France’s Aurelie Muller won the women’s 10k open water world title at the 2017 FINA World Swimming Championships with a time of 2:00.13.
Going into this race, Muller was the defending champion, having won this event two years ago at the last World Championships in Kazan, Russia. At the 2016 Olympic Games, Muller finished second, but she was disqualified for obstructing Italian Rachele Bruni at the finish. Despite a tight race today, Muller seemed to avoid such contact and once again emerged on top.
The battle for second place was extremely close. With three swimmers listed as finishing in 2:00.17, Samatha Arevalo of Ecuador earned the silver medal behind Muller. Italian Arianna Bridi and Brazilian Ana Marcela Cunha, the other two swimmers who finished in 2:00.17, tied for third place to round out the podium.
Rachele Bruni, Bridi’s Italian teammate, was fifth in 2:00.21, just ahead of American Haley Anderson, who was sixth in 2:00.25.
German Finnia Wunram and Hungarian Anna Olasz finished seventh and eighth in 2:00.26 and 2:00.28, respectively.
The second American and this year’s national champion, Ashley Twichell, finished tenth in 2:00.41. Sharon van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands, the 2016 Olympic gold medalist, finished seventeenth (2:01.59).