Marathon swimming at the Summer Olympics

Marathon swimming at the Summer Olympics
IOC Code	OWS
Governing body	World Aquatics
Events	2 (men: 1; women: 1)
Summer Olympics
1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024 2028 2032
Medalists

Marathon swimming has been included in the Summer Olympics since the 2008 Games. The discipline of marathon swimming is part of the Olympic sport of aquatics alongside artistic swimming, diving, swimming and water polo. The current Olympic program consists of a Men's 10 kilometre event and a Women's 10 kilometre event.

All swimming races in 1896, 1900 and 1904 took place in open water before they moved to pools at London 1908, but it wasn’t until Beijing 2008 that marathon swimming officially became an Olympic discipline.

Summary

Games	Year	Events	Best nation
29	2008	2	Netherlands (1)  Russia (1)
30	2012	2	Hungary (1)  Tunisia (1)
31	2016	2	Netherlands (2)
32	2020	2	Brazil (1)  Germany (1)
33	2024	2	Hungary (2)
34	2028	2

Events

Event	08	12	16	20	24	28	Years
Men's 10km	X	X	X	X	X	X	6
Women's 10km	X	X	X	X	X	X	6
Total Events	2	2	2	2	2	2

Medalists

Men's events

10 km marathon

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2008 Beijing	Maarten van der Weijden  Netherlands	1:51:51.6	David Davies  Great Britain	1:51:53.1	Thomas Lurz  Germany	1:51:53.6
2012 London	Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia	1:49:55.1	Thomas Lurz  Germany	1:49:58.5	Richard Weinberger  Canada	1:50:00.3
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Ferry Weertman  Netherlands	1:52:59.8	Spyridon Gianniotis  Greece	1:53:00.5	Marc-Antoine Olivier  France	1:53:02.0
2020 Tokyo	Florian Wellbrock  Germany	1:48:33.7	Kristof Rasovszky  Hungary	1:48:59.0	Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy	1:49:01.1
2024 Paris	Kristóf Rasovszky  Hungary	1:50:52.7	Oliver Klemet  Germany	1:50:54.8	Dávid Betlehem  Hungary	1:51:09.0
2028 Los Angeles

Women's events

10 km marathon

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2008 Beijing	Larisa Ilchenko  Russia	1:59:27.7	Keri-Anne Payne  Great Britain	1:59:29.2	Cassandra Patten  Great Britain	1:59:31.0
2012 London	Éva Risztov  Hungary	1:57:38.2	Haley Anderson  United States	1:57:38.6	Martina Grimaldi  Italy	1:57:41.8
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Sharon van Rouwendaal  Netherlands	1:56:32.1	Rachele Bruni  Italy	1:56:49.5	Poliana Okimoto  Brazil	1:56:51.4
2020 Tokyo	Ana Marcela Cunha  Brazil	1:59:30.8	Sharon van Rouwendaal  Netherlands	1:59:31.7	Kareena Lee  Australia	1:59:32.5
2024 Paris	Sharon van Rouwendaal  Netherlands	2:03:34.2	Moesha Johnson  Australia	2:03:39.7	Ginevra Taddeucci  Italy	2:03:42.8
2028 Los Angeles

Medal table

As of the conclusion of the 2024 Olympics, thirteen NOCs have won Olympic medals across 10 events.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands	4	1	0	5
2	Hungary	2	1	1	4
3	Germany	1	2	1	4
4	Brazil	1	0	1	2
5	Russia	1	0	0	1
	Tunisia	1	0	0	1
7	Great Britain	0	2	1	3
8	Italy	0	1	3	4
9	Australia	0	1	1	2
10	Greece	0	1	0	1
	United States	0	1	0	1
12	Canada	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		10	10	10	30

Nations

Nation	96	00	04	08	12	20	24	28	32	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	96	00	04	08	12	16	20	24	Years
Algeria																													1		1
Argentina																										2	1		1		3
Australia																										2	2	2	2	4	5
Austria																														2	1
Belgium																										1	1				2
Brazil																										3	1	3	1	3	5
Bulgaria																										1	1	1			3
Canada																											2	2	2	1	4
Chile																										1					1
China																										2	1	2	1	1	5
Croatia																											1				1
Czech Republic																										2	1	1	1	1	5
Ecuador																											1	2	2	1	4
Egypt																										1	1	2			3
France																										2	2	2	3	4	5
Germany																										2	3	2	4	4	5
Great Britain																										3	2	2	2	3	5
Greece																										2	2	2	1	1	5
Guam																											1				1
Hong Kong																											1		1		2
Hungary																										1	2	3	2	3	5
Ireland																														1	1
Israel																													1	1	2
Italy																										2	2	3	3	4	5
Japan																											2	2	2	2	4
Kazakhstan																											1	1	1		3
Malaysia																											1	1			2
Mexico																										2	1		1	2	4
Monaco																														1	1
Namibia																													1	1	2
Netherlands																										2		2	2	1	4
New Zealand																												1			1
Norway																														1	1
Peru																														1	1
Poland																											1	1		1	3
Portugal																										2	1	1	2	1	5
Russia																										3	3	2	2		4
Singapore																													1		1
Slovakia																												1			1
Slovenia																										1		1	1		3
South Africa																										2	2	2	2		4
Spain																										2	2	1	2	3	5
Sweden																										1				1	2
Switzerland																										1	1				2
Syria																										1					1
Tunisia																											1	1	1	1	4
Turkey																														2	1
Ukraine																										2	2		1		3
United States																										2	2	3	3	3	5
Venezuela																										2	2	2	1		4
Nations																										28	33	29	31	29
Swimmers																										50	50	51	51	55

See also

• List of Olympic venues in marathon swimming

External links

• International Olympic Committee results database