Flying Fish Leads a Lap of Women's 10K Open Water Final at Tokyo Olympics

The women's 10-kilometer marathon swim was held Wednesday morning at the Tokyo Olympics, and a flying fish stole the show.

With two laps remaining at Odaiba Marine Park, camera crews had a great shot of the pack of leaders. Then, out of nowhere, a fish flew from the water during the marathon and soared through the air before landing on its side, just ahead of the swimmers. There were tweets from Tokyo to Australia and then all around the world by Tuesday night in America that showed nature at work.

Here's the official Twitter feed from the NBC Olympics.

It's unclear at this time what kind of fish it was, or if it continued to lead the seven-lap race.

The men's and women's marathon swimming are the final swimming events of this year's Olympics.

Brazil's Ana Marcela Cunha won the gold medal Wednesday with a swim of 1 hour, 59 minutes, 30.8 seconds, almost a full second of Sharon van Rouwendaal of The Netherlands (1:59:31.7), who won the silver medal. Australia's Kareena Lee won the bronze.

The top American finishers were Haley Anderson in sixth place and Ashley Twichell in seventh, with Anderson (1:59:36.9) a full second ahead of her teammate.

There were 25 swimmers in the race, all touching the board as they crossed the finish line.

The men's 10-kilometer marathon swim will be Thursday morning (Tokyo time), but can be seen in America starting at 5:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday night (Tokyo is 13 hours ahead of the Eastern Time Zone).

America is led by Jordan Wilimovsky, who also swam this race at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics. Wilimovsky was one of the first 2020 Olympic qualifiers for the United States, just as he was in Rio. He's the only American in the men's field of 26 swimmers.

The United States won 11 gold medals in swimming at the Tokyo Aquatic Centre last week, which accounted for more than half the American total gold medals at the time.

China still leads the gold medal race with 32 going into Wednesday's events, which is eight more than the Americans, who are second with 24 gold medals. The U.S. leads the overall medal count with 73, which is just four more than the 69 of China.