Japan at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

Japan at the
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Japan at the; World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
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Medals	Gold 55 Silver 59 Bronze 71 Total 185

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[edit]

Medal	Name	Year	Event
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		Men's floor exercise
Silver	Nobuyuki Aihara		Men's rings
Silver	Masao Takemoto		Men's vault
Bronze	Takashi Ono		Men's vault
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		Men's floor exercise
Silver	Yukio Endo		Men's rings
Silver	Haruhiro Yamashita		Men's vault
Bronze	Yukio Endo		Men's vault
Bronze	Keiko Ikeda		Women's balance beam
Bronze	Yukio Endo		Men's parallel bars
Gold	Takashi Ono		Men's horizontal bar
Silver	Yukio Endo		Men's horizontal bar
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		Men's all-around
Bronze	Keiko Ikeda		Women's all-around
Gold	Akinori Nakayama		Men's floor exercise
Silver	Yukio Endo		Men's floor exercise
Bronze	Takeshi Katō		Men's pommel horse
Silver	Keiko Ikeda		Women's uneven bars
Bronze	Taniko Mitsukuri		Women's uneven bars
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		Men's rings
Gold	Mitsuo Tsukahara		Men's vault
Bronze	Takeshi Katō		Men's vault
Gold	Akinori Nakayama		Men's parallel bars
Silver	Eizo Kenmotsu		Men's parallel bars
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		Men's all-around
Gold	Shigeru Kasamatsu		Men's floor exercise
Silver	Hiroshi Kajiyama		Men's floor exercise
Bronze	Eizo Kenmotsu		Men's pommel horse
Gold	Shigeru Kasamatsu		Men's vault
Bronze	Hiroshi Kajiyama		Men's vault
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		Men's parallel bars
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	1979 Fort Worth	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		Men's parallel bars
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	1991 Indianapolis	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	1997 Lausanne	Men's parallel bars
Silver	Naoya Tsukahara	1999 Tianjin	Men's all-around
Silver	Naoya Tsukahara	1999 Tianjin	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		Men's all-around
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		Men's all-around
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		Men's all-around
Gold	Kenzō Shirai		Men's floor exercise
Bronze	Kōhei Uchimura		Men's floor exercise
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		Men's all-around
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	2019 Stuttgart	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		Women's balance beam
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		Men's all-around
Silver	Daiki Hashimoto		Men's floor exercise
Bronze	Ryosuke Doi		Men's floor exercise
Gold	Hazuki Watanabe		Women's balance beam
Bronze	Shoko Miyata		Women's balance beam
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[edit]

By gender[edit]


Gender	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Men	50	56	60	166
Women	5	3	11	19

By event[edit]


Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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[edit]

Medal	Name	Year	Event
Gold	Ryosuke Doi, Takeru Kitazono, Shinnosuke Oka, Azusa Emata	2019 Győr	Boys' team
Gold	Shinnosuke Oka		Boys' all-around
Silver	Ryosuke Doi		Boys' all-around
Gold	Takeru Kitazono		Boys' pommel horse
Silver	Shinnosuke Oka		Boys' pommel horse
Gold	Takeru Kitazono		Boys' parallel bars
Bronze	Shinnosuke Oka		Boys' parallel bars
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		Girls' all-around
Silver	Tanida Masaharu		Boys' rings
Gold	Tsunogai Tomoharu		Boys' parallel bars
Bronze	Nakamura Haruka		Girls' floor exercise
Gold	Tsunogai Tomoharu		Boys' horizontal bar

References[edit]

^ "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.

[1] "Hall of Fame: Masao Takemoto". International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.

[2] "China's Zhang Boheng bests Daiki Hashimoto for men's all-around title at gymnastics worlds". ESPN. October 22, 2021.

[3] "Mai Murakami wins world title, announces retirement as gymnastics worlds ends". NBC Sports. October 25, 2021.

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