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Jinnosuke crushes 4 age group records
Saipan Swim Club’s Jinnosuke Suzuki swims in the 800m freestyle event in the 2017 SSC International Meet held last week at the Kan Pacific Swimming Pool. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)
Saipan Swim Club’s Jinnosuke Suzuki shattered four records in the boys 11 to 12 age groups during the 2017 SSC International Meet held last week at the Kan Pacific Swimming Pool.
Suzuki started his string of record swims in the annual tournament last March 23 after clocking in at 19:04.79 in the 1, 500m freestyle event. His time was more than a minute faster than his previous personal best of 20:19:02 and over 38 seconds ahead of the old age group mark (19:43.27) that Tsunami Saipan’s Kensuke Kimura registered on July 19, 2008. The 11-year-old Suzuki posted the third best time among the nine swimmers who braved the longest race in the competition. His teammate Kento Akimaru tallied the fastest time at 17:79.95, while Palau’s Noel Keane came in at second after logging 18:05.51.
Besides the record in the 1,500m freestyle, Suzuki eclipsed two more age group marks that Kimura established and one from another Tsunami Saipan swimmer—Ryuto Yanai.
Yanai’s record fell last March 23, as Suzuki registered 2:45.87 in the 200m butterfly. Yanai’s mark of 2:52.50 was posted on May 2, 2015.
After his two record-breaking swims in Day 1 of the meet, Suzuki returned to the pool last Friday and timed in at 9:45.51 in the 800m freestyle to crush the eight-year-old record of Kimura. The SSC swimmers defeated Kimura’s mark set on April 3, 2009 by nearly 20 seconds. Suzuki was the first finisher in the 16-lap event, beating brother Lennosuke (9:56.61), fellow SSC swimmers Jin Ju Thompson (11:33.80), and Taiga Sato (10:27.64), and Palau’s Osisang Chilton (10:51.77), and Klei Andreas (12:17.80).
Then in the 400m freestyle event, the younger Suzuki submitted 4:46.50 to surpass the 4:52.68 that Kimura made on Feb. 6, 2009. Suzuki’s time was ranked No. 5 among the 21 swimmers who completed the eight-lap swim and he was second in his age group behind 14-year-old and Palau bet Keane (4:33.82).
