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Shigeru Kasamatsu

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Shigeru Kasamatsu (笠松 茂, Kasamatsu Shigeru; born July 16, 1947) is a retired Japanese artistic gymnast. He competed at the 1972 Olympics and won a gold medal with the Japanese team. Individually he won a silver on parallel bars and bronze medals on the floor and horizontal bar. Kasamatsu won six world titles in 1974 and 1978. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2024). Shigeru Kasamatsu is the 103rd most popular gymnast (up from 118th in 2024), the 1,501st most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,526th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Japanese Gymnast.

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Among GYMNASTS

Among gymnasts, Shigeru Kasamatsu ranks 103 out of 370. Before him are Arthur Amundsen, Samu Fóti, Eizo Kenmotsu, Axel Sjöblom, Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, and Ecaterina Szabo. After him are Ingrid Sandahl, Roberto Ferrari, Angelo Zorzi, Alfredo Gollini, Nobuyuki Aihara, and Axel Andersen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Shigeru Kasamatsu ranks 628. Before him are Richard Palmer-James, Ginny Duenkel, Nina Fyodorova, Fabián Alarcón, Alexander Yakushev, and Franghiz Ali-Zadeh. After him are Alexei Ulanov, Klaus Reichert, Sonia Robertson, Yordanka Blagoeva, Françoise Demulder, and Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shigeru Kasamatsu ranks 1,501 out of 6,245. Before him are Tomonori Tsunematsu (1976), Wataru Ota (1981), Hisakichi Toyoda (1912), Yusuke Yoshizaki (1981), Eizo Kenmotsu (1948), and Masashi Tashiro (1956). After him are Masashi Nakayama (1967), Yumi Tomei (1972), Kozo Tashima (1957), Tsuyoshi Yamanaka (1939), Masaharu Fukuyama (1969), and Fumiaki Nakamura (1981).

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Among GYMNASTS In Japan

Among gymnasts born in Japan, Shigeru Kasamatsu ranks 10. Before him are Mitsuo Tsukahara (1947), Yukio Endo (1937), Haruhiro Yamashita (1938), Shuji Tsurumi (1938), Masao Takemoto (1919), and Eizo Kenmotsu (1948). After him are Nobuyuki Aihara (1934), Kōji Gushiken (1956), Kōhei Uchimura (1989), Naoya Tsukahara (1977), Daiki Hashimoto (2001), and Koji Yamamuro (1989).

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