{"id":2339,"date":"2020-03-12T12:57:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T03:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/?p=2339"},"modified":"2020-03-12T12:57:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T03:57:12","slug":"fencing-koki-kano-4th-year-student-of-sport-sciences-takes-bronze-representing-the-japan-mens-epee-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/news-en\/2020\/03\/12\/2339\/","title":{"rendered":"Fencing: Koki Kano (4th year student of Sport Sciences) takes bronze representing the Japan Men\u2019s Epee team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fencing Club\u2019s Koki Kano (4<sup>th<\/sup> year student of Sport Sciences) competed at the Fencing World Cup in Vancouver, Canada on February 9. Dueling for the Japan Men\u2019s Epee team, he contributed to their winning the bronze medal.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2342\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2342\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/03\/45a5129ad1706200f20fe69e75663f41-940x606.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/03\/45a5129ad1706200f20fe69e75663f41-940x606.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/03\/45a5129ad1706200f20fe69e75663f41-940x606-610x393.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/03\/45a5129ad1706200f20fe69e75663f41-940x606-768x495.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kano in vigorous combat with French champion<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/03\/fe62182832f6a00523889f60679a6563.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"807\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Team Japan erupts in delight at victory<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the playoff for third place, Japan overcame world no.1 powerhouse France to take the bronze. This is the first World Cup medal for the Japan team since the Buenos Aires, Argentina tournament in March last year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2344\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/03\/11a6b1ab87557cb4ea56a6eb882fc82d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/03\/11a6b1ab87557cb4ea56a6eb882fc82d.jpg 3880w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/03\/11a6b1ab87557cb4ea56a6eb882fc82d-610x432.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/03\/11a6b1ab87557cb4ea56a6eb882fc82d-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/03\/11a6b1ab87557cb4ea56a6eb882fc82d-940x666.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Men\u2019s Epee team with their bronze medals. Kano is second from right.<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>On to the final qualifiers in Buenos Aires<\/h4>\n<p>Coming soon in March, the Japan team will have its last chance to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in its happy hunting ground, Buenos Aires with the spirit of Waseda in their hearts and the Japanese <em>hinomaru <\/em>on their chests. Please support the fencing team and Koki Kano as they take on the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fencing Club\u2019s Koki Kano (4th year student of Sport Sciences) competed at the Fencing World Cup in Vancouv [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[81,80,71,93],"class_list":["post-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-global-en","tag-green-en","tag-sports-en","tag-student-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339","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=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}