Daiki Hashimoto

Daiki Hashimoto (橋本 大輝, Hashimoto Daiki, born 7 August 2001) is a Japanese artistic gymnast. He is the 2020 Olympic all-around and horizontal bar champion.[1] He also won 2 silver and a bronze medals at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.[2][3]

Daiki Hashimoto
Country represented Japan
Born (2001-08-07) 7 August 2001
Narita, Japan
ResidenceChiba, Japan
Height1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics

Hashimoto was a member of the Japan men's national gymnastics team competing at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.[4]

Career

2019

Hashimoto competed at the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, where his team placed third all around.[5] On the pommel horse, he finished in 9th place, and on the horizontal bar, he finished in 4th place.

2021

At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, Hashimoto competed for team Japan, which also included Kazuma Kaya, Takeru Kitazono, and Wataru Tanigawa.[6] Hashimoto won an Olympic silver with the squad in the men's all around team competition,[7] posting a combined score of 262.397, which was only 0.103 points behind the winning Russian Olympic Committee team.[1] He also won gold medals in the men's individual all-around and horizontal bar competitions with total scores of 88.465 and 15.066,[1] making him the most successful male gymnast at these Olympics with three medals—two (individual) golds and one (team) silver. Due to his young age at just 19 years, 11 months and 21 days old when he won his first Olympic gold medal, Hashimoto also became Japan's second youngest and one of only two teenage male gymnasts in history to accomplish that feat after Kenzō Shirai, who won team gold six days younger in 2016. This would also include by default Hashimoto becoming the youngest Japanese gymnast to win Olympic gold on the men's individual all-around and horizontal bar events. In the men's individual floor exercise and pommel horse event finals, Hashimoto would place eleventh and ninth, the identical rankings he achieved at the last world championships.

On October 18–24, 2021, at the 2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Kitakyushu, Japan, Hashimoto was the top qualifier on the men's individual all-around and horizontal bar events with scores of 88.040 and 14.633. He went on and earned himself two silver medals on those events respectively with scores of 87.964 and 14.600. Both of China, Hu Xuwei and Zhang Boheng won gold medals on those respective aforementioned events too with scores of 87.981 and 15.166. Lastly, Hashimoto also placed fourth in the men's individual parallel bars finals with a score of 15.000, and qualified for the men's individual finals on pommel horse in fourth place, and floor exercise in fifth place. However, he withdrew from both men's individual finals—floor exercise, which made way for countryman Kazuma Kaya to take his spot and finish sixth, and pommel horse, which resulted in second reserve Harutyun Merdinyan of Armenia to replace him and finish eighth.

Competitive history

Year Event Team AA FX PH SR VT PB HB
2019 Valeri Liukin International Elite544
National High School Selection Tournament
All Japan Championships
Japanese National High School Sports Festival[8][9][10]2574
All Japan Junior Championships
World Championships1194
Japan All Around Super Final
2020 All Japan University Championships58
2021 All Japan Championships
NHK Cup Gymnastics Championships
Olympic Games11910
All Japan University Championships4
World ChampionshipsN/A994

Detailed Results

2017-2020 Code of Points

Year Tournament Event Date All Around
2019 Valeri Liukin International Elite02 February86.00014.00014.75014.25014.85013.85014.300
National High School Selection Tournament24 March83.75014.10014.45013.25014.90014.10012.950
All Japan Individual All-around ChampionshipsQualification26 April83.93113.76614.16613.16614.60014.13314.100
AA Final28 April84.03113.80014.30012.96614.56614.16614.233
NHK Cup Gymnastics Championships19 May83.49714.03314.36612.93314.86613.03314.266
All Japan Individual Events ChampionshipsQualification22 June14.26614.50015.00013.966
Event Finals23 June13.83314.400
Japan National High School Sports FestivalQualification30 July - 02 August84.40013.65013.55013.65014.95014.55014.050
AA Final84.85013.25014.75013.65014.80014.40014.000
All Japan Junior Championships17 August84.45014.30014.50012.50014.80014.30014.000
Japan National Sports FestivalQualification13 September14.55013.50014.80014.10014.550
Team Final15 September85.75014.20014.50013.65014.90014.25014.250
World ChampionshipsQualification07 October14.43314.88314.76614.366
Team Final09 October13.53314.46614.90014.066
Event Finals12 - 13 October13.33314.233
Japan All-around Super Final08 November86.03114.56614.73313.43314.36614.10014.833
All Japan Teams Championships09 - 10 October14.43314.60014.93314.06613.566
Toyota International14 - 15 December14.06615.03313.36614.133
13.666
2020 2020 American Cup07 March82.75713.66613.40013.90013.50014.06614.225
All Japan University Championships19 - 23 October87.45014.60015.25013.85015.15014.10014.500
All-Japan Artistic Gymnastics ChampionshipsQualification11 December85.03214.60012.66614.03314.90014.03314.800
AA Final13 December86.43214.70013.90013.93314.90014.36614.633
2021 All Japan Individual All-around ChampionshipsQualification16 April84.83314.80012.70012.90015.23314.70014.500
AA Final18 April88.53215.00014.46613.90015.00015.16615.000
NHK Cup Gymnastics Championships16 May86.16514.30014.73313.83315.13314.10014.066
All Japan Individual Events ChampionshipsQualification05 June14.46613.63314.766
Event Finals06 June15.133
Olympic GamesQualification24 July88.53114.70014.76613.86614.86615.30015.033
Team Final26 July14.60014.80013.83314.83315.100
AA Final28 July88.46514.83315.16613.53314.70015.30014.933
Event Finals03 August15.066
All Japan University Championships01 - 04 September86.49714.26614.93314.23313.46614.46615.133
World ChampionshipsQualification20 October88.04014.73315.07513.33315.06615.20014.633
AA Final22 October87.96414.83314.16613.96614.80015.06615.133
Event Finals24 October15.00015.066
All Japan Team Championship12 December14.90015.10015.20015.03315.033

Personal life

Hashimoto was born in Narita, Japan.

His two older brothers, Takuya and Kengo, who competed in artistic gymnastics at the club- and university-level in Japan, inspired Hashimoto to begin gymnastics at age seven at the Sawara Junior Club.[4]

Hashimoto has received two awards. In 2019, he received the Excellence Award at the 2019 NHK Cup. In 2020, he was given the Road to 2020 Olympic Encouragement Award at the TV Asahi Big Sports Awards.[4]

He is a student at Juntendo University, School of Health and Sports Science in Inzai, Chiba.

See also

References

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  2. "Russia wins gold in men's team all-around at 2019 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships". TASS. 22 June 2020. Archived from the original on 22 June 2020.
  3. "GYMNASTICS: Biles historic with Beam and Floor wins as U.S. wins eight medals at Artistic Worlds". The Sports Examiner. 13 October 2019. Archived from the original on 22 June 2020.
  4. "Artistic Gymnastics HASHIMOTO Daiki". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  5. "Artistic Gymnastics KAYA Kazuma". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
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  8. "2019 National High School Championships (Gymnastics)". Japan Gymnastics Association. August 2, 2019.
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