Kohei Uchimura secured his ninth straight individual all-around title at the NHK Cup on Sunday, clinching a place in the world championships, starting in late September in Montreal, along with runner-up Kenzo Shirai. The two-time Olympic gold medalist in the event trailed Shirai by 0.500 ...
Coming off a year in which he sealed his legacy as an all-time great by adding two more Olympic gold medals at the Rio Summer Games, Koehi Uchimura got off to a good start in his first season as a professional gymnast. He captured ...
Kohei Uchimura earned his 10th straight national individual all-around championship on Sunday, edging Kosuke Tanaka by 0.05 points for the landmark win. In his first competition since winning the team and individual all-around gold medals at last August's Rio Games, Uchimura settled for fourth during ...
Kohei Uchimura wants to rehone his competitive instincts at the national individual all-around championships starting Friday, when the nine-time champion returns to action for the first since capturing two gold medals at the Rio Olympics last summer. After winning the team and the all-around competition ...
In gymnastics, the more years you compete, the more damage your body sustains. And for someone like Kohei Uchimura, who takes part in both individual and team all-around competitions, the wear and tear is much greater. So it's not difficult to imagine that Japan's king of ...
Olympic and world champion Kohei Uchimura is set to become Japan's first professional gymnast, sources with knowledge of the Rio Games gold medalist's decision told Kyodo News on Monday. Arguably the best gymnast of all-time, Uchimura has won the all-around title at the last six ...
An estimated 800,000 spectators thronged the streets of Tokyo on Friday to celebrate Japan's Rio Olympic and Paralympic medal-winning athletes in an open-top parade. The procession of 50 Olympians and 37 Paralympians traveled a 2.5-km course from the city's Toranomon area, through Ginza to the ...
Gold-medal favorite Kenzo Shirai failed to live up to his billing after falling to a shock fourth-place finish in the men's floor exercise final at the Rio Olympics on Sunday. All-around champion Kohei Uchimura was also denied his first-ever Olympic individual apparatus medal after finishing ...
Kohei Uchimura pulled off a stunning last-gasp victory to retain his men's all-around Olympic gymnastics title at the Rio Games on Wednesday. Uchimura trailed Oleg Verniaiev of Ukraine by 0.901 points heading into the final apparatus — the high bar — but the six-time world ...
Japan captured the men's Olympic team all-around gymnastic gold medal it craved after pulling away from the competition in imperious fashion at the Rio Games on Monday. The team of Kohei Uchimura, Ryohei Kato, Yusuke Tanaka, Kenzo Shirai and Koji Yamamuro started slowly at Rio ...
Japan's male gymnasts secured a place in the team final at the Rio Olympics despite some error-prone performances in Saturday's qualifying, but Kohei Uchimura missed the cut for the horizontal bar final after an uncharacteristic fall. Uchimura, the reigning Olympic and world men's all-around champion, ...
Reigning Olympic and world men's all-around champion Kohei Uchimura shrugged off an error-strewn team workout after Japan's men's gymnasts trained for the first time Wednesday at the main competition venue ahead of the Rio Olympics. Uchimura fell twice on landings while practicing the floor exercise ...
