{"id":279183,"date":"2018-07-02T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T20:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=279183"},"modified":"2018-07-02T06:00:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T20:00:36","slug":"libut-leads-mtb-race-finishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/libut-leads-mtb-race-finishers\/","title":{"rendered":"Libut leads MTB Race finishers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_279185\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-279185\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mtbpix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-279185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Overall winner J.C. Libut is flanked by runner-up Joel Buco, left, and third placer Charlie Sendin, during the awards ceremony for the Northern Mariana Islands Cycling Federation MTB Race held yesterday in Marpi.<br \/>(NMICF Photo)<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>J.C. Libut prevailed in a down-to-the-wire finish against Joel Buco to emerge as the overall winner in the Northern Mariana Islands Cycling Federation MTB Race held yesterday in Marpi.<\/p>\n<p>Libut completed the race that started and ended at the Last Command Post with bikers going through Banzai Trail, Cowtown, and the Landfill (four laps) in 1:01:40, just a second ahead of Buco. Charlie Sendin rounded out the Top 3 after making it to the finish line at the 1:01:50 mark.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, five other bikers topped their respective age groups: Angelo Cristobal, Ding Ramos, Norlo Jacosalem, Flore Derexes, and Kimiko McKagan.<\/p>\n<p>Cristobal ruled the 40 and below category after submitting 1:13:57. He reached the finish line about three minutes faster than Ernie Henson, who clocked in at 1:16:12. Louie Oria was ranked third after posting 1:21:14.<\/p>\n<p>In the 40 to 49 division, Ramos logged 1:05:01 to prevail against Rusty Valino and Hernan Cristobal, who registered 1:06:06 and 1:10:14, respectively. McKagan was the lone entry in the women\u2019s field and timed in at 1:18:56.<\/p>\n<p>In the 50 to 54 age group, Jacosalem made it to the finish line more than a minute ahead of Noe Valdisimo with the former recording 1:03:24 against the latter\u2019s 1:05:01. Cesar Fortaleza was not far behind Valdisimo after posting 1:05:07.<\/p>\n<p>In the over 55 division, Derexes timed in at 1:14:19 to beat Ponce Corotan, who submitted 1:16:00. Florence Antonio came in at third with his 1:16:47.<\/p>\n<p>The Top 3 finishers in each division were awarded with medals and gift certificates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.C. Libut prevailed in a down-to-the-wire finish against Joel Buco to emerge as the overall&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":279185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10765,21776,21777,21778],"class_list":["post-279183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-charlie-sendin","tag-ding-ramos","tag-ernie-henson","tag-flore-derexes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279183","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=279183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}