is a Japanese

gymnast Gymnastics is a group of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, artistry and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, sh ...

and Olympic champion. The parallel bar skill Morisue is named after him.

Early life

Morisue hails from Okayama City and attended the Nippon College of Physical Education (now called

Nippon Sport Science University , abbreviated as , is a private university in Setagaya, Tokyo and Aoba-ku, Yokohama. The precursor of the school was founded in 1893, and it was chartered as a university in 1949. The school is known for the many famous athletes among its alumni. ...

Olympics

He received a gold medal in ''horizontal bar'', a silver medal in ''vault'', and a bronze medal in ''team combined exercises'' at the

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."1984 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles, United States – Gymnastics"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on April 3, 2008)

World championships

Morisue received a bronze medal with the Japan team in the

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Post sports career

Morisue is now a show business personality in Japan and is frequently seen on TV, especially in sports programs, and to comment on the Olympics and other international competitions. In April, 2006 he was appointed professor at Kyushu Kyoritsu University.

Writer

In the early nineties amateur athletes have decreased. Morisue, concerned about the phenomenon of the moment, wrote the scenarios for the sports

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'' Ganba! Fly High'', based in part on his experiences as a gymnast, for which he and the illustrator Hiroyuki Kikuta received the 1998

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for shōnen manga.

Filmography

References

External links

Morisue(Parallel bars)
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Morisue, Shinji 1957 births Living people Japanese male artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for Japan Olympic gold medalists for Japan Olympic silver medalists for Japan Sportspeople from Okayama Nippon Sport Science University alumni Olympic medalists in gymnastics Asian Games medalists in gymnastics Gymnasts at the 1982 Asian Games Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Olympic bronze medalists for Japan Asian Games silver medalists for Japan Medalists at the 1982 Asian Games 20th-century Japanese sportsmen Competitors at the 1981 Summer Universiade