UYAMA Megu

Trampoline Gymnastics

Date of Birth: 14 Jan 1996

Age: 25

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.58/5'2''

Place of birth: INZAI

Birth Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Trampoline Gymnastics	Women	5

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Ariake Gymnastics Centre	Women's Qualification	Finished
	Ariake Gymnastics Centre	Women's Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championships

Year	Location	Women	Team	Synchro
2019	Tokyo, JPN	25	1	-
2018	St. Petersburg, RUS	8	-	1
2015	Odense, DEN	-	-	9
2014	Daytona Beach, FL, USA	15	-	16

Asian Games

Year	Location	Women
2018	Indonesia	4

World Cup overview - Best rank per season and event since 2017/2018

Year	Women	Synchro
2019/2020	1 x 4th	-
2017/2018	1 x 4th	1 x 6th

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017/2018

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
4	2019/2020	Individual Trampoline	Baku, AZE	54.550
4	2017/2018	Individual Trampoline	Loule, POR	54.500
5	2019/2020	Individual Trampoline	Khabarovsk, RUS	55.170
5	2019/2020	Individual Trampoline	Baku, AZE	54.485
6	2017/2018	Women's Synchro	Loule, POR	42.900
8	2019/2020	Individual Trampoline	Valladolid, ESP	0.000
9	2017/2018	Individual Trampoline	Maebashi, JPN	104.515
10	2017/2018	Women's Synchro	Maebashi, JPN	83.225
13	2019/2020	Individual Trampoline	Minsk, BLR	102.070

Legend
DNS - Did Not Start, Men - Men's Individual, Women - Women's Individual, X - Mixed

Occupation:

Sport Studies - Kanazawa Gakuin University, Kanazawa, JPN

Languages spoken:

Sports Club Tenforty [Yachiyo, JPN]

Toshio Harada [club], JPN

2014 for Japan, Asian Championships in Chiba, Japan (sanspo.com, 04 Jun 2014)

In December 2020 an injury forced her to withdraw from the 2020 All Japan Championships. (Instagram profile, 04 Nov 2020; nikkei.com, 12 Dec 2020)

She took up trampolining in grade four of primary school. (sankei.com, 11 Sep 2019)

She was initially interested in artistic gymnastics, but was fascinated by trampolining at a tryout event. (sankei.com, 11 Sep 2019)

To compete at the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games. (inzai-taikyo.jp, 12 Dec 2018)

Coach Toshio Harada. (chiba-jonetsu-athlete.com, 30 Jun 2019)

In 2019 she was presented with the Governor of Chiba Prefecture Award in Japan. (chibanippo.co.jp, 24 Jan 2019)

In 2019 she received the Asahi TV Sports Encouragement Award at the 53th Asahi TV Big Sports Awards in Japan. (Asahi TV YouTube channel, 15 Jan 2019)

In 2018 she was given the Ishikawa Prefecture Sports Special Award in Japan. (mainichi.jp, 11 Dec 2018)

General Interest

General
COACHING
After graduating from university in 2018, she began coaching junior athletes at Sports Club Tenforty in Yachiyo, Japan. (Sports Club Tenforty Facebook page, 16 Dec 2020; jiji.com, 29 Jul 2019; inzai-taikyo.jp, 12 Dec 2018)

REPLACEMENT
She was drafted into the Japanese team for the 2018 World Championships in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, as a replacement for Yumi Takagi who withdrew from the national team ahead of the tournament due to a right ankle injury. Although she and her partner Hikaru Mori had only five training sessions together, they won a gold medal. (flyforit.jp, Feb 2019; jiji.com, 12 Nov 2018)

Milestones

She and her partner Hikaru Mori became the first female gymnasts from Japan to win gold in trampoline at the World Championships, when they claimed victory in synchro at the 2018 edition in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 Nov 2019; sankei.com, 11 Sep 2019; inzai-taikyo.jp, 12 Dec 2018)

Social Media

Legend

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

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