Takuji Hayata
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 Takuji Hayata at the 1964 Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country represented |  Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | October 10, 1940 Tanabe, Wakayama, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Takuji Hayata (早田 卓次, Hayata Takuji, born October 10, 1940) is a retired Japanese gymnast. At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, he won gold medals in the rings and team all-around events. Individually he finished eighth all around.[1] At the 1970 World Championship he won a bronze medal at the horizontal bar, as well as a team gold.[2][3]
Later he became a coach and lead the Japanese team at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1978 World Championships. He also became a physical education professor at Nippon University, and was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2004.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Takuji Hayata". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
- ^ "1970 World Championships". Gymn. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
- ^ "1970 World Championships Men's Team Results". Gymn. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
- ^ "Takuji Hayata". ighof.com. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
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1964  Japan (JPN): Yukio Endo, Takuji Hayata, Takashi Mitsukuri, Takashi Ono, Shuji Tsurumi, Haruhiro Yamashita |
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