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| Nationality | Japanese | ||||||||||||||
| Born | March 10, 1999[1] Kanagawa[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Professional competition climber | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 169 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Climbing career | |||||||||||||||
| Type of climber | Bouldering | ||||||||||||||
| Ape index | +11 cm (4 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Known for | Winner of Bouldering at the Climbing World Championships in 2018 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Climbing World Championships 2018 Boulder Final Harada (BT0A9215)
Kai Harada (原田 海 Harada Kai; born May 10, 1999) is a Japanese competition boulderer.[2]
Harada started climbing in 2009 in Osaka.[3] He started competition climbing in 2015, placing in the Youth A Bouldering Championships and the Junior Asian Championships.
In 2018 he won the Bouldering Climbing World Championships as an outsider, and was the only person to get four tops in the final.[4][5][6]
In December 2020, Harada's qualification for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was confirmed after a dispute between the IFSC and the Japan Mountaineering and Sport Climbing Association.[7]
Rankings
Climbing World Cup
| Discipline | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead | - | 36 | |
| Bouldering | 16 | 16 | 12 |
| Speed | - | - | |
| Combined | 53 | 6 |
Climbing World Championships
Youth
| Discipline | 2017 Juniors |
2018 Juniors |
|---|---|---|
| Bouldering | 11 | 3 |
| Lead | 13 | 3 |
| Speed | 22 | 33 |
| Combined | 5 | - |
Adult
| Discipline | 2018 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|
| Lead | 10 | 7 |
| Bouldering | 1 | 9 |
| Speed | - | 32 |
| Combined | 4 |
Number of medals in the Climbing World Cup
Bouldering
| Season | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Total | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
References
- 1 2 "原田 海 - 公益社団法人日本山岳・スポーツクライミング協会". www.jma-climbing.org. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- 1 2 "Kai Harada". www.ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- ↑ "Kai Harada". frictionlabs.de. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- ↑ "Sport climbing: Japan's Harada wins 1st bouldering title at climbing worlds". Kyodo News+. 16 September 2018.
- ↑ Tyler Macdonald (17 September 2018). "Kai Harada of Japan wins the 2018 Bouldering World Championship in Innsbruck Austria". Rock and Ice.
- ↑ "Janja Garnbret and Kai Harada Boulder World Champions". PlanetMountain.com. 16 September 2018.
- ↑ "CAS rejects appeal against sport climbing qualification process for Tokyo 2020". www.insidethegames.biz. 14 December 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
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