Koji Yamamuro
| Koji Yamamuro | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country represented |  Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | January 17, 1989 Koga, Ibaraki | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hometown | Koga, Ibaraki | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 159 cm (5 ft 3 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | KONAMI | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Hiroyuki Kato | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach(es) | Yoghiaki Hatakeda, Koji Gushiken | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach(es) | Naoya Tsukahara | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Koji Yamamuro (山室 光史, Yamamuro Kōji, born January 17, 1989 in Koga, Ibaraki) is a Japanese gymnast.[2] He has won two Olympic medals in the men's artistic team all-around – silver in 2012 (London) and gold in 2016 (Rio de Janeiro).
Career[]
Yamamuro won the bronze medal in men's all-around at the 2011 World Championships.[3]
Yamamuro competed for the national team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's artistic team all-around. In the team final, he injured his ankle on the vault event, and had to be helped off.[3] He had qualified for the individual all-around final, but due to the injury was unable to compete. This gave a chance for his teammate Kazuhito Tanaka to compete[4] - he had ranked behind Yamamuro and Kōhei Uchimura and had not qualified due to the 2-per-country rule.
Yamamuro also participated in the 2012 American Cup.[5]
At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Yamamuro had won an Olympic gold medal as part of the Japanese men's artistic gymnastics national squad on the all-around team event. In that event final, Yamamuro contributed to two apparatuses on pommel horse and still rings with scores of 13.900 and 14.866 respectively.
References[]
- ^ "Japanese Medalists in London 2012 Olympics". joc.or.jp. Japanese Olympic Committee. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
- ^ London2012.com Archived 2012-07-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b "Japan's Yamamuro injured in vault". Reuters. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
- ^ "Injury forces gymnast Yamamuro out of men's all-around". Japan Times. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
- ^ http://usagym.org/PDFs/Results/m_10tac_030610.pdf
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