ROBERVAL, Canada, July 18. THE second day of action at the World Open Water Championships proved to be much smoother than the first as the men's 10K event took place.<\/p>\n
Italy's Valerio Cleri won the men's 10K race in 2:00:59.30, while Russia's Evgeny Drattsev took second in 2:01:00.60. Fellow Russian Vladimir Dyatchin completed the podium with a third-place 2:01:03.00, while Fran Crippen of the U.S. placed just off the podium with a fourth-place 2:01:05.00.<\/p>\n
Chip Peterson of the U.S. took the early lead with a 30:35 split at the 2.5K mark with Cleri, Crippen and Ukraine's Igor Chervynskiy in the lead pack. Chervynskiy pushed into the lead at the 5K with a 1:00:49, while 16 swimmers were all within the 1:00 time period at the halfway mark. Italy's Luca Ferretti made a move to the front with a 1:31:43 split at the 7.5K mark as nearly the entire field clocked 1:31s at that time. <\/p>\n
Cleri, however, always remained within striking distance and made his move at the sprint to claim victory. Ferretti touched in fifth with a 2:01:07.80, while Germany's Thomas Lurz (2:01:08.50), Peterson (2:01:10.00), Chervynskiy (2:01:12.90), Bulgaria's Petar Stoychev (2:01:13.00) and Brazil's Allan Do Carmo (2:01:15.20) completed the top 10.<\/p>\n
As a reminder for those just checking into results from the World Open Water Championships, swimsuit availability became a serious issue heading into this weekend. Instead of giving all federations plenty of time to acquire FINA-approved suits by having a deadline well before the ultimate meet of the year, FINA popped out 12 new suits in the last week-and-a-half.<\/p>\n
On June 1,2010, a new ruling allowing full-body suits back into swimming, but only for open water events, took effect. Two days later on June 3, 10 open water-only suits were approved. Then, much to the consternation of many federations, 12 suits were added since July 7 with four of them being approved just two days prior to the women's 10K on July 15. That led to just a few federations having access to these newly-approved suits, going counter to the understanding when techsuits were abolished that any new approvals would take place well in advance to guarantee equal access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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