Akinori Nakayama
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Akinori Nakayama 1966 |
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Nationality: | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
discipline | Apparatus gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Birthday: | 1st March 1943 (age 77) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth: | Aichi prefecture | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Akinori Nakayama ( Japanese中山 彰 規Nakayama Akinori ; born March 1, 1943 in Aichi Prefecture ) is a former Japanese artistic gymnast . He took part in the Olympic Games in Mexico (1968) and Munich (1972) and won six gold medals. On May 21, 2005, he was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame .
Sporting successes
Akinori Nakayama was the most successful male competitor in the 1968 Olympic Games . Overall, he won six gold, two silver and two bronze medals (10 medals) at the Olympics. This puts him in 18th place in the all-time best list of the Summer Olympics and is the most successful Asian athlete at the Games after his compatriot Sawao Katō (as of 2013). In addition to his Olympic successes, he was world champion seven times.
Olympic successes
1968
- Gold with the team
- Gold on the rings
- Gold on the horizontal bar
- Gold on bars
- Silver on the bottom
- Bronze in all-around
1972
- Gold with the team
- Gold on the rings
- Silver on the bottom
- Bronze in all-around
World championships
- 1966 all-around team
- 1966 floor
- 1966 horizontal bar
- 1970 all-around team
- 1970 floor
- 1970 bars
- 1970 rings
Web links
- Akinori Nakayama in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Akinori Nakayama in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
- Akinori Nakayama in the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame (English)
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SURNAME | Nakayama, Akinori |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese artistic gymnast |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1943 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Aichi prefecture |