is a Japanese gymnast. He has won two Olympic medals in the men's artistic team all-around – silver in
2012 (London) and gold in
2016 (Rio de Janeiro).
Personal life
Tanaka was born on November 29, 1989 in
Wakayama Wakayama may refer to:
*Wakayama Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan
*Wakayama (city)
Wakayama City Hall
is the capital city of Wakayama Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 351,391 in 157066 househol ...
. His elder brother is
Kazuhito Tanaka and an elder sister is
Rie Tanaka
is a Japanese voice actress and singer who is currently affiliated with Office Anemone. Notable among her numerous roles in anime are Lacus Clyne in ''Mobile Suit Gundam Seed'' and ''Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny'', Chi in '' Chobits'', Hi ...
.
Career
Tanaka won a silver medal at the
2012 Summer Olympics in the
men's artistic team all-around.
At the
2013 Summer Universiade in
Kazan
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, Tanaka won silver on the horizontal bar and the team bronze medal (with
Hiroki Ishikawa,
Shogo Nonomura,
Ryohei Kato and
Chihiro Yoshioka). He won the team gold medal at the
2015 World Championships and at the
2016 Summer Olympics.
References
External links
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Japanese male artistic gymnasts
1989 births
Living people
Olympic gymnasts of Japan
Gymnasts at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Japan
Olympic silver medalists for Japan
Olympic medalists in gymnastics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Universiade medalists in gymnastics
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People from Wakayama Prefecture
Universiade silver medalists for Japan
Universiade bronze medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade
21st-century Japanese people