{"id":256998,"date":"2017-07-26T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T20:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=256998"},"modified":"2017-07-26T06:00:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T20:00:30","slug":"chentsova-finishes-strong-world-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/chentsova-finishes-strong-world-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"Chentsova finishes strong in World Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_257001\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-257001\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/FINA-pix-2-300x225.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-257001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CNMI swimmers and their coach Valrick Welch, right, pose for a photo with the Palau delegates to the 17th FINA World Championships in Hungary. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CNMI swimmer Victoria Chentsova raced in her last event in the 17th FINA World Championships and posted a faster time in the 100m backstroke.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old athlete clocked in at 1:14.32 on Heat 1 of the 100m backstroke qualifiers last Monday night at the Dag\u00e1ly Swimming Complex in Budapest Hungary. Her time surpassed the 1:16.86 she posted during the preliminary race in the XI Oceania Championships in Fiji last year and the 1:16.41 in the finals of the same event.<\/p>\n<p>Chentsova was also ranked sixth in her heat and defeated four other swimmers entered in the two-lap race, including Guam\u2019s Amanda Poppe (1:18.24).  Madagascar\u2019s Elody Marlon Razafy topped the heat with her 1:07.49, while Canada\u2019s Kylie Jacqueline Masse registered the best qualifying time in the 100m backstroke after submitting 58.62 seconds on Heat 6. The Canadian also led the qualifiers to the medal race with an even faster time of 58.18 seconds in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>In other results, Jinju Thompson completed her first race in the World Championships after joining the preliminaries in the 200m freestyle. She capped the four-lap race in 2:36.47, missing her personal best time of 2:33.74.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson was on Heat 1, which Arianna Sanna of Dominican Republic won after clocking in at 2:08.45. World and championships record-holder Federica Pellegrini of Italy was the overall first finisher in the  qualifiers after posting 1:56.07, while rival Katie Ledecky of the U.S. came in next after registering 1:56.27. Pellegrini and Ledecky raced in the semifinals along with 14 other swimmers and results of last night\u2019s competition were unavailable at press time.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, David Boyer will join the preliminary races in the 100m freestyle today. Boyer is on Heat 4 and will debut against Afghanistan\u2019s Hamid Rahimi, Guinea\u2019s Omar Kaba, Palestine\u2019s Nabeel Hatoum, Grenada\u2019s Karry Ollivierre, Brunei\u2019s Christian Nikles, Lebanon\u2019s Anthony Souaiby, Monaco\u2019s Theo Chiabaut, the Federated States of Micronesia\u2019s Kaleo Kihleng, and Benin\u2019s Jefferson Kpanou. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNMI swimmer Victoria Chentsova raced in her last event in the 17th FINA World Championships&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":257001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17708,17709,17710,6574],"class_list":["post-256998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-amanda-poppe","tag-benin","tag-monaco","tag-world-champs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256998","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=256998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}