is a Japanese former
artistic gymnast who competed at the
2020 Olympic Games
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. She is the
2019 Summer Universiade
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champion in the team, all-around,
uneven bars
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, and
balance beam
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. She is also the
2020 American Cup all-around bronze medalist.
Early life
Hatakeda Hitomi was born on 1 September 2000 in
Machida, Tokyo
is a city located in the western portion of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 428,851, and a population density of 6,000 persons per km². The total area of the city was .
Geography
Machida is located in the T ...
. Her father,
Yoshiaki Hatakeda, won a bronze medal at the
1992 Olympics 1992 Olympics may refer to:
*1992 Summer Olympics, which were held in Barcelona, Spain
*1992 Winter Olympics
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in
the team event. Her mother Yukiko is also a former gymnast and Hatakeda's personal coach. She began gymnastics at age eight because her parents encouraged her to try the sport. Her younger sister, Chiaki, is also an elite gymnast.
Junior career
Hatakeda finished sixteenth in the all-around at the 2015 All-Japan Championships. Then at the NHK Trophy, she finished eleventh in the all-around. She qualified for the uneven bars and balance beam event finals at the All-Japan Event Championships, finishing seventh and fourth respectively. She made her international debut at the
2015 Voronin Cup
The 2015 Voronin Cup took place on December 15-16 in Moscow, Russia.
Medal winners
Senior Result All-Around
Vault
Uneven Bars
Balance Beam
Floor Exercise
Junior Result
All-Around
Vault
Uneven Bars
Bal ...
and won a bronze medal in the team event with
Wakana Inoue
Wakana (written: 若菜, 若奈, 和可菜, 和可那, 和佳奈 or わかな in hiragana) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
*, Japanese idol singer and a member of Japanese girl group Angerme
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. In the all-around, she placed fourth behind
Natalia Kapitonova
Natalia Andreevna Kapitonova (russian: Наталья Андреевна Капитонова) (born 31 May 2000) is a Russian artistic gymnast.
Junior career
2013-2014
In 2013, Kapitonova won team silver at the Russian Junior Championships a ...
,
Angelina Melnikova
Angelina Romanovna Melnikova ( rus, Ангели́на Рома́новна Ме́льникова, , ɐnɡʲɪˈlʲinə ˈmʲelʲnʲɪkəvə; born 18 July 2000) is a Russian artistic gymnast. With eleven Olympic and World medals, she is the jo ...
, and
Natsumi Hanashima. Then in the event finals, she placed fifth on vault and fourth on uneven bars, and she won the bronze medals on the balance beam and floor exercise.
Senior career
2016
Hatakeda became
age-eligible for senior international competition in 2016. She made her senior debut at the All-Japan Championships and finished tenth. Then at the NHK Trophy, she finished seventh. She made her senior international debut at the Gym Festival Trnava and won the all-around gold medal. In the event finals, she won gold on the uneven bars, silver on the vault, and bronze on the balance beam and floor exercise. She placed fifth on the vault and sixth on the uneven bars at the All-Japan Event Championships. Her final competition of the season was the All-Japan Team Championships where she helped her club place sixth, and she placed third in the all-around.
2017
Hatakeda began her season at the
International Gymnix where she helped the Japanese team win the silver medal behind Canada. Individually, she won gold medals in the all-around, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise, and she won bronze on the vault. Then at the All-Japan Championships, she finished thirteenth in the all-around and then seventh in the all-around at the NHK Trophy. She won the gold medal in the all-around and uneven bars and the silver medal on the vault, balance beam, and floor exercise at the Gym Festival Trnava. She also won the gold medal on the uneven bars at the All-Japan Event Championships, and she placed eighth on the vault and fourth on the balance beam. At the Arthur Gander Memorial, she won the gold medal in the all-around. She then competed at the Swiss Cup on a mixed team with
Wataru Tanigawa, and they won the silver medal behind Switzerland. Then at the All-Japan Team Championships, she helped her club place fourth, and she finished second in the all-around behind
Mai Murakami. Her final competition of the season was the Toyota International where she finished fourth on the uneven bars.
2018
Hatakeda began her season at the
WOGA Classic in
Plano, Texas
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History
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where she won the all-around gold medal. Then at the DTB Pokal Team Challenge, she won the all-around silver medal behind
Nina Derwael
Nina Derwael ( or ; born 26 March 2000) is a Belgian artistic gymnast. She is the 2020 Olympic champion, a two-time World champion (2018, 2019), and a two-time European champion (2017, 2018) on the uneven bars. She is the 2019 European Games ...
and helped the Japanese team win the bronze medal. She then competed at the
Birmingham World Cup, finishing fifth all-around with a score of 51.133. She then won the bronze medal in the all-around at the All-Japan Championships and at the NHK Cup both behind
Mai Murakami and
Asuka Teramoto
is a Japanese gymnast.
