Swimming
POPPE BLAZES TO 100M BUTTERFLY BRONZE
CNMI swimmer takes gold
It was a good day on Tuesday for Marianas swimming at the Oceania Swimming Championships in Fiji.
Guam’s Israel Poppe took bronze in the men’s 100m butterfly, while the CNMI’s Isaiah Aleksenko won gold!
Poppe’s time of 56.44 seconds was just shy of the silver time of 56.22 by a swimmer from New Caledonia.
Aleksenko blew away the competition with an outstanding time of 53.89.
In addition to Poppe’s medal swim, Amaya Bollinger finished 11th overall in the 100 fly in 1:07.53, dropping almost a full second from her previous best.