Wiffen 18th as Rasovszky wins open water marathon

Great Britain's Hector Pardoe was sixth successful men's unfastened h2o swimming marathon successful nan River Seine, which was won by Kristof Rasovszky of Hungary.

Rasovszky, who was 2nd successful Tokyo 3 years ago, won successful a clip of 1:50.52, conscionable 2.1 seconds up of Germany's Oliver Klemet while Hungary's David Betlehem took bronze.

Tobias Robinson was 14th for GB while Team Ireland's Daniel Wiffen, who won 800 metre freestyle golden and 1500m bronze successful nan pool, was 18th arsenic he made his unfastened h2o swimming debut.

It was a beardown effort by Pardoe, who won bronze successful nan world championships past year, aft he was forced retired of nan Tokyo Games connected nan last thigh aft his goggles split.

Pardoe was caught successful a crowd of swimmers complete nan first thigh and crossed nan statement successful 14th place, but managed to activity his measurement into nan apical 10 midway done nan 2nd turn.

However, he could not do thing to situation Rasovszky, who led from nan disconnected successful Seine, pinch nan iconic backdrop of nan Eiffel Tower and Grand Palais.

Florain Wellbrock of Germany, who took golden successful Tokyo, challenged nan Hungarian astatine nan beforehand of nan section but dropped distant pinch a thigh remaining.

It was Klemet who emerged arsenic nan nearest challenger complete nan last thigh but Rasovszky held connected successful a sprint decorativeness to return gold, while Betlehem made it 2 Hungarians connected nan podium pinch third.

Almost a infinitesimal down connected nan leaders, Pardoe claimed sixth successful a photograph decorativeness pinch location favourite Marc-Antoine Oliver, while his GB team-mate Robinson came location successful 14th.

Wiffen, who had done nary other training for nan unfastened h2o arsenic he focused connected his excavation events, came location a commendable 18th arsenic he completed nan 10km wrong 2 hours.

It caps a singular Olympics for Wiffen, who became nan first jock from Northern Ireland to triumph a golden badge successful 36 years successful nan 800m freestyle astatine nan commencement of nan Games.

It is nan past title of nan Paris Olympics to return spot successful nan Seine, which had been a awesome talking constituent earlier and during nan Games complete nan h2o value of nan river.