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.^[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

• Open water swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 10 km
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's marathon 10 kilometre
• Open water swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 10 km

References

• 2008 Open Water Worlds results: Women's 10K from OmegaTiming.com (official timer for the event); retrieved 2009-08-15.