{"id":53116,"date":"2017-08-03T15:10:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T06:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=53116"},"modified":"2017-08-08T16:21:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T07:21:20","slug":"ippei-watanabe-comes-in-third-in-2017-fina-world-aquatics-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/53116","title":{"rendered":"Ippei Watanabe comes in third in 2017 FINA World Aquatics Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ippei Watanabe, a third-year student at the School of Sport Sciences, won the bronze medal marking 2:07.47 for the 200m breaststroke in the 2017 FINA World Aquatics Championships, which took place in Budapest, Hungary. He stood on the podium with Yasuhiro Koseki, another Japanese who took home the silver. This is the first time where two Japanese won medals in the same event at the Championships.<\/p>\n<p>In the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, Watanabe broke the Olympic record at 2:07.22 during the semi-final rounds in the 200m breaststroke. Although he ended in sixth place, he advanced the world record at 2:06.67 in January 2017 during a competition in Tokyo. Expectations for Watanabe in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games have become greater due to these stellar achievements.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53119\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-53119 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017072900072-610x706.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017072900072-610x706.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017072900072-768x889.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017072900072.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Watanabe during the 200m breaststroke event (Photo: Kyodo News)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_53117\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-53117 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017072800047-610x751.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017072800047-610x751.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017072800047-768x946.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017072800047.jpg 812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Watanabe in action in the water (Photo: Kyodo News)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_53118\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-53118 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017072900053-610x398.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017072900053-610x398.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017072900053-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017072900053.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Koseki (left) and Watanabe (right) congratulating each other (Photo: Kyodo)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_53120\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-53120 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017072900074-610x416.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017072900074-610x416.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017072900074-768x524.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017072900074.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Watanabe (right) standing on the podium with Koseki (left) and Russia&#8217;s Anton Chupkov (center) (Photo: Kyodo News)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ippei Watanabe, a third-year student at the School of Sport Sciences, won the bronze medal marking 2:07.47 for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":52992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53116","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=53116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}