MAGNIFICENT!! Rolando Saquipay captured the gold at the Pan American Cup and Ecuador took the Team Championship. 
ECUADOR, 25/05/2005. Ecuadorian race walker Rolando Saquipay captured the gold medal at the 12th Pan American Cup of Road Race Walking held in the San Isidro District of Lima, Peru.
The event was attended by great competitors of world race walking, including participants from Mexico, Chile, Brasil, U.S.A. and Colombia among others.
Thanks to his effort and dedication in each training session, the athlete from Cuenca became the great victor in the 20 K event with a time of 1h19:21 that placed him on the winner's stand.
Ecuadorian athletes Andrés Chocho, Oswaldo Ortega, Fausto Quinde, and Xavier Malacatus accompanied Rolando in this event.
Fernando López of Peru and Sergio Galdino of Brasil placed second and third.
Rolando's athletic advancement is very important, and for that reason he dedicates a good part of the day bettering his race walking technique, but at the same time he does not neglect his university studies in law at the Catholic University of Cuenca
One of his goals for 2005 is to participate and win the gold medal at the next World Championship at Helsinki, Finland. To this end he has been training intensely since the beginning of the year.
It is not unusual to see him at Mother's Park in Cuenca, where together with Jefferson he regularly trains for long hours. It should be mentioned that the level he has reached is optimal and for certain he will be one of Ecuador's contenders for a medal at the next world championship.
Ecuador won the team title at the Pan American Cup.
Thanks to Rolando Saquipay's first place, Ecuador was able to claim the team title at the Pan American Cup, an event whose trophy in various occasions went to the Mexican athletes. Little by little, Ecuador has advanced on the world scene. In 2004 at Naumburg, Germany, Ecuador was World Team Vice Champion.
The other Ecuadorian walkers who participated obtained the following results: Fausto Quinde took sixth place, Oswaldo Ortega, ninth; and Javier Malacatus was 18th, while Andrés Chocho dropped out due to health problems.
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