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The distance of the Olympic swim marathon is 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), first introduced to the Olympics in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. However, the swimming events in the first four Olympics were actually held in open water. The time it takes to swim 10 kilometers is comparable to that of running a marathon.
