{"id":395609,"date":"2023-07-10T06:06:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T20:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=395609"},"modified":"2023-07-10T06:06:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T20:06:41","slug":"tania-breaks-cnmi-3000m-record-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tania-breaks-cnmi-3000m-record-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tania breaks CNMI 3,000m record"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_395613\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-395613\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Oceania-pixwb-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Oceania-pixwb-3.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-395613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tania Tan reset the 3,000m CNMI record and placed second in the event during the Oceania Cup last June 24 at the Oleai Sports Complex.(CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Long distance runner Tania Tan broke her CNMI 3,000m record during the Oceania Cup last June 24 at the Oleai Sports Complex.<br \/>\nShe broke her previous record of 10:58.76 and set the new standards by shaving off more than five seconds at 10:53.08.<\/p>\n<p>Tan last set the record in March 2022 in the Stony Brook Snow Flake Classic when she was a junior in college.<\/p>\n<p>The new college graduate from Fordham University flew back home after her graduation just in time for the Oceania Cup and ran in the 3,000m and 1,500m races.<\/p>\n<p>Tan not only broke the record but placed a close second to Australia\u2019s Leyla Liakatos who finished with a time of 10:43.89; third place was Polynesia\u2019s Amandine Matera at 11:12.57; Melanesia\u2019s Mary Tenge was fourth at 11:12.97; fifth was Micronesia\u2019s Keira Paz at 12:20.22; and sixth was the CNMI\u2019s Tiana Cabrera with 13:18.08.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_395616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-395616\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Oceania-pix-2wb-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Oceania-pix-2wb-2.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-395616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tania Tan, far left, poses with some of her teammates in the CNMI atheltics\u2019 track team during the Oceania Cup at the Oleai Sports Complex last June 24. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>In the 1,500m race, Tan placed fifth with a time of 5:07.31. First place went to Australia\u2019s Lily Mather with 4:42.10; Australia\u2019s Nyree Hamilton was second at 4:42.47; Melanesia\u2019s Scholastica Herman was third at 4:52.47; fourth was Polynesia\u2019s Amandine Matera at 5:03.71; Melanesia\u2019s Mary Tenge was sixth with 5:13.05.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old, who just celebrated her birthday recently, initially said she didn\u2019t break her record in a previous interview, she was told later that she actually did break it.<\/p>\n<p>When she was interviewed again about it, Tan said, \u201cI actually didn\u2019t even know I broke it until Robin [Sapong] told me the next day [after the race]. I went into the race just wanting to do my best, and somehow I also managed to break the outdoor 3K record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cHopefully I can continue to progress, PR, and get faster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tan also holds the outdoor record time in the 5,000m run which she reset last April 2022 in the Colonial Relays at 18:51.02 and holds the outdoor 10,000m record which she also reset last April 2022 in the Metropolitan Championships during her time at Fordham University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long distance runner Tania Tan broke her CNMI 3,000m record during the Oceania Cup last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":395612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-395609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cnmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395609","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=395609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}