Tomohiro Araya
Japanese wushu practitioner
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Tomohiro Araya (Japanese: 荒谷 友碩; born October 22, 1994) is a taijiquan athlete from Japan.[1]
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| Born | October 22, 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 174 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wushu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Taijiquan, Taijijian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
Tomohiro competed in the 2010 and 2012 World Junior Wushu Championships winning three medals.[2][3]
Tomohiro made his international senior debut at the 2015 World Wushu Championships where he was a double silver medalist.[4] This qualified him for the 2016 Taolu World Cup where he won a gold medal in taijijian and a bronze medal in taijiquan.[5] A year later, he was the world champion in taijijian and a bronze medalist in taijiquan at the 2017 World Wushu Championships.[6][7] At the 2018 Asian Games, he won the silver medal in men's taijiquan, earning the only medal for Japan in wushu at the games.[8]
At the 2023 World Wushu Championships, Tomohiro won bronze medals in taijiquan and taijijian.[9] Several months later, he became the Asian champion in taijijian and won a silver medal in taijiquan doubles at the 2024 Asian Wushu Championships.[10] He then won silver medals in taijiquan and taijijian at the 2024 Taolu World Cup.[11] A year later, he won the gold medal in taijiquan pair and the silver medal in taijijian at the 2025 Taolu Asian Cup.[12]
