PARIS: Sharon van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands made a late surge to win gold in the women's 10k marathon swimming at the Paris Olympics on Thursday (Aug 8). Van Rouwendaal won
Gold medalist Sharon Van Rouwendaal, of the Netherlands, kisses her medal during the medal ceremony at the end of marathon swimming women's 10km competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics , Thursday, Aug 8, 2024, in Paris, France. Van Rouwendaal won with a time of 2h 03m 34.2s, with Australian Moesha Johnson taking silver 5.5 seconds behind and Italy's Ginevra Taddeucci claiming bronze.
It was the third straight Olympic medal in the event for Van Rouwendaal, the gold medallist in Rio in 2016 and silver medallist in Tokyo, who made her move past Johnson around a pilon coming under the Pont des Invalides bridge. It was a crushing blow for Johnson who had led from the half-way mark onwards and was out front with the top three having broken well clear of the field going into the final lap.
"Under that bridge, there are these pillars and the current's really strong coming through it and there was two options and I knew whatever option I took, Sharon behind me would have taken the other one and we just had to fight it out and see which route was quicker or who was stronger and obviously that's kind of where she passed me into the gold medal position," she said.
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