Kōji Gushiken

Kōji Gushiken medal table
Kōji Gushiken 2011
Gymnast
Japan
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1984 Los Angeles	Individual all-around
gold	1984 Los Angeles	Rings
silver	1984 Los Angeles	Horse jump
bronze	1984 Los Angeles	Horizontal bar
bronze	1984 Los Angeles	Team all-around

Kōji Gushiken ( Japanese 具 志堅 幸 司 , Gushiken Kōji ; born November 12, 1956 in Osaka Prefecture ) is a former Japanese gymnast and two-time Olympic champion .

He took part in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and won a total of five medals. He won the individual all-around and on the rings and won the silver medal in the horse jump. He won bronze on the horizontal bar and in the team all-around competition.

At the gymnastics world championships he was able to get a total of nine medals. In 1981 he became world champion on parallel bars in Moscow .

In 1985 he broke his ankle and was unable to exercise for three months. This prevented his appearance at the 1985 World Gymnastics Championships . After the Chunichi Cup in 1985, he announced his resignation.

Web links

• Kōji Gushiken in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Overview of its results