Name Shuji Tsurumi Weight 52 kg | Height 1.58 m Role Olympic athlete | |
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Discipline Men's artistic gymnastics Similar People Yukio Endo, Boris Shakhlin, Franco Menichelli, Miroslav Cerar, Eugen Ekman | ||
Tokyo 1964 gymnastics shuji tsurumi parallel bars amateur footage
Shuji Tsurumi (鶴見 修治, Tsurumi Shūji, born January 29, 1938) is a Japanese gymnast and Olympic champion. He was part of the first Japanese team that succeeded to win gold medals in the team event at the Summer Olympics (1960) and World Championships (1962). In 2008 he was inducted to the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.
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- Tokyo 1964 gymnastics shuji tsurumi parallel bars amateur footage
- Shuji tsurumi pb olympic games 1964
- Olympics
- World Championships
- References
Shuji tsurumi pb olympic games 1964
Olympics
Tsurumi competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome where he received a gold medal in team combined exercises, and a bronze medal in pommel horse. At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo he received a gold medal in team combined exercises, and silver medals in individual all-around, pommel horse, and parallel bars.
World Championships
Tsurumi received a silver medal in individual all-around at the 1966 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, and Japan won the team competition.