LA LIBERTAD, El Salvador – Wearing a United States singlet for the first time, Stanford freshman Connor Lane won the Pan American under-20 men's cross country championship on Saturday.
Lane covered the 8-kilometer (4.97-mile) course in 25:06, beating runner-up Tyler Dozzi of Canada by 13 seconds. Stanford teammate Michael Vernau was the second American, placing eighth in 25:37.
The meet was the championship for the Western Hemisphere and doubled as the NACAC championship, for those from North and Central America and the Caribbean.
While their Stanford teammates have been training for track and field, Lane and Vernau have been training under assistant men's coach Dylan Sorensen for this meet and the U.S. U-20 championship two weeks ago in Tallahassee, Florida – a race also won by Lane.
This is the third international championship won by an active Stanford runner in the past four years. In 2014, Sean McGorty won the NACAC junior title on the island of Tobago, and in 2015, Maksim Korolev won the Pan American and NACAC senior titles in Colombia.
