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


The Men's 10K race at the 2008 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships was swum on Sunday, May 4, 2008 in Seville, Spain. It was the second event of the 2008 Open Water Worlds, following the Women's 10K the previous day.
The race began at 10:00 a.m., and was swum in the Guadalquivir River in the city center. 55 men swam the event.
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 Men's 10K was one of two races at the 2008 Open Water Worlds that served as a .
The top-10 finishers and the next top finisher from each Continent qualified for the 2008 Olympics. However, the 5 continental qualifiers could not be from a country that had someone in the top-10.

Results

All times in hours:minutes:seconds
PlaceSwimmerCountryTimeNotes
1Vladimir Dyatchin1:53:21.0
2David Davies1:53:21.3
3Thomas Lurz1:53:27.2
4Maarten van der Weijden1:53:36.3
5Evgeny Drattsev1:53:37.6
5Ky Hurst1:53:37.6
7Mark Warkentin1:53:37.8
8Valerio Cleri1:53:38.8
9Spyridon Gianniotis1:53:39.1
10Brian Ryckeman1:53:39.4
11Gilles Rondy1:53:39.4
12Diego Nogueira1:53:41.1
13Chip Peterson1:53:41.6
14Luis Escobar1:54:32.0
15Ivan Lopez1:54:32.2
16Damián Blaum1:54:34.3
17Jakub Fichtl1:54:35.1
18Petar Stoychev1:54:35.7
19Mohamed El Zanaty1:54:36.4
20Christian Hein1:54:36.9
21Alan Bircher1:54:44.2
22Rostislav Vitek1:54:44.7
23Saleh Mohammad1:54:45.5
24Erwin Maldonado1:54:45.8
25Rolando Salas1:54:46.0
26Michael Dmitriev1:54:48.4
27Mazen Aziz1:54:57.4
28Philippe Dubreuil1:54:59.4
29Csaba Gercsák1:54:59.7
30Jarrod Ballem1:55:04.4
31Igor Chervynskiy1:55:13.4
32ZU Li Jun1:55:22.4
33Simone Ercoli1:55:37.3
34Betrand Venturi1:55:37.6
35Chad Ho1:56:50.1
36Allan do Carmo1:56:53.2
37Alex Schelvis1:57:08.8
38Igor Snitko1:57:42.8
39Roberto André Peñailillo1:58:16.9
40LI Yinhan1:58:30.6
41Daniel Katzir1:59:04.5
42Dzmitry Koptur1:59:10.7
43Martin Andres Clement1:59:15.2
44Marcelo Romanelli Soares1:59:45.1
45Aljaz Ojstersek2:04:38.1
46Evgenij Pop Acev FYR Macedonia2:08:01.7
47Tihomir Ivanchev2:09:49.1
48Tin Tu Ling2:10:22.2
--Grant HackettDQ
--Jose Francisco HervasDQ
--Tomislav SoldoDNF
--Fouad Shkh BakriDNF
--Daniel ViegasDNF
--Christian BayoDNF
--Sung Mo ChoDNS