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Tomoya Okawa

b. 1993

Japanese wushu practitioner

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About Tomoya Okawa

Born 1993.

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.

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 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 2015 World Wushu Championships and won a bronze medal in qiangshu. His high placements in changquan and jianshu qualified him to compete in three events at the 2016 Taolu World Cup 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 in Taoyuan, Chinese Taipei. A year later, Tomoya suffered a major ACL injury during training, 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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Japanese wushu practitioner

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Tomoya Okawa was born on 3 January 1993 in Ebetsu.

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