Koji Yamamuro

Koji Yamamuro (山室 光史, Yamamuro Kōji, born January 17, 1989 in Koga, Ibaraki) is a Japanese gymnast.[2] He has won two Olympic medals in the men's artistic team all-around – silver in 2012 (London) and gold in 2016 (Rio de Janeiro).

Koji Yamamuro
Country represented Japan
Born (1989-01-17) January 17, 1989
Koga, Ibaraki
HometownKoga, Ibaraki
Height159 cm (5 ft 3 in)[1]
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics
ClubKONAMI
Head coach(es)Hiroyuki Kato
Assistant coach(es)Yoghiaki Hatakeda, Koji Gushiken
Former coach(es)Naoya Tsukahara
Medal record
Representing  Japan
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de JaneiroTeam
2012 LondonTeam
World Championships
2010 RotterdamTeam
2011 TokyoTeam
2011 TokyoAll-around
2011 TokyoRings

Career

Yamamuro won the bronze medal in men's all-around at the 2011 World Championships.[3]

Yamamuro competed for the national team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's artistic team all-around. In the team final, he injured his ankle on the vault event, and had to be helped off.[3] He had qualified for the individual all-around final, but due to the injury was unable to compete. This gave a chance for his teammate Kazuhito Tanaka to compete[4] - he had ranked behind Yamamuro and Kōhei Uchimura and had not qualified due to the 2-per-country rule.

Yamamuro also participated in the 2012 American Cup.[5]

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Yamamuro had won an Olympic gold medal as part of the Japanese men's artistic gymnastics national squad on the all-around team event. In that event final, Yamamuro contributed to two apparatuses on pommel horse and still rings with scores of 13.900 and 14.866 respectively.

References
  1. "Japanese Medalists in London 2012 Olympics". joc.or.jp. Japanese Olympic Committee. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  2. London2012.com Archived 2012-07-30 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Japan's Yamamuro injured in vault". Reuters. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  4. "Injury forces gymnast Yamamuro out of men's all-around". Japan Times. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  5. http://usagym.org/PDFs/Results/m_10tac_030610.pdf


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