SALINAS, Ecuador, May 18. TEAM USA claimed the top spots on the podium Wednesday at the Pan American Open Water 5K Championships in Salinas, Ecuador. Chip Peterson and Erica Rose captured gold in the men's and women's races, respectively. The Americans also won the 5K team title on the first day of competition. <\/p>\n
Peterson finished ahead of silver medalist Ricardo Monasterio of Venezuela by more than 30 seconds, posting a time of 57:34.17. It was Peterson's third international victory after winning the 5K at the 2005 Junior Pan Pacific Championships and the 10K title at the 2005 World Championships. In winning the 10K title in Montreal, Peterson became the first American male since 1991 to capture an open water world title.<\/p>\n
Monasterio clocked a 58:08.03 for second place, and Brazil's Luis Lima was the bronze medalist with a time of 58:27.95. American John Kenny finished ninth in 1:00:10.61.<\/p>\n
In the women's race, Rose posted a time of 1:03:00.41, more than a second ahead of silver medalist Maria Da Penha of Brazil (1:04:07.00). Argentina's Celeste Punet captured bronze in 1:04:37.18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SALINAS, Ecuador, May 18. TEAM USA claimed the top spots on the podium Wednesday at the Pan American Open Water 5K Championships in Salinas, Ecuador. Chip Peterson and Erica Rose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","category-zzzzzzzzz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n