{"id":9529,"date":"2021-07-14T10:09:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T01:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/?p=9529"},"modified":"2021-07-14T10:09:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T01:09:04","slug":"alumni-koyo-iwabuchi-elected-to-be-flag-bearer-at-the-tokyo-2020-paralympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/news-en\/2021\/07\/14\/9529\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Koyo Iwabuchi Elected to be Flag-bearer at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 2, the Japanese Paralympic Committee (JPC) announced the Japanese team for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, and alumni Koyo Iwabuchi (affiliated with Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd., graduated from Waseda University\u2019s School of Education in 2017) was chosen to be the flag-bearer at the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Iwabuchi competed at his first Paralympics in Rio in 2016, but was defeated in the preliminary round. After graduating from Waseda University, he became affiliated with Kyowa Kirin, which has its own table tennis team, and increased his abilities by practicing with high-level players. In 2018, he competed in the World Para Table Tennis Championships, winning the bronze medal. As of July last year, he is ranked third in the world, and has appropriately been selected as a representative in para table tennis, men\u2019s class 9. Iwabuchi has said that he \u201cwants to challenge himself and set a target of \u2018more than a gold medal\u2019.\u201d He is expected to win a medal.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9301\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-9301\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021053107188-360x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021053107188-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021053107188-720x540.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Koyo Iwabuchi, playing men\u2019s para table tennis in the Japan League; April, Kumamoto City (Kyodo News)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 2, the Japanese Paralympic Committee (JPC) announced the Japanese team for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[91,94,81,71,114],"class_list":["post-9529","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","tag-tokyo-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9529","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=9529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9530,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9529\/revisions\/9530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}