Japan at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Gymnastics Championships
Sporting event delegation
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Although Japanese gymnasts competed at numerous Olympic Games as early as 1932, they didn't compete at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships until 1954. The men's team immediately achieved success, winning silver in the team event and individually Masao Takemoto won gold on floor exercise.[1] The women's team won their first team medal, a bronze, in 1962.
Medalists
Medal | Name | Year | Event |
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Silver | Akitomo Kaneko, Akira Kono, Masami Kubota, Tetsumi Nabeya, Takashi Ono, Yoshiyuki Oshima, Masao Takemoto | 1954 Rome | Men's team |
Gold | Masao Takemoto | Men's floor exercise | |
Gold | Keiko Tanaka | Women's balance beam | |
Bronze | Masao Takemoto | Men's parallel bars | |
Silver | Nobuyuki Aihara, Akira Kono, Takashi Ono, Masao Takemoto, Katsumi Terai, Shinsaku Tsukawaki | 1958 Moscow | Men's team |
Silver | Takashi Ono | Men's all-around | |
Gold | Masao Takemoto | Men's floor exercise | |
Silver | Takashi Ono | ||
Silver | Nobuyuki Aihara | Men's rings | |
Silver | Masao Takemoto | Men's vault | |
Bronze | Takashi Ono | ||
Bronze | Keiko Tanaka | Women's balance beam | |
Silver | Takashi Ono | Men's parallel bars | |
Bronze | Keiko Tanaka | Women's floor exercise | |
Bronze | Masao Takemoto | Men's horizontal bar | |
Gold | Nobuyuki Aihara, Yukio Endo, Takashi Mitsukuri, Takashi Ono, Shuji Tsurumi, Haruhiro Yamashita | 1962 Prague | Men's team |
Bronze | Ginko Abukawa, Keiko Ikeda, Taniko Nakamura, Kiyoko Ono, Toshiko Shirasu, Hiroko Tsuji | Women's team | |
Silver | Yukio Endo | Men's all-around | |
Gold | Nobuyuki Aihara | Men's floor exercise | |
Gold | Yukio Endo | ||
Silver | Yukio Endo | Men's rings | |
Silver | Haruhiro Yamashita | Men's vault | |
Bronze | Yukio Endo | ||
Bronze | Keiko Ikeda | Women's balance beam | |
Bronze | Yukio Endo | Men's parallel bars | |
Gold | Takashi Ono | Men's horizontal bar | |
Silver | Yukio Endo | ||
Gold | Shuji Tsurumi, Akinori Nakayama, Takeshi Katō, Yukio Endo, Takashi Mitsukuri, Haruhiro Matsuda | 1966 Dortmund | Men's team |
Bronze | Keiko Ikeda, Taki Shibuya, Hiroko Ikenada, Taniko Mitsukuri, Yasuko Furuyama, Mitsuko Kandori | Women's team | |
Silver | Shuji Tsurumi | Men's all-around | |
Bronze | Akinori Nakayama | ||
Bronze | Keiko Ikeda | Women's all-around | |
Gold | Akinori Nakayama | Men's floor exercise | |
Silver | Yukio Endo | ||
Bronze | Takeshi Katō | Men's pommel horse | |
Silver | Keiko Ikeda | Women's uneven bars | |
Bronze | Taniko Mitsukuri | ||
Silver | Akinori Nakayama | Men's rings | |
Gold | Haruhiro Matsuda | Men's vault | |
Silver | Takeshi Katō | ||
Bronze | Akinori Nakayama | ||
Gold | Akinori Nakayama | Men's horizontal bar | |
Silver | Yukio Endo | ||
Bronze | Takashi Mitsukuri | ||
Gold | Eizo Kenmotsu, Mitsuo Tsukahara, Akinori Nakayama, Fumio Honma, Takuji Hayata, Takeshi Katō | 1970 Ljubljana | Men's team |
Gold | Eizo Kenmotsu | Men's all-around | |
Silver | Mitsuo Tsukahara | ||
Bronze | Akinori Nakayama | ||
Gold | Akinori Nakayama | Men's floor exercise | |
Silver | Eizo Kenmotsu | ||
Bronze | Takeshi Katō | ||
Silver | Eizo Kenmotsu | Men's pommel horse | |
