TANIGAWA Wataru

World Championships

Year	Location	FX	VT	PB	PH	SR	Team
2019	Stuttgart, GER	-	-	50	38	28	3
2018	Doha, QAT	26	11	13	116	23	3
2017	Montreal, QC, CAN	57	-	11	-	15	-

World Cup overview - Best rank per season and event since 2017

Year	FX	VT	AA
2019	-	-	1 x 2nd
2018	-	-	1 x 2nd
2017/2018	1 x 4th	1 x 3rd	-

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
2	2019	All-Around	Tokyo, JPN	85.665
2	2018	All-Around	Tokyo, JPN	84.399
3	2017/2018	Vault	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	14.566
4	2017/2018	Floor Exercise	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	14.033

Legend
FX - Floor Excercise, VT - Vault, HB - Horizontal Bar, PB - Parallel Bars, PH - Pommel Horse, SR - Rings, AA - Individual All-Around, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Athlete

Sports Science - Juntendo University, Tokyo, JPN

Japanese

Central Sports [Japan]

Yoshihiro Saito [club], JPN; Hisashi Mizutori [national], JPN

His younger brother Kakeru has also represented Japan in artistic gymnastics, and won bronze in the team event at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. He also won silver in the team event at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia. (sanspo.com, 10 Oct 2019; rockergymnastics.com, 23 Jun 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 31 Aug 2018; koukouseishinbun.jp, 10 May 2016)

He began gymnastics at age six at Kenshin Sports Club in Funabashi, Japan. (tv-asahi.co.jp, 05 Sep 2019; tarzanweb.jp, 30 Oct 2018)

He initially began gymnastics for fun, until a coach recognised his talent and suggested he take it up seriously. (tarzanweb.jp, 30 Oct 2018)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (tv-asahi.co.jp, 05 Sep 2019; juntendo.ac.jp, 15 Jan 2019)

He trains six days a week. His training sessions last for up to three hours a day. (tarzanweb.jp, 30 Oct 2018)

Japanese artistic gymnast Shogo Nonomura. (taisou-nippon.jp, 25 Jun 2017)

"Be confident." (tv-asahi.co.jp, 05 Sep 2019)