{"id":290424,"date":"2018-12-14T06:04:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T20:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=290424"},"modified":"2018-12-14T06:04:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T20:04:23","slug":"batallones-suzuki-debut-in-world-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/batallones-suzuki-debut-in-world-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"Batallones, Suzuki debut in world champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-290424 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\/batallones-suzuki-debut-in-world-champs\/finapixbatallones\/'>finapix(batallones)<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-290425'>\n\t\t\t\tBatallones\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\/batallones-suzuki-debut-in-world-champs\/finapixsuzuki\/'>finapix(suzuki)<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-290426'>\n\t\t\t\tSuzuki\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>CNMI swimmers Nelson Batallones and Lennosuke Suzuki plunged into the pool at the Hangzhou Olympic and International Expo Center in China for their first event in the 14th FINA World Championships last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Suzuki raced in the 200m freestyle qualifiers and clocked in at 2:06.54 on Heat 2, which was won by Puerto Rico\u2019s Yeziel Morales Miranda after submitting 1:50.73. American Blake Pieroni topped the event and won the gold medal after recording 1:41.49 in the finals, while Lithuania\u2019s Rapsys Danas (1:41.78) and Australia\u2019s Alexander Graham (1:42.28) took the silver and bronze, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>After Suzuki completed his first event in the short-course (25m) meet, it was Batallones\u2019 turn to see action for the Northern Mariana Islands Swimming Federation and he competed on Heat 2 of the 100m butterfly race. The 16-year-old swimmer timed in at 1:05.15 in his group that had Nigeria\u2019s Philip Adejumo (53.62 second) as top finisher. The medal winners in the event had yet to be determined, as the finals was scheduled last night. Russian Cha Le Clos (49.07 seconds), Chinese Zhuhao Li (49.36), American Caeleb Dressel (48.93 seconds), and German Marius Kusch (49.35 seconds) led the finalists list after taking the Top 2 spots in the two semis races.<\/p>\n<p>In other results last Wednesday, Jinju Thompson completed her pair of races in the biennial tournament after participating in the qualifiers for the 100m freestyle event.  She registered 1:09.05 on Heat 3 to place ahead of Sudan\u2019s Haneen Ibrahim (1:20.27) and East Timor\u2019s Imelda  Felicyta Ximenes Belo (1:23.07).  North Korea\u2019s  Mi Song Pak (58.89 seconds) ruled the heat, while the Netherland\u2019s Femke Heemskerk led the eight finalists in the event after logging 51.84 seconds in the semis.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Batallones will have his last race\u201450m butterfly\u2014in the tournament today. The Swimming Center Tsunami Saipan member is on Heat 4 of the qualifiers and will be competing against Laos\u2019 Slava Sihanouvong, Ghana\u2019s Papa Yaw Dwumoh Poku-Dwumoh, Tansania\u2019s Collins Saliboko, Palestine\u2019s Nabeel Hatoum, Rwanda\u2019s Isiaka Isihaka, Grenada\u2019s Dajenel Williams, Kenya\u2019s Ridwan Abubakar Mohamed, Cape Verde\u2019s Troy Pina, and Swaziland\u2019s Simanga Dlamini. <\/p>\n<p>As for Suzuki, he will close out for Team CNMI, as he races on Heat 3 of the 100m freestyle event tomorrow. Suzuki will be going up against Mongolia\u2019s Delgerkhuu Myagmar, Sint Maarten\u2019s Vadym Semkiv, the Marshall Islands\u2019 Phillip Kinono, Solomon Islands\u2019 Clifton Daromani, Guinea\u2019s Mamadou Tahirou Bah, Seychelles\u2019 Dean Hoffman, Nicaragua\u2019s Kener Torrez, and Burundi\u2019s Carel Van Melvin Irakoze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNMI swimmers Nelson Batallones and Lennosuke Suzuki plunged into the pool at the Hangzhou Olympic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":290425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290424","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=290424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}