Koji Yamamuro

Koji Yamamuro
— Gymnast —
Country represented	Japan
Born	January 17, 1989 Koga, Ibaraki
Hometown	Koga, Ibaraki
Height	159 cm (5 ft 3 in)[1]
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Club	KONAMI
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 Janeiro Team 2012 London Team World Championships 2010 Rotterdam Team 2011 Tokyo Team 2011 Tokyo All-around 2011 Tokyo Rings

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).

Career

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

He 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]

References

1. "Japanese Medalists in London 2012 Olympics". joc.or.jp. Japanese Olympic Committee. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
2. London2012.com
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