Sorato Anraku

Sorato Anraku (安楽 宙斗, Anraku Sorato, born November 14, 2006)^[1] is a Japanese rock climber who specializes in competition lead climbing and competition bouldering. In 2023, Anraku became the first climber to win both the Lead Overall World Cup and Boulder Overall World Cup, doing so in his debut senior season.^[2] He also won the gold medal in the combined boulder and lead event at the 2022 Asian Games, held in October 2023.^[3] He won the silver medal in the combined boulder and lead event at the 2024 Summer Olympics.^[4]

Sorato Anraku

Anraku at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Nationality	Japanese
Born	(2006-11-14) November 14, 2006 (age 18) Yachiyo, Chiba, Japan
Education	Yachiyo High School
Height	168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Climbing career
Type of climber	Competition lead climbing Competition bouldering
Known for	First male to win both the overall bouldering and lead IFSC World Cup titles in the same season. Did so in his debut season.
Medal record Event 1st 2nd 3rd World Cup 10 4 3 Men's competition climbing Representing  Japan Olympic Games 2024 Paris Combined World Championships 2023 Bern Lead World Cup (Overall) Winner 2023 Bouldering Winner 2023 Lead Winner 2024 Bouldering 2024 Lead World Cup (Event) Salt Lake City 2025 Bouldering Curitiba 2025 Bouldering Wujiang 2025 Lead Keqiao 2025 Bouldering Seoul 2024 Lead Salt Lake 2024 Bouldering Wujiang 2023 Lead Koper 2023 Lead Briançon 2023 Lead Innsbruck 2023 Bouldering Prague 2025 Bouldering Koper 2024 Lead Keqiao 2024 Bouldering Salt Lake 2023 Bouldering Innsbruck 2024 Bouldering Wujiang 2024 Lead Chamonix 2023 Lead Asian Championships 2024 Bouldering Asian Games 2022 Combined

Climbing career

Before 2023, Anraku competed in youth international competition climbing.

In 2023, Anraku made his senior international competition climbing debut, opening the year with a fifth-place finish in bouldering at the IFSC Climbing World Cup in Hachioji. He went on to win his first World Cup medal by placing second in the bouldering discipline at the Salt Lake City World Cup in May.^[5] This was followed by his first World Cup gold medal at the Innsbruck World Cup in June, where he was also given the overall title for the 2023 Bouldering World Cup season.^[6][7]

He went on to claim his first World Cup medal in lead climbing with a bronze in Chamonix in July, followed by his first gold medal in lead at the Briançon World Cup later in July. At the 2023 IFSC Climbing World Championships in Bern in August, he won a silver medal in lead behind Jakob Schubert.^[8][9][10] He followed this up with two more first-place finishes at the Koper and Wujiang World Cups, both in September, following which he was also given the overall title for the 2023 Lead World Cup season.^[11] In October, shortly after his performance in Wujiang, he also won gold in the men's combined sport climbing event at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, in his Asian Games debut.^[12] He participated in the 2023 Asian Sport Climbing Olympic Qualifier, held in Jakarta in November, where he placed first in the men's boulder and lead competition.^[13] This qualified him for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, where he won silver behind Toby Roberts.^[4]

Rankings

World Cup

Discipline	2023	2024
Lead	1	3
Bouldering	1	1
Bouldering & Lead	1	2

World Championships

Discipline	Bern 2023
Lead	2
Bouldering	4
Bouldering & Lead	4

World Youth Championships

Discipline	2021 Youth B	2022 Youth A
Bouldering	2	3
Lead	1	1

Japan Cup

Discipline	2019	2022	2023	2024	2025
Lead	60	9	7	12	1
Bouldering	67	33	7	6	1
Bouldering & Lead	-	1	1	-	-

Number of medals at the IFSC Climbing World Cup

Bouldering

Season	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
2023	1	1		2
2024	1	1	1	3
2025	3	1		4
Total	5	3	1	9

Lead

Season	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
2023	3		1	4
2024	1	1	1	3
2025	1			1
Total	5	1	2	8

See also

• Yuji Hirayama