HARADA Kai

World Championships

Year	Location	Combined	Speed	Boulder	Lead
2019	Hachioji, JPN	4	32	9	7
2018	Innsbruck, AUT	4	46	1	10

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	Speed	Boulder	Lead
2021	1 x 34th	1 x 13th, 1 x 34th	1 x 24th
2019	1 x 33rd, 1 x 38th, 2 x 42nd	1 x 2nd, 1 x 11th, 1 x 12th	1 x 2nd, 1 x 4th, 1 x 8th
2018	1 x 31st, 1 x 43rd, 1 x 44th	1 x 6th, 1 x 14th, 1 x 15th	1 x 10th, 1 x 29th, 1 x 54th
2017	-	1 x 5th, 1 x 15th, 1 x 19th	-

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location
2	2019	Boulder	Wujiang, CHN
2	2019	Men's Lead	Kranj, SLO
4	2019	Men's Lead	Xiamen, CHN
5	2017	Boulder	Chongqing, CHN
6	2018	Boulder	Hachioji, JPN
8	2019	Men's Lead	Chamonix, FRA
10	2018	Men's Lead	Kranj, SLO
11	2019	Boulder	Chongqing, CHN
12	2019	Boulder	Vail, CO, USA
13	2021	Boulder	Innsbruck, AUT

World Youth Championships

Year	Location	Combined	Speed	Boulder	Lead
2018	Moscow, RUS	-	33	3	3
2017	Innsbruck, AUT	5	22	11	13
2016	Guangzhou, CHN	-	-	3	-

Photography, watching films, reading Japanese comic books. (spread-sports.jp, 14 Nov 2019; YouTube channel, 28 Mar 2020)

Athlete

English, Japanese

Nisshin Fire and Marine Insurance [Japan]

Hiroshi Yasui [national], JPN

"Sport climbing is not an interpersonal event. I want to focus on my own performance rather than to beat others." (sankei.com, 27 Jul 2019)

He sprained his ankle during the warm-up on the competition day at the Tokyo Hachioji Tournament in May 2017, forcing him to withdraw from the event. He returned to competitive action after a month. (kojitusanso.jp, 19 Sep 2017; news.yahoo.co.jp, 12 Apr 2018)

2015 (jma-climbing.org, 22 Apr 2018; news.yahoo.co.jp, 12 Apr 2018)

He began the sport in 2009 in Osaka, Japan. (kojitusanso.jp, 19 Sep 2017)

His mother found a climbing gym near his home. (kojitusanso.jp, 19 Sep 2017)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (climbers-web.jp, 16 Sep 2018)

He climbs for up to seven hours a day and for around five days a week. His training sessions also include pilates. (redbull.com, 11 Aug 2020; YouTube channel, 29 Apr 2020)

Winning gold in the bouldering event at the 2018 World Championships in Innsbruck, Austria. (climbers-web.jp, 16 Sep 2018; climbers-web.jp, 16 Sep 2018)

Canadian climber Sean McColl. (heavy.'s Facebook page, 28 Dec 2015)

His mother. (climbers-web.jp, 16 Sep 2018)

He received an Excellence Award in the sport climbing category at the 2018 Japan Mountaineering and Sports Climbing Association [JMSCA] Awards. (fineplay.me, 12 Jan 2019; tokyo-sports.co.jp, 12 Jan 2019)