Sorato Anraku

Sorato Anraku is a Japanese rock climber, born on 14 November 2006 in Chiba, who specialises in competition lead climbing and competition bouldering. In 2023, in his first senior season, he became the first climber to win both the Lead Overall and the Boulder Overall World Cup titles, and he took silver in lead behind Jakob Schubert at the World Championships in Bern. He won the gold medal in the combined boulder and lead event at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, held in October 2023, and then won the Asian qualifier in Jakarta that sent him to Paris. At the 2024 Summer Olympics he won the silver medal in the combined boulder and lead event, the first Japanese man to medal in sport climbing at the Games. In 2025 he won three consecutive Boulder World Cups, took a third straight overall boulder title, and became men's Boulder World Champion in Seoul. The account here rests on his English Wikipedia article, with the Olympedia athlete page as a second source.