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Jordan Wilimovsky continued his dominating open water swimming at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, leading a sweep of the gold medals along with Haley Anderson.
Wilimovsky, a U.S. Olympian from Northwestern, won the men’s 10K open water race, finishing in 1:58.50.5.
Canada’s Eric Hedlin hung with Wilimovsky, but was not able to get past him, finishing in 1:58.56.7.
Third place went to Australia’s Nicholas Sloman, who finished in 1:59.20.8.
Ecuador’s Santiago Endérica Salgado was fourth (1:59.22.7), followed by Brazil’s Allan Do Carmo (1:59.23.8), American David Heron (1:59.25), Canada’s Hau-Li Fan (1:59.26.5) and Brazil’s Victor Colonese (1:59.27.2).
In the women’s race, Anderson, an Olympian from the U.S., won the women’s 10K in 2:08.24.8.
Anderson held off Australia’s Kareena Lee, who finished just 1.2 seconds behind (2:08.26.0) and 2.2 seconds ahead of Brazil’s Ana Marcela Cunha (2:08.27.0).
USA’s Ashley Twichell took fourth in 2:08.29.6, ahead of USA teammate Hannah Moore (2:08.33.5), who didn’t place since only two from each country can place. That also happened to Erica Sullivan (2:08.43) and Chase Travis (2:08.44), who had the eighth and ninth place finishes, respectively.
Japan’s Yukimi Moriyama was fifth (2:08.33) and Yumi Kida was sixth (2:08.38.3).
