is a retired Japanese artistic

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. 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. The ''Kasamatsu vault'' is named after him. In 2006, he was inducted into the

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. His wife

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and son

Akihiro Kasamatsu is a Japanese gymnast. He competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of t ...

are also retired Olympic gymnasts.Shigeru Kasamatsu
sports-reference.comShigeru Kasamatsu
ighof.com Kasamatsu took up gymnastics in 1957, but had his first major achievement only in 1970, when he finished second all-around in the Chunichi Cup. He had to withdraw from the 1976 Olympics due to an emergency

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Kasamatsu(Vault)
* 1947 births Living people Japanese male artistic gymnasts Originators of elements in artistic gymnastics Gymnasts at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for Japan Olympic gold medalists for Japan Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Olympic silver medalists for Japan Olympic bronze medalists for Japan Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon 20th-century Japanese people 21st-century Japanese people {{Japan-Olympic-medalist-stub