Nobuyuki Aihara

Nobuyuki Aihara medal table
Apparatus gymnast
Japan
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1960 Rome	ground
gold	1960 Rome	Team all-around
silver	1956 Melbourne	ground
silver	1956 Melbourne	Team all-around

Nobuyuki Aihara ( Japanese 相 原 信 行 , Aihara Nobuyuki ; born December 16, 1934 in Takasaki ; † July 16, 2013 ) was a Japanese gymnast .

He won a silver medal both on the ground and in the team all-around at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne . In the competition on the rings he was fifth and on the parallel bars he finished sixth. Four years later at the Summer Olympics in Rome he finally won on the ground and in the team all-around and became a two-time Olympic champion. He was ranked fourth on bars, fifth on the rings and seventh in the individual all-around competition.

At the World Gymnastics Championships in Moscow in 1958 , he won silver on the rings and in the team all-around competition. In 1962 in Prague he became world champion both on the rings and in the team all-around competition.

Web links

• Nobuyuki Aihara in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )