Wataru Tanigawa
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Country represented | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Funabashi, Japan | July 23, 1996||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in)etes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Level | Elite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years on national team | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Central Sports | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Yoshihiro Saito, Hisashi Mizutori | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Wataru Tanigawa is a Japanese artistic gymnast. He is a two-time bronze medalist at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and a two-time gold medalist at the Summer Universiade.
At the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei, Taiwan, he won the gold medal in the men's team all-around event. He also won the bronze medal in four individual events: individual all-around, floor, parallel bars and horizontal bar.[1] In the same year, he also competed at the 2017 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships without winning a medal.
In 2019, he won the gold medal in the men's team event at the 2019 Summer Universiade in Naples, Italy.[2]
Personal life[]
Tanigawa started gymnastics at age six at Kenshin Sports Club in Funabashi, Japan.[3]
Tanigawa's younger brother, Kakeru, also represented Japan in artistic gymnastics at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany and the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia.[3]
Tanigawa studied sports science at Juntendo University in Tokyo.[3]
Career[]
2017[]
Tanigawa competed at the 2017 World Championships in Montreal, Canada.[3]
2018[]
Tanigawa competed at the 2018 World Championships in Doha, Qatar, where his team placed third.[3]
2019[]
Tanigawa competed at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, where his team placed third.[3]
2021[]
At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, Tanigawa competed for Japan, on a team including Kaya Kazuma, Kitazono Takeru, and Hashimoto Daiki.[4] The team won Olympic silver with a combined score of 262.397, 0.103 points beneath the winning team.[5]
References[]
- ^ Pavitt, Michael (23 August 2017). "Ten gymnasts claim gold medals as artistic competition concludes at Taipei 2017". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ^ O’Kane, Patrick (4 July 2019). "China dominate diving podiums as Neapolitan energy drives Italian medal haul". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f "Artistic Gymnastics TANIGAWA Wataru". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
- ^ "Artistic Gymnastics - Team Japan". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
- ^ "Artistic Gymnastics - Final Results". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
External links[]
- Wataru Tanigawa at FIG (licence)
- Wataru Tanigawa at FIG (biography)
- Wataru Tanigawa at Olympedia
- Living people
- 1996 births
- Japanese male artistic gymnasts
- Universiade medalists in gymnastics
- Universiade gold medalists for Japan
- Universiade bronze medalists for Japan
- Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 2019 Summer Universiade
- Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gymnasts of Japan
- Olympic silver medalists for Japan
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics