gimnasia artistica

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https://twitter.com/kohei198913

El twitter de Uchimura. La pena es no saber japones.

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Kohei’s upcoming schedule

This weekend, Toyota of course!

London Olympic team performances to support earthquake reconstruction:

Dec. 17 - Hiroshima

Dec. 19 - Fukuoka

Dec. 21 - Miyagi

Jan. 24 - Japan Best Jewelry Dresser (lol) Awards Ceremony

Jan. 26 (tentative) - MVP award ceremony (? not sure which one…)

Credit to chankayosnow and the JGA blog for the info

The JGA blog also reports that the December 19 and 21 performances will air on TV in January.

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http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/gimna...1/1224130/

Final por aparatos del campeonato mundial del 2011 en Japon

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Japanese Olympian Ryohei Kato took two titles during the first day of the Toyota Cup, held Saturday in Toyota City.

Kato, 19, impressed with gold medals on floor exercise (15.675) and pommel horse (15.050) at the Toyota City Sky Hall, while Olympic champion Arthur Zanetti (Brazil) won still rings.


Japan won all three silver medals in the men competition. Yusuke Tanaka was second on floor exercice and still rings, while his brother Kazuhito Tanaka was runner-up on pommel horse.

Rie Tanaka — a 2012 Olympian alongside her brothers — won uneven bars despite a fall after her Pak salto.

Vietnamese world medalist Phan Thị Hà Thanh claimed the vault gold medal with a double-twisting Yurchenko and layout Rudi. Japan claimed the other two medals with Mai Murakami and Wakiko Ryu both vaulting double-twisting Yurchenkos.

Six-time Olympian Oksana Chusovitina (Germany) was fourth on vault with a piked handspring full and Tsukahara-full.

Canada claimed three medals: Hugh Smith was third on floor exercise, 2004 Olympian Ken Ikeda was third on pommel horse and Sabrina Gill was second on uneven bars.

World and Olympic all-around champion Kohei Uchimura skipped the event to rest his sore ankle and shoulder.
Competition concludes Sunday with the remainder of the events.

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Uchimura hablo por primera vez de su matrimonio en publico.Tambien dijo que su intencion es volver a competir en Mayo en Zen nihon

Kohei aims to return to competition at the Zen Nihon in May! Also talks about his marriage publicly for the first time.

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Japan was excelent on day 1 of Toyota International Gymnastics (or just Toyota Cup). Ryohei featured on FX and PH, while Rie was the best on UB. Yusuke, Kazuhito and Yusuke Saito did well too, they got three silvers and one bronze medal. The girls was good too, Mai and Wakiko got silver and bronze medal on VT, ahead of ten time World Championships medalist Oksana Chusovitina.

Men Floor Exercise Final:
1.Ryohei Kato (JPN) 15.675
2.Yusuke Tanaka (JPN) 15.075
3.Hugh Smith (CAN) 14.350
4.Arthur Zanetti (BRA) 14.275
5.Kam Wah Liu (NKG) 12.425
6.Wai Hung Shek (NKG) 12.325
7.Zachary Clay (CAN) 11.925

Men Pommel Horse Final:
1.Ryohei Kato (JPN) 15.050
2.Kazuhito Tanaka (JPN) 14.775
3.Kenneth Ikeda (CAN) 14.200
4.Zachary Clay (CAN) and Wai Hung Shek (NKG) 13.400
5.—-
6.Christopher Jursch (GER) 13.000
7.Daniel Weinert (GER) 12.325

Women Vault Final:
1.Ha Thanh Phan Thi (VIE) 14.925
2.Mai Murakami (JPN) 14.475
3.Wakiko Ryu (JPN) 14.212
4.Oksana Chusovitina (GER) 13.725
5.Hiu Ying Angel Wong (HKG) 13.662
6.Anja Rheinbay (GER) 12.925
7.Nim Yan Choi (NKG) 11.512

Men Rings Final:
1.Arthur Zanetti (BRA) 15.900
2.Yusuke Tanaka (JPN) 14.850
3.Yusuke Saito (JPN) 14.825
4.Igor Radivilov(UKR) 14.525
5.Kiu Chung NG (HKG) 14.250
6.Daniel Weinert (GER) 13.300
7.Hak Seon Yang (KOR) 13.100
8.Hugh Smith (CAN) 12.950
9.Kam Wah Liu (NKG)12.325

Women Uneven Bars Final:
1.Rie Tanaka (JPN) 12.975
2.Sabrina Gill (CAN) 12.875
3.Isabelle Marquard (GER) 12.500
4.Yu Minobe (JPN) 12.425
5.Anja Rheinbay (GER) 11.700
6.Hiu Ying Angel Wong (HKG) 10.675

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Riohei Kato es el que monta a caballo,y Uchimura es el que lleva las gafas en la cabeza

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The host Japanese won four out of five gold medals Sunday as the Toyota Cup concluded in Toyota City.


Yusuke Tanaka (Japan)

2012 Olympian Yusuke Tanaka was the big winner Sunday with titles on both parallel bars and high bar. On p-bars, he edged his older brother, Kazuhito, by .150. Sister Rie Tanaka — the family's third Olympian sibling — claimed the gold on uneven bars on Saturday.
Olympic vault champion Yang Hak-Seon (Korea) won the men's vault title, though he didn't risk his namesake triple-twisting handspring layout front. Hong Kong's Shek Wai Hung placed second behind Yang and also won the silver on high bar behind Tanaka.

