{"id":370877,"date":"2022-06-21T06:04:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T20:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=370877"},"modified":"2022-06-21T06:04:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T20:04:01","slug":"nmi-women-take-bronze-in-v12-after-png-disqualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nmi-women-take-bronze-in-v12-after-png-disqualification\/","title":{"rendered":"NMI women take bronze in V12 after PNG disqualification"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some members of Team NMI women\u2019s va\u2019a crew pose for a photo before their V12 500m race yesterday in the shores of the 13 Fishermen Monument. (LEIGH GASES)
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The outrigger canoe competition of the Northern Marianas Pacific Mini Games 2022 got underway yesterday with the NMI women\u2019s V12 salvaging the bronze and New Caledonia topping the V1 and V12 races in the waters off the 13 Fishermen Monument.<\/p>\n

The NMI women\u2019s V12 500m team took the bronze after Papua New Guinea was disqualified from the race due to a start fault and for finishing outside their designated lane. Tahiti won the gold in the women\u2019s V12 with Guam getting silver.<\/p>\n

NMI national coach Justin Andrew said after the race that the team \u201cperformed to what I expected them to perform and beyond that. They did very well in competing against the top teams in the Pacific.\u201d<\/p>\n

He stated further that yesterday\u2019s race is a prelude to today\u2019s race, \u201calthough the format will be a little bit different. We\u2019ll see more agility, more teamwork on the flags, because it\u2019s going to involve turning. And so, we pray for good weather.\u201d <\/p>\n

Over in the men\u2019s races, the gold medal for the final V1 500m sprint went to New Caledonia\u2019s Albert Mainquet with a time of 2:11.23, as New Caledonia dominated and upset Mini Games previous winner Tahiti in both the V1 500m and the V12 500m.<\/p>\n

Coach and father of New Caledonia\u2019s V1 men\u2019s winner, Philippe Mainquet was interviewed through an interpreter, Fabian Dihn, chef de mission of team New Caledonia, who said that he feels \u201cvery proud because New Caledonia won against Tahiti and because he is the coach and father of the winner.\u201d<\/p>\n

He further said that his son has been training every day over the course of the last six to seven years. <\/p>\n

When asked what to expect in today\u2019s races, Mainquet said through his interpreter that they came to Saipan for gold. \u201cTahiti is good but the coach and his team came here for gold,\u201d said Dihn.<\/p>\n

After New Caledonia\u2019s win in the men\u2019s V12 500m sprint, Tahiti was seen still in good spirits, as Tahiti women\u2019s team bagged gold in both V1 and V12 races, with times of 2:31.45 and 2:08.28 respectively.<\/p>\n

Tahiti coach Titini Teihoarii, through interpreter Tetuhauarii Suhas, said about losing to New Caledonia that \u201cthere is no secret. There were three big teams, they were all ready and there\u2019s one winner.\u201d As for their expectations for today\u2019s races, he said that \u201cwe\u2019re prepared. We\u2019re sure New Caledonia is prepared so we\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the current standings for women\u2019s V1 500m, Tahiti won gold, Fiji won silver, and Norfolk Island won bronze.<\/p>\n

For the women\u2019s V12 500m, Tahiti won gold and Guam won silver.<\/p>\n

Tahiti won silver and Fiji won bronze in the men\u2019s V1 500m.<\/p>\n

Lastly, Tahiti won silver and Wallis and Futuna won bronze in the men\u2019s V12 500m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The outrigger canoe competition of the Northern Marianas Pacific Mini Games 2022 got underway yesterday…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":370872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[257,5242],"class_list":["post-370877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-nmi","tag-png"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370877","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}