KAMEYAMA Kohei

Artistic Gymnastics

Date of Birth: 28 Dec 1988

Age: 32

Gender: Male

Height (m/ft): 1.70/5'6''

Place of birth: SENDAI

Birth Country:

Japan

Place of residence : KAMAKURA

Residence Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Artistic Gymnastics	Men's Pommel Horse	5

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Ariake Gymnastics Centre - Pommel	Men's Pommel Horse Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championships

Year	Location	HB	PH	SR	AA	Team
2017	Montreal, QC, CAN	-	17	-	-	-
2014	Nanning, CHN	97	46	67	263	2
2013	Antwerp, BEL	-	1	-	-	-

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

Year	PH
2019/2020	1 x 1st
2017/2018	1 x 4th

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2019/2020	Pommel Horse	Baku, AZE	15.233
2	2019/2020	Pommel Horse	Doha, QAT	15.400
3	2019/2020	Pommel Horse	Doha, QAT	14.600
3	2019/2020	Pommel Horse	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	14.833
4	2017/2018	Pommel Horse	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	13.366
14	2019/2020	Pommel Horse	Cottbus, GER	14.033
17	2017/2018	Pommel Horse	Cottbus, GER	12.633

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

Kame (asahi.com, 14 Oct 2017)

Reading, visiting waterfalls. (taisou.tokushukai.jp, 13 Jan 2014)

Occupation:

Physical Education - Sendai University, Japan

Wife, one daughter

Languages spoken:

Tokushukai Gymnastics Club [Japan]

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

2010 for Japan, in Montreal, Canada (jpn-gym.or.jp, 13 Sep 2013)

He began the sport at age six. (jpn-gym.or.jp, 13 Sep 2013)

His mother did gymnastics when she was young and she recommended the sport to him. (jpn-gym.or.jp, 13 Sep 2013)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (news.yahoo.co.jp, 19 Apr 2017; kameyama-kohei.com, 03 Nov 2019)

Philosophy:

"Challenge to achieve goals." (kameyama-kohei.com, 04 Dec 2018)

In 2018 he received the Kamakura Citizen Honorary Award in Japan. (city.kamakura.kanagawa.jp, 15 Oct 2018)

In 2013 he received a special merit award at the Asahi TV Big Sports Awards, the Miyagi Prefecture Awards, and the Best Athletic Awards, all events organised by the Gymnastics Sub-Commission of the Tokyo Sports Press Club in Japan. (asahi.com, 17 Jan 2014; digital.asahi.com, 20 Dec 2013; kahoku.co.jp, 07 Nov 2013)

He received an Excellence Award at the 2013 Japanese Olympic Committee Sports Awards. (joc.or.jp, 16 Jun 2014)

General Interest

General
RETIREMENT U-TURN
He announced his retirement from the sport after not being selected for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, but his club coach encouraged him to continue. In December 2016 he returned to competition with the aim of competing at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. "I had been thinking about why I wanted to continue the sport, and finally I found a reason for competing. For me, it is the best way to achieve my family's happiness when I compete in the sport." (news.yahoo.co.jp, 19 Apr 2017; nikkansports.com, 22 Jun 2017; sanspo.com, 30 Mar 2020)

Social Media

Athlete Blog: http://koheikameyama.blog.jp/
https://www.facebook.com/kameyama.kohei190
https://instagram.com/kohei.kameyama/
https://twitter.com/kamesen_ryu
Athlete Website: https://kameyama-kohei.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtm6x_w8-Wm83ZRQQ8LsqRw

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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