Shigeru Kasamatsu
Shigeru Kasamatsu ( Japanese 笠 松茂 , Kasamatsu Shigeru ; born July 16, 1947 in Kumano ) is a former Japanese gymnast . He was an Olympic and world champion.
Career
Shigeru Kasamatsu took part in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich . The Japanese squad with Sawao Katō , Eizō Kenmotsu , Shigeru Kasamatsu, Akinori Nakayama , Mitsuo Tsukahara and Teruichi Okamura won the team competition for the fourth time in a row, behind them the Soviet squad received silver and the squad from the GDR bronze. In the individual ranking, Kasamatsu finished fifth behind his compatriots Katō, Kenmotsu and Nakayama, as well as Nikolai Andrianow from the Soviet ranks. Kasamatsu also reached four device finals. He took fourth place on the pommel horse , won bronze on the floor and on the horizontal bar . On bars he received the silver medal behind Sawao Katō.
Two years later, at the 1974 World Championships in Varna , the Japanese team won with Fumio Honma , Hiroshi Kajiyama , Shigeru Kasamatsu, Sawao Kato, Eizo Kenmotsu and Mitsuo Tsukahara. In the twelve fight Kasamatsu won ahead of Andrianow and Kenmotsu, this was the last world title in the all-around for a Japanese until Hiroyuki Tomita won in 2005. Kasamatsu also won the competitions on the ground and in horse jumping in 1974 . In horse jumping, the technique of a sideways flip with a quarter turn followed by a tucked somersault forward with a half turn was named after Kasamatsu.
Kasamatsu missed the 1976 Olympics due to appendicitis. At the 1978 World Championships in Strasbourg , he won the gold medal with the Japanese squad consisting of Eizō Kenmotsu, Hiroshi Kajiyama, Shigeru Kasamatsu, Junishi Shimizu , Shonzo Shiraishi and Mitsuo Tsukahara. In the twelve fight Kasamatsu took seventh place. He reached the final four times on the apparatus, he finished eighth on the pommel horse, was fourth on the rings , won silver on the floor and gold on the horizontal bar. The Japanese squad could not defend the team title at the 1979 World Championships in Fort Worth . Behind the Soviet squad Shigeru Kasamatsu, Eizō Kenmotsu, Kōji Gushiken , Hiroshi Kajiyama, Toshiomi Nishiki and Nobuyuki Kajitani won the silver medal. Kasamatsu reached three more device finals, but won no more individual medals.
Shigeru Kasamatsu was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2006. He is married to the gymnast and Olympian Kazue Hanyu , their son Akihiro Kasamatsu also took part in the Olympic Games as a gymnast.
Web links
- Shigeru Kasamatsu in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Gymnastics World Championships on sport-komplett.de
- Entry into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
Footnotes
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . Pp. 310 to 313
- ↑ jump Description on Turnsport.ch
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kasamatsu, Shigeru |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese gymnast |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kumano |