Japan at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

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Japan at the
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
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IOC code JPN
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.

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Medalists

MedalNameYearEvent
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Akitomo Kaneko, Akira Kono, Masami Kubota, Tetsumi Nabeya, Takashi Ono, Yoshiyuki Oshima, Masao Takemoto Flag of Italy.svg 1954 Rome Men's team
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Masao Takemoto Men's floor exercise
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Keiko Tanaka Women's balance beam
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Masao Takemoto Men's parallel bars
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Nobuyuki Aihara, Akira Kono, Takashi Ono, Masao Takemoto, Katsumi Terai, Shinsaku Tsukawaki Flag of the Soviet Union.svg 1958 Moscow Men's team
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Takashi Ono Men's all-around
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Masao Takemoto Men's floor exercise
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Takashi Ono
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Nobuyuki Aihara Men's rings
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Masao Takemoto Men's vault
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Takashi Ono
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Keiko Tanaka Women's balance beam
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Takashi Ono Men's parallel bars
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Keiko Tanaka Women's floor exercise
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Masao Takemoto Men's horizontal bar
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Nobuyuki Aihara, Yukio Endo, Takashi Mitsukuri, Takashi Ono, Shuji Tsurumi, Haruhiro Yamashita Flag of the Czech Republic.svg 1962 Prague Men's team
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Ginko Abukawa, Keiko Ikeda, Taniko Nakamura, Kiyoko Ono, Toshiko Shirasu, Hiroko Tsuji Women's team
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Yukio Endo Men's all-around
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Nobuyuki Aihara Men's floor exercise
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Yukio Endo
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Yukio Endo Men's rings
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Haruhiro Yamashita Men's vault
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Yukio Endo
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Keiko Ikeda Women's balance beam
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Yukio Endo Men's parallel bars
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Takashi Ono Men's horizontal bar
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Yukio Endo
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Shuji Tsurumi, Akinori Nakayama, Takeshi Katō, Yukio Endo, Takashi Mitsukuri, Haruhiro Matsuda Flag of Germany.svg 1966 Dortmund Men's team
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Keiko Ikeda, Taki Shibuya, Hiroko Ikenada, Taniko Mitsukuri, Yasuko Furuyama, Mitsuko Kandori Women's team
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Shuji Tsurumi Men's all-around
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Akinori Nakayama
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Keiko Ikeda Women's all-around
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Akinori Nakayama Men's floor exercise
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Yukio Endo
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Takeshi Katō Men's pommel horse
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Keiko Ikeda Women's uneven bars
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Taniko Mitsukuri
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Akinori Nakayama Men's rings
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Haruhiro Matsuda Men's vault
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Takeshi Katō
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Akinori Nakayama
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Akinori Nakayama Men's horizontal bar
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Yukio Endo
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Takashi Mitsukuri
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Eizo Kenmotsu, Mitsuo Tsukahara, Akinori Nakayama, Fumio Honma, Takuji Hayata, Takeshi Katō Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg 1970 Ljubljana Men's team
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Eizo Kenmotsu Men's all-around
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Mitsuo Tsukahara
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Akinori Nakayama
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Akinori Nakayama Men's floor exercise
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Eizo Kenmotsu
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Takeshi Katō
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Eizo Kenmotsu Men's pommel horse
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Akinori Nakayama Men's rings
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Mitsuo Tsukahara
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Mitsuo Tsukahara Men's vault
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Takeshi Katō
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Akinori Nakayama Men's parallel bars
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Eizo Kenmotsu
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Eizo Kenmotsu Men's horizontal bar
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Akinori Nakayama
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Takuji Hayata
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Shigeru Kasamatsu, Eizo Kenmotsu, Mitsuo Tsukahara, Hiroshi Kajiyama, Fumio Honma, Sawao Kato Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg 1974 Varna Men's team
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Shigeru Kasamatsu Men's all-around
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Eizo Kenmotsu
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Shigeru Kasamatsu Men's floor exercise
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Hiroshi Kajiyama
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Eizo Kenmotsu Men's pommel horse
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Shigeru Kasamatsu Men's vault
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Hiroshi Kajiyama
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Eizo Kenmotsu Men's parallel bars
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Eizo Kenmotsu Men's horizontal bar
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Hiroshi Kajiyama, Shigeru Kasamatsu, Eizo Kenmotsu, Junichi Shimizu, Shinzo Shiraishi, Mitsuo Tsukahara Flag of France.svg 1978 Strasbourg Men's team
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Eizo Kenmotsu Men's all-around
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Shigeru Kasamatsu Men's floor exercise
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Junichi Shimizu Men's vault
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Eizo Kenmotsu Men's parallel bars
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Hiroshi Kajiyama
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Shigeru Kasamatsu Men's horizontal bar
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Hiroshi Kajiyama, Shigeru Kasamatsu, Nobuyuki Kajitani, Toshiomi Nishikii, Koji Gushiken, Eizo Kenmotsu Flag of the United States.svg 1979 Fort Worth Men's team
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Koji Gushiken Men's pommel horse
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Nobuyuki Kajitani, Koji Gushiken, Koji Sotomura, Kiyoshi Goto, Kyoji Yamawaki, Toshiro Kanai Flag of the Soviet Union.svg 1981 Moscow Men's team
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Koji Gushiken Men's all-around
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Koji Gushiken Men's floor exercise
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Koji Gushiken Men's parallel bars
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Nobuyuki Kajitani
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Koji Gushiken, Koji Sotomura, Nobuyuki Kajitani, Mitsuaki Watanabe, Noritoshi Hirata, Shinji Morisue Flag of Hungary.svg 1983 Budapest Men's team
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Koji Gushiken Men's all-around
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Koji Gushiken Men's rings
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Koji Sotomura Men's parallel bars
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Hiroyuki Konishi Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg 1985 Montreal Men's pommel horse
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Kyoji Yamawaki Men's rings
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Koji Gushiken Men's parallel bars
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Mitsuaki Watanabe Men's horizontal bar
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Yukio Iketani Flag of Germany.svg 1989 Stuttgart Men's horizontal bar
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Daisuke Nishikawa Flag of the United States.svg 1991 Indianapolis Men's floor exercise
