Hitomi Hatakeda
Hitomi Hatakeda | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Country represented | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||
Born | Tokyo | September 1, 2000|||||||||||||||||||
Height | 155 cm (5 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||
Level | Senior international elite | |||||||||||||||||||
Club | Central Meguro | |||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Hikaru Tanaka | |||||||||||||||||||
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Hitomi Hatakeda (畠田 瞳, Hatakeda Hitomi, born 1 September 2000)[1] is a Japanese female artistic gymnast who competed at the 2020 Olympic Games.[2] She is best known for winning four gold medals at the 2019 Summer Universiade[3][4] and an all-around bronze medal at the 2020 American Cup.[5]
Career[]
Hatakeda began gymnastics at age eight because her parents encouraged her to try the sport. Her parents were both gymnasts and her younger sister, Chiaki, is also an elite gymnast.[1][6] Her father Yoshiaki Hatakeda is an Olympic bronze medalist in gymnastics, winning team bronze at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.[1][6][7] Her mother Yukiko is Hatakeda's personal coach.[6]
Hatakeda joined Japan's national team in 2017, and made her international senior debut that same year.[1]
2018[]
In 2018, she competed at the Birmingham World Cup, finishing fifth all-around with a score of 51.133.[1] She also competed at the Doha World Championships as a member of the Japanese team which included Mai Murakami, Nagi Kajita, Aiko Sugihara and Asuka Teramoto.[8] The team finished sixth in the team final[1] with a score of 160.262.[8] Individually Hatakeda competed on uneven bars, balance beam, floor exercise and in the all-around, but did not qualify to any event finals. Her rank in qualifications was 16th in the all-around with a score of 52.932, 22nd on uneven bars (13.800), 19th on balance beam (13.133), and 62nd on floor exercise (12.466).[1][8]
2019[]
At the 2019 Summer Universiade in Naples, Hatakeda competed for Japan alongside teammates Asuka Teramoto and Aiko Sugihara. She won gold on uneven bars and balance beam, as well as all-around and team gold.[3] In the all-around she finished ahead of Russians Uliana Perebinosova and Lilia Akhaimova; on uneven bars she shared the podium with silver medalist Tatiana Nabieva from Russia and her own teammate, bronze medalist Asuka Teramoto; on balance beam she surpassed Italy's Lara Mori and Russia's Perebinosova.[9]
Hatakeda competed at the 2019 Stuttgart World Championships, finishing 11th in team qualifications.[1] Individually she qualified to the all-around final, finishing 17th in the final with a score of 53.932.[1] She did not qualify to any event finals. Her best finish in event qualifications was 24th on balance beam with a score of 12.966. She ranked 37th on uneven bars (13.377) and 67th on floor exercise (12.500).[1]
2020[]
Hatakeda won all-around bronze on 7 March 2020 at the American Cup with a score of 53.799, finishing behind Americans Morgan Hurd and Kayla DiCello.[5] She had the second-best score on uneven bars, after Hurd.[10]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j "HATAKEDA Hitomi - FIG Athlete Profile". www.gymnastics.sport. Archived from the original on 2019-07-13. Retrieved 2020-03-12.
- ^ JAYA, PETALING (July 9, 2019). "Medal eludes Farah but result still her best at Games". The Star Online. Archived from the original on July 13, 2019. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Medals". Napoli 2019. Archived from the original on 2021-01-20. Retrieved 2020-03-12.
- ^ "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique". www.gymnastics.sport. Archived from the original on 2019-12-13. Retrieved 2020-03-12.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "U.S.'s Hurd wins all-around at American Cup". ESPN.com. 2020-03-07. Archived from the original on 2020-03-08. Retrieved 2020-03-12.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Hitomi Hatakeda seeks family inspiration". Olympic Channel. Archived from the original on 2020-08-07. Retrieved 2020-03-12.
- ^ "Yoshiaki HATAKEDA". Olympic Channel. Archived from the original on 2021-05-09. Retrieved 2020-03-12.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Worlds Artistic Results 2018" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-10-23.
- ^ "Napoli 2019 Summer Universiade Artistic Gymnastics Results Book" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-06-14.
- ^ "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique". www.gymnastics.sport. Archived from the original on 2020-03-21. Retrieved 2020-03-12.
- 2000 births
- Living people
- Japanese female artistic gymnasts
- Universiade medalists in gymnastics
- Universiade gold medalists for Japan
- Medalists at the 2019 Summer Universiade
- Olympic gymnasts of Japan
- Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics