{"id":2338,"date":"2020-03-12T12:31:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T03:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2020-03-12T12:31:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T03:31:51","slug":"sailor-keiju-okada-sport-sciences-graduate-grabs-second-spot-at-world-cup-series-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/news-en\/2020\/03\/12\/2338\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailor Keiju Okada (Sport Sciences graduate) grabs second spot at World Cup Series in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waseda alumni Keiju Okada (2018 graduate of the School of Sport Sciences, now with Toyota Motor East Japan) and his fellow sailor Jumpei Hokazono (JR Kyushu) won the silver medal in the Men\u2019s 470 event at the 2020 World Cup Series in Miami, Florida, held from January 19 to 25.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Okada-Hokazono pair could not overcome Spain in the finals, but they did manage to beat the powerful Australian team and got second place. An auspicious start as the teams look toward Tokyo 2020.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2279\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/02\/PR2019111403057.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/02\/PR2019111403057.jpg 4667w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/02\/PR2019111403057-610x407.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/02\/PR2019111403057-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/02\/PR2019111403057-940x627.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Off Enoshima Yacht Harbor on August 31, 2019 (Kyodo News)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2280\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/02\/TR2019090100361.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/02\/TR2019090100361.jpg 3193w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/02\/TR2019090100361-610x536.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/02\/TR2019090100361-768x675.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/02\/TR2019090100361-940x826.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">September 2019: Men\u2019s 470 Olympic sailing team finalized. Keiju Okada (left) and Jumpei Hokazono pose for the cameras at a press conference (Kyodo News)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We hope that Okada will do brilliantly at the Tokyo Olympics. Let\u2019s give him all of our support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waseda alumni Keiju Okada (2018 graduate of the School of Sport Sciences, now with Toyota Motor East Japan) an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[91,94,81,71],"class_list":["post-2338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-alumni-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\/2338","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=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}