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).

Personal life

Tanaka was born on November 29, 1989 in

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. His elder brother is

Kazuhito Tanaka is a Japanese gymnast, Olympic silver and 3-time World medalist. Younger siblings, sister Rie Tanaka and brother Yusuke Tanaka, are both professional gymnasts. Tanaka's first major international competition was the 2009 World Championships, w ...

and an elder sister is

Rie Tanaka is a Japanese voice actress and singer who is currently affiliated with Office Anemone. Notable among her numerous roles in anime are Lacus Clyne in ''Mobile Suit Gundam Seed'' and ''Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny'', Chi in ''Chobits'', Hikar ...

Career

Tanaka won a silver medal at the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

in the men's artistic team all-around. At the

2013 Summer Universiade The 2013 Summer Universiade, officially known as the XXVII Summer Universiade (russian: XXVII Летняя Универсиада), was held in the city of Kazan, Russia, the most northerly city ever to host a Summer Universiade. Over 10,400 un ...

Kazan Kazan ( ; rus, Казань, p=kɐˈzanʲ; tt-Cyrl, Казан, ''Qazan'', IPA: ɑzan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka rivers, covering a ...

, Tanaka won silver on the horizontal bar and the team bronze medal (with

Hiroki Ishikawa is a common masculine Japanese given name. It can be written in many ways. In the following lists, the kanji in parentheses are the individual's way of writing the name Hiroki. Possible writings Hiroki can be written using different kanji charac ...

Shogo Nonomura is a Japanese male artistic gymnast and part of the national team. At the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, Nonomura won the team all-around bronze medal (with Yusuke Tanaka, Hiroki Ishikawa, Ryōhei Katō and Chihiro Yoshioka). He partici ...

, Ryohei Kato and

Chihiro Yoshioka Chihiro (ちひろ, チヒロ,千尋) is a female and male Japanese given name. Possible writings Chihiro can be written using various kanji, which can alter the name's meaning: *千尋, "thousand fathoms" *千博, "thousand gains" *千裕, "th ...

). He won the team gold medal at the 2015 World Championships and at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

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* Japanese male artistic gymnasts 1989 births Living people 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 Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Universiade medalists in gymnastics {{ Japan-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub People from Wakayama Prefecture Universiade silver medalists for Japan Universiade bronze medalists for Japan Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade 21st-century Japanese people