Open water swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 km
Introduction The '''men's 10K''' (10 kilometer) race at the 2009 World Championships occurred on Wednesday, July 22 at Ostia Beach in Rome, Italy. In total, 48 males from 27 countries were entered in the race.
Results  Rank  Swimmer  Nationality  Time   Thomas Lurz    1:52:06.9    Andrew Gemmell    1:52:08.3    Fran Crippen    1:52:10.7 4  Valerio Cleri    1:52:11.4 5 Brian Ryckeman    1:52:13.1 6 Spyridon Gianniotis   1:52:13.6 7 Francisco Jose Hervas    1:52:14.7 8 Trent Grimsey    1:52:14.8 9 Mazen Metwaly    1:52:14.9 10  Evgeny Drattsev    1:52:15.0 11  Luis Escobar    1:52:18.0 12  Jakub Fitchl    1:52:24.0 13  Csaba Gercsák    1:52:28.0 14  Arseniy Lavrentyev    1:52:28.2 15  Diego Nogueira Montero    1:52:37.1 16  Antonios Fokaidis    1:52:41.3 17  Daniel Fogg   Great Britain  1:52:44.3 18  Sergey Bolshakov    1:52:44.5 19  Ivan Lopez    1:52:45.9 20  Julien Codeville    1:52:47.2 21  Rhys Mainstone    1:52:50.2 22  Allan do Carmo    1:52:52.2 23  Chad Ho    1:53:13.1 24  Bertrand Venturi    1:53:14.5 25  Adel El-Behary    1:53:52.1 26  Simon Tobin-Daignault    1:53:53.9 27  Christian Reichert    1:54:09.9 28  Michael Dmitriev    1:54:29.6 29  Petar Stoychev    1:54:50.8 30  Jan Posmourny    1:55:17.4 31  Ventsislav Aydarski    1:55:53.5 32  Simone Ercoli   1:56:46.3 33  Daniel Viegas    1:58:21.3 34  Craig Hamilton   Great Britain  1:58:55.7 35  Kurt Niehaus    1:59:25.0 36  Ivan Enderica    1:59:29.4 37  Philippe Dubreuil    1:59:38.9 38  Marcelo Romanelli Soares    2:00:42.2 39  Esteban Enderica    2:01:48.8 40  Josip Soldo    2:08:07.2 41  Tomislav Soldo    2:12:19.8 42  Juan Prem Biere    2:20:48.2 --  Elgun Babayev    DNF --  Ruslan Bolshakov   DNF --  Angel Moreira    DNF --  Igor Chervynskiy   DQ --  Igor Snitko    DQ --  Yvan Hernandez    DQ'''Key''': DNF = Did not finish, DQ = Disqualified
Protest over finish Due to a protest about the race finish, results from the race were delayed a day, until after a meeting on Thursday, July 23, 2009.At issue was the USA's Fran Crippen's finish approach.On July 23, 2009, it was decided that Crippen's finish approach was legal and he was awarded the bronze medal.
See also *Open water swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 km*Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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