{"id":43938,"date":"2016-08-23T08:59:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T23:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=43938"},"modified":"2016-08-24T13:40:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T04:40:32","slug":"ippei-watanabe-sets-the-olympic-record-for-the-200m-breaststroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/43938","title":{"rendered":"Ippei Watanabe sets the Olympic record for the 200m breaststroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Waseda student Ippei Watanabe comes in 6th place and advances the Olympic record in the semifinals<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ippei.jpg\" alt=\"ippei.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ippei.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ippei-610x409.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ippei Watanabe, a second year student at the School of Sport Sciences, came in 6th place in the Rio Olympic Games&#8217; 200 meter breaststroke finals on August 11. Although Watanabe did not take home a medal, he established the new Olympic record of 2:07.22 in the semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>Watanabe, who is still 19 years old, is still growing as an athlete and full of potential. We look forward to seeing him in action in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. <\/p>\n<h6>\u3010Ippei Watanabe\u2019s record for the 200-meter breaststroke\u3011<\/h6>\n<p>Final: 2.07.87, finished 6th place<br \/>\nSemifinal: 2:07.22, finished first (Olympic Record)<\/p>\n<h5>Comments from Ippei Watanabe before the Olympics (in Japanese)<\/h5>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u30ea\u30aa\u4e94\u8f2a\u30fb\u7af6\u6cf3\u65e5\u672c\u4ee3\u8868\u3000\u6e21\u8fba \u4e00\u5e73\u9078\u624b\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BfkI_WOT1-s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Waseda student and alumni athletes in the Olympic\/Paralympic Games on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/en\/\">the Athletic Center\u2019s website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We appreciate your support for Waseda athletes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waseda student Ippei Watanabe comes in 6th place and advances the Olympic record in the semifinals Ippei Watan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":43889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[174,175],"class_list":["post-43938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic","tag-sports-en","tag-students-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43939,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43938\/revisions\/43939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}