Ryutaro Araga (荒賀 龍太郎, Araga Ryūtarō, born 16 October 1990) is a Japanese karateka. He won one of the bronze medals in the men's +75 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. He won the gold medal in the kumite 84 kg event at the 2016 World Karate Championships in Linz, Austria. At the Asian Games he won the gold medal in this event both in 2014 and in 2018. He is also a three-time gold medalist in his event at the Asian Karate Championships.

Career

At the Asian Karate Championships he won the gold medal in 2013, 2015 and 2018. In 2019, he won one of the bronze medals at this event. At the 2016 World Karate Championships held in Linz, Austria, he won the silver medal in the men's team kumite event.

Ryutaro Araga

At the 2013 World Games held in Cali, Colombia, he won the gold medal in the men's kumite 84 kg event. In 2017, he won the silver medal in the men's kumite 84 kg event at the World Games in Wrocław, Poland.

Ryutaro Araga

He represented Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

Ryutaro Araga

Achievements

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1990 births

Living people

Sportspeople from Kyoto Prefecture

Japanese male karateka

Karateka at the 2010 Asian Games

Karateka at the 2014 Asian Games

Karateka at the 2018 Asian Games

Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games

Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games

Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games

Asian Games medalists in karate

Asian Games gold medalists for Japan

Asian Games silver medalists for Japan

World Games gold medalists

World Games silver medalists

Competitors at the 2013 World Games

Competitors at the 2017 World Games

World Games medalists in karate

Karateka at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Olympic karateka for Japan

Olympic medalists in karate

Olympic bronze medalists for Japan

Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics

21st-century Japanese people