Rei Kawamata

Rei Kawamata is a Japanese competition climber, born on 3 August 2003, who specialises in competition bouldering. At fourteen he won gold in bouldering and silver in the combined event in the Youth B male category at the 2017 IFSC Climbing World Youth Championships, and in 2018 he won the Japan Youth National Championships and a further bouldering gold at the World Youth Championships. He took bouldering gold and lead silver at the 2018 Asian Youth Championships and the boulder and lead titles at the 2019 edition in Bengaluru, then boulder silver and lead bronze in the Junior category at the 2021 World Youth Championships in Voronezh. He entered senior World Cups at fifteen in 2019, placing fifth in the Moscow bouldering final, won bronze in men's bouldering at the 2019 Asian Championships and took his first World Cup podium with bronze at Salt Lake City in 2022. The account here rests on his English Wikipedia article alone.