KIYUNA Ryo

World Championships

Year	Location	Kata	Team Kata
2018	Madrid, ESP	1	1
2016	Linz, AUT	1	1
2014	Bremen, GER	1	-
2012	Paris, FRA	3	-

Asian Games

Year	Location	Kata
2018	Indonesia	1

Asian Championships

Year	Location	Kata	Team Kata
2019	Can Tho, VIE	1	1
2018	Amman, JOR	1	1
2017	Astana, KAZ	1	1

Karate 1 Premier League - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location
1	2020/2021	Kata	Paris, FRA
1	2019	Kata	Moscow, RUS
1	2019	Kata	Tokyo, JPN
1	2019	Kata	Shanghai, CHN
1	2019	Kata	Rabat, MAR
1	2019	Kata	Dubai, UAE
1	2019	Kata	Paris, FRA
1	2019	Men's Team Kata	Tokyo, JPN
1	2018	Kata	Tokyo, JPN
1	2018	Kata	Berlin, GER
1	2018	Kata	Istanbul, TUR
1	2018	Kata	Paris, FRA
1	2018	Men's Team Kata	Tokyo, JPN
1	2017	Kata	Halle, GER
1	2017	Kata	Paris, FRA

Karate 1 Series A - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location
1	2017	Kata	Okinawa, JPN
1	2017	Kata	Salzburg, AUT
1	2017	Kata	Istanbul, TUR
1	2017	Men's Team Kata	Okinawa, JPN

Athlete

Okinawa International University, Japan

English, Japanese

Sakumoto Karate Academy [Naha, JPN]

Tsuguo Sakumoto [personal], JPN, from 2005

2011 (karatejournal.net, 10 Jul 2016)

He began karate at age five in Okinawa, Japan. (olympicchannel.com, 26 Jan 2019)

He was influenced by his friend and wanted to become strong. (city.okinawa.okinawa.jp, Jan 2013; olympicchannel.com, 26 Jan 2019)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (nhk.or.jp, 02 Nov 2020)

"I don't take a day off, 365 days a year. I do five to six hours each day, seven days a week, on technical practice, and then one to two hours, seven days a week, of physical training." (olympics.com, 28 Apr 2021)

He was given an Excellence Award at the 2018 Japanese Olympic Committee [JOC] Sports Awards. (jkf.ne.jp, 03 Apr 2019)

He received an Excellence Award at the 2016 Japan Sports Awards. (jkf.ne.jp, 18 Jan 2016)