PARIS — Brushing aside concerns about the safety of swimming in the Seine River, Sharon van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands made a late pass to win the women’s 10-kilometer open water swim at the Paris Olympics on Thursday.

With Australian Moesha Johnson leading most of the way, van Rouwendaal entered the Seine’s strong current as the lead group crossed the final bridge support. Johnson stayed closer to shore, allowing the 30-year-old Dutch swimmer to take the gold.

Van Rouwendaal crossed the finish line in 2 hours 3:34 seconds, while Johnson settled for the silver medal in 2:03:39.7. The bronze medal went to Italy’s Ginevra Taddeucci, the only other swimmer to cross the finish line in 2:03:42.8.

With a picturesque backdrop that no other city could provide — the Eiffel Tower towering over the course, the gold-domed Invalides a few blocks away, the statue-lined Pont Alexander III overlooking the starting buoy and finishing chute — van Rouwendaal added to her legacy as perhaps the greatest female open-water swimmer in history.

She won gold at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games and silver in Tokyo three years ago.