Rikuto Tamai
Tamai at Paris 2024 Summer Olympians and Paralympians Japan National Team parade event on November 30, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 September 2006 Takarazuka, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Diving | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Rikuto Tamai (Japanese: 玉井 陸斗 Tamai Rikuto, born 11 September 2006) is a Japanese diver. He won Japan's first Olympic medal in diving at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
In April 2019, he became the youngest ever national indoor diving champion. In September of the same year, he became the youngest ever national diving champion.
He was one of the youngest Japanese competitors at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.
At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Tamai won a silver medal in the men's 10 m platform event, with a score of 507.65. This was Japan’s first ever Olympics medal in diving.