August 23, 2021
On Friday, August 20, Hiroki Muto, who won a bronze medal in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics men's archery team event, paid a courtesy visit to President Kohei Ito. Muto is a graduate of the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies and a former member of the Athletic Association Archery Club.
The meeting was attended by Vice-President Keita Yamauchi and Vice-President Eiji Okada (director of the Athletic Association Archery Club), who congratulated Muto on winning Japan's first-ever bronze medal in the event. The conversation, held in a consistently friendly atmosphere, touched on his feelings when he secured the bronze medal, the appeal of the sport of archery, and the Athletic Association Archery Club.
The medal win was also reported to Vice-President Motohiro Tsuchiya, who is in charge of the Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC). The news was a source of great joy for SFC, which had supported its athletes with banners, bringing smiles to the faces of both Muto and Vice-President Tsuchiya.
Although Muto has had a busy schedule since the Olympics, he expressed his enthusiasm to use this medal win to help popularize archery.
What President Ito is holding is a component from the same victory podium of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games that Muto stood on, for which Professor Hiroya Tanaka of the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies was in charge of the manufacturing design using 3D printers for this competition.
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Archery Club Alumnus Hiroki Muto Wins Bronze Medal in Men's Archery Team at Tokyo 2020 Olympics