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Yutaka Aihara Men's vault
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Yoshiaki Hatakeda, Daisuke Nishikawa, Hikaru Tanaka, Toshiharu Sato, Masayuki Matsunaga, Hiromasa Masuda, Masayoshi Maeda Flag of Japan.svg 1995 Sabae Men's team
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Yoshiaki Hatakeda Men's pommel horse
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Hikaru Tanaka Men's parallel bars
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Yoshiaki Hatakeda Men's horizontal bar
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Naoya Tsukahara Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg 1997 Lausanne Men's all-around
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Naoya Tsukahara Men's parallel bars
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Naoya Tsukahara Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg 1999 Tianjin Men's all-around
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Naoya Tsukahara Men's parallel bars
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Takehiro Kashima Flag of Hungary.svg 2002 Debrecen Men's pommel horse
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Takehiro Kashima, Hiroyuki Tomita, Naoya Tsukahara, Tatsuya Yamada Flag of the United States.svg 2003 Anaheim Men's team
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Hiroyuki Tomita Men's all-around
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Takehiro Kashima Men's pommel horse
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Takehiro Kashima Men's horizontal bar
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Hiroyuki Tomita Flag of Australia (converted).svg 2005 Melbourne Men's all-around
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Hisashi Mizutori
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Takehiro Kashima Men's pommel horse
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Hisashi Mizutori, Takehito Mori, Takuya Nakase, Eichi Sekiguchi, Hiroyuki Tomita, Naoya Tsukahara Flag of Denmark.svg 2006 Aarhus Men's team
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Hiroyuki Tomita Men's all-around
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Hiroyuki Tomita Men's parallel bars
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Hisashi Mizutori, Hiroyuki Tomita, Yosuke Hoshi, Makoto Okiguchi, Takuya Nakase, Shun Kuwahara Flag of Germany.svg 2007 Stuttgart Men's team
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Hisashi Mizutori Men's all-around
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Hisashi Mizutori Men's floor exercise
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Hisashi Mizutori Men's horizontal bar
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kōhei Uchimura Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 2009 London Men's all-around
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Kōko Tsurumi Women's all-around
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Kōko Tsurumi Women's uneven bars
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Kazuhito Tanaka Men's parallel bars
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Kōhei Uchimura, Koji Yamamuro, Koji Uematsu, Kazuhito Tanaka, Kenya Kobayashi, Tatsuki Nakashima Flag of the Netherlands.svg 2010 Rotterdam Men's team
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kōhei Uchimura Men's all-around
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Kōhei Uchimura Men's floor exercise
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Kōhei Uchimura Men's parallel bars
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Kōhei Uchimura, Kazuhito Tanaka, Kenya Kobayashi, Koji Yamamuro, Makoto Okiguchi, Yusuke Tanaka Flag of Japan.svg 2011 Tokyo Men's team
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kōhei Uchimura Men's all-around
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Koji Yamamuro
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kōhei Uchimura Men's floor exercise
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Koji Yamamuro Men's rings
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Makoto Okiguchi Men's vault
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Kōhei Uchimura Men's horizontal bar
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kōhei Uchimura Flag of Belgium (civil).svg 2013 Antwerp Men's all-around
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Ryohei Kato
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kenzō Shirai Men's floor exercise
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Kōhei Uchimura
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kohei Kameyama Men's pommel horse
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kōhei Uchimura Men's parallel bars
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Kōhei Uchimura Men's horizontal bar
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Kohei Kameyama, Ryohei Kato, Shogo Nonomura, Kenzō Shirai, Yusuke Tanaka, Kōhei Uchimura, Kazuyuki Takeda Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg 2014 Nanning Men's team
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kōhei Uchimura Men's all-around
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Yusuke Tanaka
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Kenzō Shirai Men's floor exercise
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Ryohei Kato Men's parallel bars
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Kōhei Uchimura Men's horizontal bar
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Naoto Hayasaka, Ryohei Kato, Kazuma Kaya, Kenzō Shirai, Yusuke Tanaka, Kōhei Uchimura, Tomomasa Hasegawa Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 2015 Glasgow Men's team
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kōhei Uchimura Men's all-around
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kenzō Shirai Men's floor exercise
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Kazuma Kaya Men's pommel horse
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kōhei Uchimura Men's horizontal bar
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Kenzō Shirai Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg 2017 Montreal Men's all-around
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kenzō Shirai Men's floor exercise
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kenzō Shirai Men's vault
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Mai Murakami Women's floor exercise
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Kazuma Kaya, Kenzō Shirai, Yusuke Tanaka, Wataru Tanigawa, Kōhei Uchimura, Kakeru Tanigawa Flag of Qatar.svg 2018 Doha Men's team
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Mai Murakami Women's all-around
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Kenzō Shirai Men's floor exercise
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Kenzō Shirai Men's vault
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Mai Murakami Women's floor exercise
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Kōhei Uchimura Men's horizontal bar
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Daiki Hashimoto, Yuya Kamoto, Kazuma Kaya, Kakeru Tanigawa, Wataru Tanigawa, Shogo Nonomura Flag of Germany.svg 2019 Stuttgart Men's team
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Kazuma Kaya Men's parallel bars
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Daiki Hashimoto [2] Flag of Japan.svg 2021 Kitakyushu Men's all-around
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Kazuki Minami Men's floor exercise
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Kazuma Kaya Men's pommel horse
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Hidenobu Yonekura Men's vault
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Urara Ashikawa Women's balance beam
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Mai Murakami
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Mai Murakami [3] Women's floor exercise
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Daiki Hashimoto Men's horizontal bar
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Ryosuke Doi, Daiki Hashimoto, Yuya Kamoto, Kakeru Tanigawa, Wataru Tanigawa, Kazuma Kaya Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 2022 Liverpool Men's team
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Daiki Hashimoto Men's all-around
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Wataru Tanigawa
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Daiki Hashimoto Men's floor exercise
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Ryosuke Doi
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Hazuki Watanabe Women's balance beam
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Shoko Miyata
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Daiki Hashimoto Men's horizontal bar
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kenta Chiba, Daiki Hashimoto, Kazuma Kaya, Kazuki Minami, Kaito Sugimoto, Teppei Miwa Flag of Belgium (civil).svg 2023 Antwerp Men's team
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Daiki Hashimoto Men's all-around
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Kazuki Minami Men's floor exercise
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Kaito Sugimoto Men's parallel bars
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Daiki Hashimoto Men's horizontal bar

