Charles Peterson
Charles Chip Peterson is a world marathon swimming champion, specializing in the 5 km and 10 km distances. He is a multiple USA Swimming national pool and open water swimming champion originally from Morehead City, North Carolina who was one of the top distance swimmers at the University of North Carolina history. His onshore hobbies include blues and jazz guitar and open water swimming as a member of the USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Team.
He has been hampered by illness since winning his first world championship medals (gold in the 10 km and silver in the 5 km) the 2005 FINA World Swimming Championships in Montreal, Canada.
Honors
After winning two world championship medals, Chip was awarded the Open Water Swimmer of the Year Award by Swimming World Magazine. He won the 1500-meter freestyle at the 2005 USA Swimming National Championships and at the 2007 Pan American Games. In the open water, he also won a silver medal in the 2007 Pan American Games 10K and several USA Swimming national open water titles. In 2010, he was named the 2010 Atlantic Coast Conference Swimming & Diving Scholar-Athlete of the Year and won the famously competitive RCP Tiburon Mile in San Francisco, California. He currently holds the course record in the Flowers Sea Swim in the Cayman Islands.
Open Water Swimming Career
- won the 10 km marathon swim at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada
- 6th in the 10 km marathon swim and 5th in the 5 km at the 2015 USA Swimming Open Water Championships
- won the 2015 FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup race in Setubal, Portugal
- 6th in the 10 km marathon swim and 6th in the 5 km at the 2014 USA Swimming Open Water Championships
- 6th in the 10 km marathon swim and 8th in the 5 km at the 2013 USA Swimming Open Water Championships
- 7th in the 10 km marathon swim and 2nd in the 5 km at 2011 USA Swimming Open Water National Championships
- 2nd in the 10 km marathon swim and 3rd in the 5 km at 2010 USA Swimming Open Water National Championships
- won the 10 km marathon swim at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
- finished 7th in the 10 km marathon swim and 21st in the 5 km at the 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships
- finished 13th in the 10 km marathon swim at the 2008 FINA World Swimming Championships
- 13th in the 10 km marathon swim at the 2008 FINA Open Water World Championships in Sevilla, Spain
- second in the 10 km marathon swim at the 2007 USA Swimming Open Water World Championships Trials
- won the 1500m freestyle and silver in the 10 km marathon swim at the 2007 Pan American Games
- won the 10 km marathon swim at the 2007 USA Swimming Open Water National Championships
- won the 10 km marathon swim at the 2006 USA Swimming Open Water National Championships
- won the 10 km marathon swim at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
- second in the 5 km at the 2006 FINA Open Water Swimming Championships
- won the 2006 Pan American Open Water Championships
- won the 2005 FINA World Championships 10 km marathon swim and second in the 5 km
- won the 10 km marathon swim at the 2005 USA Swimming Open Water National Championships
