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Thompson completes first event in world champs
Jinju Thompson will race in the 100m freestyle event in the 14th FINA World Championships today at the Hangzhou Olympic and International Expo Center in the Zhejiang Province, China. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)
Jinju Thompson opened the CNMI’s campaign in the 14th FINA World Championships, completing the 200m freestyle swim yesterday at the Hangzhou Olympic and International Expo Center in the Zhejiang Province, China.
Thompson was on Heat 2 of the qualifying races and clocked in at 2:27.89 in the short-course (25-meter pool) meet. She finished ahead of Guam’s Amanda Joy Poppe, who timed in at 2:36.63, while Malta’s Mya Azzopardi topped Heat 2 after checking in at 2:06.77.
Other heat winners in the event were Mongolia’s Enkkjuslen Batbayar (2:04.84/Heat 1) and Chile’s Ines Marin (2:01:16/Heat 3), Mallory Comerford of the U.S. (1:52.52/Heat 4), Russia’s Veronika Adrusenko (1:54.11/Heat5), and Italy’s Feredica Pellegrini (1:54.66/Heat 6). Comerford had the fastest time in the preliminaries and was joined in the semifinals by Australia’s Arianne Titmus (1:52.66), Adrusenko, the Netherland’s Femke Heemskerk (1:54.16), Sweden’s Michelle Coleman (1:54.22), Pelledrini, China’s Jianjiahe Wang (1:54.63), and Czech Republic’s Barbora Seemanova (1:54.82).
Meanwhile, Thompson will have her second and last event—the 100m freestyle—today, while her teammates, Nelson Batallones and Lennosuke Suzuki, will have their debut in the competition this morning, too.
The lone female member of the team is on Heat 3 of the 100m freestyle qualifying races and will be up against Sudan’s Haneen Ibrahim, Guyana’s Danielle George, Bahamas’ Ariel Weech, Mozambique’s Alicia Edna Ossumane Mateus, Antigua and Barbuda’s Olivia Fuller, North Korea’s Mi Song Pak, Palau’s Dirngulbai Misech, East Timor’s Imelda Felicyta Ximenes Belo, and Pakistan’s Bisma Khan.
As for Batallones, he will swim on Heat 2 of the 100m butterfly event against Nigeria’s Philip Adejumo, Cameroon’s Ratha Phin, Swaziland’s Simanga Dlamini, Kosovo’s Dion Kadriu, Tanzania’s Collins Saliboko, Cape Verde’s Troy Pina, Mali’s Ousmane Toure, Nepal’s Anubhaw Subba, and Bangladesh’s Mohammad Mahamudun Nobu Nahid.
In the 200m freestyle qualifying races, Suzuki is entered on Heat 2 and will be facing Seychelles’ Dean Hoffman, Palau’s Noel Keane, Qatar’s Firas Saidi, Puerto Rico’sYeziel Morales Miranda, Bahamas’ Kohen Kenwood Kerr, Albania’s Spiro Gofa, Uganda’s Fadhil Thabit Saleh, Pakistan’s Aamir Ahmed Motiwala, and San Marino’s Cristian Santi.