Medal tables

By gender

GenderGoldSilverBronzeTotal
Men505660166
Women531119

By event

EventGoldSilverBronzeTotal
Men's individual all-around11111133
Men's floor exercise 1111628
Men's team710522
Men's horizontal bar 78924
Men's parallel bars 551222
Men's vault 54817
Women's balance beam 3047
Men's rings 2428
Men's pommel horse 23712
Women's floor exercise 2024
Women's uneven bars 0213
Women's individual all-around0123
Women's team0022
Women's vault 0000

Junior World medalists

MedalNameYearEvent
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Ryosuke Doi, Takeru Kitazono, Shinnosuke Oka, Azusa Emata Flag of Hungary.svg 2019 Győr Boys' team
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Shinnosuke Oka Boys' all-around
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Ryosuke Doi
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Takeru Kitazono Boys' pommel horse
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Shinnosuke Oka
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Takeru Kitazono Boys' parallel bars
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Shinnosuke Oka
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Haruto Kamiyama, Masaharu Tanida, Tomoharu Tsunogai, Renato Noda Flag of Turkey.svg 2023 Antalya Boys' team
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Mika Mizuno, Haruka Nakamura, Sara Yamaguchi, Saki Kawakami Girls' team
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Haruka Nakamura Girls' all-around
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Sara Yamaguchi
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Masaharu Tanida Boys' rings
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Tomoharu Tsunogai Boys' parallel bars
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Haruka Nakamura Girls' floor exercise
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Tomoharu Tsunogai Boys' horizontal bar

References

  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.