{"id":269433,"date":"2018-02-05T06:06:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T20:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=269433"},"modified":"2018-02-05T06:06:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T20:06:24","slug":"kento-jinju-win-anew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/kento-jinju-win-anew\/","title":{"rendered":"Kento, Jinju win anew"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_269436\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-269436\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ssspix1.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-269436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saipan Swim Club\u2019s Kento Akimaru, left, and Jinju Thompson head to the finish line to complete the three-loop race in the 2018 Meek &amp; Mighty Ocean Swim held last Saturday in the waters off Pacific Islands Club. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Saipan Swim Club\u2019s Kento Akimaru and Jinju Thompson led the finishers in the 2018 Meek &amp; Mighty Ocean Swim held last Saturday in the waters off Pacific Islands Club.<\/p>\n<p>Kento was the No. 1 overall finisher in the longest race of the day, completing the three-loop course (nearly three kilometers) in 32:00 for this third straight victory in the same event. Kento crossed the finish line less than a minute ahead of Jinnosuke Suzuki, who clocked in at 32:34 to beat his older brother Lennosuke Suzuki (33:59). Christian Villacrusis and David Boyer, who timed in at 34:19 and 35:02, respectively, completed the Top 5 in the men\u2019s division.<\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019s division, Jinju was the first out of the water and seventh overall after recording 35:12.  Her mark in last weekend\u2019s race was faster than her 2017 winning time (34:58). Joining Jinju in the Top 3 in the women\u2019s field were Sophia Gauran (37:66) and the former\u2019s sister Jinie (41:19).<\/p>\n<p>Seven other swimmers completed the three-course lap and the list included Anthony Camacho-Deleon Guerrero (35:03), Hessel Yntema (46:26), Taiyo Akimaru (39:38), Jon Turner (49:34), Emily Northrop (48:03),  Manny Sitchon (58:10), and Mark Isip (1:02:10).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the two-loop course (about 2K), youth swimmer Wataru Kadokura was the first male and No. 1 overall finisher as he made it to the shore at the 33:50 mark. He was about a minute ahead of women\u2019s champion and fellow SSC member Kaithlynn Chavez, who lost a few seconds after heading to the wrong direction on the way to the finish line and ended up timing in at 33:51.<\/p>\n<p>Adult swimmer Florence Antonio of Dolphin Club Saipan came in at third overall after checking in at 35:04 and was followed by Matthew Milo (36:22), Leo Wania (36:53), Mark Chavez (38:09.05), Savita Sikkel (38:09.07), Buboy Aguilar (40:33), John Moreno (44:04), Julia Aleksenko (46:08), and Chan Wang Jang (59:10).<\/p>\n<p>In other results, Kaithlynn and Mark\u2019s sister, Julie Ann, was the top finisher in the one-loop race (nearly 1K) after completing the swim in 19:32. Marini Milo came in at second with her 20:19, while Jonathan Wilberscheid rounded out the Top 3 overall after registering 22:57. Other finishers in the division were Dolphin Club Saipan\u2019s Gemmilie Anne Eugenio (24:20) and Michael Hidalgo (24:28), and father and son Richard (25:02.70) and Moshe Sikkel (25:02.68).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan Swim Club\u2019s Kento Akimaru and Jinju Thompson led the finishers in the 2018 Meek&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":269437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11607,9570,5710,159],"class_list":["post-269433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-dolphin-club-saipan","tag-jinju-thompson","tag-kento-akimaru","tag-pacific-islands-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269433","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=269433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}