HATAKEDA Hitomi

World Championships

Year	Location	BB	FX	UB	AA	Team
2019	Stuttgart, GER	24	67	37	17	11
2018	Doha, QAT	19	62	22	26	6

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

Year	AA
2020/2021	1 x 3rd
2019	1 x 6th
2018	1 x 5th

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
3	2020/2021	All-Around	Milwaukee, WI, USA	53.799
5	2018	All-Around	Birmingham, GBR	51.133
6	2019	All-Around	Stuttgart, GER	52.699

Legend
BB - Balance Beam, FX - Floor Excercise, UB - Uneven Bars, VT - Vault, AA - Individual All-Around, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Making desserts, shopping. (tv-asahi.co.jp, 05 Sep 2019; news.line.me, 03 Oct 2019)

Student

Sports Science - Waseda University , Tokyo, JPN

Japanese

Central Sports [Japan]

Hikaru Tanaka [national], JPN; Yukiko Hatakeda [mother], JPN; Takanori Okazaki [club], JPN

Her father Yoshiaki Hatakeda was part of the Japanese men's team that won bronze in the team all-around at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. He has also worked as head coach of the men's team at the Nippon Sport Science University in Japan. Her mother Yukiko represented Japan in artistic gymnastics at the World University Games, while her younger sister Chiaki has also competed in the sport at world junior level. (TBS, 08 Feb 2020; mainichi.jp, 18 May 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 11 Oct 2018; sanspo.com, 20 May 2018; topics.or.jp, 29 Apr 2018)

2017 for Japan (sports-tokyo.info, 18 Oct 2017)

She withdraw from the 2019 All-Japan Championships in August, due to a pain in her neck. (hochi.news, 20 Sep 2019)

2017 (hojinkai-machida.or.jp, 01 Jan 2018)

She took up the sport at age nine. (waseda.jp, 08 Oct 2019 )

She was influenced by her parents. She had played on a trampoline from a young age but was not interested in artistic gymnastics. Then she was inspired by Japanese manga artist Fujio K Fujiko's lecture about life. "When I was thinking about what I would like to dedicate my life to, I realised that I didn't have anything except artistic gymnastics. Therefore, I decided to concentrate on it." (waseda.jp, 08 Oct 2019; news.line.me, 03 Oct 2020)

To compete with her sister Chiaki and win a medal in the team event at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (tv-asahi.co.jp, 05 Sep 2019; tbs.co.jp, 08 Feb 2020)

Her parents. (tv-asahi.co.jp, 05 Sep 2019)

She received the Active Senior Award at the 2019 Sports Awards in Machida, Japan. (city.machida.tokyo.jp, 19 Mar 2019)