TANAKA Ryomei

World Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
9	Bantam	2017	Hamburg, GER

Asian Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
9	Fly	2018	Indonesia

Asian Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Bantam	2017	Tashkent, UZB

Reading. (city.sumida.lg.jp, 27 Jul 2020)

Athlete, Teacher

Business - Komazawa University, Japan

Japanese

Chukyo Gakuin University Senior High School [Japan]

Vladimir Shin [national], UZB

Southpaw (city.sumida.lg.jp, 27 Jul 2020)

His brother Kosei Tanaka made his debut as a professional boxer in 2013 and is a three-weight world champion. (jiji.com, 08 Aug 2020; boxrec.com, 31 Mar 2018; japantimes.co.jp, 01 Dec 2017; mainichi.jp, 18 Dec 2015)

He sustained an injury above his left eye at the 2018 Asian Games Test Event in Jakarta, Indonesia. (boxmob.jp, 10 Apr 2018)

He took up the sport in 2007 in Tajimi, Japan. (city.sumida.lg.jp, 27 Jul 2020; news.yahoo.co.jp, 04 Mar 2020)

His father Hitoshi is a black belt holder in karate and judo, so Ryomei and his brother initially took up karate. Their father was also interested in boxing, and the two boys switched sports after a boxing gym opened near their house. (hochi.news, 05 Aug 2019; nikkei.com, 22 May 2016; boxmob.jp, 25 Jan 2016)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (boxmob.jp, 26 Nov 2017)

In 2017 and 2019 he was given a Skill Award by the Japan Amateur Boxing Federation [JABF]. (jabf-revival.com, 08 Jun 2020; jabf0.blog.fc2.com, 11 Feb 2018)

In 2015 he was named Male Boxer of the Year by the JABF. (hochi.news, 05 Aug 2019; komazawa-u.ac.jp, 16 Feb 2016)

In 2014 he was given a Sports Excellence Award by the Setagaya Sports Promotion Foundation in Japan. (se-sports.or.jp, 2014)