TANAKA Mitsuya

Rank	Event	Year	Location
World Championships
5	Men's K43 -75kg M	2019	Antalya, TUR
5	Men's K43 -61kg M	2017	London, GBR
European Championships
3	Men's K43 -75kg M	2018	Plovdiv, BUL
9	Men's K43 -61kg M	2019	Bari, ITA

Watching football. (pref.chiba.lg.jp, 2021)

Office Worker

Meio University, Nago, JPN

English, Japanese

Kang Dong-Chul [national]

He took up the sport in 2017. He originally played football after watching the 2002 World Cup in Japan and Korea, and also tried Para football, but quit the sport as he was required to play as a goalkeeper as he did not have an impairment to his legs. (tanaka-mitsuya.com, 31 Jan 2021; parasapo.tokyo, 12 Oct 2020; note.com, 01 May 2020)

He was inspired to compete at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo after watching the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro and got involved in Para taekwondo when the All Japan Taekwondo Association began recruiting athletes, as his impairment was suitable for the sport. (note.com, 20 Aug 2020; parasapo.tokyo, 12 Oct 2020; nishinippon.co.jp, 07 Feb 2020 )

To win gold at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (Kanachan TV YouTube channel, 30 Mar 2021)

He trains for six hours a day, split over three sessions, six days a week. (parasapo.tokyo, 12 Oct 2020)

Japanese footballer Shinji Ono. (parasapo.tokyo, 12 Oct 2020)

He was a torch bearer during the Paralympic torch relay ahead of the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (Instagram profile, 22 Aug 2021)