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

The Women's 25K race at the 2008 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships
2008 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships
rightThe 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....

was swum on Thursday, May 8, 2008 in Seville, Spain

Seville

Seville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...

. 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

Guadalquivir

The Guadalquivir is the fifth longest river in the Iberian peninsula and the second longest river to be its whole length in Spain. The Guadalquivir is 657 kilometers long and drains an area of about 58,000 square kilometers...

in the city center. 17 women swam the event.

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.

Results

All times in hours:minutes:seconds

Place	Swimmer	Country	Time
1	Ksenia Popova Ksenia Popova Ksenia Popova is a World Champion open water swimmer from Russia. At the 2008 Open Water Worlds, she won the Women's 25K race.She has swum for Russia at the:World Championships: 2003, 2007Open Water Worlds: 2004, 2006, 2008-References:...	Russia	5:27:48.2
2	Edith van Dijk Edith van Dijk Edith van Dijk is a Dutch swimmer and 6-fold world champion. She is Holland's most successful open water swimmer and long distance swimmer, whose career started in 1990 taking part in the Dutch IJsselmeermarathon...	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 Kate Brookes-Peterson Kate Brookes-Peterson is an Australian open water swimmer.She won Australia's first medal at the 2007 FINA World Championships with a bronze in the Women's 5 km open water event...	Australia	5:28:09.9
6	Marilyn Cadour	Early Modern 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	United States	5:48:15.5
14	Erica Rose Erica Rose Erica Rose is an American long-distance swimmer and former World Champion, a feat she achieved at age 15.-References:* -- official website....	United States	5:49:14.3
15	Christina Krienke	Germany	5:51:19.8
16	Patricia Perreault	Canada	5:55:32.0
--	LI Hong	Mainland China	DQ

Results

See also