NORIMATSU Seiya

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Paralympic Games
3	Mixed	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
World Championships
1	Mixed	2018	Sydney, NSW, AUS
4	Mixed	2014	Odense, DEN

Watching films at home. (Paralympics Instagram profile, 25 Aug 2020)

Office Worker

Japanese

Team SMBC [JPN] / Fukuoka Dandelion [JPN] since 2018

Kevin Orr [national], USA

His older brother Akayuki has competed in wheelchair rugby and was called up to the Japan national team in 2019. (sports.nhk.or.jp, 16 Aug 2019)

In 2014 he fractured his right elbow and required about four months of recovery. (Athlete, 04 Sep 2016)

He took up the sport in 2013 in Okinawa, Japan. (Athlete, 04 Sep 2016; sportiva.shueisha.co.jp, 24 Oct 2014)

He began playing in wheelchair basketball at age 16 but he did not compete due to the impairment to the upper limbs. He was later invited to a training session for wheelchair rugby by an official of the Okinawa Hurricanes, and made the switch to the sport. (team-smbc.com, 01 Sep 2019; Athlete, 04 Sep 2016)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Paralympics Instagram profile, 25 Aug 2020)

Being part of the Japanese team that won bronze at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (Paralympics Instagram profile, 25 Aug 2020)

He was named Best Player in the 1.5 category at the 2017 National Championship in Japan. (mitsuifudosan.co.jp, 10 Jan 2018)

In 2016 he was given the Tokyo-to Citizen Sports Grand Award in Japan. (team-smbc.com, 01 Sep 2019)

In 2014 he received the Kumamoto Prefecture Sports Excellence Award in Japan. (pref.kumamoto.jp, 12 Feb 2015)