{"id":290192,"date":"2018-12-12T06:04:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T20:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=290192"},"modified":"2018-12-12T06:04:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T20:04:55","slug":"thompson-completes-first-event-in-world-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/thompson-completes-first-event-in-world-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"Thompson completes first event in world champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_290193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-290193\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/oceaniapix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-290193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jinju Thompson will race in the 100m freestyle event in the 14th FINA World Championships today at the Hangzhou Olympic and International Expo Center in the Zhejiang Province, China. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jinju Thompson opened the CNMI\u2019s campaign in the 14th FINA World Championships, completing the 200m freestyle swim yesterday at the Hangzhou Olympic and International Expo Center in the Zhejiang Province, China.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson was on Heat 2 of the qualifying races and clocked in at 2:27.89 in the short-course (25-meter pool) meet. She finished ahead of Guam\u2019s Amanda Joy Poppe, who timed in at 2:36.63, while Malta\u2019s Mya Azzopardi topped Heat 2 after checking in at 2:06.77. <\/p>\n<p>Other heat winners in the event were Mongolia\u2019s Enkkjuslen Batbayar (2:04.84\/Heat 1) and Chile\u2019s Ines Marin (2:01:16\/Heat 3), Mallory Comerford of the U.S. (1:52.52\/Heat 4), Russia\u2019s Veronika Adrusenko (1:54.11\/Heat5), and Italy\u2019s Feredica Pellegrini (1:54.66\/Heat 6). Comerford had the fastest time in the preliminaries and was joined in the semifinals by Australia\u2019s Arianne Titmus (1:52.66), Adrusenko, the Netherland\u2019s Femke Heemskerk (1:54.16), Sweden\u2019s Michelle Coleman (1:54.22), Pelledrini, China\u2019s Jianjiahe Wang (1:54.63), and Czech Republic\u2019s Barbora Seemanova (1:54.82).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Thompson will have her second and last event\u2014the 100m freestyle\u2014today, while her teammates, Nelson Batallones and Lennosuke Suzuki, will have their debut in the competition this morning, too.<\/p>\n<p>The lone female member of the team is on Heat 3 of the 100m freestyle qualifying races and will be up against Sudan\u2019s Haneen Ibrahim, Guyana\u2019s Danielle George, Bahamas\u2019 Ariel Weech, Mozambique\u2019s Alicia Edna Ossumane Mateus, Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Olivia Fuller, North Korea\u2019s Mi Song Pak, Palau\u2019s Dirngulbai Misech, East Timor\u2019s Imelda Felicyta Ximenes Belo, and Pakistan\u2019s Bisma Khan.<\/p>\n<p>As for Batallones, he will swim on Heat 2 of the 100m butterfly event against  Nigeria\u2019s Philip Adejumo, Cameroon\u2019s Ratha Phin, Swaziland\u2019s Simanga Dlamini, Kosovo\u2019s Dion Kadriu, Tanzania\u2019s Collins Saliboko, Cape Verde\u2019s Troy Pina, Mali\u2019s Ousmane Toure, Nepal\u2019s Anubhaw Subba, and Bangladesh\u2019s Mohammad Mahamudun Nobu Nahid.<\/p>\n<p>In the 200m freestyle qualifying races, Suzuki is entered on Heat 2 and will be facing Seychelles\u2019 Dean Hoffman, Palau\u2019s Noel Keane, Qatar\u2019s Firas Saidi, Puerto Rico\u2019sYeziel Morales Miranda, Bahamas\u2019 Kohen Kenwood Kerr, Albania\u2019s Spiro Gofa, Uganda\u2019s Fadhil Thabit Saleh, Pakistan\u2019s Aamir Ahmed Motiwala, and San Marino\u2019s Cristian Santi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jinju Thompson opened the CNMI\u2019s campaign in the 14th FINA World Championships, completing the 200m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":290193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[169,962,319,9378],"class_list":["post-290192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-china","tag-pakistan","tag-palau","tag-zhejiang-province"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290192","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=290192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}