Eizō Kenmotsu

Eizō Kenmotsu medal table
Artistic gymnast
Japan
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1968 Mexico City	Team all-around
gold	1972 Munich	Team all-around
gold	1976 Montreal	Team all-around
silver	1972 Munich	Individual all-around
silver	1976 Montreal	Horizontal bar
silver	1976 Montreal	Pommel horse
bronze	1968 Mexico City	Horizontal bar
bronze	1972 Munich	Ingots
bronze	1972 Munich	Pommel horse

Eizō Kenmotsu ( Japanese 監 物 永 三 , Kenmotsu Eizō ; * February 13, 1948 in Okayama Prefecture ) is a former Japanese gymnast . He was a seven-time world champion and a three-time Olympic champion .

Olympic games

Kenmotsu won the gold medal in the team all-round competition with the Japanese gymnastics team at three consecutive Olympic Games. In 1968 in Mexico City , he was in all eight gymnastics competitions in the top seven. He won the bronze medal on the horizontal bar. Four years later at the Games in Munich he was able to place himself in the top five in all eight competitions. In the individual all-around he was second, on parallel bars and third on pommel horse. In Montreal at the 1976 Summer Olympics , he also won two medals in the individual competitions. He won silver on the pommel horse and on the horizontal bar.

World championships

At the World Gymnastics Championships in Ljubljana in 1970 he was the second most successful athlete after his compatriot Akinori Nakayama . In addition to the gold medal in the team all-around competition, he was able to win five medals in individual competitions: gold in the individual all-around competition and on the horizontal bar and silver on the floor, on the parallel bars and on the pommel horse.

In 1974 in Varna , Japan again won the team all-around competition. Kenmotsu also won a gold medal on the parallel bars and three bronze medals in the individual all-around, on the horizontal bar and on the pommel horse.

In Strasbourg at the World Gymnastics Championships in 1978 , he won again on parallel bars and finished second in the individual all- around . The team all-around was again dominated by Japan. He won his last medal at world championships in 1979 in Fort Worth , where Japan won the silver medal in the team all-around competition.

In 2006 Kenmotsu was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame .

Web links

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