Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's marathon 10 kilometre

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Women's marathon swimming
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Serpentine Bridge.JPG
The race was held in the Serpentine lake
Venue The Serpentine, Hyde Park
Dates August 9, 2012
Competitors 25 from 25 nations
Winning time 1:57:38.2
Medalists
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1st Éva Risztov  Hungary
2nd Haley Anderson  United States
3rd Martina Grimaldi  Italy
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Swimming at the
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Freestyle
50 m   men   women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men women
Medley relay
4×100 m men women
Marathon
10 km men women

The women's marathon swimming over a distance of 10 kilometres at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place on 9 August in the Serpentine at Hyde Park in London, United Kingdom.[1]

Hungary's Éva Risztov ended her eight-year absence from Olympic action to capture the women's 10 km marathon title in open water swimming. Leading most of the stretch in a grueling race, she held off a late resistant surge from American teen Haley Anderson on the last 50 metres to slam the timing touch pads and claim her first Olympic gold medal in 1:57:38.2.[2][3] Swimming into the sixth and final lap, Anderson mounted a serious challenge against Italy's Martina Grimaldi for two more Olympic medals, but finished closely behind Risztov by 0.4 seconds with a silver-medal time in 1:57:38.6.[4][5] Meanwhile, Grimaldi stunned the entire home crowd that lined the lake in one of London's iconic parks, as she picked off Great Britain's overwhelming favorite Keri-Anne Payne (1:57:42.2) by a small fraction of a second for the bronze in 1:57:41.8.[6][7]

Germany's Angela Maurer dropped off from the leading pack before the final stretch to fifth in 1:57:52.8, while Australia's Melissa Gorman, who opened the race with an early lead, faded further from the field to eleventh in 1:58:53.1.[7][8]

Among the twenty-five swimmers registered in the field, two of them were unable to finish the race, while the other one did not officially compete.[7] South Africa's Jessica Roux was pulled from the water halfway through the race to seek medical attention, while Brazil's Poliana Okimoto, who started the race in fourteenth but steadily fell back to twentieth with only two laps left, fainted from dehydration after she was hauled into one of the safety boats.[9][10]

Qualification

The women's 10 km open water marathon at the 2012 Olympics featured a field of 25 swimmers:

  • 10: the top-10 finishers in the 10 km race at the 2011 FINA World Championships.[11]
  • 9: the top-9 finishers at the 2012 Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier (8–9 June 2012 in Setúbal, Portugal).[12][13]
  • 5: one representative from each FINA continent (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania). (These were selected based on the finishes at the qualifying race in Setúbal.)
  • 1: from the host nation (Great Britain) if not qualified by other means. If Great Britain already had a qualifier in the race, this spot was allocated back into the general pool from the 2012 qualifying race.

Results

Rank Athlete Nation Time Time
behind		 Notes
1st Éva Risztov  Hungary 1:57:38.2
2nd Haley Anderson  United States 1:57:38.6 +0.4 Warning
3rd Martina Grimaldi  Italy 1:57:41.8 +3.6
4 Keri-Anne Payne  Great Britain 1:57:42.2 +4.0
5 Angela Maurer  Germany 1:57:52.8 +14.6 Warning
6 Ophelie Aspord  France 1:58:43.1 +1:04.9
Olga Beresnyeva  Ukraine 1:58:44.4 +1:06.2 DISQUALIFIED[14]
7 Erika Villaécija García  Spain 1:58:49.5 +1:11.3
8 Jana Pechanová  Czech Republic 1:58:52.8 +1:14.6
9 Anna Guseva  Russia 1:58:53.0 +1:14.8
10 Melissa Gorman  Australia 1:58:53.1 +1:14.9 Warning
11 Karla Šitić  Croatia 1:58:54.7 +1:16.5
12 Yumi Kida  Japan 1:58:59.1 +1:20.9 Warning
13 Yanel Pinto  Venezuela 1:59:05.8 +1:27.6
14 Natalia Charlos  Poland 1:59:58.7 +2:20.5 Warning
15 Heidi Gan  Malaysia 2:00:45.0 +3:06.8
16 Cecilia Biagioli  Argentina 2:01:02.2 +3:24.0
17 Zsofia Balazs  Canada 2:01:17.8 +3:39.6
18 Swann Oberson  Switzerland 2:01:38.0 +3:59.8
19 Natasha Tang  Hong Kong 2:02:33.4 +4:55.2
20 Lizeth Rueda  Mexico 2:02:46.1 +5:07.9
21 Marianna Lymperta  Greece 2:04:26.5 +6:48.3
Poliana Okimoto  Brazil DNF
Jessica Roux  South Africa DNF
Fang Yanqiao  China DNS

References

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