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All-Saipan show in Tagaman relay
It was an all-Saipan show in the relay events of the 26th Tagaman Triathlon with a total 13 teams that were spread out in the men’s, women’s, and mixed divisions.
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- Akimaru
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- Fortaleza
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- Longuski
Saipan Swim Club member Kento Akimaru teamed up with Cesar Fortaleza and Keith Longuski to rule the men’s division in the tough Half-Ironman distance with a combined time of 4:49:40 to beat the father-son tandem of Ben and Benjamin Babauta.
Akimaru swam the 1.9-kilometer distance in 27:15, way ahead of Benjamin Babauta’s 43:14 time.
Fortaleza then completed the 90K bike course in 2:51:44, while Longuski breezed through the 21K run in 1:28:56.
The Babautas placed second with a combined time of 7:07:36 with the older Babauta logging in times of 3:18:09 and 3:01:14 in the bike and run portions of the race.
The three-member team of Crystal Pearson, Antonee Aguilar, and Jenny Yoon was the lone competing squad in the mixed recording times of 31:20 (swim), 3:11:13 (bike), and (2:23:07) in the run for a total of 6:08:40.
Dr. Tony Stearns and Cooper Schraudenback topped the men’s shorter Olympic-distance course—1.5K swim, 40K bike, and 10K run—with the former doing the swim (22:46) and bike (1:11:42) legs, while the latter ran for 44:47 for a total time of 2:34:02.
Stearns and Schraudenback bested the young SSC trio of Rinto Takahashi, Taiga Sato, and Rintaro Miyawaki by more than 10 minutes (2:46:25).
Geuel Villacrusis, Fred Remilloba, and Ricardo Antonio finished third in the men’s division with a time of 2:49:50.
Tiffany Lin, Lauri Boyer, and Yumiko Mizuno won the women’s division (3:06:53) besting the team composed of Maria Ornes, Tina Goodwin, and Angie Mister (3:30:22).
The team of Angel De Jesus, Rene Calage, and Ariel Lansangan clinched the mixed division crown with a time of 2:30:56, while the trio of Claire Seelinger, Margaret Rose, and Seven Johnson completed the race in 2:41:57.
Colin Thompson, daughter Jinju, and Kaden Church finished third (2:46:03).
