Name Nobuyuki Aihara Country represented Japan Weight 53 kg | Height 1.54 m Role Olympic athlete | |
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Born December 16, 1934
Takasaki, Gunma, Japan ( 1934-12-16 ) Discipline Men's artistic gymnastics Died July 16, 2013, Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan Olympic medals Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's floor Similar People Yuri Titov, Franco Menichelli, Viktor Chukarin, Valentin Muratov, William Thoresson | ||
Nobuyuki Aihara (相原 信行, Aihara Nobuyuki, December 16, 1934 – July 16, 2013) was a Japanese gymnast. He competed at the 1956 Olympics and won a silver medal in floor exercise and a silver medal in the team competition. Four years later he won gold medals in these events.
Aihara took up gymnastic at the age of 15 while studying at the Nippon Sport Science University. He was coached by his future teammate Masao Takemoto. In 1964 he married Toshiko Shirasu-Aihara, a fellow gymnast. Because of an injury he missed the Tokyo Olympics that year, and soon retired to become a gymnastics coach. In 1979 he founded the Aihara Gymnastics Club.
Aihara died of pneumonia on July 16, 2013, at the age of 78. He was survived by son Yutaka, also an Olympic gymnast.