is a Japanese gymnast. He has won two Olympic medals in the men's artistic team all-around – silver in 2012 (London) and gold in 2016 (Rio de Janeiro).

Career

Yamamuro won the bronze medal in men's all-around at the 2011 World Championships. Yamamuro competed for the national team at the

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in the Men's artistic team all-around. In the team final, he injured his ankle on the vault event, and had to be helped off. He had qualified for the individual all-around final, but due to the injury was unable to compete. This gave a chance for his teammate

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to compete - he had ranked behind Yamamuro and

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and had not qualified due to the 2-per-country rule. Yamamuro also participated in the 2012 American Cup.http://usagym.org/PDFs/Results/m_10tac_030610.pdf At the

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, Yamamuro had won an Olympic gold medal as part of the Japanese men's

artistic gymnastics Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...

national squad on the all-around team event. In that event final, Yamamuro contributed to two apparatuses on pommel horse and still rings with scores of 13.900 and 14.866 respectively.

References

Japanese male artistic gymnasts 1989 births Living people Olympic gymnasts of Japan Gymnasts at the 2012 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Ibaraki Prefecture Olympic gold medalists for Japan Olympic silver medalists for Japan Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships 20th-century Japanese people 21st-century Japanese people {{Japan-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub