2008 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships – Men's 5K

2008 FINA
Open Water Worlds
5K men's 5K
women 5K
10K men's 10K
women's 10K
25K men's 25K
women's 25K

The Men's 5K race at the 2008 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships was swum on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 in Seville, Spain. It was the fourth event of the 2008 Open Water Worlds, and second of two events on May 6 (the other being the Women's 5K race).

The race began at 12:30 p.m., and was swum in the Guadalquivir River in the city center. 38 males were entered in the event, of which 33 swam.[1]

The 5-kilometer distance of the race was reached by completed 2 laps of the 2.5-kilometer course set up for the championships.[2]

Results

All times in minutes:seconds (mm:ss.s) or hour:minutes:second (h:mm:ss.s).

Place Swimmer Country Time Notes
1 Thomas Lurz  Germany 54:57.3
2 Vladimir Dyatchin  Russia 54:58.8
3 Maarten van der Weijden  Netherlands 54:59.8
4 Chad La Tourette  USA 55:04.5
5 Christian Hein  Germany 55:04.6
6 Jose Francisco Hervas  Spain 55:05.4
7 Diego Nogueira  Spain 55:06.4
8 Evgeny Drattsev  Russia 55:07.0
9 Alex Schelvis  Netherlands 55:07.4
10 Jarrod Ballem  Canada 55:11.4
11 Nicola Bolzonello  Italy 55:17.5
12 Josh Santacaterina  Australia 55:19.0
13 Andrea Righi  Italy 55:20.2
14 Jakub Fichtl  Czech Republic 55:20.7
15 Josef Kinderwater  USA 55:21.0
16 Andrew Beato  Australia 55:24.4
17 Loic Branda  France 55:25.8
18 Luiz Lima  Brazil 55:27.3
19 Philippe Dubreuil  Canada 55:32.1
20 Daniel Fogg  Great Britain 55:36.3
21 Csaba Gercsak  Hungary 55:50.3
22 Konstyantyn Ukradyga  Ukraine 58:00.7
23 Aljaz Ojstersek  Slovenia 58:08.7
24 James Faure  South Africa 58:20.1
25 Daniel Viegas  Portugal 58:38.7
26 Fabio Alves Lima  Brazil 58:41.8
27 Yvan Hernandez  Venezuela 58:46.2
28 Martin Andres Clement  Argentina 58:48.8
29 Jan Posmourny  Czech Republic 58:50.2
30 Johndry Segovia  Venezuela 1:01:03.4
31 HU Di  China 1:01:03.6
32 Christian Bayo  Puerto Rico 1:01:21.6
-- XU Wenchao  China DQ
-- Mazen Aziz  Egypt DNS
-- Gianniotis Spyridon  Greece DNS
-- Chad Ho  South Africa DNS
-- Gilles Rondy  France DNS
-- Mohamed El Zanaty  Egypt DNS

See also

References

  1. ↑ Start List for Men's 5K at the 2008 Open Water Worlds. From OmegaTiming.com, official timer for event. Retrieved 2009-08-15.
  2. ↑ Race Course description page, from www.sevillaaguasabiertas.org – the event's website. Retrieved 2009-08-15.


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