Mitsuo Tsukahara

Mitsuo Tsukahara (冢 原 光 男Japanese, Mitsuo Tsukahara, born December 22, 1947 in Tokyo) is a former Japanese gymnast. With five gold medals, one silver medal and three bronze medals he is the most successful athletes in the Olympics.

In the 1968 Olympics he won the team competition with the Japanese team. Four years later in Munich, he showed the he invented double somersault with screw as a departure from the high bar, the so-called moon Alto; he won in Munich with the team and on the high bar. These two titles won Tsukahara also in Montreal in 1976, with his final stretching exercise was crucial in the victory over the Soviet Union in the team competition.

In addition to his departure Reck especially his rollover followed by backflip has remained known, this jump is called after him as Tsukahara. This jump he first showed at the World Cup 1970, he was so world champion in horse jumping.

From 1983, Mitsuo Tsukahara was coach of the Japanese team and looked after them, among other things at the Olympic Games in 1984. Naoya Tsukahara His son was 2004 Olympic gold medalist with the Japanese team.

International success

  • Summer Olympic Games 1968 18th place in the all around
  • 4th place on the rings
  • Place 4 on the floor
  • 1st place in the team standings
  • 2nd place in the all around
  • 1st place in the horse jump
  • Place 2 on the rings
  • 1st place in the team standings
  • 8th place in the all around
  • Place 1 on the horizontal bar
  • 3rd place on the rings
  • 1st place in the team standings
  • 1st place in the team standings
  • 3rd place in the all around
  • Place 1 on the horizontal bar
  • 2nd place in the horse jump
  • 3rd place on bars
  • 1st place in the team standings
  • 1st place in the team standings
Tsukahara (vault) Anton Heida Edward Hennig Georges Miez Dallas Bixler Aleksanteri Saarvala Josef Stalder Boris Shakhlin Mikhail Voronin Akinori Nakayama Trent Dimas Andreas Wecker Alexei Nemov Epke Zonderland
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