{"id":290494,"date":"2018-12-17T06:06:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T20:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=290494"},"modified":"2018-12-17T06:06:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T20:06:02","slug":"cnmi-swimmers-complete-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cnmi-swimmers-complete-races\/","title":{"rendered":"CNMI swimmers complete races"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nelson Batallones, seen here competing in Guam, completed his appearance in the 14th FINA World Championships last Friday after racing in the 50m butterfly event at the Hangzhou Olympic and International Expo Center in China. (Contributed Photo)
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Team CNMI wrapped up its campaign in the 14th FINA World Championships last Saturday with Nelson Batallones and Lennosuke swimming in the squad\u2019s last two events at the Hangzhou Olympic and International Expo Center in China.<\/p>\n

Batallones had the penultimate appearance for the Commonwealth in the 25-meter meet, as he raced in one of the qualifying events for the 50m butterfly swim last Friday morning. He was on Heat 4 and clocked in at 29.58 seconds to beat Laos\u2019s Slava Sihanouvong (29.99) in their group, which had Palestine\u2019s Nabeel Hatoum (26.10) as top finisher.<\/p>\n

The Swimming Center Tsunami Saipan also had a better time against Niger\u2019s Albachir Mouctar (29.88 seconds), Turks and Caicos Islands\u2019 Jack Parlee (30.21), Benin\u2019s Jefferson Kpanou (30.79), Sierra Leon\u2019s Joshua Whyse (31.59), the Marshal Islands\u2019 Daniel Ranis (31.73), Malawi\u2019s Iana Salaka (32.62), Vanuatu\u2019s Jessy Misak (33.19), and Yemen\u2019s Hassan Tareq-Hassan Baidar (34.20). Brazil\u2019s Nicholas Santos posted the fastest time in the qualifiers with his 22.41 seconds and also marched into the gold medal race after a field-best 21.96 seconds in the semifinals last Saturday evening. Santos was joined in the finals by Germany\u2019s Marius Kusch (22.44 seconds), Japan\u2019s Takaya Yasue (22.52) and Takeshi Kawamoto (22.74), South Africa\u2019s Ryan Coetzee (22.75) and Cha LeClos (22.34), Russia\u2019s Mikhail Vekovishchev (22.56), and Trinidad and Tobago\u2019s Dylan Carter.<\/p>\n

In other results, Suzuki closed out for the CNMI when he competed on Heat 3 of the 100m freestyle event last Saturday. He finished sixth in his group after checking in at 56.91 seconds and defeating Sint Maarten\u2019s Vadym Semkiv (59.53 seconds), the Solomon Islands\u2019 Clifton Daromani, Guinea\u2019s Mamadou Tahirou Bah (1:07.56), and the Marshall Islands\u2019 Phillip Kinono (disqualified). <\/p>\n

The Seychelles\u2019 Dean Hoffman (51.58 seconds) ruled Heat 3, while American Caeleb Dressel topped the qualifiers with his 45.98 seconds. The U.S. swimmer then finished second to LeClos (45.89 second) in the semis to make it to the gold medal race (scheduled to last night), together with Russia\u2019s Vladislav Grinev and Vladimir Morozov (45.93), Lituania\u2019s Simonas Bilis, Japan\u2019s Katsumi Nakamura (46.24), compatriot Blake Pieroni (46.31), and France\u2019s Mehdy Metella (46.53).<\/p>\n

Pending results of last night\u2019s finals races, the U.S. leads in the medal standings in swimming with its 11 golds, 12 silvers, and four bronzes. Russia has a 5-3-3 tally for second place, while third-ranked Hungary has 4-1-0. Host China and the Netherland\u2019s are in the Top 5 with 3-4-5 and 2-4-2, respectively.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, after completing their participation in the world championship, Suzuki, Batallones, and Jinju Thompson, who finished her two events (100m and 200m freestyle) last Wednesday, are scheduled to return to Saipan tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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