2008 European Open Water Swimming Championships

2008 European Open Water Swimming Championships

Country	Croatia
Events	7

The 2008 European Open Water Swimming Championships was the 11th edition of the European Open Water Swimming Championships (but the 4th stand alone after 1989, 1991 and 1993 editions) and took part from 8-14 September 2008 in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Results

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km (10.09)	Spyridon Yannotis Greece 52:57,2	Jan Wolfgarten Germany 53:55,7	Thomas Lurz Germany 54:04,3
10 km (09.09)	Thomas Lurz Germany 1:52:48,9	Yevgueni Drattsev Russia 1:52:50,6	Toni Franz Germany 1:52:53,0
25 km (13.09)	Valerio Cleri Italy 4:29:00,0	Joanes Hedel France 4:32:40,9	Dmitri Soloviov Russia 4:34:02,4

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km (09.09)	Rachele Bruni Italy 58:50,7	Britta Kamrau Germany 59:16,1	Alice Franco Italy 59:39,0
10 km (10.09)	Larisa Ilchenko Russia 2:00:30,9	Martina Grimaldi Italy 2:00:31,4	Alice Franco Italy 2:00:32,2
25 km (14.09)	Margarita Domínguez Spain 5:38:35,3	Britta Kamrau Germany 5:39:00,2	Anna Uvarova Russia 5:39:06,6

Mixed

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km por equipos (11.09)	Italy Andrea Volpini Rachele Bruni Luca Ferretti 56:17,5	Russia Daniil Serebrennikov Yevgueni Drattsev Yekaterina Seliverstova 57:03,6	Germany Jan Wolfgarten Britta Kamrau Thomas Lurz 57:30,0

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	3	1	2	6
2	Germany (GER)	1	3	3	7
3	Russia (RUS)	1	2	2	5
4	Greece (GRE)	1	0	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	1	0	0	1
6	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
Totals (6 entries)		7	7	7	21

See also

• 2008 European Aquatics Championships
• List of medalists at the European Open Water Swimming Championships

External links

• Ligue Européenne de Natation LEN Official Website