{"id":1457,"date":"2018-05-14T18:57:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T09:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2019-01-31T19:01:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T10:01:45","slug":"akito-watabe-chosen-best-player-of-the-year-at-saj-snow-award-2018-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/news-en\/2018\/05\/14\/1457\/","title":{"rendered":"Akito Watabe chosen Best Player of the Year at SAJ Snow Award 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An award ceremony for the SAJ Snow Award 2018 was held on Monday, May 7 by the Ski Association of Japan to recognize outstanding athletes during the 2017-2018 winter season, and Akito Watabe was chosen the Best Player of the Year. Watabe, a Waseda University ski club alumnus, graduated from the School of Sport Sciences in 2011. He is a ski club member at Kitano Construction Corp.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2017-2018 season, Watabe won the individual all-around championship for the Nordic Combined World Cup for the first time. He also won a silver medal at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games as part of his winning streak.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1174\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/05\/3d9a3cde6a684f58a84572089d3a06de-610x888.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"547\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Akito Watabe, winner of the Individual all-round championship, was chosen the Best Player of the Year at the SAJ recognition ceremony (Kyodo).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We would appreciate your continued support of Akito Watabe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An award ceremony for the SAJ Snow Award 2018 was held on Monday, May 7 by the Ski Association of Japan to rec [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[94,81,71],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-general-en","tag-global-en","tag-sports-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}