{"id":232655,"date":"2016-07-20T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=232655"},"modified":"2016-07-20T06:00:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T20:00:03","slug":"sapong-races-world-u20-tourney-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sapong-races-world-u20-tourney-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Sapong races in World U20 tourney today"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_232658\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-232658\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/iaffpix-169x300.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-232658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The CNM\u2019s Zarinae Sapong will race in one of the six qualifying heats in the 100m event in the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships today at the Zawisza Stadium in Bydgoszcz, Poland. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The CNMI\u2019s Zarinae Sapong is among the 54 runners competing in the qualifying races for the 100m event in the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships today at the Zawisza Stadium in Bydgoszcz, Poland.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old runner is on Heat 4, Lane 3 of the preliminary races, which will start at 12:35pm (past 8pm on Saipan). Sapong\u2019s heat is scheduled for 12:56pm. The Commonwealth bet will run  against South Africa\u2019s Thomas Tamzin, Poland\u2019s Ewa Swoboda, Nigeria\u2019s Mercy Ntia-Obong, the Philippines\u2019 Kayla Richardson, Canada\u2019s Shyvonne Roxborough, Israel\u2019s Diana Vaisman, and Australia\u2019s Samanta Geddes.<\/p>\n<p>Swoboda has the fastest qualifying time on Heat 4 with her 11.18 seconds, while Sapong\u2019s personal best is 13.35 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Overall,  American runner Candice Hill owns the best time in the field at 10.98 seconds. She is on Heat 2, Lane 8, competing against Ukraine\u2019s Yana Kachur, Czech Republic\u2019s Veronika Palickova, Bahamas\u2019 Davine Parker, New Zealand\u2019s Lucy Sheat, Jamaica\u2019s Patrice Moody, Angola\u2019s Liliana Neto, and Germany\u2019s Chantat Butzek.<\/p>\n<p>In other heats, the favored runners are Trinidad and Tobago\u2019s Khalifa St. Fort (11.16 seconds), Great Britain\u2019s Imani-Lara Lansiquot (11.25 seconds), Bahrain\u2019s Imana Isla Jassim (11.26 seconds), and Colombia\u2019s Evelyn Rivera (11.20 seconds).<\/p>\n<p>The Top 3 finishers in each heat and the next six fastest times will qualify to the semifinals of the 100m run. The semis race will be held tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI\u2019s Zarinae Sapong is among the 54 runners competing in the qualifying races for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":232658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[439,133,12579,4506],"class_list":["post-232655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-poland","tag-run","tag-world-u20","tag-zarinae-sapong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232655","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=232655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}