Gold | Akinori Nakayama | Men's rings | |
Silver | Mitsuo Tsukahara | ||
Gold | Mitsuo Tsukahara | Men's vault | |
Bronze | Takeshi Katō | ||
Gold | Akinori Nakayama | Men's parallel bars | |
Silver | Eizo Kenmotsu | ||
Gold | Eizo Kenmotsu | Men's horizontal bar | |
Silver | Akinori Nakayama | ||
Bronze | Takuji Hayata | ||
Gold | Shigeru Kasamatsu, Eizo Kenmotsu, Mitsuo Tsukahara, Hiroshi Kajiyama, Fumio Honma, Sawao Kato | 1974 Varna | Men's team |
Gold | Shigeru Kasamatsu | Men's all-around | |
Bronze | Eizo Kenmotsu | ||
Gold | Shigeru Kasamatsu | Men's floor exercise | |
Silver | Hiroshi Kajiyama | ||
Bronze | Eizo Kenmotsu | Men's pommel horse | |
Gold | Shigeru Kasamatsu | Men's vault | |
Bronze | Hiroshi Kajiyama | ||
Gold | Eizo Kenmotsu | Men's parallel bars | |
Bronze | Eizo Kenmotsu | Men's horizontal bar | |
Gold | Hiroshi Kajiyama, Shigeru Kasamatsu, Eizo Kenmotsu, Junichi Shimizu, Shinzo Shiraishi, Mitsuo Tsukahara | 1978 Strasbourg | Men's team |
Silver | Eizo Kenmotsu | Men's all-around | |
Silver | Shigeru Kasamatsu | Men's floor exercise | |
Gold | Junichi Shimizu | Men's vault | |
Gold | Eizo Kenmotsu | Men's parallel bars | |
Silver | Hiroshi Kajiyama | ||
Gold | Shigeru Kasamatsu | Men's horizontal bar | |
Silver | Hiroshi Kajiyama, Shigeru Kasamatsu, Nobuyuki Kajitani, Toshiomi Nishikii, Koji Gushiken, Eizo Kenmotsu | 1979 Fort Worth | Men's team |
Bronze | Koji Gushiken | Men's pommel horse | |
Silver | Nobuyuki Kajitani, Koji Gushiken, Koji Sotomura, Kiyoshi Goto, Kyoji Yamawaki, Toshiro Kanai | 1981 Moscow | Men's team |
Bronze | Koji Gushiken | Men's all-around | |
Bronze | Koji Gushiken | Men's floor exercise | |
Gold | Koji Gushiken | Men's parallel bars | |
Bronze | Nobuyuki Kajitani | ||
Bronze | Koji Gushiken, Koji Sotomura, Nobuyuki Kajitani, Mitsuaki Watanabe, Noritoshi Hirata, Shinji Morisue | 1983 Budapest | Men's team |
Silver | Koji Gushiken | Men's all-around | |
Gold | Koji Gushiken | Men's rings | |
Bronze | Koji Sotomura | Men's parallel bars | |
Bronze | Hiroyuki Konishi | 1985 Montreal | Men's pommel horse |
Bronze | Kyoji Yamawaki | Men's rings | |
Bronze | Koji Gushiken | Men's parallel bars | |
Bronze | Mitsuaki Watanabe | Men's horizontal bar | |
Bronze | Yukio Iketani | 1989 Stuttgart | Men's horizontal bar |
Bronze | Daisuke Nishikawa | 1991 Indianapolis | Men's floor exercise |
Bronze | Yutaka Aihara | Men's vault | |
Silver | Yoshiaki Hatakeda, Daisuke Nishikawa, Hikaru Tanaka, Toshiharu Sato, Masayuki Matsunaga, Hiromasa Masuda, Masayoshi Maeda | 1995 Sabae | Men's team |
Silver | Yoshiaki Hatakeda | Men's pommel horse | |
Bronze | Hikaru Tanaka | Men's parallel bars | |
Silver | Yoshiaki Hatakeda | Men's horizontal bar | |
Bronze | Naoya Tsukahara | 1997 Lausanne | Men's all-around |
Bronze | Naoya Tsukahara | Men's parallel bars | |
Silver | Naoya Tsukahara | 1999 Tianjin | Men's all-around |
Silver | Naoya Tsukahara | Men's parallel bars | |
Bronze | Takehiro Kashima | 2002 Debrecen | Men's pommel horse |
Bronze | Takehiro Kashima, Hiroyuki Tomita, Naoya Tsukahara, Tatsuya Yamada | 2003 Anaheim | Men's team |
Bronze | Hiroyuki Tomita | Men's all-around | |
Gold | Takehiro Kashima | Men's pommel horse | |
Gold | Takehiro Kashima | Men's horizontal bar | |
Gold | Hiroyuki Tomita | 2005 Melbourne | Men's all-around |
Silver | Hisashi Mizutori | ||
