MURAKAMI Mai

Olympic Games

Year	Location	BB	FX	UB	AA	Team
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	34	7	38	14	4

World Championships

Year	Location	BB	FX	UB	VT	AA	Team
2018	Doha, QAT	12	3	24	-	2	6
2017	Montreal, QC, CAN	4	1	17	-	4	-
2015	Glasgow, GBR	39	18	30	-	6	5
2014	Nanning, CHN	-	77	41	13	160	8
2013	Antwerp, BEL	-	4	-	12	-	-

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

Year	AA
2019	1 x 4th
2018	1 x 1st

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2018	All-Around	Tokyo, JPN	56.532
2	2018	All-Around	Chicago, IL, USA	55.633
4	2019	All-Around	Greensboro, NC, USA	55.732

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

Rubber Ball Girl. (hochi.news, 15 Feb 2020; Asahi Shimbun YouTube channel, 12 Oct 2017)

Hiking, watching movies, shopping. (hochi.news, 15 Feb 2020)

Athlete

Physical Education - Nippon Sport Science University, Tokyo, JPN

Japanese

Nippon Sport Science University Artistic Gymnastics Club [Yokohama, JPN]

Kyoko Seo [club], JPN from 2015; Hikaru Tanaka [national], JPN

2012 for Japan (jpn-gym.or.jp, 12 Oct 2014)

She injured her left knee during training two days before the start of the 2021 NHK Cup in Tokyo, Japan, which also served as the national selection trials for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. She went on to claim victory in the all-around event. (sankei.com, 15 May 2021)

In 2019 she sustained an injury to the sacroiliac joint which connects the lower spine to the pelvis. It meant that she withdrew from the 2019 NHK Cup, which served as a national team selection trial for the world championships that year, and required three months of rehabilitation. She had previously been troubled by back pain after the 2018 World Championships in Doha, Qatar and also experienced back pain during 2020. (sanspo.com, 08 Sep 2020; hochi.news, 15 Feb 2020)

In 2011 she underwent surgery on her left elbow. (dot.asahi.com, 25 Oct 2019; jpn-gym.or.jp, 12 Oct 2014)

2010 (sponichi.co.jp, 31 Oct 2015)

She began doing gymnastics at age three at Iketani Gymnastics Club in Tokyo, Japan. (sanspo.com, 12 Mar 2019)

She was encouraged to take up the sport by her mother. (sanspo.com, 12 Mar 2019)

To win two gold medals at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sanspo.com, 29 Jun 2020; nikkansports.com, 05 Jan 2020; Gymnastics Soul YouTube channel, 15 Oct 2017)

"Overcome the things in front of you one by one." (Instagram profile, 01 Jan 2021)

In 2018 she was named Athlete of the Year by the Tokyo Sports Journalists Association in Japan and received the Female Big Sports Special Award at the Asahi TV Big Sports Awards in Japan. (sanspo.com, 19 Jan 2019; jpn-gym.or.jp, 12 Jan 2018)

In 2018 and 2017 she received the Gymnast of the Year Award from the Japan Gymnastics Association. (joc.or.jp, 19 Jan 2019; sanspo.com, 19 Jan 2019)