Takaaki Sugino

Japanese artistic gymnast
Takaaki Sugino
杉野 正尭
Country represented Japan
Born (1998-10-18) 18 October 1998 (age 25)
Tsu, Mie, Japan
ResidenceKamakura, Japan
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics
Years on national team2017 - present (JPN)
ClubTokushukai Gymnastics Club
College teamNIFS Kanoya
Head coach(es)Yuji Sano, Yuya Shintaku, Naoki Morichika
Medal record
Representing  Japan
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris Team
FIG World Cup
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Apparatus World Cup 0 1 1
World Challenge Cup 4 0 0
Total 4 1 1

Takaaki Sugino (杉野 正尭, Sugino Takaaki, born 18 October 1998)[2] is a Japanese artistic gymnast. He won a gold medal with the Japanese team at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Early and personal life

Sugino was born in Tsu, Mie,[3] and began gymnastics when he was six.[2] He has two older brothers who also competed in gymnastics. His father died of cancer when he was in high school.[4] He graduated from National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Kanoya and joined the Tokushukai Gymnastics Club.[1]

Career

2017

Sugino won the gold medal on the pommel horse at the Paris World Challenge Cup.[5] In December, he competed at the Toyota International and won the gold medal on the pommel horse.[6]

2018

Sugino won a bronze medal on the pommel horse at the Baku World Cup.[7] He placed 29th in the all-around at the All-Japan Championships with the highest score on the pommel horse.[8] He then placed 26th in the all-around at the NHK Trophy.[9] He narrowly won the gold medal on the horizontal bar ahead of Audrys Nin Reyes at the Koper World Challenge Cup.[10] Then at the All-Japan Event Championships, he placed fifth on the pommel horse.[11] He placed eighth with his university at the All-Japan Team Championships.[12]

2019

Sugino won a bronze medal on the pommel horse at the All-Japan Championships.[13] Then at the All-Japan Event Championships, he won the gold medal on the pommel horse and tied for fifth on the horizontal bar.[14] He tied for seventh place in the all-around at the All-Japan Student Championships.[15] Then in September, he won gold medals on the floor exercise and pommel horse at the Guimaraes World Challenge Cup.[16] At the end of the year, he finished tenth with his university at the All-Japan Team Championships.[17]

2020

Sugino placed second on the pommel horse in the qualification of the Baku World Cup before the event finals were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[18] In October, he placed seventh in the all-around at the All-Japan Student Championships.[19] Then in December, he finished 23rd in the all-around and eighth in the horizontal bar final.[20]

2021

Sugino placed eighth in the all-around at the All-Japan Championships.[21] He then placed sixth at the NHK Trophy.[22] At the All-Japan Event Championships, he placed eighth on the pommel horse and won the bronze medal on the horizontal bar behind Daiki Hashimoto and Kōhei Uchimura.[23] He was not selected for the Japanese Olympic team.[24] He won the silver medal in the all-around at the All-Japan Senior Championships behind Kaya Kazuma.[25] At the end of the season, he won a silver medal with his club team at the All-Japan Team Championships.[26]

2022

Sugino finished 12th in the all-around at the All-Japan Championships.[27] He then finished fifth at the NHK Trophy and also had the highest scores on the pommel horse and the horizontal bar.[28] At the All-Japan Event Championships, he won the gold medal on the pommel horse and also placed fifth on the horizontal bar.[29] He won a gold medal with his club team at the All-Japan Team Championships.[30]

2023

At the Doha World Cup, Sugino finished fifth on the floor exercise and fourth on the pommel horse.[31] Then at the All-Japan Championships, he placed 12th in the all-around and had the highest score on the pommel horse.[32] He then placed 21st in the all-around at the NHK Trophy.[33] He won the pommel horse title at the All-Japan Event Championships and won the bronze medal on the horizontal bar.[34] In September, he won the all-around title at the All-Japan Senior Championships.[35] Sugino ended the season with a gold medal with his club at the All-Japan Team Championships.[36]

