KITAZONO Takeru

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	FX	HB	PB	PH	SR	AA	Multidiscipline Team Event X
2018	Buenos Aires, ARG	1	1	1	6	1	1	2

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

Japanese

Tokushukai [Kamakura, JPN]

Isao Yoneda [club], JPN; Hisashi Mizutori [national], JPN

In April 2021 he damaged ligaments in both elbows while performing on horizontal bar at the All Japan Championships which was also the national selection trials for the 2020 Olympic Games. (hochi.news, 18 Apr 2021; daily.co.jp, 19 Apr 2021)

He fractured his left ankle after a bad landing during training in 2017. The injury was still troubling him at the national trials for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (fujitv.co.jp, 17 Jan 2018; sanspo.com, 19 May 2018)

He began the sport at age three at Tomioka Gymnastics Club in Osaka, Japan. (number.bunshun.jp, 21 Aug 2020)

His mother enrolled him in a gymnastics club because he was fascinated by Japanese superhero television series 'Kamen Rider Hibiki'. (ytv-athlete.jp, 11 Jul 2015; daily.co.jp, 21 Oct 2018)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (ews.yahoo.co.jp, 12 Mar 2019)

Japanese artistic gymnast Kohei Uchimura. (sanspo.com, 19 May 2018)

He was presented with a Rookie Award at the 2018 Japanese Olympic Committee [JOC] Sports Awards. (jpn-gym.or.jp, 03 Apr 2019)

In 2019 he received Big Sports Rookie Award at the 53rd TV Asahi Big Sports Awards in Japan. (TV Asahi YouTube channel, 15 Jan 2019)