Kai Harada

Kai Harada
Harada at the Climbing World Championships in 2018
Personal information
NationalityJapanese
Born (1999-03-10) March 10, 1999 (age 25)[1]
Kanagawa[2]
OccupationProfessional competition climber
Height169 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Climbing career
Type of climberBouldering
Ape index+11 cm (4 in)
Known forWinner of Bouldering at the Climbing World Championships in 2018
Medal record
Men's sport climbing
Representing  Japan
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Innsbruck Bouldering
World Cup
Silver medal – second place Kranj 2019 Lead
Silver medal – second place Wujiang 2019 Bouldering
Climbing World Championships 2018 Boulder Final Harada (BT0A9215)

Kai Harada (原田 海 Harada Kai; born May 10, 1999) is a Japanese competition boulderer.[2]

Harada started climbing in 2009 in Osaka.[3] He started competition climbing in 2015, placing in the Youth A Bouldering Championships and the Junior Asian Championships.

In 2018 he won the Bouldering Climbing World Championships as an outsider, and was the only person to get four tops in the final.[4][5][6]

In December 2020, Harada's qualification for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was confirmed after a dispute between the IFSC and the Japan Mountaineering and Sport Climbing Association.[7]

Rankings

Climbing World Cup

Discipline 2017 2018 2019
Lead - 36
Bouldering 16 16 12
Speed - -
Combined 53 6

Climbing World Championships

Youth

Discipline 2017
Juniors 		2018
Juniors
Bouldering 11 3
Lead 13 3
Speed 22 33
Combined 5 -

Adult

Discipline 2018 2019
Lead 10 7
Bouldering 1 9
Speed - 32
Combined 4

Number of medals in the Climbing World Cup

Bouldering

Season Gold Silver Bronze Total
2019 1 1
Total 0 1 0 1

References

  1. ^ a b "原田 海 - 公益社団法人日本山岳・スポーツクライミング協会". www.jma-climbing.org. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Kai Harada". www.ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Kai Harada". frictionlabs.de. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  4. ^ "Sport climbing: Japan's Harada wins 1st bouldering title at climbing worlds". Kyodo News+. 16 September 2018.
  5. ^ Tyler Macdonald (17 September 2018). "Kai Harada of Japan wins the 2018 Bouldering World Championship in Innsbruck Austria". Rock and Ice.
  6. ^ "Janja Garnbret and Kai Harada Boulder World Champions". PlanetMountain.com. 16 September 2018.
  7. ^ "CAS rejects appeal against sport climbing qualification process for Tokyo 2020". www.insidethegames.biz. 14 December 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2021.