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 |
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1984 | Men's individual all-around | |
Men's team | ||
Men's floor | 8th | |
Men's vault | ||
Men's parallel bars | 5th | |
Men's horizontal bar | ||
Men's rings | ||
Men's pommel horse | 21st |
1984[]
Discipline | Stage | Score |
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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 |