2008 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships

Swimming competition in Seville, Spain right FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships The 5th FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships were held May 3–8, 2008 in Seville, Spain.http://www.omegatiming.com/Competition?id=0001080D00FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF&sport=AQ&year=2008 Omega Timing - results - 5th FINA World Open Water Championships Sevilla, Spain 5/3/2008-5/8/2008 Swiss Timing Ltd 2018-03-10 The races were held on a 2.5-kilometer loop-course in the Guadalquivir river in the city center. A total of 165 swimmers (81 females, 84 males) were entered into the 6 races at the 2008 Open Water Worlds: Saturday, May 3: women's 10K Sunday, May 4: men's 10K Tuesday, May 6: women's 5K, men's 5K Thursday, May 8: women's 25K, men's 25K The 10K races served as the initial qualifier for the 10K race at the 2008 Olympics. Results Women's 5K   details Larisa Ilchenko   RUS Russia 1:00:04.6 Ekaterina Seliverstova   RUS Russia 1:00:07.8 Chloe Sutton   USA USA 1:00:09.9Men's 5K   details Thomas Lurz   GER Germany 54:57.3 Vladimir Dyatchin   RUS Russia 54:58.8 Maarten van der Weijden   NED Netherlands 54:59.8Women's 10K   details Larisa Ilchenko   RUS Russia 2:02:02.7 Cassandra Patten   GBR Great Britain 2:02:05.8 Yurema Requena   ESP Spain 2:02:07.2Men's 10K   details Vladimir Dyatchin   RUS Russia 1:53:21.0 David Davies   GBR Great Britain 1:53:21.3 Thomas Lurz   GER Germany 1:53:27.2Women's 25K   details Ksenia Popova   RUS Russia 5:27:48.2 Edith van Dijk   NED Netherlands 5:27:50.3 Natalya Pankina   RUS Russia 5:27:53.9Men's 25K   details Maarten van der Weijden   NED Netherlands 5:04:01.1 Mark Warkentin   USA USA 5:04:01.6 Yuri Kudinov   RUS Russia 5:04:02.4 Team standings The Championship Trophy point standing for the 2008 Open Water Worlds is:2008 Open Water Worlds: Standings https://web.archive.org/web/20120506031212/http://www.omegatiming.com/openwater/racearchives/2008/sevilla2008/ChampionshipsTrophy.pdf 2012-05-06 . Published by OmegaTiming.com on 2008-05-08; retrieved 2009-08-15. Rank Nation Men Women Combined 1 Russia 63 84 147 2 Netherlands 48 30 78 3 Germany 42 14 56 4 USA 34 14 48 5 Spain 15 24 39 6 Australia 17 21 38 7 Great Britain 16 21 37 8 Czech Republic 3 21 24 9 Italy 15 6 21 10 France 2 16 18 11 Egypt 16 0 16 12 China 0 14 14 13 South Africa 0 12 12 13 Bulgaria 12 0 12 15 Brazil 0 11 11 16 Slovenia 0 8 8 17 Greece 4 0 4 17 Israel 4 0 4 19 Canada 3 0 3 19 Belgium 3 0 3 21 Sweden 0 1 1 The following 17 countries are listed in a tie for 22nd, with zero (0) points: 22em Argentina Belarus Chile Croatia Guatemala Hong Kong Hungary North Macedonia FYR Macedonia Mexico Montenegro Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Syria Switzerland Ukraine Venezuela See also Open water swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships (previous Worlds) 2008 Olympics: Women's 10K and Men's 10K Open water swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships (subsequent Worlds) 2008 in swimming References Category:FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships FINA Open Water Worlds Category:2008 in Spanish sport Category:International aquatics competitions hosted by Spain Category:Swimming competitions in Spain