Bronze | Takehiro Kashima | Men's pommel horse | |
Bronze | Hisashi Mizutori, Takehito Mori, Takuya Nakase, Eichi Sekiguchi, Hiroyuki Tomita, Naoya Tsukahara | 2006 Aarhus | Men's team |
Silver | Hiroyuki Tomita | Men's all-around | |
Silver | Hiroyuki Tomita | Men's parallel bars | |
Silver | Hisashi Mizutori, Hiroyuki Tomita, Yosuke Hoshi, Makoto Okiguchi, Takuya Nakase, Shun Kuwahara | 2007 Stuttgart | Men's team |
Bronze | Hisashi Mizutori | Men's all-around | |
Bronze | Hisashi Mizutori | Men's floor exercise | |
Bronze | Hisashi Mizutori | Men's horizontal bar | |
Gold | Kōhei Uchimura | 2009 London | Men's all-around |
Bronze | Kōko Tsurumi | Women's all-around | |
Silver | Kōko Tsurumi | Women's uneven bars | |
Bronze | Kazuhito Tanaka | Men's parallel bars | |
Silver | Kōhei Uchimura, Koji Yamamuro, Koji Uematsu, Kazuhito Tanaka, Kenya Kobayashi, Tatsuki Nakashima | 2010 Rotterdam | Men's team |
Gold | Kōhei Uchimura | Men's all-around | |
Silver | Kōhei Uchimura | Men's floor exercise | |
Bronze | Kōhei Uchimura | Men's parallel bars | |
Silver | Kōhei Uchimura, Kazuhito Tanaka, Kenya Kobayashi, Koji Yamamuro, Makoto Okiguchi, Yusuke Tanaka | 2011 Tokyo | Men's team |
Gold | Kōhei Uchimura | Men's all-around | |
Bronze | Koji Yamamuro | ||
Gold | Kōhei Uchimura | Men's floor exercise | |
Bronze | Koji Yamamuro | Men's rings | |
Bronze | Makoto Okiguchi | Men's vault | |
Bronze | Kōhei Uchimura | Men's horizontal bar | |
Gold | Kōhei Uchimura | 2013 Antwerp | Men's all-around |
Silver | Ryohei Kato | ||
Gold | Kenzō Shirai | Men's floor exercise | |
Bronze | Kōhei Uchimura | ||
Gold | Kohei Kameyama | Men's pommel horse | |
Gold | Kōhei Uchimura | Men's parallel bars | |
Bronze | Kōhei Uchimura | Men's horizontal bar | |
Silver | Kohei Kameyama, Ryohei Kato, Shogo Nonomura, Kenzō Shirai, Yusuke Tanaka, Kōhei Uchimura, Kazuyuki Takeda | 2014 Nanning | Men's team |
Gold | Kōhei Uchimura | Men's all-around | |
Bronze | Yusuke Tanaka | ||
Silver | Kenzō Shirai | Men's floor exercise | |
Bronze | Ryohei Kato | Men's parallel bars | |
Silver | Kōhei Uchimura | Men's horizontal bar | |
Gold | Naoto Hayasaka, Ryohei Kato, Kazuma Kaya, Kenzō Shirai, Yusuke Tanaka, Kōhei Uchimura, Tomomasa Hasegawa | 2015 Glasgow | Men's team |
Gold | Kōhei Uchimura | Men's all-around | |
Gold | Kenzō Shirai | Men's floor exercise | |
Bronze | Kazuma Kaya | Men's pommel horse | |
Gold | Kōhei Uchimura | Men's horizontal bar | |
Bronze | Kenzō Shirai | 2017 Montreal | Men's all-around |
Gold | Kenzō Shirai | Men's floor exercise | |
Gold | Kenzō Shirai | Men's vault | |
Gold | Mai Murakami | Women's floor exercise | |
Bronze | Kazuma Kaya, Kenzō Shirai, Yusuke Tanaka, Wataru Tanigawa, Kōhei Uchimura, Kakeru Tanigawa | 2018 Doha | Men's team |
Silver | Mai Murakami | Women's all-around | |
Silver | Kenzō Shirai | Men's floor exercise | |
Bronze | Kenzō Shirai | Men's vault | |
Bronze | Mai Murakami | Women's floor exercise | |
Silver | Kōhei Uchimura | Men's horizontal bar | |
Bronze | Daiki Hashimoto, Yuya Kamoto, Kazuma Kaya, Kakeru Tanigawa, Wataru Tanigawa, Shogo Nonomura | 2019 Stuttgart | Men's team |
Bronze | Kazuma Kaya | Men's parallel bars | |
Silver | Daiki Hashimoto[2] | 2021 Kitakyushu | Men's all-around |
Silver | Kazuki Minami | Men's floor exercise | |
