Height 5'7" Retired 1985 Role Olympic athlete | Name Shinji Morisue Level Senior Country represented Japan | |
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Born May 22, 1957 (age 66)
Okayama, Okayama ( 1957-05-22 ) Discipline Men's artistic gymnastics Olympic medals Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar Similar People Koji Gushiken, Mitch Gaylord, Yutaka Morohoshi, Kenji Moriwaki, Li Ning | ||
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Shinji Morisue (森末慎二, Morisue Shinji, born May 22, 1957) is a Japanese gymnast and Olympic champion. He hails from Okayama City and attended the Nippon College of Physical Education (now called Nippon Sport Science University). Morisue is now a show business personality in Japan and is frequently seen on TV, especially in sports programs, and to comment on the Olympics and other international competitions. In April, 2006 he was appointed professor at Kyushu Kyoritsu University.
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Olympics
He received a gold medal in horizontal bar, a silver medal in vault, and a bronze medal in team combined exercises at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
World championships
Morisue received a bronze medal with the Japan team in the 1983 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Budapest.
Writer
In the early nineties amateur athletes have decreased. Morisue, concerned about the phenomenon of the moment, wrote the scenarios for the sports manga Ganba! Fly High, based in part on his experiences as a gymnast, for which he received the 1998 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga.