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Swimming At The 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's Marathon 10 Kilometre
The women's marathon 10 kilometre event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 20 August at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing, China. Russia's Larisa Ilchenko sprinted to a top finish in the final stages. With only 150 metres left, she put in a late charge to overhaul the British duo Keri-Anne Payne and Cassandra Patten on the right side of the pack, and slapped the yellow pads to capture the gold in a sterling time of 1:59:27.7. Payne trailed behind Ilchenko by exactly half a second (0.50), but powered home with a silver in 1:59:29.2, while Patten snatched the bronze in 1:59:31.0 to hold off a grueling battle from Germany's Angela Maurer (1:59:31.9) by almost a full second. Netherlands' two-time world champion Edith van Dijk earned a fourteenth spot in 2:00:02.8, while South Africa's Natalie du Toit, the first ever amputee in history to compete at the Olympics, enjoyed the race of her life as she finished with a highly respectable, sixteenth-place effort in 2: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park
The Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park () was built for the Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics, rowing, Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics, canoeing and Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 10 km open-water swimming events in the 2008 Summer Olympics. It is located in Mapo Village in the Shunyi District in Beijing. The first competitions at the venue were held in August 2007, a year ahead of the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008 Olympic Games for which it was built. The World Junior Rowing Championships, China Open Canoe/Kayak Slalom and China Canoe/Kayak Flatwater Open were all held in that month as part of the "Good Luck Beijing" series of sporting events. The Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 10 km marathon swimming event and the second qualifying event of the 2008 Summer Olympics were also held there. Slalom course The slalom course is generally considered to be difficult, even by Olympic standards. The water speed is 7.5 meters/second. With a drop of 6.3 meters (21 ft) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 FINA World Open Water Championships
right The 5th FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships were held May 3–8, 2008 in Seville, Spain. 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 Team standings The Championship Trophy point standing for the 2008 Open Water Worlds is: . Published by OmegaTiming.com on 2008-05-08; retrieved 2009-08-15. The following 17 countries are listed in a tie for 22nd, with z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Gorman
Melissa Anne Gorman (born 11 December 1985) is an Australian long-distance swimmer who specialises in long-distance freestyle and open-water events. Career At the 2006 Commonwealth Games, Gorman won a silver medal in the 800 m freestyle. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Gorman finished 15th in the Women's 10 km open water marathon and 17th in the 800 m freestyle. At the 2009 World Aquatics Championships, Gorman stunned Olympic champion Larisa Ilchenko to win gold in the women's 5 km. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Gorman won a bronze medal in the 800 m freestyle. At the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, Gorman won a gold medal in the women's 1500 m freestyle and set a new Commonwealth record. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Gorman finished 10th in the women's 10 km open water marathon. See also * List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women) * List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (women) This is a list of women's Common ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yurema Requena
Yurema Requena Juarez (born 25 November 1983) is a Spanish swimmer who competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics. She was born in Villarreal Villarreal ( ca-valencia , Vila-real) is a city and municipality in the province of Castellón which is part of the Valencian Community in the east of Spain. The town is located at 42 m above sea level, 7 km to the south of the province's .... Notes References External links * * * * 1983 births Living people Spanish female freestyle swimmers Spanish female long-distance swimmers Olympic swimmers for Spain Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics {{Spain-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teja Zupan
Teja Zupan (born 4 December 1990, in Radovljica) is a Slovenian swimmer, who specialized in open water marathon. Zupan qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after placing tenth in the 10 km Marathon Swimming Olympic test event at Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park. Zupan swam in the first-ever women's 10 km open water marathon, against a field of 24 other competitors, including South African amputee swimmer Natalie du Toit, British duo Keri-Anne Payne and Cassandra Patten, and sixteen-year-old American Chloe Sutton. Zupan finished the race in twelfth place, with a total time of 1:59:43.7, sixteen seconds behind winner Larisa Ilchenko Larisa Dmitriyevna Ilchenko (russian: Лариса Дмитриевна Ильченко; born 18 November 1988) is a Russian long-distance swimmer. She has won eight world titles and a gold at the 2008 Olympics. Biography Ilchenko has dominated ... of Russia. References External linksNBC 2008 Olympics profile 1990 births L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianna Lymperta
