is a Japanese

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. 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

Kato together with Japanese teammates (

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, Yusuke Tanaka, and

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) competed at the

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where Team Japan won the bronze medal. He won gold in Floor and bronze in Horizontal Bar final. Kato competed at the 2013 World Championships along with

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, and

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. He competed in the all around final and placed second, nearly two points behind teammate Uchimura.

Personal life

Kato is the son of Hiroyuki Kato, a coach of Japan National team for gymnastics.GYMNASTICS/ Coach guides son, athletes in bid for Olympic gold

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* 1993 births Living people Japanese male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts of Japan Gymnasts at the 2012 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics 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 People from Sōka Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Universiade medalists in gymnastics Universiade gold medalists for Japan Universiade bronze medalists for Japan Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade 21st-century Japanese people {{Japan-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub