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谷川航 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | July 23, 1996 Funabashi, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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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Tanigawa Wataru (Japanese: 谷川航) 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 Summer Universiade in Naples, Italy.[2]
Personal life
[edit]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
[edit]2017
[edit]Tanigawa competed at the 2017 World Championships in Montreal, Canada.[3]
2018
[edit]Tanigawa competed at the 2018 World Championships in Doha, Qatar, where his team placed third.[3]
2019
[edit]Tanigawa competed at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, where his team placed third.[3]
2021
[edit]At the 2020 Summer Olympics, held from July 23 to August 8 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]
2024
[edit]Tanigawa is part of a team representing Japan at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France alongside Hashimoto Daiki, Oka Shinnosuke, Kaya Kazuma, and Sugino Takaaki.[6] The team won the all-around gold on July 29 defeating long-time rival China.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Pavitt, Michael (23 August 2017). "Ten gymnasts claim gold medals as artistic competition concludes at Taipei 2017". Inside The Games. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ^ O'Kane, Patrick (4 July 2019). "China dominate diving podiums as Neapolitan energy drives Italian medal haul". Inside The Games. 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. Archived from the original on 2021-07-27. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
- ^ "Artistic Gymnastics - Final Results". Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-07-25. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
- ^ a b "Olympics: Japan edges China to win gymnastics team gold in Paris". Kyodo News+. Retrieved 2024-07-29.
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