Ryōta Murata
| Ryōta Murata | |
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| Statistics | |
| Real name | 村田 諒太 |
| Rated at |
Super middleweight Middleweight |
| Height | 182 cm (6 ft 0 in) |
| Nationality | Japan |
| Born |
January 12, 1986 Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Boxing record | |
| Total fights | 12 |
| Wins | 12 |
| Wins by KO | 9 |
| Losses | 0 |
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Ryōta Murata (村田 諒太 Murata Ryōta?, born January 12, 1986 in Nara, Nara Prefecture) is a boxer from Japan, who took the gold medal in the men's middleweight division (– 75 kg) at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He had served as a Toyo University official.
Murata started boxing in the first grade of junior high school. His then trainer was Hiroaki Takami who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Two years later, he regularly attended Shinko Boxing Gym in Osaka from his home in Nara City. He was trained under the former Japanese super lightweight champion Hiromu Kuwata at that gym for one year. He proceeded to Minami-Kyoto High School and there was coached by Maekawa Takemoto (died in 2010 at the age of fifty) who served as the coach of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta to capture five national titles. However, after admission to Toyo University, he suffered a number of DQ losses in the university league. At that time, he went for training to the Physical Training School of the Self Defense Forces, on the recommendation of Takemoto. In those days, in Thailand where he traveled for a match, he saw children earnestly training and regained his enthusiasm for boxing.
After winning the All-Japan Amateur Boxing Championships in the first grade of university in 2004, he captured the bronze medal in the 2005 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships in Ho Chi Minh City, and the silver medal in the 2005 King’s Cup in Bangkok. Since then, although he is undefeated in his country, winning the All-Japan Amateur Boxing Championships also in 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2011, he was eliminated in the preliminary round by Nikolajs Grisunins in the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Mianyang, China, and also eliminated in the preliminary round by Bakhtiyar Artayev in the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. In the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Chicago, the United States, he won against Donatas Bondorovas in the first round, but lost to Shawn Estrada in the second round.
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