Takashi Ono

This article is about the gymnast. For other people, see Takashi Ono (disambiguation) .

Takashi Ono, 1964

Takashi Ono ( Japanese 小野 喬 , Ono Takashi ; born July 26, 1931 in Noshiro ) is a former Japanese artistic gymnast . With five gold medals, four silver medals and four bronze medals, he is one of the most successful athletes at the Olympic Games.

Career

At the Olympic Games in 1952 , he won his first Olympic medal in horse jumping. Four years later in Melbourne he won the first ever Olympic gold medal for a Japanese gymnast on the horizontal bar. In the twelve fight he won silver with the smallest possible deficit of 0.05 points on Viktor Tschukarin .

In Rome in 1960 he won on the horizontal bar and in the horse jump. As the strongest individual gymnast in the Japanese squad, he played a decisive role in Japan winning the Olympic team championship for the first time. In the twelve fight he again won silver and was again 0.05 points behind the winner Boris Schachlin .

The 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo marked the end of Ono's successful career. He took the Olympic oath at the opening ceremony . With the team he won another Olympic gold medal.

He is married to Kiyoko Ono , who also took part in the Tokyo Olympic Games as an artistic gymnast. In 1998 Takashi Ono was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame .

International success

• 1952 Olympic Games
  • 12th place in the all-around competition
  • 3rd place in the horse jump
  • 4th place on the ground
  • 5th place in the team ranking
• World Championship 1954
  • 2nd place in the team ranking
• 1956 Olympic Games
  • 2nd place in all-around
  • 1st place on the horizontal bar
  • 2nd place on the pommel horse
  • 3rd place on bars
  • 5th place on the rings
  • 2nd place in the team ranking
• World Championships 1958
  • 2nd place in all-around
  • 2nd place on bars
  • 2nd place on the ground
  • 3rd place in the horse jump
  • 2nd place in the team ranking
• 1960 Olympic Games
  • 2nd place in all-around
  • 1st place in the horse jump
  • 1st place on the horizontal bar
  • 3rd place on bars
  • 3rd place on the rings
  • 4th place on the ground
  • 6th place on the pommel horse
  • 1st place in the team ranking
• World Championships 1962
  • 1st place on the horizontal bar
  • 1st place in the team ranking
• Olympic Games 1964
  • 11th place in the all-around competition
  • 6th place on the horizontal bar
  • 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

Web links

• Takashi Ono in the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame (English)
• Takashi Ono in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
• Takashi Ono in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ YAWARA ・ 谷 佳 知 夫妻 以外 で 同一 五 輪 で と も に メ メ ダ ル を 獲得 し た 夫婦 . In: OlympicPlus. December 1, 2005, accessed June 13, 2010 (Japanese).