{"id":358086,"date":"2021-12-21T06:03:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T20:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=358086"},"modified":"2021-12-21T06:03:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T20:03:52","slug":"jinnosuke-earns-600-fina-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/jinnosuke-earns-600-fina-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Jinnosuke earns 600 FINA points"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Jinnosuke
Jinnosuke Suzuki, middle, at the starting block of his men\u2019s 200m freestyle event in the 15th FINA World Swimming Championships last Saturday inside the cavernous Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was Jinnosuke Suzuki and Asaka Litulumar\u2019s turn to make their individual debuts in the 15th FINA World Swimming Championships last Saturday inside the cavernous Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n

The two CNMI National Swimming Team members had mixed results in the pool.<\/p>\n

Suzuki earned over 600 FINA points after the 16-year-old Marianas High School student broke the 2-minute barrier in his men\u2019s 200m freestyle event with a time of 1:57.27.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am happy with the results of my 200m freestyle because I was able to cut 2 minutes off my time,\u201d said the Tsunami Saipan Swimming Center co-captain.<\/p>\n

National swimming coach Hiroyuki Kimura couldn\u2019t hide his pleasure for Suzuki\u2019s feat in the men\u2019s 200m freestyle.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis older brother Lennosuke who is a CNMI record-holder participated in the last FINA Swimming Championships in Hangzhou, China. His time was 2:06.54. I mentioned before that Jinnosuke is super faster than his brother. If we have a long course meet, Jinnosuke would\u2019ve broken his brother\u2019s CNMI record without fail,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The 15th FINA World Swimming Championships in the UAE capital is a short course (25m) competition.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more impressive, according to Kimura, is his ward was able to cut 2 minutes from his personal best without the benefit of training in an Olympic-sized pool as the Kan Pacific Swimming Pool in Marpi has been mothballed for over three years already.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince 2018, the competition pool disappeared from this island and because of COVID-19, we could not even go to off-island meets. Basically, you only improve in a 200m event if you repeat your race experience. Repeating races can make a swimmer get his race plan. Example, how fast you go in the first 25m, 50m, 150m, and so on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kimura said Suzuki lost all his chance to train for the 200m freestyle this past three years because of the lack of an official pool and COVID-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, he endured the headwind brilliantly and showed us excellent results. FINA points of Jinnosuke\u2019s 200m freestyle is over 600 points and that is so amazing!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Next up for Suzuki is the 100m freestyle on Day 5 of the 15th FINA World Swimming Championships.<\/p>\n

\"Asaka
Asaka Litulumar completes her stint in the 100m freestyle event in the 15th FINA World Swimming Championships last Saturday inside the cavernous Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For Litulumar, while she failed to meet the 1:04 target set by Kimura, the 16-year-old MHS student still managed to swim her personal best in the women\u2019s 100m freestyle.<\/p>\n

\u201cAsaka looks in very good shape during training in Abu Dhabi. But unfortunately, she didn\u2019t reach her target. The result was 1:06.30,\u201d said Kimura.<\/p>\n

Litulumar went on to lose to fellow Micronesian swimmers Jourdyn Adams of the Federated States of Micronesia (1:05.25) and Mineri Gomez of Guam (1:05.54).<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Asaka had a good fight because Adams and Gomez are both college student swimmers. Asaka\u2019s main event is the 50m freestyle. It is coming on Day 5,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Litulumar, for her part, took her missing her target time in stride, but vowed to do better in her next swim.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am grateful with the time I have because I got my personal best, but it is not the time I hoped to achieve. I did well and that\u2019s what counts, so I think I did great,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Aside from the national swimmers and Kimura also part of the CNMI delegation in Abu Dhabi are Northern Mariana Islands Swimming Federation representatives Richard Sikkel and Hiroko Tenorio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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