Takashi Mitsukuri
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Takashi Mitsukuri in 1966 | ||||||||||||
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Country represented | Japan | |||||||||||
Born | (1939-02-19) February 19, 1939 (age 85) Toyama, Japan | |||||||||||
Height | 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||
Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | |||||||||||
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||
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Takashi Mitsukuri (三栗 崇, Mitsukuri Takashi, born February 19, 1939) is a Japanese gymnast and Olympic champion.
Mitsukuri competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome where he received a gold medal in team combined exercises.[1] At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo he again received a gold medal in team combined exercises with the Japanese team.[2] Individually, he performed best on the pommel horse, finishing in fourth and sixth place in 1960 and 1964, respectively.[3]
Mitsukuri received a bronze medal in pommel horse at the 1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, and Japan won the team competition. He received a bronze medal in horizontal bar at the 1966 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, and Japan won the team competition again.
His wife Taniko Nakamura-Mitsukuri is also a retired Olympic gymnast.[3]
References
- ^ "1960 Summer Olympics – Rome, Italy – Gymnastics" Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 3, 2008)
- ^ "1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Gymnastics" Archived 2007-09-04 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 3, 2008)
- ^ a b Takashi Mitsukuri. sports-reference.com
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- 1904: Mixed team (ZZX)
- 1908: Sweden (SWE)
- 1912: Italy (ITA)
- 1920: Italy (ITA)
- 1924: Italy (ITA)
- 1928: Switzerland (SUI)
- 1932: Italy (ITA)
- 1936: Germany (GER)
- 1948: Finland (FIN)
- 1952: Soviet Union (URS)
- 1956: Soviet Union (URS)
- 1960: Japan (JPN)
- 1964: Japan (JPN)
- 1968: Japan (JPN)
- 1972: Japan (JPN)
- 1976: Japan (JPN)
- 1980: Soviet Union (URS)
- 1984: United States (USA)
- 1988: Soviet Union (URS)
- 1992: Unified Team (EUN)
- 1996: Russia (RUS)
- 2000: China (CHN)
- 2004: Japan (JPN)
- 2008: China (CHN)
- 2012: China (CHN)
- 2016: Japan (JPN)
- 2020: ROC
1964 Japan (JPN): Yukio Endo, Takuji Hayata, Takashi Mitsukuri, Takashi Ono, Shuji Tsurumi, Haruhiro Yamashita
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