Kenzō Shirai

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Kenzō Shirai Apparatus gymnastics
Personal information
Nationality: JapanJapan Japan
discipline Apparatus gymnastics
Special device / s: Gymnastique au sol.svg ground
Society: Tsurumi Junior Gymnastics Club
Trainer: Haruo Mizuguchi
Birthday: August 24, 1996
Place of birth: Tokyo
Size: 161 cm
Weight: 50 kg
Medals
Olympic rings Olympic games
bronze 2016 Rio de Janeiro Leap
gold 2016 Rio de Janeiro team
Logo of FIG World championships
gold 2013 Antwerp ground
silver 2014 Nanning ground
gold 2015 Glasgow ground
gold 2015 Glasgow team
bronze 2017 Montreal All-around
gold 2017 Montreal ground
gold 2017 Montreal Leap

Kenzō Shirai ( Japanese 白 井 健 三 , Shirai Kenzō ; * August 24, 1996 in Tokyo Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese gymnast .

Career

At the World Gymnastics Championships in Antwerp in 2013 , he took first place in the floor finals . In the jumping final he reached fourth place.

At the 2014 Gymnastics World Championships in Nanning , Shirai finished second in the floor finals just behind Denis Abljasin . In the jumping final he finished fourth.

In 2015 Shirai won the World Cup all-around final in Glasgow with the Japanese team . He also won his second world title on the ground.

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he won the gold medal for the first time in the all- around final together with Ryōhei Katō , Kohei Uchimura , Yūsuke Tanaka and Koji Yamamuro. At the jump final he won the bronze medal.

The in Montreal held Gymnastics World Championships 2017 took Shirai in the all-around final third. He won gold medals in both the floor and the jump finals.

Turn elements

Since March 2013, two floor exercise elements and one jumping element have been officially named after Shirai. All backward somersaults with four turns of the longitudinal axis are now called Shirai - Nguyen . At the World Gymnastics Championships in 2013, both Shirai and the Vietnamese Tuan Dat Nguyen showed this element for the first time. Therefore, both share the name designation. It is an F-value part with a difficulty value of 0.60.

From now on, all forward somersaults with three longitudinal axis rotations are referred to as Shirai 2 . Shirai is the first gymnast to show the element in a major international competition (World Gymnastics Championships 2013). It is also an F-value part with a difficulty value of 0.60.

The Yurchenko stretched with three longitudinal turns is now also known as Shirai - Kim Hee Hoon . Shirai and the Korean Hee Hoon Kim showed the jumping element for the first time as part of the 2013 World Gymnastics Championships. The element has a difficulty value of 6.0.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kenzō Shirai in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
  2. ↑ Floor competition results ( memento of October 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) from fedintgym.com, accessed on October 6, 2013 (PDF, 240 kB).
  3. ↑ Jump competition results ( memento from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) from fedintgym.com, accessed on October 6, 2013 (PDF, 241 kB).
  4. ↑ Competition results World Cup 2014 floor. fig-gymnastics.com, accessed on October 13, 2014 (PDF, 263 kB).
  5. ↑ Competition results World Cup 2014 jump. fig-gymnastics.com, accessed on October 13, 2014 (PDF, 267 kB).
  6. ↑ Japan take gold in Rio 2016 team artistic gymnastics, Russia edge China for silver. In: Rio 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2016 .
  7. ↑ MTC Newsletter No. # 27. fig-docs.com, accessed on January 12, 2015 (PDF, 934 kB).
personal data
SURNAME Shirai, Kenzō
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 白井健 三 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese artistic gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo Prefecture , Japan