Silver | Kazuma Kaya | Men's pommel horse | |
Silver | Hidenobu Yonekura | Men's vault | |
Gold | Urara Ashikawa | Women's balance beam | |
Bronze | Mai Murakami | ||
Gold | Mai Murakami[3] | Women's floor exercise | |
Silver | Daiki Hashimoto | Men's horizontal bar | |
Silver | Ryosuke Doi, Daiki Hashimoto, Yuya Kamoto, Kakeru Tanigawa, Wataru Tanigawa, Kazuma Kaya | 2022 Liverpool | Men's team |
Gold | Daiki Hashimoto | Men's all-around | |
Bronze | Wataru Tanigawa | ||
Silver | Daiki Hashimoto | Men's floor exercise | |
Bronze | Ryosuke Doi | ||
Gold | Hazuki Watanabe | Women's balance beam | |
Bronze | Shoko Miyata | ||
Silver | Daiki Hashimoto | Men's horizontal bar | |
Gold | Kenta Chiba, Daiki Hashimoto, Kazuma Kaya, Kazuki Minami, Kaito Sugimoto, Teppei Miwa | 2023 Antwerp | Men's team |
Gold | Daiki Hashimoto | Men's all-around | |
Silver | Kazuki Minami | Men's floor exercise | |
Bronze | Kaito Sugimoto | Men's parallel bars | |
Gold | Daiki Hashimoto | Men's horizontal bar |
Medal tables
By gender
Gender | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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Men | 50 | 56 | 60 | 166 |
Women | 5 | 3 | 11 | 19 |
By event
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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Men's individual all-around | 11 | 11 | 11 | 33 |
Men's floor exercise | 11 | 11 | 6 | 28 |
Men's team | 7 | 10 | 5 | 22 |
Men's horizontal bar | 7 | 8 | 9 | 24 |
Men's parallel bars | 5 | 5 | 12 | 22 |
Men's vault | 5 | 4 | 8 | 17 |
Women's balance beam | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
Men's rings | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
Men's pommel horse | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 |
Women's floor exercise | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
Women's uneven bars | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Women's individual all-around | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Women's team | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Women's vault | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Junior World medalists
Medal | Name | Year | Event |
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Gold | Ryosuke Doi, Takeru Kitazono, Shinnosuke Oka, Azusa Emata | 2019 Győr | Boys' team |
Gold | Shinnosuke Oka | Boys' all-around | |
Silver | Ryosuke Doi | ||
Gold | Takeru Kitazono | Boys' pommel horse | |
Silver | Shinnosuke Oka | ||
Gold | Takeru Kitazono | Boys' parallel bars | |
Bronze | Shinnosuke Oka | ||
Gold | Kamiyama Haruto, Tanida Masaharu, Tsunogai Tomoharu, Noda Renato | 2023 Antalya | Boys' team |
Gold | Mizuno Mika, Nakamura Haruka, Yamaguchi Sara, Kawakami Saki | Girls' team | |
Gold | Nakamura Haruka | Girls' all-around | |
Silver | Yamaguchi Sara | ||
Silver | Tanida Masaharu | Boys' rings | |
Gold | Tsunogai Tomoharu | Boys' parallel bars | |
Bronze | Nakamura Haruka | Girls' floor exercise | |
Gold | Tsunogai Tomoharu | Boys' horizontal bar |
References
- ^ "Hall of Fame: Masao Takemoto". International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.
- ^ "China's Zhang Boheng bests Daiki Hashimoto for men's all-around title at gymnastics worlds". ESPN. October 22, 2021.
- ^ "Mai Murakami wins world title, announces retirement as gymnastics worlds ends". NBC Sports. October 25, 2021.