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


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.
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 .
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. 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
PlaceSwimmerCountryTimeNotes
1Larisa Ilchenko2:02:02.7
2Cassandra Patten2:02:05.8
3Yurema Requena2:02:07.2
4Natalie du Toit2:02:07.8
5Jana Pechanová2:02:12.6
6Poliana Okimoto2:02:13.5
7Angela Maurer2:02:13.6
8Keri-Anne Payne2:02:14.1
9Aurelie Muller2:02:14.2
10Ana Marcela Cunha2:02:16.3
11Edith van Dijk2:02:18.6
12FANG Yanqiao2:02:23.3
13Teja Zupan2:02:26.1
14Alice Franco2:02:27.8
15Marianna Lymperta2:02:28.0
16Margarita Dominguez2:02:36.6
17Andreina Pinto2:02:39.8
18Ksenia Popova2:02:51.3
19Rita Kovács2:02:54.8
20Erika Hajnal2:02:55.1
21Kirsten Groome2:02:57.3
22Imelda Martinez2:03:11.5
23Linsy Heister2:03:13.2
24Alejandra Gonzalez2:03:17.9
25Melissa Gorman2:03:18.4
26Martina Grimaldi2:03:23.7
27Olga Beresneva2:03:30.1
28Eva Berglund2:04:10.2
29Yanel Pinto2:04:30.1
30Nataliya Samorodina2:04:37.5
31Micha Burden2:04:39.4
32Karley Stutzel2:04:41.9
33Kristel Köbrich2:04:43.4
34Velia Janse Van Rensburg2:04:44.7
35Li Xue2:04:59.7
36Cathy Dietrich2:04:59.8
37Nika Kozamernik2:05:01.4
38Karla Sitic2:05:15.8
39Britta Kamrau-Corestein2:05:27.8
40Pilar Geijo2:06:07.1
41Antonella Bogarin2:06:17.9
42Zsofia Balazs2:08:02.8
43Brooke Fletcher2:10:24.6
44Natasha Tang Wing Yung2:14:24.6
45Daniela Inacio2:16:47.8
46Nina Rangelova2:17:02.2
47Darija Pop2:17:29.6
48Cindy Carolina Toscano2:23:06.7
49Inha Kotsur2:23:26.1
50Militza Rios2:30:04.1
--Swann ObersonDNF