Although Japanese gymnasts competed at numerous Olympic Games as early as 1932, they didn't compete at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships until 1954. The men's team immediately achieved success, winning silver in the team event and individually Masao Takemoto won gold on floor exercise. The women's team won their first team medal, a bronze, in 1962.
Medalists MedalNameYearEvent Akitomo Kaneko, Akira Kono, Masami Kubota, Tetsumi Nabeya, Takashi Ono, Yoshiyuki Oshima, Masao Takemoto 1954 Rome Men's team Masao Takemoto Men's floor exercise Keiko Tanaka Women's balance beam Masao Takemoto Men's parallel bars Nobuyuki Aihara, Akira Kono, Takashi Ono, Masao Takemoto, Katsumi Terai, Shinsaku Tsukawaki 1958 Moscow Men's team Takashi Ono Men's all-around Masao Takemoto Men's floor exercise Takashi Ono Nobuyuki Aihara Men's rings Masao Takemoto Men's vault Takashi Ono Keiko Tanaka Women's balance beam Takashi Ono Men's parallel bars Keiko Tanaka Women's floor exercise Masao Takemoto Men's horizontal bar Nobuyuki Aihara, Yukio Endo, Takashi Mitsukuri, Takashi Ono, Shuji Tsurumi, Haruhiro Yamashita 1962 Prague Men's team Ginko Abukawa, Keiko Ikeda, Taniko Nakamura, Kiyoko Ono, Toshiko Shirasu, Hiroko Tsuji Women's team Yukio Endo Men's all-around Nobuyuki Aihara Men's floor exercise Yukio Endo Yukio Endo Men's rings Haruhiro Yamashita Men's vault Yukio Endo Keiko Ikeda Women's balance beam Yukio Endo Men's parallel bars Takashi Ono Men's horizontal bar Yukio Endo Shuji Tsurumi, Akinori Nakayama, Takeshi Katō, Yukio Endo, Takashi Mitsukuri, Haruhiro Matsuda 1966 Dortmund Men's team Keiko Ikeda, Taki Shibuya, Hiroko Ikenada, Taniko Mitsukuri, Yasuko Furuyama, Mitsuko Kandori Women's team Shuji Tsurumi Men's all-around Akinori Nakayama Keiko Ikeda Women's all-around Akinori Nakayama Men's floor exercise Yukio Endo Takeshi Katō Men's pommel horse Keiko Ikeda Women's uneven bars Taniko Mitsukuri Akinori Nakayama Men's rings Haruhiro Matsuda Men's vault Takeshi Katō Akinori Nakayama Akinori Nakayama Men's horizontal bar Yukio Endo Takashi Mitsukuri Eizo Kenmotsu, Mitsuo Tsukahara, Akinori Nakayama, Fumio Honma, Takuji Hayata, Takeshi Katō 1970 Ljubljana Men's team Eizo Kenmotsu Men's all-around Mitsuo Tsukahara Akinori Nakayama Akinori Nakayama Men's floor exercise Eizo Kenmotsu Takeshi Katō Eizo Kenmotsu Men's pommel horse Akinori Nakayama Men's rings Mitsuo Tsukahara Mitsuo Tsukahara Men's vault Takeshi Katō Akinori Nakayama Men's parallel bars Eizo Kenmotsu Eizo Kenmotsu Men's horizontal bar Akinori Nakayama Takuji Hayata Shigeru Kasamatsu, Eizo Kenmotsu, Mitsuo Tsukahara, Hiroshi Kajiyama, Fumio Honma, Sawao Kato 1974 Varna Men's team Shigeru Kasamatsu Men's all-around Eizo Kenmotsu Shigeru Kasamatsu Men's floor exercise Hiroshi Kajiyama Eizo Kenmotsu Men's pommel horse Shigeru Kasamatsu Men's vault Hiroshi Kajiyama Eizo Kenmotsu Men's parallel bars Eizo Kenmotsu Men's horizontal bar Hiroshi Kajiyama, Shigeru Kasamatsu, Eizo Kenmotsu, Junichi Shimizu, Shinzo Shiraishi, Mitsuo Tsukahara 1978 Strasbourg Men's team Eizo Kenmotsu Men's all-around Shigeru Kasamatsu Men's