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 qualifier for the 2008 Olympics (the other qualifying race was the Women's 10K, the previous 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).

Results

All times in hours:minutes:seconds

Place	Swimmer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Vladimir Dyatchin	Russia	1:53:21.0	Olympic
2	David Davies	Great Britain	1:53:21.3	Olympic
3	Thomas Lurz	Germany	1:53:27.2	Olympic
4	Maarten van der Weijden	Netherlands	1:53:36.3	Olympic
5	Evgeny Drattsev	Russia	1:53:37.6	Olympic
	Ky Hurst	Australia		Olympic
7	Mark Warkentin	USA	1:53:37.8	Olympic
8	Valerio Cleri	Italy	1:53:38.8	Olympic
9	Spyridon Gianniotis	Greece	1:53:39.1	Olympic
10	Brian Ryckeman	Belgium	1:53:39.4	Olympic
11	Gilles Rondy	France	1:53:39.4	Olympic (Europe)
12	Diego Nogueira	Spain	1:53:41.1
13	Chip Peterson	USA	1:53:41.6
14	Luis Escobar	Mexico	1:54:32.0	Olympic (Americas)
15	Ivan Lopez	Mexico	1:54:32.2
16	Damián Blaum	Argentina	1:54:34.3
17	Jakub Fichtl	Czech Republic	1:54:35.1
18	Petar Stoychev	Bulgaria	1:54:35.7
19	Mohamed El Zanaty	Egypt	1:54:36.4	Olympic (Africa)
20	Christian Hein	Germany	1:54:36.9
21	Alan Bircher	Great Britain	1:54:44.2
22	Rostislav Vitek	Czech Republic	1:54:44.7
23	Saleh Mohammad	Syria	1:54:45.5	Olympic (Asia)
24	Erwin Maldonado	Venezuela	1:54:45.8
25	Rolando Salas	Venezuela	1:54:46.0
26	Michael Dmitriev	Israel	1:54:48.4
27	Mazen Aziz	Egypt	1:54:57.4
28	Philippe Dubreuil	Canada	1:54:59.4
29	Csaba Gercsak	Hungary	1:54:59.7
30	Jarrod Ballem	Canada	1:55:04.4
31	Igor Chervynskiy	Ukraine	1:55:13.4
32	ZU Li Jun	China	1:55:22.4
33	Simone Ercoli	Italy	1:55:37.3
34	Betrand Venturi	France	1:55:37.6
35	Chad Ho	South Africa	1:56:50.1
36	Allan do Carmo	Brazil	1:56:53.2
37	Alex Schelvis	Netherlands	1:57:08.8
38	Igor Snitko	Ukraine	1:57:42.8
39	Roberto André Peñailillo	Chile	1:58:16.9
40	LI Yinhan	China	1:58:30.6
41	Daniel Katzir	Israel	1:59:04.5
42	Dzmitry Koptur	Belarus	1:59:10.7
43	Martin Andres Clement	Argentina	1:59:15.2
44	Marcelo Romanelli Soares	Brazil	1:59:45.1
45	Aljaz Ojstersek	Slovenia	2:04:38.1
46	Evgenij Pop Acev	FYR Macedonia	2:08:01.7
47	Tihomir Ivanchev	Bulgaria	2:09:49.1
48	Tin Tu Ling	Hong Kong	2:10:22.2
--	Grant Hackett	Australia	DQ
--	Jose Francisco Hervas	Spain	DQ
--	Tomislav Soldo	Croatia	DNF
--	Fouad Shkh Bakri	Syria	DNF
--	Daniel Viegas	Portugal	DNF
--	Christian Bayo	Puerto Rico	DNF
--	Sung Mo Cho	South Korea	DNS

See also

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

References

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