Uchu Tomita

Okay, first things first — "Uchu" literally means "universe" or "outer space" in Japanese, and I had to do a double-take when I found out that's his actual birth name. But here's the thing: when a guy named Universe grows up to be a visually impaired Paralympic swimmer, cutting through the water in a pool day after day, it doesn't feel ironic at all — it feels weirdly earned. Three medals in Tokyo and two more in Paris say the discipline it takes is immense, and there's something quietly compelling about a person who carries a name that big and just... gets in the pool and swims.

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Uchu Tomita is a Japanese para swimmer in the visually impaired S11 class, born on February 28, 1989, in Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture. He is known by the English name Uchu Tomita and has an Instagram presence at the handle uchu_tomita. At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics he won silver medals in the 100 m butterfly S11 and 400 m freestyle S11 and a bronze in the 200 m individual medley SM11, and he added two bronze medals at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.

Name (English)

Uchu Tomita

Name (Japanese)

富田宇宙

Reading

とみた うちゅう

Born

February 28, 1989 (age 37)

Origin

Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Competitive Swimmer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Snake

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/uchu_tomita/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AF%8C%E7%94%B0%E5%AE%87%E5%AE%99
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99517144

Tags

• From Kumamoto Prefecture
• Competitive Swimmer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.