Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon 10 kilometre

Men's marathon swimming; at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	Fort Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro
Dates	16 August 2016
Competitors	25 from 23 nations
Winning time	1:52:59.8
Medalists
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Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics
List of swimmers
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
Marathon
10 km	men	women

The men's marathon swimming over a distance of 10 kilometres at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place on 16 August at Fort Copacabana.

A photo finish saw Dutchman Ferry Weertman just beat Spyridon Gianniotis of Greece to gold, with both the first two recording times of 1:52:59.8. In the final race of his career, Gianniotis, who was also the oldest competitor at the age of 36, won the first medal for Greece in swimming in 120 years, since the last time Greece won a swimming medal was at the inaugural 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.

The battle for bronze also saw a photo finish, with France's Marc-Antoine Olivier pipping Zu Lijun and Jack Burnell on the line to finish in 1:53:02.0. Burnell was subsequently disqualified for a second yellow card for a tussle with defending champion Oussama Mellouli just before the line.^[1]

Qualification

The men's 10 km open water marathon at the 2016 Olympics featured a field of 26 swimmers:^[2]

10: the top-10 finishers in the 10 km races at the 2015 World Championships
9: the top-9 finishers at the 2016 Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier (June 11–12, 2016 in Setúbal, Portugal)^[3]
5: one representative from each FINA continent (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania). (These have been selected based on the finishes at the qualifying race in Setúbal.)
1: from the host nation (Brazil) if not qualified by other means. If Brazil already contained a qualifier in the race, this spot had been allocated back into the general pool from the 2016 Olympic qualifier race.

Results

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Time behind	Notes
	Ferry Weertman	Netherlands	1:52:59.8
	Spyridon Gianniotis	Greece	1:52:59.8	0.0
	Marc-Antoine Olivier	France	1:53:02.0	+2.2
4	Zu Lijun	China	1:53:02.0	+2.2
5	Jordan Wilimovsky	United States	1:53:03.2	+3.4
6	Simone Ruffini	Italy	1:53:03.5	+3.7
7	Federico Vanelli	Italy	1:53:03.9	+4.1
8	Yasunari Hirai	Japan	1:53:04.6	+4.8
9	Christian Reichert	Germany	1:53:04.7	+4.9
10	Chad Ho	South Africa	1:53:04.8	+5.0
11	Evgeny Drattsev	Russia	1:53:04.8	+5.0
12	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	1:53:06.1	+6.3
13	Márk Papp	Hungary	1:53:11.7	+11.9
14	Sean Ryan	United States	1:53:15.5	+15.7
15	Ventsislav Aydarski	Bulgaria	1:53:16.1	+16.3
16	Ivan Enderica Ochoa	Ecuador	1:53:16.2	+16.4
17	Richard Weinberger	Canada	1:53:16.4	+16.6
18	Allan do Carmo	Brazil	1:53:16.4	+16.6
19	Kane Radford	New Zealand	1:53:18.7	+18.9
20	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	1:53:35.4	+35.6
21	Jarrod Poort	Australia	1:53:40.7	+40.9
22	Erwin Maldonado	Venezuela	1:54:33.6	+1:33.8
23	Marwan El-Amrawy	Egypt	1:59:17.2	+6:17.4
	Vitaliy Khudyakov	Kazakhstan			DSQ
	Jack Burnell	Great Britain			DSQ