Surfing - XVIII Pan American Games - Lima 2019 - Women's Open Surfing Final - Punta Rocas Complex, Lima, Peru - August 4, 2019. Peru's Daniella Rosas celebrates on the podium after winning gold. REUTERS/Guadalupe Pardo
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru rode a wave of support from a raucous home crowd to win three Pan Am Games surfing gold medals on Sunday, carrying Daniella Rosas and Luca Mesinas all the way to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
After getting the Games off to a dream start last Saturday, sweeping the men's and women's marathon golds, Peruvian surfers ruled the waves at Punta Rocas to secure three gold with Benoit Clemente also taking top spot in the men's longboard.
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