NARITA Kohei

Date of Birth: 15 Jun 1989

Age: 32

Gender: Male

Place of birth: KYOTO

Birth Country:

Japan

Place of residence : HIROSHIMA

Residence Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Handball	Men JPN Japan	11

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Men's Preliminary Round Group B #06 DEN Denmark 47 JPN Japan 30	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Men's Preliminary Round Group B #12 JPN Japan 26 SWE Sweden 28	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Men's Preliminary Round Group B #15 JPN Japan 29 EGY Egypt 33	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Men's Preliminary Round Group B #20 BRN Bahrain 32 JPN Japan 30	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Men's Preliminary Round Group B #25 POR Portugal 30 JPN Japan 31	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
19	Men	2021	Egypt
22	Men	2017	France
24	Men	2019

Asian Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
4	Men	2018	Indonesia

Asian Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Men	2020	Kuwait
6	Men	2018	Republic of Korea

Naripe (wakunaga.co.jp, 17 Nov 2020)

Going to cafes. (Twitter profile, 02 Nov 2020, 20 Oct 2020)

Occupation:

Athlete, Office Worker

Physical Education - Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences, Japan

Languages spoken:

Wakunaga Leolic [Japan] since 2012

Kenji Koyabu [club], JPN; Dagur Sigurdsson [national], ISL

Position style:

Left back (handball.or.jp, 16 Jan 2020)

Right (sportsnavi.com, 25 Aug 2014)

National league:

Japan Handball League [JPN] (jhl.handball.jp, 17 Jan 2020)

He began playing handball in grade seven of middle school. (global-wifi.com, 24 Apr 2019)

He first tried the sport with his friends while looking for a club activity at middle school. He then joined the school handball team. (global-wifi.com, 24 Apr 2019)

To make the quarterfinal stage at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (global-wifi.com, 24 Apr 2019)

He was named in the Best Seven team of the year for the 2013/14 Japan Handball League season. He also received the Field Score Award for the same season. (jhl.handball.jp, 2014)

General Interest

General
OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE
In 2014 he moved to Germany to play for Fuchse Berlin on loan. He returned to Japan in 2016 ahead of the 2016/17 Japan Handball League season. (blog.sportsevent.jp, 16 Jun 2014, 28 Jun 2016)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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