{"id":156,"date":"2013-02-14T09:09:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T09:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imssc.org\/mstr\/2013\/02\/14\/16th-master-cup-berlin-ger-feb-9th-and-10th-2013-2\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T16:19:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T16:19:48","slug":"16th-master-cup-berlin-ger-feb-9th-and-10th-2013-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imssc.org\/mstr\/16th-master-cup-berlin-ger-feb-9th-and-10th-2013-2\/","title":{"rendered":"16th Master Cup &#8211; Berlin\/GER, Feb.9th and 10th 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-left: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 4px; float: left;\" src=\"images\/15th_AJM_Tomoko.jpg\" alt=\"15th AJM Tomoko\" width=\"177\" height=\"250\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 4px; float: left;\" src=\"images\/15th_AJM_Kawashima_vs_Seki.jpg\" alt=\"15th AJM Kawashima vs Seki\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/>Tomoko Wakazuki, a young master girl, took off her 500m race to open 15<sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Annual All Japan Masters Speedskating Competition (Singled Distance) on February 14 &amp; 15 in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, 600km north from Tokyo.&nbsp; Including an oldest master, 80 years old, seventy skate-lovers got together to the Japan\u2019s most famous windy-chilly-outdoor rink from all over Japan.&nbsp; &nbsp;Especially this weekend, unseasonal heavy snow storm prevented all skaters to break their own best record. &nbsp;&nbsp;500m and 1500m were scheduled on first day while 1000m and 3000m were done on 2<sup>nd<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333;\">day.&nbsp; It was happening that Kazuo Seki, the world famous Japan\u2019s master skater, was beaten by younger fellow Eiki Kawashima in 500m and 1000m.&nbsp; \u201cI still do not believe that I have beaten our \u201cgod skater\u201d.\u201d Kawashima said after the race.&nbsp;&nbsp; Tadashi Kondo, bronze medalist in 500m of 2015 World Masters Games, was unusually quite as fast as he did in a week ago in Canada, and finished 3<sup>rd<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333;\">in his age group, taking the same color medal there . &nbsp;&nbsp;None of foreign skaters joined this year, maybe because of outdoor rink.&nbsp; But we are looking forward to having it in Nagano near future and expecting 200+ joining us. &nbsp;Yes, indoor !!&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomoko Wakazuki, a young master girl, took off her 500m race to open 15thAnnual All Japan Masters Speedskating Competition (Singled Distance) on February 14 &amp; 15 in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old"],"views":274,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfJzkq-2w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imssc.org\/mstr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imssc.org\/mstr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imssc.org\/mstr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imssc.org\/mstr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imssc.org\/mstr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/imssc.org\/mstr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3020,"href":"https:\/\/imssc.org\/mstr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/3020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imssc.org\/mstr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imssc.org\/mstr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imssc.org\/mstr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}