{"id":264980,"date":"2017-11-22T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=264980"},"modified":"2017-11-22T06:00:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T20:00:56","slug":"saipan-triathletes-among-rota-blue-finishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/saipan-triathletes-among-rota-blue-finishers\/","title":{"rendered":"Saipan triathletes among Rota Blue finishers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_264997\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264997\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rota-pix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-264997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saipan finishers, from left, Heather Brook, Claire Seelinger Devey, Manny Sitchon, and Ricky Castro enjoy a light moment after conquering the grueling course in the 23rd Rota Blue Triathlon held last Saturday. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Saipan bets also completed the grueling course of last Saturday\u2019s 23rd Rota Blue Triathlon with familiar faces winning in their respective divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Manny Sitchon was the lone representative from Saipan that joined the long course and placed second behind Kazuei Murayama of Japan in the men\u2019s over 60 age group. The 62-year-old Murayama was 13th overall and topped his age group after clocking in at 13:41 in the shortened swim course, 3:02:35 in the bike, and 2:36:02 in the bike for a total of 5:52:18. Sitchon, who is two years younger than Murayama, came in second at 6:06:53. He timed in at 13:05 in the swim, which was the fourth fastest but lagged behind in the bike (3:16:45), and was just a minute behind Murayama in the run after recording 2:37:03.<\/p>\n<p>Nobuyuki Kamagata, 61, also of Japan rounded out the Top 3 with a combined time of 6:13:53 (16:25 swim, 3:06:33 bike, and 2:50:55 run).<\/p>\n<p>Florence Antonio, meanwhile, led Saipan finishers in the short course after placing seventh overall at 2:32:14, while Paul Plunkett ruled the over 50 division with his 2:34:55. Rota\u2019s Malcolm Johnson topped the U30 division as the 28-year-old logged 2:39:53. Heather Brook (2:39:58) was the third best in the women\u2019s open, while Claire Seelinger Devey (2:50:34) came in at fourth, and Ricky Castro (2:51:50) placed second in the men\u2019s over 40.<\/p>\n<p>In other results, Japan\u2019s Yuki Taniguchi (5:45:26), Daisuke Sato (5:50:14), and Takahiro Sha (5:48:28) ruled the over 30, 40, and 50 age groups.<\/p>\n<p>Satoshi Oda (6:21:45) and Ryota Ito (6:32:50) completed the Top 3 in the men\u2019s over 30, while Hiromu Shimada (6:28:02) and Tetsu Kurusu (6:52:11) joined Sha  in the podium in the over 40 division. Haruka Ota (female over 30, 6:54:10), Kazuhide Iwasaki (male over 50, 6:55:22), and Takeshi Izyuin (male over 50, 7:01:49) were the other age group finishers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan bets also completed the grueling course of last Saturday\u2019s 23rd Rota Blue Triathlon with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":264997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19154,19155,170,17899],"class_list":["post-264980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-claire-seelinger-devey","tag-heather-brook","tag-japan","tag-rota-blue-triathlon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264980","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=264980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}