Haruhiro Yamashita

Haruhiro Yamashita medal table
Haruhiro Yamashita, 1966 World Cup
Artistic gymnast
Japan
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1964	Horse jump
gold	1964	Team all-around
World championships
gold	1962 Prague	Team all-around
gold	1966 Dortmund	Horse jump
gold	1966 Dortmund	Team all-around
silver	1962 Prague	Horse jump

Haruhiro Yamashita , Japanese 山下 治 広 , Yamashita Haruhiro , later Haruhiro Matsuda , (born November 15, 1938 in Uwajima ) is a former Japanese artistic gymnast .

At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo , he won a gold medal in horse jumping and in team all- round competition. In the competition on the pommel horse , he took fourth place.

At the World Gymnastics Championships in Prague in 1962 he was world champion in team all-around and vice world champion in horse jumping. Four years later at the World Gymnastics Championships in Dortmund in 1966 , he won the horse jump and was again a member of the victorious Japanese team in the all-around competition.

In horse jumping, a jump he performed for the first time in 1962, a forward handstand jump, bears his name under the name Yamashita jump . After his marriage, he took his wife's surname, under which he is recorded in the annals of the 1966 World Championships. In 2000 he was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame .

Web links

• Haruhiro Yamashita in the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame (English)
• Haruhiro Yamashita in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
• Haruhiro Yamashita in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )