{"id":319267,"date":"2020-03-17T06:02:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T20:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=319267"},"modified":"2020-03-17T06:02:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T20:02:29","slug":"7-saipan-runners-make-10k-podium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/7-saipan-runners-make-10k-podium\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Saipan runners make 10K podium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-319267 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\/7-saipan-runners-make-10k-podium\/marathonoix2\/'>marathonoix2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-319269'>\n\t\t\t\tKeith Longuski  keeps a steady pace as he runs back to the American Memorial Park en route to a third place finish overall in the men\u2019s 10K event. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)\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\/7-saipan-runners-make-10k-podium\/marathonpix1\/'>marathonpix1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-319270'>\n\t\t\t\tKosuke Sato paces a small group of runners, including Ken Song, left, as they head back to the American Memorial Park to finish their respective races in last Saturday\u2019s Saipan Marathon. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Four Saipan runners made it to the Top 6 overall in the men\u2019s division of the 10K event in last Saturday\u2019s 2020 Saipan Marathon, while three earned the same recognition in the women\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Longuski was the fastest Saipan finisher in the 10K event, which started and ended at the American Memorial Park with a turnaround point across the former Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office in Beach Road, after submitting 38:36. South Korea\u2019s Sungchan Park topped the race with his 37:12, while Japan\u2019s Kosuke Hara came in at second (37:41). Completing the Top 6 are Saipan\u2019s Kosuke Sato (40:01), Ken Song (40:16), and Whit Altizer (41:24).<\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019s division, Saipan\u2019s Noriko Jim placed second behind South Korea\u2019s Yunmi Lee, as the former clocked in at 43:50 against the latter\u2019s 42:54. Two other Saipan runners joined Jim in the podium with Kaithlyn Chavez ranked fourth (49:35) and Ayano Braxton placing sixth (50:26). South Koreans Yoon Young Kang (48:29), and Jun Kyung Choi (49:44) rounded out the Top 6.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, young Saipan runners dominated the 5K event.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen-year-old Jim Kurt Maniago was the top finisher in the men\u2019s 5K course, as he completed the run from and to AMP (with a turnaround point near Saipan Computer Service in Beach Road) in 20:22.<\/p>\n<p>Five of the Top 6 finishers in the men\u2019s 5K are in the U15 age group with 13-year-old Markus Toves (21:21) and Rex Pixley (21:36) and 14-year-old Ariel Narvaez (21:39) and Garrett Weaver (21:40) joining the elite group, which also had Ronald Villafria (22:09).<\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019s 5K, 19-year-old Krizel Mae Tuazon led the finishers list after posting 27:24. Rounding out the Top 6 were her fellow Saipan runners Miaozhuo Wang (28:16), Jinie Thompson (29:09), Tyana Hix (29:55), Harumi Suzuki (30:49), and Esther Xu (30:55).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Saipan runners made it to the Top 6 overall in the men\u2019s division of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":319270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319267","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\/319267","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=319267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}