{"id":257091,"date":"2017-07-27T06:06:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T20:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=257091"},"modified":"2017-07-27T06:06:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T20:06:48","slug":"3-ssc-members-set-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/3-ssc-members-set-records\/","title":{"rendered":"3 SSC members set records"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-257091 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\/3-ssc-members-set-records\/ssc-pix-akimaru-2\/'>SSC-pix-(Akimaru)<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-257102'>\n\t\t\t\tAkimaru\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\/3-ssc-members-set-records\/ssc-pix-j-suzuki\/'>SSC-pix-(J.-Suzuki)<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-257103'>\n\t\t\t\tJ. Suzuki\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\/3-ssc-members-set-records\/ssc-pix-l-suzuki\/'>SSC-pix-(L.-Suzuki)<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-257104'>\n\t\t\t\tL. Suzuki\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Northern Mariana Islands Swimming Federation certified the age group records that three Saipan Swim Club members earned when they competed in the 69th Annual Keo Nakama Invitational at the Veterans\u2019 Memorial Aquatic Center in Hawaii early this month.<\/p>\n<p>Kento Akimaru\u2019s records in the 15 to 16 age group\u2019s 800m and 1,500m freestyle along with Jinnosuke Suzuki\u2019s marks in the 11 to 12\u2019s 400m, 800m, and 1,500m freestyle events were made official by NMISF yesterday. Jinnosuke\u2019s brother, Lennosuke, was the third SSC member to get his age group record (13 to 14\u2019s 200m freestyle) certified.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old Akimaru broke the oldest age group record in CNMI swimming as his 17:37.61 in the 1,500m freestyle event surpassed the 17:41.15 made by former SSC member and Olympian Jonathan Sakovich 30 years ago. The CNMI Sports Hall of Famer registered the age group mark on Feb. 14, 1987.<\/p>\n<p>In the 800m freestyle, Akimaru\u2019s 9:12.52 eclipsed the 9:12.98 former Tsunami Saipan swimmer Kensuke Kimura posted on Jan. 21, 2012. Akimaru went on to get the top honors in the men\u2019s 15 to 16 age group of the Hawaii meet held from June 30 to July 2, beating 28 other swimmers in the division. The SSC swimmer collected 60 points from nine events to place away ahead of Hawaii Swimming Club-Oahu\u2019s Josh Lujan (40)  and Pearl City Aquatics\u2019 Matthew Takai (23 points).<\/p>\n<p>In the 11 to 12 age group, Jinnosuke reset his own records. The 11-year-old swimmer\u2019s 4:41.01 in the 400m freestyle was more than five seconds better than the old age group mark (4:46.40) he registered on March 25, 2017, during the 2017 SSC International Invitational Meet. Then in the 800m freestyle, Jinnosuke chopped off nearly 12 seconds from the previous record (9:45.51) he established also on March 25 this year, as he clocked in at 9:34.63 in the Hawaii tournament. For the 1,500m freestyle, the younger Suzuki timed in at 18:21.10 to shatter the 19.04.79 he logged on March 23, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Besides his record-breaking wins in the 69th Annual Keo Nakama Invitational, Jinnosuke also reigned supreme in his division, prevailing against more than 20 swimmers from Hawaii, Guam, Japan, and the U.S. mainland. He gained 78 points from 10 events to down Shota Ferreira (58 points) of Aloha Aquatics Association and Tyler Surratt (53) of Premier Aquatics-Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Lennosuke earned his first entry to the record books in the 13 to 14 age group after finishing the 200m freestyle race in 2:06.02. He broke the 2:07.15 Kai Staal submitted on Dec. 28, 2008. The older Suzuki was tied for eighth place in his division, which featured 24 swimmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Mariana Islands Swimming Federation certified the age group records that three Saipan Swim Club&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":257102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17449,17731,17732,168],"class_list":["post-257091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-aloha-aquatics-association","tag-kensuke-kimura","tag-olympian-jonathan-sakovich","tag-ssc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257091","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=257091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}