{"id":207755,"date":"2015-08-12T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T20:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=207755"},"modified":"2015-08-12T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T20:00:15","slug":"de-jesus-sugie-notch-pbts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/de-jesus-sugie-notch-pbts\/","title":{"rendered":"De Jesus, Sugie notch PBTs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The CNMI\u2019s Angel De Jesus capped the Commonwealth\u2019s campaign in the 16th FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia with a personal best time in the 50m freestyle.<\/p>\n

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The CNMI\u2019s Angel De Jesus races in the 50m freestyle event in the 16th FINA World Championships at the Kazan Arena in Kazan, Russia last week. (Mike Marron)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

De Jesus was on Lane 8, Heat 3 of the qualifying races for the sprint event last Aug. 7 (Aug. 8 on Saipan) and clocked in at 30.57 seconds to surpass her seed time\/PBT of 30.68 seconds and the 31.01 seconds she registered in her debut in the world championship in Barcelona, Spain, in 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was difficult but I did well … I cut 0.11 seconds off my \u2018C\u2019 time. I wanted to get 29 seconds, but updating my personal best is OK for me\u201d, De Jesus was quoted as saying in an interview with Mike Marron of The Reporters\u2019 Academy.<\/p>\n

The 16-year-old had a 65-second reaction time off the blocks en route to placing seventh in her heat and beating two other swimmers. Tanzania\u2019s Magdalena Moshi ruled the heat after submitting 29.62 seconds, while Australia\u2019s Cate Campbell recorded the fastest qualifying time (24.40 seconds), and the former\u2019s younger sister Bronte won the gold medal in the 50m freestyle event with a time of 24.12 seconds).<\/p>\n

The 50m freestyle was De Jesus\u2019 second event in the biennial tournament. She had her first last Aug. 6 and also set a PBT in the 50m butterfly after recording 33.86 seconds. The Marianas High School student, whose previous PBT read at 34.99 seconds, was third on Heat 1 and finished ahead of two other swimmers in her group. World record holder Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden topped the qualifying field with her time of 25.43 seconds and she also took the gold medal in the event after submitting 24.96 seconds in the finals.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Takumi Sugie duplicated De Jesus\u2019 feat in the 50m freestyle after timing in at 27.26 seconds on Heat 2 of the qualifying races for the sprint swim last Aug. 7.<\/p>\n

Sugie eclipsed his old PBT of 27.56 seconds and was ranked second on his heat behind Palau\u2019s Shawn Wallace Dingilius (27.02 seconds).<\/p>\n

\u201cI gave it all I could today (last Saturday), so I\u2019m really happy with that\u2014a personal best. Just going forward was the only thing I thought of after I dived in,\u201d Takumi said in an interview with The Reporters\u2019 Academy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been watching all the swimmers and I got some great tips from them. I guess I improved,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Sugie also joined the 100m freestyle race last Aug. 5 and he timed in at 1:00.23, falling short in breaking his personal best time (59.95 seconds).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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