{"id":218590,"date":"2016-08-16T07:56:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T14:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=218590"},"modified":"2016-08-23T10:29:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T17:29:26","slug":"ferry-weertman-wins-10k-open-water-gold-medal-in-stunning-photo-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ferry-weertman-wins-10k-open-water-gold-medal-in-stunning-photo-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferry Weertman Wins 10k Open Water Gold Medal in Stunning Photo Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Netherlands\u2019 <strong>Ferry Weertman<\/strong> won Olympic gold in the men\u2019s 10k open water after touching out Greece\u2019s <strong>Spiros Gianniotis<\/strong> in a furious sprint to the finish Tuesday morning at Copacabana Beach in Rio.<\/p>\n<p>Gianniotis pulled away from a crowded pack of more than eight swimmers with about 100 meters to go, but Weertman went with him down the finishing chute. Gianniotis appeared to reach the finish ahead, but he missed the pad on his first attempt to touch, and Weertman got in aheadof him. He won by less than one tenth of a second, as both Weertman and Gianiotis recorded times of 1:52:59.8.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even after I touched the wall, I wasn&#8217;t sure I&#8217;d won,&#8221; Weertman said. &#8220;It took me a while. I called my friends back home and they said &#8216;You won, you won!&#8217; and I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Oh really?&#8217; I couldn&#8217;t believe it. I still can&#8217;t believe it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The medal completes the Dutch sweep of the open water gold medals after Sharon van Rouwendaal picked up the gold in the women\u2019s 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\u2014coincidentally, the last time that any Olympic swimming events had been held in the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every single meter of the training, every single day and hour, it&#8217;s just come down to the perfect moment,&#8221; Gianniotis said. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s a really good way to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Great Britain\u2019s<strong> Jack Burnell<\/strong> touched third but was disqualified a second yellow card earned for an\u00a0knocking the arm\u00a0of Tunisia\u2019s <strong>Ous Mellouli\u00a0<\/strong>right before the finish.\u00a0The bronze then went to France\u2019s <strong>Marc-Antoine Olivier,<\/strong> who finished less than a tenth of a second ahead of China\u2019s <strong>Lu Zijun<\/strong>. Both posted times of 1:53:02.0.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know at the beginning where I had finished,&#8221; Olivier said. &#8220;When I touched, I didn&#8217;t know. It&#8217;s only when I got into the boat that I knew my position, and so then I started crying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Burnell blamed Mellouli for the situation, claiming that Mellouli had pulled his leg and prompted the arm push. Mellouli, who was also given a yellow card for the mix-up, defended himself to the press afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got pulled pretty heavily, elbowed. I\u2019ve got to see the replay,&#8221; Mellouli said. &#8220;Everybody\u2019s angry if they lose. I was situated to get a medal, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The United States\u2019 <strong>Jordan Wilimovsky<\/strong> came in fifth at 1:53:03.2, just more than a second away from the second-ever open water medal for the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I kind of got pushed around, but congrats to the guys who did really well,&#8221; Wilimovsky said. &#8220;Unfortunately I got kind of stuck in the middle. I didn\u2019t really know where anyone was. I just saw splashing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Italian teammates <strong>Simone Ruffini<\/strong> (1:53:03.9) and <strong>Federico Vanelli<\/strong> (1:53:04.6) were sixth and seventh, respectively, and Japan\u2019s <strong>Yasunari Hirai<\/strong> (1:53:04.7), Germany\u2019s <strong>Christian Reichert<\/strong> (1:53:04.7) and South Africa\u2019s <strong>Chad Ho<\/strong> (1:53:04.8) rounded out the top ten.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s <strong>Evgenii Drattcev<\/strong> finished 11th in the same listed time as Ho, and defending champion Mellouli was next in 1:53:11.7. American Sean Ryan finished 14th in 1:53:15.5.<\/p>\n<p>The race for the medals came down to the wire, but only after Australia\u2019s <strong>Jarrod Poort<\/strong> surrendered what had been a massive lead for the majority of the race. Poort ended up fading all the way to 20th, more than 40 seconds behind Woortman.<\/p>\n<p>In a sizzling first lap, Poort opened up a 57-second lead on the rest of the field at the first 2.5k turn buoy. The deficit created a striking scene with Poort and one accompanying kayaker way out ahead of the pack of boats following the other 24 swimmers, all bunched within 11 seconds of each other at that point.<\/p>\n<p>Poort extended his lead at the halfway point, going through in 56:58.3, 1:16 ahead of anyone else. As Poort passed the feeding station, the entire rest of the pack\u2014still bunched up\u2014was two full buoys behind him.<\/p>\n<p>In June comments to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au\/sport\/swimming\/2016\/06\/11\/different-strokes-jarrod-poort-21-long-distance-swimmer\/14655672003343\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Saturday Paper<\/em><\/a>, Poort said,\u00a0&#8220;Swimming is at times a very lonely sport. You are stuck with your head in the water, and it is just you and your thoughts battling it out.&#8221; Indeed, Poort was all by himself at this point.<\/p>\n<p>The gap was down to 40 seconds with one lap to go, and the pack was in hot pursuit, led by Mellouli. But it was still anyone\u2019s game for a medal with 22 of the 25 that started the race all within eight seconds off each other.<\/p>\n<p>The chase pack came quickly, narrowing the lead down to 24 seconds in less than a kilometer, and Poort fell out of first place before reaching the halfway point of that lap. Leading the charge was Weertman, who took over first place while bringing Wilimovsky, Mellouli and Burnell along.<\/p>\n<p>But as the four swimmers charged down the finishing stretch, even more of the pack caught up, and with only 200 meters to go, a line of seven swimmers straight across battled towards the finish before Gianniotis pulled away, and Weertman followed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Marathon-Swimming-Mens-10km-Results.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view full race results.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/results\/2016-long-course-speedo-junior-nationals\/usa-senior-national\/2016\/August\/8\">2016 Long Course Speedo Junior Nationals &#8211; Results<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Netherlands\u2019 Ferry Weertman won Olympic gold in the men\u2019s 10k open water after touching out Greece\u2019s Spiros Gianniotis in a furious sprint to the finish 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