Tomoya Okawa (; born January 3, 1993) is a wushu taolu athlete from Japan. He is a one-time world champion, and multiple-time medalist at the World Wushu Championships and the

Taolu World Cup The Taolu World Cup is an elite-level international sports championship hosted by the International Wushu Federation (IWUF) for the sport of wushu taolu. Athletes qualify by placing in the top-eight of a standard taolu event at the prior World ...

Career

Okawa started training wushu at the age of ten. He originally just practiced taijiquan, but eventually switched to modern changquan and later to jianshu and qiangshu in 2012. Okawa's international debut was at the

2013 World Wushu Championships The 2013 World Wushu Championships was the 12th edition of the World Wushu Championships. It was held at the Kuala Lumpur Badminton Stadium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from November 1 to November 5, 2013. Medal summary Medal table Men's taolu ...

in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he became the world champion in men's jianshu. He also won a silver medal in qiangshu. Two years later, Okawa competed in the

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and won a bronze medal in qiangshu. His high placements in changquan and jianshu qualified him to compete in three events at the 2016

in Fuzhou, China, where he won a gold medal in qiangshu and a silver medal in jianshu. That same year, he also won a silver medal in jianshu at the

Asian Wushu Championships The Asian Wushu Championships is a continental Wushu (sport), wushu championship hosted by the Wushu Federation of Asia (WFA), the official continental representative to the International Wushu Federation. The competition is open to the 37 member n ...

in Taoyuan, Chinese Taipei. A year later, Tomoya suffered a major ACL injury during training, but was able to compete and place high in the

2017 World Wushu Championships The 2017 World Wushu Championships was the 14th edition of the World Wushu Championships. It was held at the Kazan Gymnastics Center in Kazan, Russia from September 19 to October 3, 2017. For the countries in Asia, this was also the qualificatio ...

. He then went on to win silver medals in jianshu and qiangshu at the 2018 Taolu World Cup in Yangon, Myanmar.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Okawa, Tomoya 1993 births Living people People from Ebetsu, Hokkaido Japanese wushu practitioners Chuo University alumni World champion wushu athletes Martial artists from Hokkaido