Ryota Haruhara

Ryota Haruhara is a Japanese sepak takraw player, born on 27 November 1998, who plays as a tosa, the setter who feeds the attackers. He played football for twelve years before taking up sepak takraw at Keio University, joined the national team while still a student and graduated from the Faculty of Economics in 2021. He won the bronze medal in the men's quadrant at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, then took bronze in the quadrant at the 2024 King's Cup World Championships in Korat and, in 2025, was part of the Japanese quadrant team that won the title and gave Japan its first world championship in the event. At the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya he set for Japan in the quadrant final against Indonesia, won 2 sets to 1 for Japan's first Asian Games gold in the sport, and added a bronze in the team regu. He was also All Japan champion in 2023.