Marianna Lymperta ( gr, Μαριάννα Λυμπερτά, born June 25, 1979) is an Olympic and national-record holding swimmer from Greece. She has won the bronze medal at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships, at the Open Water Swimming Women's 10 km event. She has also won the bronze medal at the 2010 European Aquatics Championships, at the Open Water Swimming Women's 5km event. She has swum for Greece at the: *Olympics: 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 *World Championships: 2003, 2009, 2011, 2013 (trans: ''15th World Championships: a tribute to the Greek team''). P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martina Grimaldi
Martina Grimaldi (born 28 September 1988) is an Italian distance swimmer. She was born in Bologna. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's marathon 10 kilometre, winning the bronze medal. Grimaldi is an athlete of the Gruppo Sportivo Fiamme Oro The Gruppo Sportivo Fiamme Oro is the sport section of the Italian police force Polizia di Stato. The color of the competition jerseys of the athletes of the Fiamme Oro is crimson, therefore the athletes of the sports group are sometimes called ' .... References External links * 1988 births Living people Olympic swimmers of Italy Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Italy Olympic bronze medalists in swimming Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics World Aquatics Championships medalists in open water swimming Italian female long-distance swimmers Sportspeople from Bologna Swimmers of Fiamme Oro {{Italy-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreína Pinto
Andreina del Valle Pinto Pérez (born 10 September 1991) is an Olympic and National Record holding swimmer from Venezuela. She swam for Venezuela at the 2008 Olympics. She also swam at the: * 2007 World Championships * 2007 Pan American Games * 2008 Open Water Worlds * 2009 World Championships * 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games At the 2009 World Championships, she swam to new Venezuelan Records in the 200, 400, and 1500 free (2:02.15, 4:11.29, and 16:22.29). The 200 free record came in leading off Venezuela's 4x200 Free Relay, which also lowered the national record. At the 2008 Olympics, she set the Venezuelan Record in the 800 free at 8:30.30; and she also holds the national mark in the 200 fly (2:14.74). Pinto was named the flag bearer A standard-bearer, also known as a flag-bearer is a person (soldier or civilian) who bears an emblem known as a standard or military colours, i.e. either a type of flag or an inflexible but mobile image, which is used (and of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jana Pechanová
Jana Pechanová (; born March 3, 1981 in Rakovník, Czechoslovakia)Pechanová's entry at sports-reference.com; retrieved 2010-02-20. is an Olympic distance swimmer from the Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ... . She swam for the Czech Olympic team at the 2004, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poliana Okimoto
Poliana Okimoto (born March 8, 1983) is a Brazilian long-distance swimmer. Career She was at the 2002 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Moscow, where she finished 18th in the 800-metre freestyle. She won the Travessia dos Fortes in 2005. Okimoto competed in the Swimming at the 2007 Pan American Games - Women's marathon 10 kilometres, 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, in the first appearance of the marathon swimming, where she received the silver medal in the Women's 10K, the first Brazilian medal at this edition. Okimoto finished 7th in the inaugural Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's marathon 10 kilometre, aquatic marathon (10 km race) at the Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008 Olympics. She also swam at the 2008 Open Water World Championships in Seville, Spain. In 2009, Okimoto won the marathon swimming World Cup, winning 9 of 11 stages held, becoming the first Brazilian champion of the sport. At the 2009 World Aquatics Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swann Oberson
Swann Oberson (born 26 July 1986, Geneva) is a Swiss open-water swimmer. In the 2008 Summer Olympics she finished sixth in the 10 km marathon swimming event. At the 2011 World Aquatics Championships she received gold in open water swimming – Women's 5 km. She competed for Switzerland at the 2012 Summer Olympics Switzerland competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. Swiss athletes have competed at every Summer Olympic Games in the modern era, except when they boycotted the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne in protest of ..., again in the 10 km marathon, and finished in 18th place. References External links Official site of Swann Oberson 1986 births Living people Swiss female long-distance swimmers Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for Switzerland World Aquatics Championships medalists in open water swimming Sportspeople from Geneva {{Switzerland-swimming-bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Marcela Cunha
Ana Marcela Jesus Soares da Cunha (born 23 March 1992) is a Brazilian swimmer who specializes in the open water swimming marathon. She is considered one of the best open water swimmers in history, having obtained 14 medals in FINA World Aquatics Championships (including seven gold medals as of 2022). She has also received FINA’s Female World Open Water Swimmer Of The Year award six times (2010, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2019). Her countless achievements are comparable only to those of Larisa Ilchenko, another multi-medalist in World Championships. Cunha won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the women's marathon 10 km. Career At only 14 years old, she collected two gold medals at the 5 km and 10 km marathon at the 2006 South American Games in Buenos Aires. In 2005, she was able to reach second place in Travessia dos Fortes (the most important competition of the aquatic marathon calendar in Brazil). Subsequently, became champion in 2006 and 2011. Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
