Takeo Kamachi

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Takeo Kamachi medal table

Sport shooting

JapanJapan Japan
Olympic games
gold Los Angeles 1984 Rapid fire pistol 25 m
Asian Games
gold Bangkok 1966 Rapid fire pistol 25 m
gold Bangkok 1970 Rapid fire pistol 25 m (M)
gold Bangkok 1970 Free pistol 50 m (M)
bronze Tehran 1974 Rapid fire pistol 25 m (M)
gold Tehran 1974 Standard pistol 25 m (M)
bronze Bangkok 1978 Rapid fire pistol 25 m
silver Bangkok 1978 Rapid fire pistol 25 m (M)
silver Bangkok 1978 Standard pistol 25 m (M)

Takeo Kamachi ( Japanese 蒲 池 猛 夫 , Kamachi Takeo ; born March 20, 1936 in Manchukuo ) is a former Japanese sports shooter .

successes

Takeo Kamachi took part in the Olympic Games four times with the rapid-fire pistol. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , he finished twelfth with 586 points. Four years later he did not get past 33rd place with 580 points. He finished the 1976 Games in Montreal with 591 points again in twelfth place and missed the medal ranks by just four points. In his fourth and last 1984 in Los Angeles , he finally achieved the best result of all 55 participants in the competition with 595 points, making him Olympic champion ahead of Corneliu Ion and Rauno Bies . This was the first gold medal by a Japanese man in an Olympic shooting competition.

Kamachi remained without a medal at world championships , but was very successful at the continental level. In 1971 in Seoul and in 1975 in Kuala Lumpur he was Asian champion in the individual competitions with the rapid-fire pistol and took second place in this competition in Tokyo in 1967 and Manila in 1980 . With the sport pistol, he also reached eighth place in 1975. At the Asian Games in 1966 in Bangkok, he won the gold medal in the individual competition with the rapid fire pistol. He repeated this success in 1970 , also in Bangkok, only this time in the team competition. In addition, he also won the team competition in the discipline with the free pistol . In Tehran , he won his fourth gold medal in 1974 when he took first place with the team in the competition with the standard pistol. He finished the team competition with the rapid fire pistol in third place. He achieved further medal successes at the Asian Games in Bangkok in 1978 : in the individual competition with the rapid-fire pistol, he won the bronze medal behind Park Jong-kil and So Gil-san , in the team competitions with the rapid-fire pistol and the standard pistol, he secured second place in each case and thus secured himself second place the silver medal.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Takeo Kamachi. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Shooting at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games: Mixed Rapid-Fire Pistol, 25 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Shooting at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Mixed Rapid-Fire Pistol, 25 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Shooting at the 1976 Montréal Summer Games: Mixed Rapid-Fire Pistol, 25 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Shooting at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games: Men's Rapid-Fire Pistol, 25 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b Takeo KAMACHI. In: issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation , accessed November 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kamachi, Takeo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 蒲 池 猛 夫 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese marksman
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchukuo