Kohei Uchimura Biography

Kōhei Uchimura (内村 航平, Uchimura Kōhei, born January 3, 1989, in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture) is a Japanese artistic gymnast. He is a seven-time Olympic medalist (all-around, team, and floor exercise), winning three golds and four silvers, a 19-time World medalist (all-around, team, floor, high bar, and parallel bars) and is considered by many to be the greatest gymnast of all time. He is known for becoming the first gymnast (male or female) to win every major all-around title in a single Olympic cycle. He accomplished this feat twice by winning six world (2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015) and two Olympic (2012 Olympics in London and 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro) all-around titles. Uchimura is also 2008 Olympic all-around silver medalist. He is also known for delivering difficult and accurately executed routines. His gymnastics skills were praised by International Gymnast Magazine as a "combination of tremendous difficulty, supreme consistency and extraordinary elegance of performance."