{"id":382012,"date":"2022-12-21T06:04:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T20:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=382012"},"modified":"2022-12-21T06:04:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T20:04:18","slug":"team-nmi-unoffically-breaks-9-records-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/team-nmi-unoffically-breaks-9-records-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Team NMI unoffically breaks 9 records in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From left, Jinnosuke Suzuki, Maria Batallones, Shoko Litulumar, and Isaiah Aleksenko pose beside the competition pool of the 2022 FINA World Championships in Melbourne, Australia. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The CNMI National Swimming Team unofficially broke nine national records during their week-long stint in the 2022 FINA World Championships in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Isaiah Aleksenko unofficially broke four NMI records\u2014the 100m butterfly, 200m butterfly, 50m freestyle, and 50m backstroke.<\/p>\n

The 16-year-old Marianas High School student swam the 100m butterfly\u00a0 in 54.55 last Dec. 17\u00a0 to unofficially break the 1:00.07 set by David Palacios in the 2005 Pacific Mini Games in Palau on July 25, 2005.<\/p>\n

Aleksenko swam the 200m butterfly in 2:02.96 last Dec. 15 to unofficially reset the 2:15.09 recorded by Rezne Wong in the 2010 Micronesian Games in Palau on March 8, 2010.<\/p>\n

He swam the 50m freestyle\u00a0 23.31 last Dec. 16 to unofficially top Juhn Tenorio\u2019s\u00a0 23.97 that he swam in the FINA World Championships in Abu Dhabi in Dec. 18, 2021.<\/p>\n

Finally, Aleksenko finished the 50m backstroke in 25.84 to unofficially break the 25.91 Kensuke Kimura swam in the Mie Winter Meet in Aichi, Japan in Feb. 18, 2018.<\/p>\n

Jinnosuke Suzuki, meanwhile, unofficially eclipsed his own record in the 200m freestyle by timing in at 1:56.27 last Dec. 18. The previous record was 1:57.27 that Suzuki swam in the FINA World Championships in Abu Dhabi in Dec. 17, 2021<\/p>\n

Maria Batallones, for her part, unofficially obliterated Nina Mosley\u2019s record in the 50m breastroke when she swam a 34.58 last Dec. 17. The old record was 36.97 that Mosley set in the FINA World Championships in Shanghai, China on April 5, 2006.<\/p>\n

Batallones also unofficially reset the previous mark in the 100m breastroke after touching the tiles in a time of 1:18.08 last Dec. 14. That beat Minerva Cabrera\u2019s 1:20.03 that she set in the 2005 Pacific Mini Games in Palau on July 27, 2005.<\/p>\n

In the relay, the quartet of Aleksenko, Suzuki, Batallones, and Shoko Litulumar swam the 50m x 4 mixed free relay in 1:46.79 last Dec. 16 to unofficially break the record set last year in the FINA World Championships in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

The previous record of 1:50.09 was held by Juhn Tenorio, Suzuki, Asaka Litulumar, and Shoko Litulumar and set on Dec. 17, 2021.<\/p>\n

Aleksenko, Suzuki, Batallones, and Shoko Litulumar also unofficially reset the mark in the 50m x 4 mixed medley relay when they swam it in 1:58.93 last Dec. 14.<\/p>\n

The old mark of 2:09.28 was set in the 2019 Micronesian Swimming Championships in Palau on April 4, 2019 by Lennosuke Suzuki, Juhn Tenorio, Aika Watanabe, and Sophia Gauran.<\/p>\n

The record-setting CNMI national swimmers were coached by national coach Hiroyuki Kimura with support from the Northern Marianas Swimming Federation and the Oceania Swimming Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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