floor exercise Junichi Shimizu Men's vault Eizo Kenmotsu Men's parallel bars Hiroshi Kajiyama Shigeru Kasamatsu Men's horizontal bar Hiroshi Kajiyama, Shigeru Kasamatsu, Nobuyuki Kajitani, Toshiomi Nishikii, Koji Gushiken, Eizo Kenmotsu 1979 Fort Worth Men's team Koji Gushiken Men's pommel horse Nobuyuki Kajitani, Koji Gushiken, Koji Sotomura, Kiyoshi Goto, Kyoji Yamawaki, Toshiro Kanai 1981 Moscow Men's team Koji Gushiken Men's all-around Koji Gushiken Men's floor exercise Koji Gushiken Men's parallel bars Nobuyuki Kajitani Koji Gushiken, Koji Sotomura, Nobuyuki Kajitani, Mitsuaki Watanabe, Noritoshi Hirata, Shinji Morisue 1983 Budapest Men's team Koji Gushiken Men's all-around Koji Gushiken Men's rings Koji Sotomura Men's parallel bars Hiroyuki Konishi 1985 Montreal Men's pommel horse Kyoji Yamawaki Men's rings Koji Gushiken Men's parallel bars Mitsuaki Watanabe Men's horizontal bar Yukio Iketani 1989 Stuttgart Men's horizontal bar Daisuke Nishikawa 1991 Indianapolis Men's floor exercise Yutaka Aihara Men's vault Yoshiaki Hatakeda, Daisuke Nishikawa, Hikaru Tanaka, Toshiharu Sato, Masayuki Matsunaga, Hiromasa Masuda, Masayoshi Maeda 1995 Sabae Men's team Yoshiaki Hatakeda Men's pommel horse Hikaru Tanaka Men's parallel bars Yoshiaki Hatakeda Men's horizontal bar Naoya Tsukahara 1997 Lausanne Men's all-around Naoya Tsukahara Men's parallel bars Naoya Tsukahara 1999 Tianjin Men's all-around Naoya Tsukahara Men's parallel bars Takehiro Kashima 2002 Debrecen Men's pommel horse Takehiro Kashima, Hiroyuki Tomita, Naoya Tsukahara, Tatsuya Yamada 2003 Anaheim Men's team Hiroyuki Tomita Men's all-around Takehiro Kashima Men's pommel horse Takehiro Kashima Men's horizontal bar Hiroyuki Tomita 2005 Melbourne Men's all-around Hisashi Mizutori Takehiro Kashima Men's pommel horse Hisashi Mizutori, Takehito Mori, Takuya Nakase, Eichi Sekiguchi, Hiroyuki Tomita, Naoya Tsukahara 2006 Aarhus Men's team Hiroyuki Tomita Men's all-around Hiroyuki Tomita Men's parallel bars Hisashi Mizutori, Hiroyuki Tomita, Yosuke Hoshi, Makoto Okiguchi, Takuya Nakase, Shun Kuwahara 2007 Stuttgart Men's team Hisashi Mizutori Men's all-around Hisashi Mizutori Men's floor exercise Hisashi Mizutori Men's horizontal bar Kōhei Uchimura 2009 London Men's all-around Kōko Tsurumi Women's all-around Kōko Tsurumi Women's uneven bars Kazuhito Tanaka Men's parallel bars Kōhei Uchimura, Koji Yamamuro, Koji Uematsu, Kazuhito Tanaka, Kenya Kobayashi, Tatsuki Nakashima 2010 Rotterdam Men's team Kōhei Uchimura Men's all-around Kōhei Uchimura Men's floor exercise Kōhei Uchimura Men's parallel bars Kōhei Uchimura, Kazuhito Tanaka, Kenya Kobayashi, Koji Yamamuro, Makoto Okiguchi, Yusuke Tanaka 2011 Tokyo Men's team Kōhei Uchimura Men's all-around Koji Yamamuro Kōhei Uchimura Men's floor exercise Koji Yamamuro Men's rings Makoto Okiguchi Men's vault Kōhei Uchimura Men's horizontal bar Kōhei Uchimura 2013 Antwerp Men's all-around Ryohei Kato Kenzō Shirai Men's floor exercise Kōhei Uchimura Kohei Kameyama Men's pommel horse Kōhei Uchimura Men's parallel bars Kōhei Uchimura Men's horizontal bar Kohei Kameyama, Ryohei Kato, Shogo