Ryuzo Kitajima

Equestrian athletes don't usually land on my radar, but there's something genuinely interesting about Ryuzo Kitajima. Born in Kobe in 1985 — and Kobe has this quietly cosmopolitan, slightly Euro-flavored energy that feels weirdly fitting for someone who competes on horseback — he went on to study at Meiji University, which tells you he wasn't just coasting on natural talent. Equestrian sport gets dismissed as elite and inaccessible, and sure, it's not exactly something you pick up at a local rec center, but the craft involved is underrated. A horse reads you instantly; any tension, any hesitation, and the animal knows before you do. That means years of patient, unglamorous repetition to build the kind of trust that makes it look effortless in the ring. I respect that quietly. The guys who grind in sports nobody's really watching tend to have a steadiness about them that's hard to fake.

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Ryuzo Kitajima is a Japanese equestrian athlete born on October 23, 1985, in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. He attended Meiji University. An eventing rider, he competed for Japan at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, withdrawing during the individual competition.

Name (English)

Ryuzo Kitajima

Name (Japanese)

北島隆三

Reading

きたじま りゅうぞう

Born

October 23, 1985 (age 40)

Origin

Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Height

171cm

Occupation

Equestrian athlete

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Ox

University

Meiji University

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ryuzokitajima/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E5%B3%B6%E9%9A%86%E4%B8%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26871068

Tags

• From Hyogo Prefecture
• Equestrian athlete

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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