Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Swimming - 10 km open water (women)

sport	swim
discipline	10 km open water swimming
gender	Women
Attendees	25 athletes from 25 countries
Competition location	The Serpentine
Competition phase	August 9, 2012
Winning time	1: 57: 38.2 h
Medalists  Éva Risztov ( HUN )  Haley Anderson ( USA )  Martina Grimaldi ( ITA )

The women's 10 km open water swim at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on August 9, 2012 in Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park . 25 athletes took part.

The race was held in a final run.

Title holder

Olympic champion	Larissa Iltschenko ( Russia )	1: 59: 27.7 h	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Keri-Anne Payne ( United Kingdom )	2: 01: 58.1 h	Shanghai 2011
European champion	Martina Grimaldi ( Italy )	2:00: 18.6 h	Eilat 2011

Qualification criteria

25 athletes had qualified for the competition:

• Ten female swimmers who took the first ten places at the 2011 World Swimming Championships in Shanghai
• Nine swimmers who took part in the qualifying competition in Setúbal ( Portugal ) on 8./9. June 2012 took the first nine places
• Five female swimmers who represented the five continental federations of FINA and who were determined by their placement in the qualifying competition of Setúbal
• A host nation swimmer

run

Of the 24 swimmers who started, the Chinese Yanqiao did not start, 22 crossed the finish line. In the fourth round, the Brazilian Okimoto was brought into the lifeboat. Eliana Alves, spokeswoman for the Brazilian team, said the athlete suffered from hypothermia . The South African Roux was also taken out of the water.

August 9, 2012, 12:00 p.m. CET

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
01	Éva Risztov	Hungary	1: 57: 38.2 h
02	Haley Anderson	United States	1: 57: 38.6 h	warning
03	Martina Grimaldi	Italy	1: 57: 41.8 h
04th	Keri-Anne Payne	Great Britain	1: 57: 42.2 h
05	Angela Mason	Germany	1: 57: 52.8 h	warning
06th	Ophelie Aspord	France	1: 58: 43.1 h
07th	Erika Villaécija	Spain	1: 58: 49.5 h
08th	Jana Pecanová	Czech Republic	1: 58: 52.8 h
09	Anna Gussewa	Russia	1: 58: 53.0 h
10	Melissa Gorman	Australia	1: 58: 53.1 h	warning
11	Karla Šitić	Croatia	1: 58: 54.7 h
12	Yumi Kida	Japan	1: 58: 59.1 h	warning
13	Yanel Pinto	Venezuela	1: 59: 05.8 h
14th	Natalia Charlos	Poland	1: 59: 58.7 h	warning
15th	Heidi Gan	Malaysia	1: 00: 45.0 h
16	Cecilia Biagioli	Argentina	2:01:02.2 h
17th	Zsofia Balazs	Canada	2: 01: 17.8 h
18th	Swann Oberson	Switzerland	2: 01: 38.0 h
19th	Tang Wing Yung	Hong Kong	2:02:33.4 h
20th	Lizeth Rueda	Mexico	2: 02: 46.1 h
21st	Marianna Lymperta	Greece	2: 04: 26.5 h
	Poliana Okimoto	Brazil	DNF
	Jessica Roux	South Africa	DNF
	Olha Berezneva	Ukraine	DSQ	doping
	Fang Yanqiao	China	DNS

Web links

• Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Swimming - 10 km open water in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Report in USA Today from August 9, 2012 (Eng.)