2024

Sugino placed fourth in the all-around at the All-Japan Championships, about one point away from the bronze medal.[37] He finished fifth in the all-around at the NHK Trophy and had the second-highest scores on the floor exercise, pommel horse, and horizontal bar.[38] He was then selected to represent Japan at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, alongside Tanigawa Wataru, Oka Shinnosuke, Kaya Kazuma, and Hashimoto Daiki. They won the gold medal in the team final on July 29, defeating long-time rival China.[39] Then in the pommel horse final, he finished in sixth place with a score of 14.933.[40] He fell in the horizontal bar final and finished seventh.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Takaaki Sugino – Introduction of affiliated athletes". Tokushukai Gymnastics Club (in Japanese). Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Takaaki Sugino". Paris 2024. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
  3. ^ "パリ2024オリンピック・パラリンピック競技大会津市出身選手応援ページ" [Support page for athletes from Tsu City at the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games]. Tsu City (in Japanese). 5 August 2024. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  4. ^ a b "鉄棒、杉野正尭は落下で７位「最後はしっかり課題を残してしまった」…パリ五輪" [Takaaki Sugino falls on the horizontal bar and finishes 7th, "I left some room for improvement at the end"...Paris Olympics]. Sports Hochi (in Japanese). 5 August 2024. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  5. ^ "En route for Montreal Worlds, stars of Gymnastics light up Internationaux de France". International Gymnastics Federation. 19 September 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  6. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (10 December 2017). "2017 Toyota International Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  7. ^ "Results for FIG World Cup 2018 Baku (AZE)". International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  8. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (2 May 2018). "2018 All-Japan Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  9. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (22 May 2018). "2018 NHK Trophy Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  10. ^ "Steingruber, Japanese men conquer Koper World Challenge Cup". International Gymnastics Federation. 4 June 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  11. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (11 July 2018). "2018 All-Japan Event Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  12. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (28 November 2018). "2018 All-Japan Team Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  13. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (11 May 2019). "2019 All-Japan Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  14. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (25 June 2019). "2019 All-Japan Event Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  15. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (24 August 2019). "2019 All-Japan Student Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  16. ^ "Japan, Mexico golden in Guimaraes as World Challenge Cup series ends". International Gymnastics Federation. 23 September 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  17. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (12 November 2020). "2019 All-Japan Team Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  18. ^ "China and Turkey led the way before untimely finish to Baku World Cup". International Gymnastics Federation. 18 March 2020. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  19. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (27 October 2020). "2020 All-Japan Student Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  20. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (13 December 2020). "2020 All-Japan Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  21. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (20 April 2021). "2021 All-Japan Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  22. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (17 May 2021). "2021 NHK Trophy Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  23. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (8 June 2021). "2021 All-Japan Event Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  24. ^ "Japan's Kohei Uchimura books ticket to 4th Olympics". Kyodo News. 6 June 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  25. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (28 September 2021). "2021 All-Japan Senior Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  26. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (15 December 2021). "2021 All-Japan Team Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  27. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (24 April 2022). "2022 All-Japan Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  28. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (16 May 2022). "2022 NHK Trophy Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  29. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (20 June 2022). "2022 All-Japan Event Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  30. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (13 December 2022). "2022 All-Japan Team Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  31. ^ "Results for FIG Apparatus World Cup 2023 Doha (QAT)". International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  32. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (25 April 2023). "2023 All-Japan Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  33. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (21 May 2023). "2023 NHK Trophy Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  34. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (11 June 2023). "2023 All-Japan Event Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  35. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (10 September 2023). "2023 All-Japan Senior Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  36. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (29 November 2023). "2023 All-Japan Team Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  37. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (16 April 2024). "2024 All-Japan Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  38. ^ Kano, Shintaro (19 May 2024). "NHK Trophy 2024 gymnastics: Oka Shinnosuke seizes the day and a quota for Paris Games". Paris 2024. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
  39. ^ Hiroki, Noda (29 July 2024). "Olympics: Japan edges China to win gymnastics team gold in Paris". Kyodo News. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  40. ^ "体操 男子種目別 あん馬 決勝 杉野正尭 6位 パリオリンピック" [Gymnastics, Men's Individual Events, Pommel Horse Final, Takaaki Sugino, 6th Place, Paris Olympics]. NHK (in Japanese). 4 August 2024. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
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