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Eizo Kenmotsu has competed for Japan Eizo Kenmotsu has won 3 gold medals at the Olympic Games Eizo Kenmotsu has won 3 silver medals at the Olympic Games Eizo Kenmotsu has won 3 bronze medals at the Olympic Games

Eizo Kenmotsu is a gymnast who has competed for Japan. He competed at the 1968, 1972, and 1976 Summer Olympic Games. He is widely regarded as one of the most successful male Japanese gymnasts of all-time. Among his three Olympic trips, he won a total of nine medals with three in each color.

Aged twenty and eight months, Kenmotsu became the youngest Japanese gymnast in history to win an Olympic gold medal after the team finals at Mexico City 1968. His record lasted for almost 48 years until Kenzō Shirai attained such feat at Rio de Janeiro 2016 when he was only 19 years and 11 months old. Coincidentally, Kenmotsu shared a similar fate with Shirai in the apparatus finals as each of them were awarded an individual bronze at their Olympic debut, the former on the horizontal bar and the latter on the vault.

Four years later in Munich, the Japanese men's team, including Kenmotsu, dominated the entire competition at the Games, taking 15 out of the 21 individual medals awarded to the gymnasts. Apart from his team's fourth-straight title defense, Kenmotsu finished second behind the defending champion and his teammate Sawao Katō in the all-around final and added two more bronze on the parallel bars and pommel horse.

The team portion turned into a close competition between Japan and Soviet Union for the gold at Montreal 1976, with Kenmotsu assisting the Japanese men to their fifth straight triumph over the latter by 0.4 of a point. Kenmotsu aimed for an unprecedented individual gold in the apparatus finals, but he untimely lost twice to fellow three-time Olympian Mitsuo Tsukahara on the horizontal bar and Hungarian favorite Zoltán Magyar on the pommel horse.

Olympic Results[]

Year Event Result
1968 Men's individual all-around 4th
Men's team Gold
Men's floor 6th
Men's vault 6th
Men's parallel bars 5th
Men's horizontal bar Bronze
Men's rings 7th
Men's pommel horse 5th
1972 Men's individual all-around Silver
Men's team Gold
Men's floor 4th
Men's vault 4th
Men's parallel bars Bronze
Men's horizontal bar 4th
Men's rings 5th
Men's pommel horse Bronze
1976 Men's individual all-around Q6
Men's team Gold
Men's floor 6th
Men's vault 15th
Men's parallel bars 17th
Men's horizontal bar Silver
Men's rings 5th
Men's pommel horse Silver

1968[]

Discipline Stage Score
Individual all-around Final 114.900
Team Final 575.900
(114.900)
Floor Qualification 19.250
Final 18.925
Vault Qualification 18.950
Final 18.650
Parallel bars Qualification 19.250
Final 19.175
Horizontal bar Qualification 19.350
Final 19.375
Rings Qualification 19.000
Final Did not advance
Pommel horse Qualification 19.100
Final 19.050

1972[]

Discipline Stage Score
Individual all-around Qualification 114.750
Final 114.575
Team Final 571.250
(114.750)
Floor Qualification 19.050
Final 18.925
Vault Qualification 18.800
Final 18.550
Parallel bars Qualification 19.300
Final 19.250
Horizontal bar Qualification 19.400
Final 19.350
Rings Qualification 19.100
Final 18.950
Pommel horse Qualification 19.100
Final 18.950

1976[]

Discipline Stage Score
Individual all-around Qualification 115.150
Final Did not advance
Team Final 576.850
(115.150)
Floor Qualification 19.100
Final 19.100
Vault Qualification 19.000
Final Did not advance
Parallel bars Qualification 18.750
Final Did not advance
Horizontal bar Qualification 19.500
Final 19.500
Rings Qualification 19.250
Final 19.175
Pommel horse Qualification 19.550
Final 19.575
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