Teramoto was born in Komaki, Aichi. Her first major international senior competition was the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. In the team all-around finals, she contributed on vaulting, uneven ...
. Then at the All-Japan Event Championships, she finished sixth on the uneven bars and fourth on the balance beam. At the Heerenveen Friendly, she helped the Japanese team win the gold medal. Individually, she won the gold medal on the uneven bars, the silver medal on the floor exercise, and the bronze medal in the all-around. She was selected to compete at the
Doha World Championships alongside Mai Murakami,
Nagi Kajita
is a Japanese artistic gymnast. She competed at the 2018 and 2019 World Championships. She is the 2016 Pacific Rim bronze medalist in the all-around and on the uneven bars.
Career Junior
Kajita made her international debut at the 2014 WO ...
,
Aiko Sugihara
is a Japanese female artistic gymnast. She is the 2015 Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2015 Asian team and all-around champion and uneven bars and floor exercise silver medalist. She is also the 2019 Summer Universiade champion with th ...
and Asuka Teramoto. The team finished sixth in the team final with a score of 160.262. She then helped her club finish sixth at the All-Japan Team Championships. Her final competition of the year was the Toyota International where she won the bronze medal on the vault and the silver medal on the uneven bars.
2019
Hatakeda finished sixth in the all-around at the
Stuttgart World Cup. Then at the All-Japan Championships, she won the bronze medal in the all-around behind
Asuka Teramoto
is a Japanese gymnast.
Teramoto was born in Komaki, Aichi. Her first major international senior competition was the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. In the team all-around finals, she contributed on vaulting, uneven ...
and
Mai Murakami, and she won the silver medal at the NHK Cup behind Teramoto. She won the gold medal on the uneven bars at the All-Japan Event Championships and the silver medal on the balance beam. At the
2019 Summer Universiade
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, Nations participating = 118
, Athletes participating = 5,971
, Events = 220
, Sports = 18
, Opening ceremony = 3 July
, Closing ceremony = 14 July
, Officially opened by = President Se ...
in Naples, she won the team gold medal with teammates Asuka Teramoto and
Aiko Sugihara
is a Japanese female artistic gymnast. She is the 2015 Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2015 Asian team and all-around champion and uneven bars and floor exercise silver medalist. She is also the 2019 Summer Universiade champion with th ...
. She also won the gold medals in the all-around and on the uneven bars and balance beam. She also placed fifth on the floor exercise. She competed at the
World Championships
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...
, finishing eleventh in team qualifications and helping Japan
qualify as a team for the 2020 Olympics. Individually, she qualified to the all-around final and finished seventeenth with a score of 53.932. After the World Championships, she finished her season at the Toyota International and won bronze medals on vault and uneven bars and a silver medal on balance beam.
2020
Hatakeda won the all-around bronze medal at the
American Cup
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with a score of 53.799, finishing behind Americans
Morgan Hurd
Morgan Elizabeth Hurd (born July 18, 2001) is an American artistic gymnast and a five-time member of the United States women's national team (2016–21). She is the 2017 World all-around champion and balance beam silver medalist and the 2018 ...
and
Kayla DiCello
Kayla Kecia DiCello ( or or ) (born January 25, 2004) is an American artistic gymnast. She is the 2021 World all-around bronze medalist. On the junior level, she is the 2019 Junior World vault champion and the 2019 U.S. Junior national all-a ...
. She was initially scheduled to compete at the
Birmingham World Cup. However, the event was postponed and eventually cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. She did not compete again until September when she won the all-around bronze medal behind
Mai Murakami and
Yuna Hiraiwa at the All-Japan Senior Championships. She then competed at the
Friendship and Solidarity Competition on Team Friendship who finished second. She then won the all-around silver medal at the All-Japan Championships behind Mai Murakami.
2021
Hatakeda won the all-around silver medal at the All-Japan Championships behind
Mai Murakami. In May, she won the silver medal at the NHK Cup and was named to represent
Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics
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alongside Mai Murakami,
Yuna Hiraiwa and
Aiko Sugihara
is a Japanese female artistic gymnast. She is the 2015 Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2015 Asian team and all-around champion and uneven bars and floor exercise silver medalist. She is also the 2019 Summer Universiade champion with th ...
. They finished fifth in the
team final.
Hatakeda was also selected to compete at the
World Championships
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...
. She qualified to the all-around final in fourth place. However, while training the day before the all-around final, she fell face-first on a transition move on the uneven bars and was taken to the hospital on a
spinal board. She was diagnosed with damage to her central spinal cord and bruising of the cervical spine. She was released from the hospital after one week.
Hatakeda retired on 22 March 2022 as a result of the injury and a loss of motivation due to event postponements and cancellations during the
COVID-19 pandemic
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.
Competitive history
References
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2000 births
Living people
Japanese female artistic gymnasts
Universiade medalists in gymnastics
Universiade gold medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 2019 Summer Universiade
Olympic gymnasts of Japan
Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Gymnasts from Tokyo
21st-century Japanese women