Nonomura, Kenzō Shirai, Yusuke Tanaka, Kōhei Uchimura, Kazuyuki Takeda 2014 Nanning Men's team Kōhei Uchimura Men's all-around Yusuke Tanaka Kenzō Shirai Men's floor exercise Ryohei Kato Men's parallel bars Kōhei Uchimura Men's horizontal bar Naoto Hayasaka, Ryohei Kato, Kazuma Kaya, Kenzō Shirai, Yusuke Tanaka, Kōhei Uchimura, Tomomasa Hasegawa 2015 Glasgow Men's team Kōhei Uchimura Men's all-around Kenzō Shirai Men's floor exercise Kazuma Kaya Men's pommel horse Kōhei Uchimura Men's horizontal bar Kenzō Shirai 2017 Montreal Men's all-around Kenzō Shirai Men's floor exercise Kenzō Shirai Men's vault Mai Murakami Women's floor exercise Kazuma Kaya, Kenzō Shirai, Yusuke Tanaka, Wataru Tanigawa, Kōhei Uchimura, Kakeru Tanigawa 2018 Doha Men's team Mai Murakami Women's all-around Kenzō Shirai Men's floor exercise Kenzō Shirai Men's vault Mai Murakami Women's floor exercise Kōhei Uchimura Men's horizontal bar Daiki Hashimoto, Yuya Kamoto, Kazuma Kaya, Kakeru Tanigawa, Wataru Tanigawa, Shogo Nonomura 2019 Stuttgart Men's team Kazuma Kaya Men's parallel bars Daiki Hashimoto 2021 Kitakyushu Men's all-around Kazuki Minami Men's floor exercise Kazuma Kaya Men's pommel horse Hidenobu Yonekura Men's vault Urara Ashikawa Women's balance beam Mai Murakami Mai Murakami Women's floor exercise Daiki Hashimoto Men's horizontal bar Ryosuke Doi, Daiki Hashimoto, Yuya Kamoto, Kakeru Tanigawa, Wataru Tanigawa, Kazuma Kaya 2022 Liverpool Men's team Daiki Hashimoto Men's all-around Wataru Tanigawa Daiki Hashimoto Men's floor exercise Ryosuke Doi Hazuki Watanabe Women's balance beam Shoko Miyata Daiki Hashimoto Men's horizontal bar Kenta Chiba, Daiki Hashimoto, Kazuma Kaya, Kazuki Minami, Kaito Sugimoto, Teppei Miwa 2023 Antwerp Men's team Daiki Hashimoto Men's all-around Kazuki Minami Men's floor exercise Kaito Sugimoto Men's parallel bars Daiki Hashimoto Men's horizontal bar Daiki Hashimoto 2025 Jakarta Men's all-around Aiko Sugihara Women's balance beam Tomoharu Tsunogai Men's parallel bars Aiko Sugihara Women's floor exercise Daiki Hashimoto Men's horizontal bar
Medal tables By gender
By event
Junior World medalists MedalNameYearEvent Ryosuke Doi, Takeru Kitazono, Shinnosuke Oka, Azusa Emata 2019 Győr Boys' team Shinnosuke Oka Boys' all-around Ryosuke Doi Takeru Kitazono Boys' pommel horse Shinnosuke Oka Takeru Kitazono Boys' parallel bars Shinnosuke Oka Haruto Kamiyama, Masaharu Tanida, Tomoharu Tsunogai, Renato Noda 2023 Antalya Boys' team Mika Mizuno, Haruka Nakamura, Sara Yamaguchi, Saki Kawakami Girls' team Haruka Nakamura Girls' all-around Sara Yamaguchi Masaharu Tanida Boys' rings Tomoharu Tsunogai Boys' parallel bars Haruka Nakamura Girls' floor exercise Tomoharu Tsunogai Boys' horizontal bar Taiki Kakutani, Nao Ojima, Eijun Yasui 2025 Manila Boys' team Yume Minamino, Misa Nishiyama, Risora Ogawa Girls' team Nao Ojima Boys' all-around Yume Minamino Girls' all-around Misa Nishiyama Misa Nishiyama Girls' vault Nao Ojima Boys' pommel horse Yume Minamino Girls' balance beam Nao Ojima Boys' parallel bars Misa Nishiyama Girls' floor exercise
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