Japan women's national artistic gymnastics team
Appearance
Continental union | Asian Gymnastics Union |
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National federation | Japan Gymnastics Association |
Olympic Games | |
Appearances | 13 |
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World Championships | |
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Junior World Championships | |
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The Japan women's national artistic gymnastics team represents Japan in FIG international competitions.
History
[edit]Japan has participated in the Olympic Games women's team competition 13 times and has won one team medal, a bronze in 1964.[1] Mai Murakami won Japan's first individual Olympic medal in women's artistic gymnastics: a bronze on floor exercise at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.[2] The team has also won two medals at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
Olympic Games team competition results
[edit]- 1956 — 6th place
- 1960 — 4th place
- 1964 —
bronze medal
- 1968 — 4th place
- 1972 — 7th place
- 1976 — 8th place
- 1984 — 6th place
- 1988 — 12th place
- 1996 — 12th place
- 2008 — 5th place
- 2012 — 8th place
- 2016 — 4th place
- 2020 — 5th place
- 2024 –
- To be named
World Championships results
[edit]Junior World Championships
[edit]Most decorated gymnasts
[edit]This list includes all Japanese female artistic gymnasts who have won a medal at the Olympic Games or the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
Rank | Gymnast | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX | Olympic Total | World Total | Total |
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1 | Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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1 | 8 | 9 | |
2 | Mai Murakami | ![]() |
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1 | 5 | 6 | |||
3 | Taniko Nakamura-Mitsukuri | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
4 | Kōko Tsurumi | ![]() |
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0 | 2 | 2 | ||||
5 | Ginko Abukawa-Chiba, Kiyoko Ono, Toshiko Shirasu-Aihara, Hiroko Tsuji | ![]() ![]() |
1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
9 | Urara Ashikawa | ![]() |
0 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Hazuki Watanabe | ![]() |
0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
11 | Taki Shibuya, Hiroko Ikenada, Yasuko Furuyama, Mitsuko Kandori | ![]() |
0 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Miyata Shoko | ![]() |
0 | 1 | 1 |
See also
[edit]- List of Olympic female artistic gymnasts for Japan
- Japan at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
- Japan men's national gymnastics team
References
[edit]- ^ "Japan Gymnastics Women's Team All-Around Results" Archived 2015-10-16 at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ^ "Japan's Mai Murakami wins bronze in women's floor exercise". The Japan Times. August 2, 2021.