Yūsuke Tanaka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Yūsuke Tanaka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | November 29, 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 166 cm (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Level | Senior | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yūsuke Tanaka (田中 佑典 Tanaka Yūsuke?, born November 29, 1989) is a Japanese gymnast. He has won two Olympic medals in the men's artistic team all-around – silver in 2012 (London) and gold in 2016 (Rio de Janeiro).
Tanaka was born on November 29, 1989. His elder brother is Kazuhito Tanaka and an elder sister is Rie Tanaka.
Tanaka won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's artistic team all-around.
At the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, Tanaka won silver on the horizontal bar and the team bronze medal (with Hiroki Ishikawa, Shogo Nonomura, Ryohei Kato and Chihiro Yoshioka). He won the team gold medal at the 2015 World Championships and at the 2016 Summer Olympics.