Van Rouwendaal clinches gold in 10km marathon swim

The Netherlands' Sharon van Rouwendaal made a precocious move to clinch golden successful nan women's 10km marathon aquatics successful nan River Seine.

An Olympic champion successful 2016, Van Rouwendaal settled for metallic astatine Tokyo successful 2021 aft missing retired connected golden by an agonising 0.9 seconds.

The 30-year-old overtook Australia's Moesha Johnson, who had led for overmuch of nan race, successful nan last thigh to snatch triumph successful 2 hours 3 minutes 34.2 seconds.

Johnson vanished 5.5 seconds down to return metallic and Ginevra Taddeucci of Italy claimed bronze, while Great Britain's Leah Crisp vanished 20th.

The marathon swimming familiarisation had antecedently been cancelled aft tests showed levels of germs successful nan h2o had dropped beneath nan required standard.

However, Wednesday's trial went up earlier nan 10km title connected Thursday.

The h2o value of nan Seine had been a awesome talking constituent earlier and during Paris 2024, pinch nan men's triathlon postponed by a time because of nan debased h2o quality.

The men's marathon aquatics is owed to return spot connected Friday.