Wataru Tanigawa
| Wataru Tanigawa | |
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| — Gymnast — | |
| Country represented | Japan |
| Born | July 23, 1996 Funabashi, Japan |
| Height | 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in)etes |
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics |
| Level | Elite |
| Years on national team | Japan |
| Club | Central Sports |
| Head coach(es) | Yoshihiro Saito, Hisashi Mizutori |
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Wataru Tanigawa is a Japanese artistic gymnast. He is a two-time bronze medalist at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and a two-time gold medalist at the Summer Universiade.
At the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei, Taiwan, he won the gold medal in the men's team all-around event. He also won the bronze medal in four individual events: individual all-around, floor, parallel bars and horizontal bar.[1] In the same year, he also competed at the 2017 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships without winning a medal.
In 2019, he won the gold medal in the men's team event at the 2019 Summer Universiade in Naples, Italy.[2]
Personal life
Tanigawa started gymnastics at age six at Kenshin Sports Club in Funabashi, Japan.[3]
Tanigawa's younger brother, Kakeru, also represented Japan in artistic gymnastics at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany and the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia.[3]
Tanigawa studied sports science at Juntendo University in Tokyo.[3]
Career
2017
Tanigawa competed at the 2017 World Championships in Montreal, Canada.[3]
2018
Tanigawa competed at the 2018 World Championships in Doha, Qatar, where his team placed third.[3]
2019
Tanigawa competed at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, where his team placed third.[3]
2021
At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, Tanigawa competed for Japan, on a team including Kaya Kazuma, Kitazono Takeru and Hashimoto Daiki.[4] The team won Olympic silver with a combined score of 262.397, 0.103 points beneath the winning team.[5]
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- Articles with short description
- Living people
- 1996 births
- Place of birth missing (living people)
- Japanese male artistic gymnasts
- Universiade medalists in gymnastics
- Universiade gold medalists for Japan
- Universiade bronze medalists for Japan
- Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 2019 Summer Universiade
- Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gymnasts of Japan
- Olympic silver medalists for Japan
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- Sportspeople from Chiba Prefecture
