Tammy sets age group mark in 50m butterfly

Tsunami Saipan’s Miku Tammy cools down after her record-breaking swim in the 50m butterfly event in last Saturday’s NMISF Closing Swim Meet at the Kan Pacific Swimming Pool. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)

Tsunami Saipan’s Miku Tammy couldn’t pick a perfect time to make it to the record list of the girls 13 to 14 age group.

Tammy set a mark in the 50m butterfly during the NMISF Closing Swim Meet last Saturday at the Kan Pacific Swimming Pool after completing the one-lap swim in 32.33 seconds. She crushed the 32.48 seconds Amanda Johnson of Saipan Swim Club registered on June 28, 2006. Tammy’s record in the 50m butterfly is her first since moving up to the new age group late last year.

The Tsunami Saipan swimmer now owns three age group marks in the same event as her 33.04 seconds logged on March 23, 2013 in the girls 9 to 10 and 32.38 seconds posted on Jan. 24, 2015 in the 11 to 12 division have yet to be broken.

Meanwhile, 17 other swimmers raced in the 50m butterfly event and 11 of them got personal best times.

In the girls U8 age group, Tsunami Saipan’s Mizuki Suzuki finished second to Saipan Swim Club’s Andrei Kaith Lyn Chavez (51.56 seconds), but the former’s 1:06.24 surpassed her old PBT of 1:11.65.

Three more Tsunami Saipan swimmers in the girls division achieved PBTs. Siblings Asaka and Shoko Litulumar clocked in at 46.41 seconds and 1:00.68 in the girls 9 to 10 race to eclipse their previous PBTs of 49.86 seconds and 1:01.10, respectively. Ashley Dangol and Kana Suzuki, also of Tsunami Saipan, missed new PBTs, but they finished in the Top 2 in the age group with the former logging 35.42 seconds and the latter registering 44.97 seconds.

In the girls 11 to 12, Risa Sekiguchi set a PBT as her 49.19 seconds broke her old mark of 49.64 seconds.

In the boys division, five SSC swimmers and two from Tsunami Saipan earned PBTs.

Brothers Jinnosuke and Lennosuke Suzuki’s new PBTs read at 35.53 seconds (from 36.49) and 32.40 seconds (from 32.84). Jinnosuke raced in the boys 9 to 10 and defeated fellow SSC swimmers Taiyo Akimaru (39.42 seconds) and Mark Jainier Chavez, who set a PBT with his 52.34 seconds (from 57.58 seconds). Lennosuke competed in the 13 to 14 division and won over Rinto Takahashi, who duplicated the former’s feat after recording a PBT (37.54 seconds from 38.40 seconds). David Boyer was the fifth SSC swimmer to mark a PBT with his 32.54 seconds (from 32.93).

On Tsunami Saipan’s side, U8’s Aasish Dangol timed in at 42.95 seconds to crush his old PBT of 44.48, while Joseph Zhang of the 11 to 12 age group made the biggest drop, from 1:18.25 to 56.06 seconds.

Meanwhile, results in other events will be reported later this week.