2008 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships – Women's 25K

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 Women's 25K race at the 2008 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships was swum on Thursday, May 8, 2008 in Seville, Spain. It was the sixth and final of the 2008 Open Water Worlds.

The 5-6 hour race began at 9:15 a.m., 15 minutes after the start of the Men's 25K race. The race was swum in the Guadalquivir River in the city center. 17 women swam the event.[1]

The race was held on a 5-kilometer course, which the swimmers looped through five times to reach the 25-kilometer distance of the race.[2]

Results

All times in hours:minutes:seconds

Place Swimmer Country Time Notes
1 Ksenia Popova  Russia 5:27:48.2
2 Edith van Dijk  Netherlands 5:27:50.3
3 Natalya Pankina  Russia 5:27:53.9
4 Linsy Heister  Netherlands 5:28:08.8
5 Kate Brookes-Peterson  Australia 5:28:09.9
6 Marilyn Cadour  France 5:28:12.1
7 Shelley Clark  Australia 5:28:22.7
8 Laura La Piana  Italy 5:29:05.2
9 Esther Nuñez  Spain 5:35:57.5
10 Elena Martinez  Spain 5:37:51.5
11 Annegret Braun  Germany 5:39:02.7
12 Camilla Frediani  Italy 5:39:09.5
13 Micha Burden  USA 5:48:15.5
14 Erica Rose  USA 5:49:14.3
15 Christina Krienke  Germany 5:51:19.8
16 Patricia Perreault  Canada 5:55:32.0
-- LI Hong  China DQ

See also

References

  1. Start List for Women's 25K 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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