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 Women's 5K details Larisa Ilchenko Russia 1:00:04.6 Ekaterina Seliverstova Russia 1:00:07.8 Chloe Sutton USA 1:00:09.9Men's 5K details Thomas Lurz Germany 54:57.3 Vladimir Dyatchin Russia 54:58.8 Maarten van der Weijden Netherlands 54:59.8Women's 10K details Larisa Ilchenko Russia 2:02:02.7 Cassandra Patten Great Britain 2:02:05.8 Yurema Requena Spain 2:02:07.2Men's 10K details Vladimir Dyatchin Russia 1:53:21.0 David Davies Great Britain 1:53:21.3 Thomas Lurz Germany 1:53:27.2Women's 25K details Ksenia Popova Russia 5:27:48.2 Edith van Dijk Netherlands 5:27:50.3 Natalya Pankina Russia 5:27:53.9Men's 25K details Maarten van der Weijden Netherlands 5:04:01.1 Mark Warkentin USA 5:04:01.6 Yuri Kudinov Russia 5:04:02.4
Team standings The Championship Trophy point standing for the 2008 Open Water Worlds is:2008 Open Water Worlds: Standings . Published by OmegaTiming.com on 2008-05-08; retrieved 2009-08-15. Rank Nation Men Women Combined 1 63 84 147 2 48 30 78 3 42 14 56 4 34 14 48 5 15 24 39 6 17 21 38 7 16 21 37 8 3 21 24 9 15 6 21 10 2 16 18 11 16 0 16 12 0 14 14 13 0 12 12 13 12 0 12 15 0 11 11 16 0 8 8 17 4 0 4 17 4 0 4 19 3 0 3 19 3 0 3 21 0 1 1 The following 17 countries are listed in a tie for 22nd, with zero (0) points:
FYR Macedonia
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
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