{"id":319514,"date":"2020-03-20T06:06:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T20:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=319514"},"modified":"2020-03-20T06:06:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T20:06:43","slug":"jim-sets-new-10k-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/jim-sets-new-10k-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim sets new 10K record"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_319517\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-319517\" style=\"width: 447px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/nmapix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-319517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noriko Jim heads back to the American Memorial Park via Beach Road to complete the 10K event in last Saturday\u2019s Saipan Marathon. (Roselyn B. Momroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Veteran runner Noriko Jim marked a new CNMI record in 10K after submitting 43:50 in last Saturday\u2019s Saipan Marathon.<\/p>\n<p>The 49-year-old broke the 46:09 record Mamiko Berger established on Aug. 3, 2010 during the Micronesian Games in Koror, Palau. Jim, besides setting the new Commonwealth mark, finished second overall in the 10K event last weekend,  placing behind South Korea\u2019s Yunmi Lee (42:54) and beating fellow Saipan runners Kaithlyn Chavez (49:35) and Ayano Braxton (50:26) and Yoon Young Kang (48:29), and Jun Kyung Choi (49:44), also from South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Charlie Sendin posted the fastest time among the top finishers in the age group competition in the 10K race, which started and ended at the American Memorial Park with a turnaround point across the former Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office in Beach Road.<\/p>\n<p>Sendin ruled the men\u2019s 30 to 39 age group after clocking in at 43:15, while South Korea\u2019s Heejin Kim won in the women\u2019s division, as she logged 56:44.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Sendin and Kim on the list of top finishers in the various age groups were U15\u2019s Yutian Luo (49:01) and Nathanette Blas (51:32); 16 to 19\u2019s Sebastien Manabat (45:33) and Anika Snyder (50:29); 20 to 29\u2019s Jireh Yobech (45:57) and Mina Choi (57:23); 40 to 49\u2019s Michiteru Mita (49:09) and Xinmei Tang Yarbrough (54:36); 50 to 59\u2019s Jun Hashimoto (44:54) and Liz Church (1:05:11); and over 60\u2019s Steven Pixley (53:13) and Kozue Yamada (1:13:01).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Japan\u2019s Yasushi Yoneta had the fastest time among the age group winners in the marathon course after recording 2:52:55. He was the lone age group (40 to 49) champion to break the three-hour barrier. <\/p>\n<p>Other age group winners were 16 to 19\u2019s Jianan He (5:16:56) and Vivian Linzhi Wu (6:17:25); 20 to 29\u2019s Taketoshi Oe (3:11:58); 30 to 39\u2019s Seoungho Lee (4:35:58) and Dianne Marie Sapida (3:38:09); 50 to 59\u2019s Hiroyuki Nishimura (3:32:56) and Eiko Mizuna (5:54:02); and over 60\u2019s Chang Whan Jang (4:56:06) and Etsuko Hirayama (5:20:57).<\/p>\n<p>In the half marathon, six runners (age group winners) finished the course in less than two hours\u2014Masahiro Washizu (1:48:29), Yuji Harada (1:58:25),  Jim Bryan Damatan (1:50:40), Sarah Vander Wal (1:59:57), Billy Kay Navarrete (1:46:46), and Leith Poole (1:49:43). <\/p>\n<p>Other age group champions in the half marathon were U15\u2019s Li Zhu (2:01:59) and Tiana Cabrera (2:05:52), 16 to19\u2019s Enyang Ji (2:14:44) and Weixiu Yang (2:15:37), 30 to 39\u2019s Astrid Poole (2:02:43), 40 to 49\u2019s Dorris Abagatnan (2:00:15), 50 to 59\u2019s Kimberlee Church (3:00:51), and over 60\u2019s Elizabeth Kohnen (2:15:26).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran runner Noriko Jim marked a new CNMI record in 10K after submitting 43:50 in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":319518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319514","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\/319514","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=319514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}