The Netherlands’ Ferry Weertman won Olympic gold in the men’s 10k open water after touching out Greece’s Spiros Gianniotis in a furious sprint to the finish Tuesday morning at Copacabana Beach in Rio.
Gianniotis pulled away from a crowded pack of more than eight swimmers with about 100 meters to go, but Weertman got in ahead of him. He by less than one tenth of a second, as both Weertman and Gianiotis recorded times of 1:52:59.8.
The medal completes the Dutch sweep of the open water gold medals after Sharon van Rouwendaal picked up the gold in the women’s 10k Monday. For Greece, it was their first medal in any swimming event since 1896 in the first edition of the modern Olympic Games in Athens—coincidentally, the last time that any Olympic swimming events had been held in the ocean.
Great Britain’s Jack Burnell touched third but was disqualified for an elbow to the face of Tunisia’s Ous Mellouli. The bronze then went to France’s Marc-Antoine Olivier, who finished less than a tenth of a second ahead of China’s Lu Zijun. Both posted times of 1:53:02.0.
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