Wataru Tanigawa
Country represented Japan
Born (1996-07-23) July 23, 1996
Funabashi, Japan
Height1.6 m (5 ft 3 in)
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics
LevelElite
Years on national teamJapan
ClubCentral Sports
Head coach(es)Yoshihiro Saito
Hisashi Mizutori
Medal record
Men's artistic gymnastics
Representing  Japan
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place2020 TokyoTeam
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2022 Liverpool Team
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Doha Team
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Stuttgart Team
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Liverpool All-Around
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place2022 HangzhouVault
Silver medal – second place2022 HangzhouTeam
Bronze medal – third place2022 HangzhouRings
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place 2017 Taipei Team
Gold medal – first place 2019 Naples Team
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Taipei All-Around
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Taipei Floor
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Taipei Parallel bars
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Taipei Horizontal bar

Wataru Tanigawa is a Japanese artistic gymnast. He is a two-time bronze medalist at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and a two-time gold medalist at the Summer Universiade.

At the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei, Taiwan, he won the gold medal in the men's team all-around event. He also won the bronze medal in four individual events: individual all-around, floor, parallel bars and horizontal bar.[1] In the same year, he also competed at the 2017 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships without winning a medal.

In 2019, he won the gold medal in the men's team event at the Summer Universiade in Naples, Italy.[2]

Personal life

Tanigawa started gymnastics at age six at Kenshin Sports Club in Funabashi, Japan.[3]

Tanigawa's younger brother, Kakeru, also represented Japan in artistic gymnastics at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany and the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia.[3]

Tanigawa studied sports science at Juntendo University in Tokyo.[3]

Career

2017
Tanigawa competed at the 2017 World Championships in Montreal, Canada.[3]

2018
Tanigawa competed at the 2018 World Championships in Doha, Qatar, where his team placed third.[3]

2019
Tanigawa competed at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, where his team placed third.[3]

2021
At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, Tanigawa competed for Japan, on a team including Kaya Kazuma, Kitazono Takeru and Hashimoto Daiki.[4] The team won Olympic silver with a combined score of 262.397, 0.103 points beneath the winning team.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Pavitt, Michael (23 August 2017). "Ten gymnasts claim gold medals as artistic competition concludes at Taipei 2017". Inside The Games. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  2. ↑ O'Kane, Patrick (4 July 2019). "China dominate diving podiums as Neapolitan energy drives Italian medal haul". Inside The Games. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Artistic Gymnastics TANIGAWA Wataru". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  4. ↑ "Artistic Gymnastics - Team Japan". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Archived from the original on 2021-07-27. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  5. ↑ "Artistic Gymnastics - Final Results". Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-07-25. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
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