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Kōji Gushiken has competed for Japan Kōji Gushiken has won 2 gold medals at the Olympic Games Kōji Gushiken has won 1 silver medal at the Olympic Games Kōji Gushiken has won 2 bronze medals at the Olympic Games

Kōji Gushiken is a gymnast who has competed for Japan. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games.

Gushiken arrived at his first and only Olympics in Los Angeles as a potential frontrunner for several gymnastics medals. He anchored the Japanese men to a bronze-medal finish in the team all-around, relinquishing their five-time title (except Moscow 1980) to the Americans as the newest champion. Gushiken redeemed from his team's untimely defeat to upset the American favorite Peter Vidmar by a quarter of a thousandth-point margin for the individual all-around title. In the apparatus finals, he bagged a bronze on the horizontal bar, claimed a silver in a four-way-tie with Li Ning, Mitchell Gaylord, and his teammate Shinji Morisue on the vault, and shared the gold with Li on the rings. With a total of five medals (two golds, a silver, and two bronze), Gushiken succeeded Li as the second most successful gymnast of the Games.

Gushiken retired from competitive gymnastics in 1985, citing an ankle injury.

Olympic Results[]

Year Event Result
1984 Men's individual all-around Gold
Men's team Bronze
Men's floor 8th
Men's vault Silver
Men's parallel bars 5th
Men's horizontal bar Bronze
Men's rings Gold
Men's pommel horse 21st

1984[]

Discipline Stage Score
Individual all-around Qualification 118.200
Final 118.700
Team Final 586.700
(118.200)
Floor Qualification 19.700
Final 19.450
Vault Qualification 19.750
Final 19.825
Parallel bars Qualification 19.800
Final 19.800
Horizontal bar Qualification 19.900
Final 19.950
Rings Qualification 19.800
Final 19.850
Pommel horse Qualification 19.250
Final Did not advance
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