Dai Koyamada

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Dai Koyamada (小山田大) is a Japanese rock climber. Not only is he one of the premier boulderers of his generation, he has also put up or repeated hard sport climbs.

He was born on 23 August 1976 in Kagoshima and has been climbing since 1993.
He is 165 cm and 58 kg.
In 1996, Koyamada won the Japanese National Championship. This is the event which allowed him to become a professional rock climber.
On 2001 November 27, Koyamada made the first ascent (FA) of Logical Progression (9a) in Joyama, Japan.
On 2002 November 01, Koyamada repeated Hugh (9a, FA by Fred Rouhling in 1993).
On 2003 November 11, Koyamada had the first ascent of Byaku-dou (White Road) in Hourai, Japan.
In 2004, Koyamada journeyed to Australia and repeated every problem at the Hollow Mountain Cave (HMC) in the Grampians, problems put up by Fred Nicole and Klem Loskot and some of Australia's top boulderers. He then proceeded to link-up the problems in the HMC for the first ascent (FA) of The Wheel of Life (V16/8C+) on 2004 May 12. The second ascent of the The Wheel of Life was by Chris Webb Parsons on 13 Oct 2007.
On 2004 Nov 09, Koyamada repeated Dreamtime.
On 2005 April 22, Koyamada had the first ascent of another possible V16/8C+, Hydrangea in Shiobara, Japan. He added a sit-start to his Hydra (V14/8B+, FA on 2004 December 20).
On 2005 15 October, Koyamada repeated Action Directe (9a) in the Frankenjura, Germany and proclaimed it harder than any other route that he has climbed.