Germany's Christopher Jursch was also a double medalist, with bronzes on parallel bars and high bar.

Japanese rising star Ryohei Kato, who won floor exercise and pommel horse on Saturday, missed out on another medal with a fall on high bar.

Reigning world and Olympic all-around champion Kohei Uchimura was absent in Toyota City. Uchimura, who recently announced he and his new wife are expecting a baby in the spring, is resting his sore ankle and shoulder.

The Japanese women went 1-2 on both balance beam and floor exercise. Yu Minobe won balance beam over Yuko Shintake. (A third Japanese gymnast, Asuka Teramoto, topped Shintake but was competing exhibition.)

Vault champion Phan Thị Hà Thanh (Vietnam) won the bronze on balance beam. Canada's Sabrina Gill, the runner-up on uneven bars, picked up another medal with the bronze on floor exercise.

Six-time Olympian Oksana Chusovitina (Germany), fourth on vault on Saturday, took sixth on beam and fourth on floor exercise. Chusovitina, 37, has said she is reconsidering retirement for the time being.
http://www.intlgymnast.com/index.php?opt...Itemid=164

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This is the first in a series of unpublished interviews from 2012.


LONDON -- His new gold medal around his neck, Kohei Uchimura quietly accepted a round of applause as he sat down in the press room off the arena. It had been a very eventful few days: the favored Japanese men had claimed the silver medal in the team competition, behind World champion China, after a controversial call by the judges on Uchimura's pommel horse dismount had elevated the team from fourth place to second.

Uchimura had been unbeatable for the past three years and it was almost a given that the Olympic Games would be no different. He was the greatest gymnast in the world, of his generation, perhaps of all time. His nickname was Superman. Surely the Olympics would not be a hindrance to him.

But cracks in Uchimura's armour had appeared almost as soon as he began competing in London. During men's podium training, he crashed a triple twisting double tuck and removed the skill from his floor routine. In the men's team prelims, he fell from the high bar and finished ninth overall on the first day. In men's team finals, he had what can only be called a freak out as he swung into his handstand pirouetting dismount.

The controversial call -- whether he had actually made it to handstand, and the officials who reviewed the tape decided that yes, he had -- added 0.7 to the Japanese men's team score and sprung them from fourth place to second. It was an expected medal, but it had come in such an unexpected way.

Uchimura finally did what he was capable of -- almost -- during the men's all-around final, where the gold medal had eluded him in Beijing four years earlier (he finished with silver, an incredible feat given that he slipped off the pommel horse twice in the all-around final.) Aside from brushing his hand on the floor mat during his last event, he was Uchimura of old; golden, unbeatable Kohei.

After the medal ceremony he was taken first down to the bowels of the North Greenwich Arena where the numerous, horde-like Japanese media surrounded him. Then it was upstairs to the media room, which was filled with reporters of other nationalities. It's that interview that's below.

Q: Is there an opening statement that you would like to make?

Uchimura: "Well, I should say that I proved what I can do what I trained."

Q: The early part of this competition (the men's qualifying and team finals) were more difficult for you than today. Did you have to change your feelings before you competed?

Uchimura: "I should say that it was like the World [Championships] competition last year. Even though we won only a silver medal, it was something we won together. I was happy we got the silver medal at the end. I shouldn't say I changed my feelings. I wasn't that depressed actually."

Q: What does the gold medal mean to the people of Japan?

Uchimura: "Well, I'm so thankful. I'm so grateful. That's all I can say. It's not only my ability or skill. It's because of all the support I've received. So I just want to say thank you to all of the people."

Q: How did the competition feel to you today?

Uchimura: "Well, I started on the pommel horse and that was the first time I had started on the pommel horse in the last four years. So I was wondering what to do at the very beginning. However, I knew I could have a good floor routine. Yesterday my coach told me that maybe I could decrease the level of the horizontal bar in terms of the difficulty. He mentioned it. But also I had a gut feeling to change the level of the difficulty."

Q: You know your condition each morning when you wake up. How did you feel this morning?

Uchimura: "To be honest? It was not good this morning. But I shared a room with Koji Yamamuro, and he had an injury [during the men's team final, a very Kerri Strug-like moment when he hurt himself on vault.] I watched him as he was sleeping in bed this morning. We were planning to do this competition together, but he got this injury, so I felt very regretful, and so did our coach. So when I saw him in the bed, I told myself I was trying to do my best for him as well."

Q: What are your future goals now that you have won the Olympic championship?

Uchimura: "Well, the biggest game for me is this one, and I got the gold. So I have the ideal of artistic gymnastics and I have a vision of how I can compete and play and practice. So I want to establish something and continue to express it. And Rio is one of those visions I have in mind. I'm not sure how far I can go, but I want to challenge myself to the limit."

Q: You seem very calm when you compete. Do you ever feel pressure?

Uchimura: "Well, I'm flattered. But at the same time, I have to do my best, the 50/50 kind of feelings. But I don't want to take that as a pressure."

Q: You are very close to your mother. Could you hear her cheering for you tonight?

Uchimura: "Well, I think her voice, her cheers are the biggest ones for me. They were the biggest support and biggest voice for me. And before coming to the Olympics, my mother told me she would give me big cheers from the stadium, and it's because of her voice that I think I was able to do my best."
http://www.examiner.com/article/kohei-uc...um=twitter

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Rie Tanaka