Shūji Tsurumi
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| gold | 1960 Rome | Team all-around |
| gold | 1964 Tokyo | Team all-around |
| silver | 1964 Tokyo | Ingots |
| silver | 1964 Tokyo | Pommel horse |
| silver | 1964 Tokyo | Individual all-around |
| bronze | 1960 Rome | Pommel horse |
Shūji Tsurumi ( Japanese 鶴 見 修治 , Tsurumi Shūji ; born January 29, 1938 in Taitō , Tokyo ) is a former Japanese artistic gymnast .
He won a gold medal in the team all-round competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome . In the competition on the pommel horse he won bronze and in the individual all-around he took fourth place. Four years later, at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo , he again won gold in the team all-round competition. In addition, he won three silver medals in the individual competitions on parallel bars, on the pommel horse and in the individual all-around.
At the Gymnastics World Championships in Dortmund in 1966 , he was world champion in the team all-around and vice world champion in the individual all-around.
Tsumuri was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2008.
Web links
- Shūji Tsurumi in the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame (English)
- Shūji Tsurumi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Tsurumi, Shūji |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 鶴 見 修治 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese artistic gymnast |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Taitō , Tokyo |