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Japan crowns youngest winner at Asian Games

Primary school student Yuki Kurihara, aged 11, may be the Games’ youngest champion in history
byAgence France-Presse
Published: 12:00am, 12 Oct 2026
Length: 166 words
Japan crowns youngest winner at Asian Games

Japan’s Yuki Kurihara poses with his gold medal after winning the esports puzzle title at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. Photo: Kyodo

Difficulty: Summiteer (Level 3)

The Asian Games has crowned teenage champions before, but this edition has witnessed stunning successes by child prodigies, culminating in Yuki Kurihara standing atop the podium aged just 11.

The Japanese primary school student demolished opponents three times his age on the way to a historic gold in esports at the games in Aichi-Nagoya.

He is Japan’s youngest Asian Games champion in history and almost certainly the youngest the games have ever seen.

Kurihara did not even react after winning the final in Puyo Puyo Champions, a puzzle game where players try to clear their screen of coloured blobs.

The boy, who does not turn 12 until June and wants to be a train driver when he grows up, later explained that he felt “embarrassed”.

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