Kakeru Tanigawa
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| Country represented | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 February 1999 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kakeru Tanigawa (谷川 翔, Tanigawa Kakeru, born 15 February 1999)[1] is a Japanese artistic gymnast. He is the 2018 and 2019 Japanese National All Around Champion. His older brother, Wataru Tanigawa, is also an international gymnast.
In 2018, he won the silver medal in the men's team event at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia.[1] In the same year, he also won the bronze medal in the men's team event at the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships held in Doha, Qatar. A year later, he also won the bronze medal in the men's team event at the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships held in Stuttgart, Germany.
In 2014, he won several medals in the men's junior events at the 2014 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships held in Richmond, British Columbia.
In 2019, he won the gold medal in the men's team event at the 2019 Summer Universiade in Naples, Italy.[2] He also won the bronze medal in the floor event, and the gold medal on parallel bars.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Artistic Gymnastics" (PDF). 2018 Asian Games. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ^ O’Kane, Patrick (4 July 2019). "China dominate diving podiums as Neapolitan energy drives Italian medal haul". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
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