Tsurumi Kōko
Tsurumi at the 2009 World Championships
Personal information
Full nameTsurumi Kōko
Alternative name(s)鶴見 虹子
Country represented Japan
Born (1992-09-28) September 28, 1992
Tokyo, Japan
HometownTokyo, Japan
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
LevelSenior
Years on national team2006–12 (JPN)
ClubAsahi Seimei Gymnastic Club
Head coach(es)Sergei Butsula
Former coach(es)Chieko Tsukahara
ChoreographerAlina Kozich
Retired2015
Medal record
Representing  Japan
World Championships
Silver medal – second place2009 LondonUneven Bars
Bronze medal – third place2009 LondonAll-Around
World Cup Final
Bronze medal – third place2008 MadridUneven Bars
Asian Games
Silver medal – second place2010 GuangzhouTeam
Bronze medal – third place2010 GuangzhouUneven Bars
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place2008 DohaTeam
Gold medal – first place2008 DohaAll-Around
Gold medal – first place2008 DohaUneven Bars
Gold medal – first place2008 DohaFloor Exercise

Tsurumi Kōko (鶴見虹子) (born September 28, 1992) is a retired Japanese artistic gymnast. She is the 2009 World all-around bronze medalist, uneven bars silver medalist, and a two-time Olympian (2008, 2012).

Gymnastics career

Tsurumi was a member of the 2008 Japanese Olympic Team. The women's gymnastics team placed 5th in team competition. Individually, Tsurumi placed 17th in the all-around final and 8th in the balance beam event final.

Tsurumi at the 2009 World Championships

Tsurumi competed at the 2009 American Cup and placed 7th all-around.

At the 2009 World Championships in London, Koko Tsurumi competed a historic performance to win the individual all-around bronze medal. During event finals, Tsurumi won the silver medal on uneven bars and placed 6th on balance beam. Tsurumi is the first Japanese woman gymnast to win a World Championships medal in 43 years.

Koko competed at the 2010 Japan Cup and placed second all-around behind Ksenia Afanasyeva. At that competition, Tsurumi scored a 15.400 on uneven bars. She debuted a new bars routine with an ono turn to half turn connected to a Tkachev and an ono turn connected to a Jaegar. At the 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Tsurumi experienced problems with consistency and failed to make any event finals and placed 21st in the All Around, behind countrywoman Rie Tanaka.

At the 2011 Japan Cup, Koko placed 2nd place with the Japanese team in the team competition and won the gold medal in the all around competition. She placed 0.100 higher than 2nd-place finisher, Chinese gymnast Sui Lu. Later that year she placed seventh on Uneven Bars at the World Championships and seventh with the team.

In 2012, Koko was part of Japan's Olympic team in London, where she placed seventh in the bars final and eighth with the team.

She made her elite comeback at the 2015 WOGA Classic in Plano, Texas, scoring 15.000 on bars and 13.850 on beam.[1]

At the NHK Cup, Tsurumi suffered an achilles tendon injury and was out for the remainder of the 2015 season.[2] She retired in 2015.[3]

Competitive history

Senior

Year Event Team AA VT UB BB FX
2007
World Championships15
2008
Asian Championships1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)41st place, gold medalist(s)
Olympic Games5178
World Cup Final3rd place, bronze medalist(s)7
2009American Cup7
World Championships3rd place, bronze medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)6
2010Japan Cup2nd place, silver medalist(s)
National Championships1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships521
Asian Games2nd place, silver medalist(s)73rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2011Japan Cup2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
NHK Cup1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships7157
2012National Championships7
Olympic Games87
2014National Championships1st place, gold medalist(s)
2015WOGA Classic2nd place, silver medalist(s)
National Championships5
Kōko Tsurumi
Japanese name
Kanji鶴見 虹子
Hiraganaつるみ こうこ

References

  1. ↑ "2015 WOGA Classic Results". February 14, 2015. Archived from the original on November 27, 2020. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Japan's Koko Tsurumi Suffers An Injury Which Will Put An End To Her Career". Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2015-05-23.
  3. ↑ "World Medalist and Olympian Koko Tsurumi Retires". The Gymternet. December 11, 2015. Archived from the original on June 12, 2021. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
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