{"id":13534,"date":"2023-10-27T22:41:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T22:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=13534"},"modified":"2023-10-27T22:41:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T22:41:10","slug":"aleka-persaud-sets-sights-on-paris-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/aleka-persaud-sets-sights-on-paris-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Aleka Persaud Sets Sights on Paris Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Olympian Aleka Persaud concluded her participation in the Pan American Games with a 7th place finish in the women\u2019s 50-meter freestyle event at the aquatic center in Santiago, Chile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This performance marked her final race in the competition and her lowest placement in the games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite this, Aleka Persaud expressed satisfaction with her overall showing and emphasized her dedication to training for future competitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the games, Persaud also competed in the 100-meter freestyle event, securing a second-place finish in her race with a time of 1 minute and 0.96 seconds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While this performance didn&#8217;t advance her to the final, it demonstrated her competitive spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in the competition, Persaud set a new national record in the women&#8217;s 100m butterfly event with a time of 1:05.75. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This achievement marked a significant improvement from her previous best of 1:07.24, set in 2022 at the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raekwon Noel, another participant in the games, expressed confidence in his performance, especially considering the early stage of the season and his preparation for the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noel secured a spot in the finals of the men&#8217;s 400-meter freestyle heat, ultimately finishing 7th in the finals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, he finished third in the 800-meter freestyle heat, narrowly missing qualification for the final top 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the Pan American Games conclude, both Aleka Persaud and Raekwon Noel continue to set their sights on future competitions, with Aleka looking forward to the Paris Olympics next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympian Aleka Persaud concluded her participation in the Pan American Games with a 7th place finish in the women\u2019s 50-meter freestyle event at the aquatic center in Santiago, Chile. This&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13536,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13534\/revisions\/13536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}