{"id":9295,"date":"2016-05-31T13:53:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T04:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/?p=9295"},"modified":"2016-07-15T15:40:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T06:40:50","slug":"former-weightlifting-club-member-namika-matsumoto-picked-for-olympics-in-womens-63kg-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/news-en\/2016\/05\/31\/9295\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Weightlifting Club member Namika Matsumoto picked for Olympics in women\u2019s 63kg class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan Weightlifting Association has selected Namika Matsumoto, an alumni of Waseda University Weightlifting Club, for the Women\u2019s Weightlifting 63kg Class event at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. This will be her first appearance at the Games.<\/p>\n<p>Matsumoto won her third All Japan Weightlifting Championship in a row this May, lifting 97kg in the snatch, a new Japanese record, and 114kg in the clean and jerk to score a total of 211kg, equaling the Japanese record. We hope you will support Waseda athletes like her as they compete against the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Japanese entrant in the Women\u2019s Weightlifting 63kg Class at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro<\/p>\n<p>\u25cfNamika Matsumoto (Graduated School of Social Sciences, 2014; ALSOK)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/05\/n01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8907\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/05\/n01.jpg\" alt=\"n01\" width=\"381\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/05\/n01.jpg 381w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/05\/n01-290x290.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/05\/n02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8909\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/05\/n02.jpg\" alt=\"n02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/05\/n02.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/05\/n02-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/05\/n02-610x457.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/05\/n02-720x540.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/05\/n03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8910\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/05\/n03.jpg\" alt=\"n03\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/05\/n03.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/05\/n03-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/05\/n03-610x457.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/05\/n03-720x540.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan Weightlifting Association has selected Namika Matsumoto, an alumni of Waseda University Weightliftin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[207],"class_list":["post-9295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-olympicparalympic-en","athletic-club-weightlifting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}