{"id":194505,"date":"2015-03-23T04:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T18:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=194505"},"modified":"2015-03-23T04:00:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T18:00:57","slug":"kaga-and-sato-lead-taga-kids-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/kaga-and-sato-lead-taga-kids-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaga and Sato lead Taga Kids winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-five joined last Saturday\u2019s 2015 Taga Kids with Saipan Swim Club\u2019s Taiga Sato and Conatsu Kaga among the top finishers in the weekend race held around the American Memorial Park.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-194505 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/kaga-and-sato-lead-taga-kids-winners\/taga-kids-pix-kaga\/'>Taga Kids pix ((Kaga)<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-194512'>\n\t\t\t\tKaga\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/kaga-and-sato-lead-taga-kids-winners\/taga-kids-pix-sato\/'>Taga Kids pix (Sato)<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-194513'>\n\t\t\t\tSato\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Sato was the overall No. 1 finisher in the 9 to 12 age group, completing the 200-meter swim, 10K bike, and 2K run in 36:30.73. He bested eight other boys finishers in his division and had split times of 6:10.42 in the one-lap swim in the waters off Micro Beach, 15:28.08 in the two-lap bike leg, and 14:52.22 in the two-lap run race.<\/p>\n<p>Rintaro Miyawaki, who had the fastest time in the run leg despite starting to run barefoot on his way to finishing the first lap, came in at second with a combined time of 38:54.72 (splits of 6:40.41, 17:29.79, and 14:44.52). Rinto Takahashi rounded out the Top 3 after logging 40:34.87 and posting split times of 6:32.87, 16:59.57, and 17:02.43.<\/p>\n<p>Other finishers in the boys 9 to 12 division were Akira Kadokura (43:01.96), Jinnosuke Suzuki (45:19.50), Kaden Church (45:25.19), Leo Takahashi (51:09.32), Taiyo Akimaru (54:32.33), and Richard Villagomez (59:39.29).<\/p>\n<p>In the girls division, Conatsu prevailed against seven others with her third-best time of 39:16.17.  Conatsu had 6:28.71 in the swim leg and registered 16:45.50 and 16:31.96 in the bike and run parts, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Jin Ju Thompson and Rei Sekiguchi joined Conatsu in the podium with the former completing the second longest race of the day in 42:29.86 (splits of 6:24.99, 17:06.52, and 18:58.35). Rei Sekiguchi had split times of 6:48.69, 20:17.22, and 15:34.65 for a combined time of 42:40.56.<\/p>\n<p>Conatsu\u2019s younger sister, Coume (50:21.98), finished fourth and was followed by Ayaka Sato (53:58.98), Natsuki Nagata (1:01:29), Risa Sekiguchi (1:01:29), and Susana Villagomez (1:10:11).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Isaiah Aleksenko, Andrei Kaithlyn Chaves, and Christian Villacrusis were the winners in the two other races.<\/p>\n<p>Aleksenko topped the boys 6 to 8 age group, completing the 100m swim, 5K bike, and 1K run in 15:41.01, while Chavez submitted 19:48.68 with split times of 4:27.26, 6:55.03, and 8:26.39.  Aleksenko defeated Wataru Kadokura (18:44.26), Dino (19:56.7) and Kengo (25:04.60) Sato and Cojiro Kaga (25:54.99).<\/p>\n<p>In the 13 to 15 division, Villacrusis was the lone entry and capped the 300m swim, 15K bike, and 3K run in 59:57.46. The SSC swimmer registered 12:32.34 in the three-lap swim leg, 22:37.60 in the run, and 35:09.94.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-five joined last Saturday\u2019s 2015 Taga Kids with Saipan Swim Club\u2019s Taiga Sato and Conatsu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":194512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3139,3140,3141,133],"class_list":["post-194505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-leo-takahashi","tag-rei-sekiguchi","tag-rinto-takahashi","tag-run"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}