.jpg) Harada at the Climbing World Championships in 2018 | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Japanese | ||||||||||||||
| Born | March 10, 1999[1] Kanagawa[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Professional competition climber | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 169 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Climbing career | |||||||||||||||
| Type of climber | Bouldering | ||||||||||||||
| Ape index | +11 cm (4 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Known for | Winner of Bouldering at the Climbing World Championships in 2018 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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]
| Discipline | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead | - | 36 | |
| Bouldering | 16 | 16 | 12 |
| Speed | - | - | |
| Combined | 53 | 6 |
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 |
| Season | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Total | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
