{"id":200460,"date":"2015-04-29T04:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T18:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=200460"},"modified":"2015-04-29T04:00:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T18:00:53","slug":"kagas-edas-steal-show-in-saipan-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/kagas-edas-steal-show-in-saipan-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagas, Edas steal show in Saipan Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alum Kaga and daughters Conatsu and Coume as well as Sakiko Eda and son Seiya made it a family affair last Saturday after finishing in the Top 6 of their respective divisions in the 2015 Saipan Festival of Runs.<\/p>\n

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From left, Ayumi, Conatsu, and Coume Kaga pose with their medals after finishing in the Top 6 of the women\u2019s 10-kilometer run of the 2015 Saipan Festival of Runs last Saturday. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kaga placed third behind daughter Conatsu while Coume came in fifth in the women\u2019s 10-kilometer event. Sakiko, for her part, finished fourth in the women\u2019s Half Marathon with Seiya choosing to run the 10K where he also placed fourth in the men\u2019s class.<\/p>\n

The elder Kaga clocked 50:20 or 3:30 behind 11-year-old Conatsu\u2019s 46:50 time, while Coume, 10, reached the finish line in 53:08.<\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s Tomoe Yokoyama topped the women\u2019s 10K with 42:18, while American Mary Dews was 4 seconds behind Ayumi at 50:24 to place fourth. Korean Im Bomi completed the finisher\u2019s list with a time of 53:18.<\/p>\n

Izuru Nakashima completed the 10K course in 40:17 to rule the men\u2019s side followed by Jack Stewart (41:16) and Takeshi Uchida (41:28).<\/p>\n

Seiya, a regular fixture in long-distance running events on Saipan, was the fourth best finisher with a time of 42:23. Japanese Yuichi Kobayashi (43:07) and Choong Hee Lee of Korea (43:48) complete the list of winners.<\/p>\n

Sakiko, Seiya\u2019s mother, opted to try the Half Marathon where her 1:51:53 record was the fourth best among female runners behind Yukie Nagata (1:37:05), Akiko Miller (1:47:02), and Claire Seelinger Devey (1:51:34).<\/p>\n

Sayuri Yuyama and Amalia Harris came in fifth and sixth with times of 1:56:52 and 1:57:14, respectively.<\/p>\n

Filipino Ronald Villafria, who works at Kanoa Resort, thwarted a 1-2 Korean finish when he placed second in the men\u2019s Half Marathon. He logged 1:38:01 or 4:11 behind Jung Young Kim\u2019s 1:33:50 and 5:46 ahead of Dong Hun Oh (1:43:47).<\/p>\n

Katsumi Kikuma of Japan (1:44:07), China\u2019s Chen Xi Zhao (1:45:07), and the CNMI\u2019s Manny Aaron (1:46:28) round up the men\u2019s Top 6.<\/p>\n

Ten-year-old Rintaro Miyawaki (45:55) led the list of CNMI age group winners in the men\u2019s Under-14 with Jinju Thompson, 12, (1:04:43) duplicating the feat in the girl\u2019s division.<\/p>\n

Kosuke Sato (men\u2019s 40-49, 47:05); Steven Pixley (men\u2019s over-60, 50:27); Victoria Chentsova (women\u2019s 15-19, 56:56); and Suzy Kindel (women\u2019s Over-60, 1:00:08) are the other CNMI age groupers.<\/p>\n

Yishen Li of China (men\u2019s 15-19, 52:46); Korean Young Eun Kim (men\u2019s 20-29, 1:04:04); Alvin Yeong of Singapore (men\u2019s 30-39, 49:26); Kenzo Hashizume (men\u2019s 50-59, 48:23); Asami Kumagai (women\u2019s 20-29, 59:18); Cindy Franz (women\u2019s 30-39, 1:01:33); Chiaki Kawamoto (women\u2019s 40-49, 53:48); and Kyoko Matsuda (women\u2019s 50-59, 57:29) were the other age division finishers.<\/p>\n

The men\u2019s Half Marathon age winners were Sear Choj Osilek Jr. (15-19, 2:45:12), Tyler Collins (20-29, 1:58:28); Kyung Jun Lee (30-39, 1:51:34); Izumi Suzuki (40-49, 1:51:07); Tsutomo Sekiguchi (50-59, 1:52:53); and Paul Khang (Over-60, 1:57:45).<\/p>\n

Pipit Ball (20-29, 1:57:44); Kyungok Choi (30-39, 2:04:59); Hiromi Suzuki (40-49, 2:08:04); Yoko Hashimoto (50-59, 2:26:16); and Eiko Ono (Over-60, 2:42:49) were the women\u2019s Half Marathon age group finishers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alum Kaga and daughters Conatsu and Coume as well as Sakiko Eda and son Seiya…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":200462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,4244,4245,3134],"class_list":["post-200460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cnmi","tag-half-marathon","tag-japanese-yuichi-kobayashi","tag-saipan-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200460","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}