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| Born | 18 May 1997 Sapporo, Japan | |||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Professional sport climber | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 154 cm (5 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||
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Mei Kotake (小武 芽生, Kotake Mei, born May 18, 1997 Sapporo) is a Japanese professional rock climber who specializes in competition climbing. She participates in competition lead climbing, competition bouldering and competition speed climbing disciplines.[1][2][3][4][5]
Kotake was born on May 18, 1997, in Sapporo, Hokkaido. She started bouldering in the fifth grade of elementary school.
Kotake acquired a degree at a women's college for nutrition and food science.[6]
In 2014 she won the All Japan Climbing Youth Championship in the category Lead.[7]
In 2022, Kotake sent Era Vella, an 8c+/9a -graded sport climbing route in Margalef, in Spain.[8]
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| 2018 | 2019 | |
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| Lead | 4 | 11 |
| Bouldering | 25 | 39 |
| Speed | 59 | 57 |
| 2014 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | |
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| Lead | - | 37 | 27 | 5 |
| Bouldering | 46 | 22 | 11 | 21 |
| Combined | - | 8 | 22 | - |
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | |
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| Lead | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| Bouldering | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| Speed | - | 23 | 33 |
| 2018 | |
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| Bouldering | 1 |
