Keita Sunama

The brightest medal in Paris with the most irreplaceable friends.

Started swimming at Itoman Yamato Koriyama School. graduated from Tenri High School in 2014 and entered Chuo University. He achieved excellent results at the Japan Student Championships and the National Athletic Meet.

In 2016, he broke the Olympic standard record in the 200m backstroke at the Japan Championships; in 2018, he represented Japan in the 200m backstroke for the first time and competed in the Pampasic Swimming Championships; in 2020, he competed in the Tokyo Olympics; in 2017, he competed in the 200m backstroke at the Japan National Championships.

The Unique Story of Sunama

The life of Japan’s top swimmer who competed in the Tokyo Olympics was not smooth sailing. Although he has always been one of the top swimmers in Japan since his junior year, he also experienced a six-year period of truancy from the fourth grade of elementary school to the third grade of junior high school.

After three years of rigorous training and living in a dormitory with his friends, the swimmer matured and was selected for the Rio Olympics at Chuo University. Throughout high school and college, he learned the importance of taking on the challenge of a big dream with his friends, and when he was selected as a representative for the Tokyo Olympics, he made it all the way to the semifinals.

IKEUCHI ORGANIC will continue to work with Sunama in a variety of activities to share with society the precious encounters he had with friends who shed tears for him and their values, which he was able to experience only because he was an athlete.

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