ARAGA Ryutaro

Date of Birth: 16 Oct 1990

Age: 30

Gender: Male

Place of birth: KAMEOKA

Birth Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Karate	Men's Kumite +75kg	3

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
Followed by	Nippon Budokan	Men's Kumite +75kg Elimination Round - Pool A #21 GEO ARKANIA GARKANIA Gogita 2 JPN ARAGA RARAGA Ryutaro 3 POINTS	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan	Men's Kumite +75kg Elimination Round - Pool A #26 KAZ YULDASHEV DYULDASHEV Daniyar 2 JPN ARAGA RARAGA Ryutaro 4 POINTS	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan	Men's Kumite +75kg Elimination Round - Pool A #30 TUR AKTAS UAKTAS Ugur 3 JPN ARAGA RARAGA Ryutaro 5 POINTS	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan	Men's Kumite +75kg Elimination Round - Pool A #34 GER HORNE JHORNE Jonathan JPN ARAGA RARAGA Ryutaro	Cancelled
	Nippon Budokan	Men's Kumite +75kg Semifinal #43 JPN ARAGA RARAGA Ryutaro 0 KSA HAMEDI THAMEDI Tareg 2 POINTS	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championships

Year	Location	Kumite -84kg	Team Kumite
2018	Madrid, ESP	22	3
2016	Linz, AUT	1	2
2014	Bremen, GER	2	3
2012	Paris, FRA	2	-
2010	Belgrade, SRB	7	18

Asian Games

Year	Location	Kumite -84kg
2018	Indonesia	1

Asian Championships

Year	Location	Kumite -84kg	Team Kumite
2019	Can Tho, VIE	3	-
2018	Amman, JOR	1	3

Karate 1 Premier League - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location
1	2019	Kumite -84kg	Tokyo, JPN
1	2018	Kumite -84kg	Berlin, GER
1	2017	Kumite -84kg	Rotterdam, NED
1	2017	Kumite -84kg	Paris, FRA
2	2020/2021	Kumite -84kg	Lisbon, POR
2	2020/2021	Kumite -84kg	Paris, FRA
2	2019	Kumite -84kg	Moscow, RUS
2	2019	Kumite -84kg	Rabat, MAR
3	2019	Kumite -84kg	Madrid, ESP
3	2018	Kumite -84kg	Rotterdam, NED

Karate 1 Series A - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location
1	2017	Kumite -84kg	Okinawa, JPN

Occupation:

Economics - Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan

Languages spoken:

Araga Dojo [Kameoka, JPN]

Ko Hayashi [national], JPN; Masataka Araga [father], JPN

Sporting relatives:

His older sister Tomoko and younger brother Shintaro have both represented Japan in karate. Tomoko won gold in kumite in the -53kg category at the world championships in both 2004 and 2006. Shintaro finished third in kumite in the -67kg category at the 2017 Premier League event in Salzburg, Austria. His parents both competed in the sport at national level in Japan. (yomiuri.co.jp, 09 Nov 2010; joc.or.jp, 03 Jul 2013; SportsDeskOnline, 18 Feb 2021)

He first tried karate at age three. (yomiuri.co.jp, 09 Nov 2010)

His father owns a number of karate dojos in Kameoka, Japan, where Araga and his siblings took up the sport at a young age. (yomiuri.co.jp, 09 Nov 2010; culture-project.kyoto, 17 Jul 2018)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (nikkansports.co, 13 Nov 2018)

In 2017 he received the Road to 2020 Prize for Encouragement at the Asahi TV Big Sports Awards in Japan. (jkf.ne.jp, 14 Jan 2017)

In 2016 he was presented with the Kyoto-fu Sports Special Award and the Kyoto City Highest Honorary Award in Japan. (culture-project.kyoto, 17 Jul 2018)

In 2016 he received the Kameoka City Mayor Special Award in Japan. (city.kameoka.kyoto.jp, 25 Nov 2016)

In 2008 he was given a Special Merit Award by the city of Kameoka, Japan. (47news.jp, 23 Feb 2009)

General Interest

General
OCCUPATION
He serves as the head karate coach at Kyoto Sangyo University in Japan. (kyoto-su.ac.jp, 13 Nov 2019)

Social Media

Legend

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

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