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Masao Takemoto

1919 - 2007

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Masao Takemoto (竹本正男, Takemoto Masao; September 29, 1919 – February 2, 2007) was a Japanese artistic gymnast who won two world titles and seven Olympic medals. At the 1952 Summer Olympics he won the silver medal in the vault with a score of 19.150, which was 0.050 short of the gold medal. Two years later he became world champion in the floor exercise, sharing the first placed with Valentin Muratov; he also won a silver medal with the Japanese team and a bronze at the parallel bars. At the 1956 Summer Olympics Takemoto won three bronze medals: in the horizontal bar, parallel bars and rings; he also received a silver medal as part of the Japanese team. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Masao Takemoto is the 94th most popular gymnast (down from 70th in 2019), the 1,488th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,347th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Gymnast.

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Among GYMNASTS

Among gymnasts, Masao Takemoto ranks 94 out of 370. Before him are Franco Menichelli, Oswald Holmberg, Ladislav Vácha, Bjarne Pettersen, Lorenzo Mangiante, and Hjördis Nordin. After him are Georg Selenius, Arthur Amundsen, Samu Fóti, Eizo Kenmotsu, Axel Sjöblom, and Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Masao Takemoto ranks 278. Before him are Kira Zvorykina, Annemarie Renger, Alain Bosquet, Isabella Abbott, Jan Flinterman, and Jacques Laurent. After him are Bahriye Üçok, Alan Brown, Asbjørn Ruud, Gayatri Devi, Kateryna Yushchenko, and Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy. Among people deceased in 2007, Masao Takemoto ranks 320. Before him are Anita Roddick, Robert Goulet, Tamás Gábor, Igor Novikov, Franz Antel, and Juan Valdivieso. After him are Gilbert Bozon, Ramón Marsal, Frigyes Hidas, Johanna Sällström, Freddie Francis, and Ulrich Plenzdorf.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masao Takemoto ranks 1,488 out of 6,245. Before him are Takamasa Yamazaki (1992), Kenjiro Tsuda (1971), Motonobu Tako (1972), Nobuhisa Isono (1974), Yoshie Kasajima (1975), and Shingo Ito (1979). After him are Hironobu Kageyama (1961), Kiichirō Furukawa (1929), Takamine Jōkichi (1854), Tamaki Uchiyama (1972), Tomonori Tsunematsu (1976), and Wataru Ota (1981).

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Among GYMNASTS In Japan

Among gymnasts born in Japan, Masao Takemoto ranks 8. Before him are Sawao Kato (1946), Takashi Ono (1931), Mitsuo Tsukahara (1947), Yukio Endo (1937), Haruhiro Yamashita (1938), and Shuji Tsurumi (1938). After him are Eizo Kenmotsu (1948), Shigeru Kasamatsu (1947), Nobuyuki Aihara (1934), Kōji Gushiken (1956), Kōhei Uchimura (1989), and Daiki Hashimoto (2001).

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