Yoshiyuki Ogata should not be confused with Yoshiko Ogata.
| Yoshiyuki Ogata | |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
| Birth Date: | 4 February 1998 |
| Birth Place: | Kurume, Japan |
| Occupation: | Professional sport climber and boulderer |
| Height: | 171 cm |
| Weight: | 61 kg |
| Knownfor: | Winner of multiple World Cup medals |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Yoshiyuki Ogata (緒方 良行 Ogata Yoshiyuki, born February 4, 1998) is a Japanese professional competition climber and boulderer. He has won multiple medals in competition bouldering at IFSC Climbing World Cup events,[1] including gold medals at Vail in 2019[2] and at Innsbruck in 2021.[3] Ogata won the overall IFSC Men's Bouldering title for the 2021 and 2022 seasons[4] [5] and finished third overall in 2019.[1]
Born in Kurume, Fukuoka prefecture,[6] Ogata began bouldering at age 10 after he saw the sport on television.[7] At age 17, he won the lead competition at the 2015 Japan Youth National Championships,[8] as well as the bouldering competitions at the IFSC Climbing World Youth Championships[9] and the IFSC Climbing Asian Youth Championships[10] in the Male Youth A (age 15–17) category. He won another bouldering gold medal as well as a combined silver medal at the World Youth Championships in 2017 in the Male Junior (age 17 to 19) category.[11]
Ogata began competing in senior competitions at age 16,[7] entering the Chongqing and Laval World Cups in 2014.[1] At age 18, he won the gold medal in men's bouldering event at the 2016 IFSC Climbing Asian Championships, and collected a silver in bouldering and bronze in lead the following year.[1] Ogata won gold at the men's bouldering event at the 2017 World Games, where he qualified as the 2016 Asian champion.[12] He made his first World Cup podium finish with a bronze medal at the Vail World Cup in 2017,.[13] Ogata won his first World Cup event in bouldering at Vail in 2019[2] and won his second at Innsbruck in 2021.[3] At the 2021 IFSC Climbing World Championships, Ogata advanced to the men's final in lead, finishing 7th overall.[14] In 2022, Ogata made the finals in all six IFSC World Cup bouldering events, taking home one gold, two silver, and two bronze medals, and winning the overall title.
| Discipline | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lead | - | - | - | 20 | 27 | - | - | - | 9 | 7 |
| Bouldering | 83 | 40 | 18 | 8 | 8 | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | 6 |
Youth
| Discipline | 2014 Youth A | 2015 Youth A | 2016 Juniors | 2017 Juniors | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lead | 13 | 7 | - | 1 | |
| Bouldering | - | 1 | 19 | 1 | |
| Speed | - | - | - | - | |
| Combined | - | - | - | 2 |
Adult
| Discipline | 2018 | 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lead | 31 | - | 7 | 27 | |
| Bouldering | 15 | 14 | 8 | 7 | |
| Speed | 110 | - | - | - | |
| Combined | 29 | - | - | 17 |
| Season | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 2022 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Total | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 |