csaba Gercsak	Hungary	1:52:28.0
14	Arseniy Lavrentyev	Portugal	1:52:28.2
15	Diego Nogueira Montero	Spain	1:52:37.1
16	Antonios Fokaidis	Greece	1:52:41.3
17	Daniel Fogg	Great Britain	1:52:44.3
18	Sergey Bolshakov	Russia	1:52:44.5
19	Ivan Lopez	Mexico	1:52:45.9
20	Julien Codeville	France	1:52:47.2
21	Rhys Mainstone	Australia	1:52:50.2
22	Allan do Carmo	Brazil	1:52:52.2
23	Chad Ho	South Africa	1:53:13.1
24	Bertrand Venturi	France	1:53:14.5
25	Adel El-Behary	Egypt	1:53:52.1
26	Simon Tobin-Daignault	Canada	1:53:53.9
27	Christian Reichert	Germany	1:54:09.9
28	Michael Dmitriev	Israel	1:54:29.6
29	Petar Stoychev	Bulgaria	1:54:50.8
30	Jan Posmourny	Czech Republic	1:55:17.4
31	Ventsislav Aydarski	Bulgaria	1:55:53.5
32	Simone Ercoli	Italy	1:56:46.3
33	Daniel Viegas	Spain	1:58:21.3
34	Craig Hamilton	Great Britain	1:58:55.7
35	Kurt Niehaus	Costa Rica	1:59:25.0
36	Ivan Enderica	Ecuador	1:59:29.4
37	Philippe Dubreuil	Canada	1:59:38.9
38	Marcelo Romanelli Soares	Brazil	2:00:42.2
39	Esteban Enderica	Ecuador	2:01:48.8
40	Josip Soldo	Croatia	2:08:07.2
41	Tomislav Soldo	Croatia	2:12:19.8
42	Juan Prem Biere	Guatemala	2:20:48.2
--	Elgun Babayev	Azerbaijan	DNF
--	Ruslan Bolshakov	Azerbaijan	DNF
--	Angel Moreira	Venezuela	DNF
--	Igor Chervynskiy	Ukraine	DQ
--	Igor Snitko	Ukraine	DQ
--	Yvan Hernandez	Venezuela	DQ

Key: DNF = Did not finish, DQ = Disqualified

Protest over finish

Due to a protest about the race finish, results from the race were delayed a day, until after a meeting on Thursday, July 23, 2009.^[2] At issue was the USA's Fran Crippen's finish approach.^[3][4]

On July 23, 2009, it was decided that Crippen's finish approach was legal and he was awarded the bronze medal.

See also

• Open water swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 km
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics

References

1. 2009 Worlds results: Men's 10K published by OmegaTiming.com, official timer of the 2009 Worlds. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
2. PR56 - Open Water Swimming – 10km Men (FINA Press Release 2009-56); published 2009-07-22, retrieved 2009-07-22.
3. Lurz wins again, taking 10K open water race by Andrew Dampf, the Associated Press. Published 2009-07-22; retrieved 2009-07-22.
4. FINA World Championships, Open Water: Thomas Lurz Wins Men's 10K; U.S. Finishes 2-3; Finish Under Protest by Steven Munatones. Published by Swimming World Magazine online on 2009-07-22, retrieved 2009-07-22.