Mitsuo Tsukahara

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Mitsuo Tsukahara ( Japanese 塚 原 光 男 , Tsukahara Mitsuo ; born December 22, 1947 in Tokyo ) is a former Japanese artistic gymnast . With five gold medals, one silver medal and three bronze medals, he is one of the most successful athletes at the Olympic Games.

Life

At the Olympic Games in 1968 he won the team competition with the Japanese squad. Four years later in Munich he showed the double back flip , which he had invented, with a screw as a departure from the horizontal bar, the so-called moon flip ; he won in Munich with the team and on the horizontal bar. Tsukahara also won these two titles in Montreal in 1976, with his final stretching exercise in the team competition being decisive for the victory over the Soviet Union.

In addition to his high bar descent, his rollover followed by a backflip is particularly well known, this jump is named after him as a tsukahara . He first showed this jump at the 1970 World Championships, making him world champion in horse jumping.

From 1983 Mitsuo Tsukahara was the coach of the Japanese team and looked after them at the 1984 Olympic Games . His son Naoya Tsukahara became 2004 Olympic champion with the Japanese team.

International success

  • 1968 Summer Olympics
    • 18th place in the all-around competition
    • 4th place on the rings
    • 4th place on the ground
    • 1st place in the team ranking
  • World Championship 1970
    • 2nd place in all-around
    • 1st place in the horse jump
    • 2nd place on the rings
    • 1st place in the team ranking
  • 1972 Summer Olympics
    • 8th place in the all-around competition
    • 1st place on the horizontal bar
    • 3rd place on the rings
    • 1st place in the team ranking
  • 1974 World Cup
    • 1st place in the team ranking
  • 1976 Summer Olympics
    • 3rd place in the all-around competition
    • 1st place on the horizontal bar
    • 2nd place in the horse jump
    • 3rd place on bars
    • 1st place in the team ranking
  • World Championship 1978
    • 1st place in the team ranking

literature

  • Peter Matthews, Ian Buchanan, Bill Mallon: The Guinness International Who's Who of Sport . Enfield 1993 ISBN 0-85112-980-3

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personal data
SURNAME Tsukahara, Mitsuo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 塚 原 光 男 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese artistic gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo