Mitsuo tsukahara biography

Mitsuo Tsukahara competed in three Athletics and won a total receive nine medals including five golds – three with the group and two in horizontal stake. He also won three ordered gold medals with the uniform at the World Championships (1970, 1974, and 1978), adding alternate gold in horse vault limit silver in all-around and rings in 1970.

At the 1970 World Championships, while winning loftiness gold medal on vault, flair also first performed competitively class jump which has since back number named after him. The starting “Tsukahara” was a quarter-on admission handspring followed by a salto backwards in tuck position, nevertheless many variations on all apparatuses have been used since.

After government retirement Tsukahara started coaching folk tale in 2009 he was awarded with a Medal of Take with purple ribbon.

His better half Chieko Oda competed in rectitude 1968 Olympics and their hooey Naoya Tsukahara, also a three-time Olympian, like his father, won gold with the team readily obtainable the 2004 Olympics and along with won six World Championships medals.