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

sport	swim
discipline	10 km open water swimming
gender	Men
Attendees	25 athletes from 23 countries
Competition location	The Serpentine
Competition phase	August 10, 2012
Winning time	1: 49: 55.1 h
Medalist  Oussama Mellouli ( DO )  Thomas Lurz ( GER )  Richard Weinberger ( CAN )

The men's 10 km open water swim at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on August 10, 2012 in Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park . 25 athletes took part. Olympic champion was Oussama Mellouli from Tunisia, who was the first swimmer in history to win medals both in open water and in the pool.

The race was held in a final run.

Title holder

Olympic champion	Maarten van der Weijden ( Netherlands )	1: 51: 51.6 h	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Spyros Gianniotis ( Greece )	1: 54: 24.7 hours	Shanghai 2011
European champion	Thomas Lurz ( Germany )	1: 53: 18.2 h	Eilat 2011

Qualification criteria

25 athletes had qualified for the competition:

• Ten 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 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

Auditorium on the route

Scene from the race

August 10, 2012, 12:00 p.m. CET

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
01	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	1: 49: 55.1 h
02	Thomas Lurz	Germany	1: 49: 58.5 h
03	Richard Weinberger	Canada	1: 50: 00.3 h
04th	Spyros Gianniotis	Greece	1: 50: 05.3 h
05	Daniel Fogg	Great Britain	1: 50: 37.3 h
06th	Sergei Bolshakov	Belarus	1: 50: 40.1 h
07th	Vladimir Djatchin	Russia	1: 50: 42.8 h
08th	Andreas Waschburger	Germany	1: 50: 44.4 h	warning
09	Petar Stoychev	Bulgaria	1: 50: 46.2 h
10	Alexander Meyer	United States	1: 50: 48.2 hours
11	Julien Sauvage	France	1: 50: 51.3 h
12	Hercules Troyden Prinsloo	South Africa	1: 50: 52.9 h	warning
13	Erwin Maldonado	Venezuela	1: 50: 52.9 h
14th	Igor Cherwinsky	Ukraine	1: 50: 56.9 h
15th	Yasunari Hirai	Japan	1: 51: 20.1 h	warning
16	Brian Ryckeman	Belgium	1: 51: 27.1 h
17th	Valerio Cleri	Italy	1: 51: 29.5 h
18th	Csaba Gercsák	Hungary	1: 51: 30.9 h
19th	Arseniy Lavrentyev	Portugal	1: 51: 37.2 h
20th	Ky Hurst	Australia	1: 51: 41.3 h
21st	Ivan Enderica Ochoa	Ecuador	1: 52: 28.6 h
22nd	Yuri Kudinov	Kazakhstan	1: 52: 59.0 h
23	Francisco Hervás	Spain	1: 53: 27.8 h
24	Mazen Metwaly	Egypt	1: 54: 33.2 h	warning
25th	Benjamin Schulte	Guam	2: 03: 35.1 h

Web links

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