{"id":61041,"date":"2018-09-12T16:49:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T07:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=61041"},"modified":"2018-09-12T16:49:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T07:49:05","slug":"ippei-watanabe-from-school-of-sport-sciences-claims-gold-at-2018-pan-pacific-swimming-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/61041","title":{"rendered":"Ippei Watanabe from School of Sport Sciences claims gold at 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 12 August, fourth-year student Ippei Watanabe from the School of Sport Sciences won the gold medal in men\u2019s 200 m breaststroke competition with a time of 2:07.75 minutes at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Competition held at Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60971\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60971 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/09\/watanabe_ippei_wasedasports_com_eyecatch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1040\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/09\/watanabe_ippei_wasedasports_com_eyecatch.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/09\/watanabe_ippei_wasedasports_com_eyecatch-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/09\/watanabe_ippei_wasedasports_com_eyecatch-610x458.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/09\/watanabe_ippei_wasedasports_com_eyecatch-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/09\/watanabe_ippei_wasedasports_com_eyecatch-720x540.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1040px) 100vw, 1040px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ippei Watanabe (middle) at the award ceremony<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ippei started leading the race in the last 25 m and continued to widen the gaps between his opponents before he finished first. Kosuke Kitajima, who witnessed the race and was the world record holder in the 100 m breaststroke at 2008 Beijing Olympics, praised Ippei for his accomplishment and commented that Ippei would be the next big star in breaststroke.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12517\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/09\/suiei_watanabeippei_panpashi1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12517 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/09\/suiei_watanabeippei_panpashi1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ippei racing to claim his gold medal in men&#8217;s 200 m breaststroke (Photo by Waseda Sports News)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Waseda community wishes Ippei\u2019s the best in his many more competitions to come and will continue to support him in every way we can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 12 August, fourth-year student Ippei Watanabe from the School of Sport Sciences won the gold medal in men\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":60971,"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-61041","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\/61041","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=61041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}