Sō Takei

Calling yourself the King of Beasts should be unbearable. Takei gets away with it because the record is real: a national decathlon champion who only took up track seriously at university and turned it into a title. On television he talks endlessly about controlling your own body. That is not a gimmick. It is the same obsession that made him win.

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Name (English)

Sō Takei

Name (Japanese)

武井壮

Reading

たけい そう

Born

May 6, 1973 (age 53)

Origin

Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan

Height

175 cm

Weight

69 kg

Occupation

tarento / athletics competitor / decathlete / sprinter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Ox

University

Kobe Gakuin University

Works summary

Appearances

101 (2003–2026)

By year

2003: 1, 2004: 1, 2005: 1, 2006: 2, 2007: 1, 2008: 2, 2009: 1, 2012: 6, 2013: 15, 2014: 10, 2015: 9, 2016: 3, 2017: 5, 2018: 5, 2019: 3, 2020: 5, 2021: 3, 2022: 2, 2023: 3, 2025: 2, 2026: 3

Debut work

アルゼマッスルミュージカル2003サマー

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttp://www.gogotakei.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/sosotakei/
• Xhttps://x.com/sosotakei
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%8D%20Takei
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AD%A6%E4%BA%95%E5%A3%AE
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11545772

Tags

• Tokyo
• tarento
• athletics competitor
• decathlete

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Works and profile fields sourced from Wikipedia reflect content as of 2026-08-26. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.