Ferry Weertman Qualifies To Defend His Olympic Title
Ferry Weertman Qualifies To Defend His Olympic Title
Courtesy of FINA, Yeosu EXPO Ocean Park, Gwangju, South Korea.
Ferry Weertman did not win the 2019 FINA World Championships – as expected from many – but he swam well enough to defend his 2016 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim title next year in Tokyo.
While German rival Florian Wellbrock won the FINA World Championships 10 km marathon swim in Korea, eyes and expectations were still on the renowned Dutchman.
Silver medalist Marc-Antoine Olivier said of Weertman, “If you want to beat Ferry, you will have to work very hard. Ferry is a world champion and Olympic gold medallist and everyone knows he is an outstanding athlete with a great finish. Today we had a tactic to keep the speed of the race very high and perhaps that surprised Ferry, but he is going to Tokyo just like us.”
Watch the remaining races at the FINA World Championships live here – and Weertman next year at the Olympic 10 km marathon swimming final in Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo.
Men’s 10 km Olympic Qualification Race Results:
- Florian Wellbrock (Germany) 1:47:55.90
- Marc-Antoine Olivier (France) 1:47:56.10
- Rob Muffels (Germany) 1:47:57.40
- Kristóf Rasovszky (Hungary) 1:47:59.50
- Jordan Wilimovsky (USA) 1:48:01.00
- Gregorio Paltrinieri (Italy) 1:48:01.00
- Ferry Weertman (Netherlands) 1:48:01.90
- Alberto Martinez (Spain) 1:48:02.20
- Mario Sanzullo (Italy) 1:48:04.70
- David Aubry (France) 1:48:05.10
- Esteban Enderica Salgado (Ecuador) 1:48:07.30
- Jack Burnell (Great Britain) 1:48:09.90
- Athanasios Charalampos Kynigakis (Greece) 1:48:15.40
- Kai Graeme Edwards (Australia) 1:48:16.20
- Logan Vanhuys (Belgium) 1:48:17.50
- Matej Kozubek (Czech Republic) 1:48:19.10
- Han-Li Fan (Canada) 1:48:21.10
- Tobias Patrick Robinson (Great Britain) 1:48:23.50
- Kirill Abrosimov (Russia) 1:48:55.90
- Matan Roditi (Israel) 1:48:59.60
- Nicholas Sloman (Australia) 1:49:22.70
- Evgenii Drattcev (Russia) 1:49:37.40
- Chad Ho (South Africa) 1:49:37.90
- Jon Thomas McKay (Canada) 1:49:43.70
- David Heron (USA) 1:49:57.60
- Krzysztof Pielowski (Poland) 1:50:02.80
- Daniel Szekelyi (Hungary) 1:50:11.30
- Guillem Pujol (Spain) 1:50:11.60
- Jiabao An (China) 1:50:14.00
- Danie Marais (South Africa) 1:50:14.20
- David Castro (Ecuador) 1:50:14.40
- Phillip Seidler (Nambia) 1:50:14.40
- Allan do Carmo (Brazil) 1:50:14.70
- Victor Johansson (Sweden) 1:50:14.80
- Victor Colonese (Brazil) 1:50:15.20
- Diego Vera (Venezuela) 1:50:15.60
- Elliot Sodemann (Sweden) 1:50:16.00
- Ous Mellouli (Tunisia) 1:50:21.00
- Takeshi Toyoda (Japan) 1:50:22.00
- Santiago Arteta (Argentina) 1:50:24.10
- Vit Ingeduld (Czech Republic) 1:50:24.90
- Rafael Gil (Portugal) 1:50:27.30
- Yuval Safray (Israel) 1:50:34.20
- David Brandl (Austria) 1:51:26.30
- Taiki Nonaka (Japan) 1:51:35.30
- Joaquin Moreno (Argentina) 1:51:45.70
- Aflah Fadlan Prawira (Indonesia) 1:52:33.80
- Tamas Farkas (Serbia) 1:52:36.70
- Tiago Campost (Portugal) 1:52:39.30
- Arturo Perez Vertti Ferrer (Mexico) 1:52:42.60
- Evgenij Pop Acev (Macedonia) 1:52:43.00
- Igor Chervynskiy (Ukraine) 1:52:45.20
- Seokhyun Park (Korea) 1:52:47.60
- Junbohang Zhao (China) 1:52:52.70
- Wilder Carreno (Venezuela) 1:52:53.50
- Marwan Elamrawy (Egypt) 1:54:40.80
- Fernando Betanzos (Mexico) 1:56:07.90
- Mathieu Mathy Ben Rahou (Morocco) 1:56:07.90
- Jaehun Park (Korea) 1:56:41.40
- Lev Cherepanov (Kazakhstan) 1:58:04.40
- William Yan Thorley (Hong Kong) 1:59:36.80
- Rodrigo Caballero (Bolivia) 1:59:41.50 64.
- Chin Ting Keith Sin (Hong Kong) 2:00:21.90
- Tomas Peciart (Slovakia) 2:00:24.20
- Maximiliano Paccot (Uruguay) 2:00:24.50
- Damien Payet (Seychelles) 2:00:27.60
- Tanakrit Kittiyat (Thailand) 2:00:37.10
- Sushrut Suryakant Kapse (India) 2:03:25.90
- Santiago Reyes (Guatemala) 2:08:27.50
- Zedheir Torrez (Bolivia) 2:08:27.70
- Siwat Matangkapong (Thailand) 2:09:32.80
- Rinel Pius (Estonia) 2:09:56.00
- Cristofer Lanuza (Costa Rica) 2:10:16.80
- Alain Vidot (Seychelles) OLT
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