KAWAMURA Ryo

Football 5-a-side

Date of Birth: 13 Feb 1989

Age: 32

Gender: Male

Sport Class: B1

Place of birth: HIGASHIOSAKA

Birth Country:

Japan

Place of residence : TOKYO

Residence Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Football 5-a-side	Men JPN Japan	5

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Aomi Urban Sports Park	Men's Preliminary Round Group A #01 JPN Japan 4 FRA France 0	Finished
	Aomi Urban Sports Park	Men's Preliminary Round Group A #06 BRA Brazil 4 JPN Japan 0	Finished
	Aomi Urban Sports Park	Men's Preliminary Round Group A #09 JPN Japan 0 CHN China 2	Finished
	Aomi Urban Sports Park	Men's 5-6 Classification Match #14 JPN Japan 1 ESP Spain 0	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location
World Championship
6	Men	2014	Tokyo, JPN

Watching comedy shows. (esquire.com, 23 Aug 2020)

Occupation:

Tsukuba University of Technology, Japan

One daughter [2019]

Languages spoken:

Papelecial Shinagawa [Japan] since 2019

Satoshi Takada [national], JPN

He took up the sport in 2007. (axa.co.jp, 23 Apr 2021)

He quit football after starting middle school because his vision impairment meant he was unable join a team. He got involved in athletics instead, but discovered football 5-a-side team Avanzare Tsukuba while he was at university. (axa.co.jp, 23 Apr 2021; esquire.com, 23 Aug 2020)

To win gold at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (yomiuri.co.jp, 15 Aug 2021)

Japanese footballer Masashi Nakayama. (esquire.com, 23 Aug 2020)

General Interest

Classification
B1 (isas.ibsasport.org, 24 Aug 2021)

Type of Impairment
Vision impairment (parasapo.tokyo, 22 Jul 2021)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (axa.co.jp, 23 Apr 2021)

Impairment Details
At age five he was diagnosed with uveitis, a form of eye inflammation. He lost the vision in both eyes in 2013. (joyoliving.co.jp, 20 Jan 2020; Fuji TV Para Do, 09 May 2016)

General
LEADER
In 2016 he was appointed captain of the Japanese national team. (axa.co.jp, 23 Apr 2021)

OTHERS
He began serving as a member of Japanese Paralympic Committee [JONC] athletes' commission in 2020. He is due to finish his term in 2022. (jsad.or.jp, 25 Jun 2021)

Social Media

Legend

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

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