Yukio Endo

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Yukio Endo, 1966
Yukio Endo, 1966
Yukio Endo, 1965

Yukio Endo ( Jap. 遠藤幸雄 , Endō Yukio * 18th January 1937 in Akita , Akita Prefecture ; † 25. March 2009 ) was a Japanese gymnast . He was able to win five gold and two silver medals at the Olympic Games and was the inventor of the endo-straddle on the horizontal bar named after him.

Act

At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome , Endo was a member of the Japanese squad that won gold in the team championship. Two years later at the World Championships in Prague Endo won a total of seven medals, two of which were gold, only on the pommel horse he remained without a medal. In the all-around competition he was second behind Yuri Titow from the Soviet Union.

In Tokyo at the Olympic Games in 1964 , Endo won the all-around as well as on bars and with the team, for his floor freestyle he received silver behind the Italian Franco Menichelli . At the World Gymnastics Championships in Dortmund in 1966, Endo won gold with the team and silver in two device finals. His last major championship as an active gymnast was the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , where he won Olympic gold for the third time with the team. In the horse jump he won silver behind Mikhail Voronin from the Soviet Union.

After his career, Endo was a professor at Nippon University . As a trainer and head of delegation, he was in charge of the Japanese gymnastics team at the Olympic Games several times. In 1999 he was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame . Endo died of esophageal cancer in March 2009 .

International success

  • 1960 Summer Olympics
    • 5th place in the all-around competition
    • 4th place on the horizontal bar
    • 5th place in the horse jump
    • 1st place in the team ranking
  • World Championship 1962
    • 2nd place in all-around
    • 1st place on the ground
    • 2nd place on the horizontal bar
    • 2nd place on the rings
    • 3rd place on bars
    • 3rd place in the horse jump
    • 1st place in the team ranking
  • 1964 Summer Olympics
    • 1st place in the all-around competition
    • 1st place on bars
    • 2nd place on the ground
    • 5th place on the horizontal bar
    • 6th place on the rings
    • 6th place in the horse jump
    • 1st place in the team ranking
  • World Championship 1966
    • 2nd place on the ground
    • 2nd place on the horizontal bar
    • 1st place in the team ranking
  • 1968 Summer Olympics
    • 8th place in the all-around competition
    • 2nd place in the horse jump
    • 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release: inventor of the endo-straddle dies.
personal data
SURNAME Endo, Yukio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 遠藤 幸雄 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese artistic gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Akita , Akita Prefecture
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 2009