Naoya tsukahara biography of william

Women's team all-around gymnastics results

He is the son of the former Japanese gymnast, Mitsuo Tsukahara, who was also a multiple gold medalist in the Olympic Games during the s and 70s. He competed at the , and Olympics as well as many World Championships for team Japan from until In , he moved to Australia, gaining citizenship in , and currently represents Australia's national gymnastics team, most recently competing at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

Naoya participated at the Olympics in Atlanta. The Japanese team finished 10th in the team final. Individually, Naoya qualified into the all-around final and finished 12th in the final. Although Naoya did not get any medal in the Olympics , he had been quite successful after that. In the World Championships, he won two bronze medals in the all-around and on parallel bars.

In the World Championships, he had pushed himself to a higher level of success, winning silver medals in all-around and on parallel bars. This time the Japanese gymnastics team was edged by the Russian team for a bronze medal. Individually, Naoya qualified 6th and 10th into the horizontal bar and all-around final respectively.

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He finally finished 18th in all-around final, and a fall in the horizontal bar final made him come last, with a score of 8. After the Summer Olympics , Naoya could not regain his form of Naoya's character in the national team changed from an all-around competitor into an anchor for the Japanese gymnastics team. In the World Championships, Naoya made it into the all-around and parallel bars finals, finishing 7th in the all-around while his teammate, Hiroyuki Tomita, won a bronze in that event.

Individually, Naoya placed 4th on his strongest event, parallel bars with a score of 9.