Wataru Tanigawa

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Wataru Tanigawa
Country representedFlag of Japan.svg  Japan
Born (1996-07-23) July 23, 1996 (age 27)
Funabashi, Japan
Height1.6 m (5 ft 3 in)
Discipline Men's artistic gymnastics
LevelElite
Years on national teamJapan
ClubCentral Sports
Head coach(es)Yoshihiro Saito
Hisashi Mizutori
Medal record
Men's artistic gymnastics
Representing Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Olympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2020 Tokyo Team
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Liverpool Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Doha Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2019 Stuttgart Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Liverpool All-Around
Asian Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Hangzhou Vault
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Hangzhou Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Hangzhou Rings
Summer Universiade
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Taipei Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Naples Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2017 Taipei All-Around
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2017 Taipei Floor
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2017 Taipei Parallel bars
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2017 Taipei Horizontal bar

Wataru Tanigawa is a Japanese artistic gymnast. He is a two-time bronze medalist at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and a two-time gold medalist at the Summer Universiade.

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At the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei, Taiwan, he won the gold medal in the men's team all-around event. He also won the bronze medal in four individual events: individual all-around, floor, parallel bars and horizontal bar. [1] In the same year, he also competed at the 2017 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships without winning a medal.

In 2019, he won the gold medal in the men's team event at the Summer Universiade in Naples, Italy. [2]

Personal life

Tanigawa started gymnastics at age six at Kenshin Sports Club in Funabashi, Japan. [3]

Tanigawa's younger brother, Kakeru, also represented Japan in artistic gymnastics at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany and the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia. [3]

Tanigawa studied sports science at Juntendo University in Tokyo. [3]

Career

2017
Tanigawa competed at the 2017 World Championships in Montreal, Canada. [3]

2018
Tanigawa competed at the 2018 World Championships in Doha, Qatar, where his team placed third. [3]

2019
Tanigawa competed at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, where his team placed third. [3]

2021
At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, Tanigawa competed for Japan, on a team including Kaya Kazuma, Kitazono Takeru and Hashimoto Daiki. [4] The team won Olympic silver with a combined score of 262.397, 0.103 points beneath the winning team. [5]

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