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Masao Takemoto

1919 - 2007

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Masao Takemoto (竹本正男, Takemoto Masao, September 29, 1919 – February 2, 2007) was a Japanese artistic gymnast who won two world titles and seven Olympic medals. At the 1952 Summer Olympics he won the silver medal in the vault with a score of 19.150, which was 0.050 short of the gold medal. Two years later he became world champion in the floor exercise, sharing the first placed with Valentin Muratov; he also won a silver medal with the Japanese team and a bronze at the parallel bars. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Masao Takemoto has received more than 24,155 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Masao Takemoto is the 70th most popular gymnast (down from 51st in 2019), the 1,347th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,222nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Gymnast.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among GYMNASTS

Among gymnasts, Masao Takemoto ranks 70 out of 370. Before him are Oswald Holmberg, Alfredo Gollini, Savino Guglielmetti, Vitaly Scherbo, Aleksanteri Saarvala, and Hans Beyer. After him are Paolo Salvi, Georges Miez, Arthur Amundsen, Daniel Norling, Gösta Åsbrink, and Larisa Petrik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Masao Takemoto ranks 275. Before him are Leona Woods, Strother Martin, Jan Flinterman, Annemarie Renger, Eric Thompson, and Jacques Laurent. After him are Joe Seneca, Kira Zvorykina, Aldo Campatelli, Bahriye Üçok, Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, and George Cadle Price. Among people deceased in 2007, Masao Takemoto ranks 299. Before him are Roscoe Lee Browne, Pedro Cubilla, Hansjörg Felmy, Dumitru Pârvulescu, Ramón Marsal, and Claude Netter. After him are Frigyes Hidas, Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Kirka, Pascal Yoadimnadji, Boots Randolph, and Paule Desjardins.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masao Takemoto ranks 1,347 out of 6,245. Before him are Masae Suzuki (1957), Masashi Nakayama (1967), Kikuko Inoue (1964), Takashi Tezuka (1960), Mutsuhiko Nomura (1940), and Shin-ichiro Miki (1968). After him are Rokurō Naya (1932), Masashi Tashiro (1956), Kaoru Mitoma (1997), Yasutaro Matsuki (1957), Kitamura Tokoku (1868), and Ryue Nishizawa (1966).

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Among GYMNASTS In Japan

Among gymnasts born in Japan, Masao Takemoto ranks 8. Before him are Takashi Ono (1931), Mitsuo Tsukahara (1947), Akinori Nakayama (1943), Yukio Endo (1937), Shuji Tsurumi (1938), and Haruhiro Yamashita (1938). After him are Nobuyuki Aihara (1934), Shigeru Kasamatsu (1947), Eizo Kenmotsu (1948), Kōji Gushiken (1956), Kōhei Uchimura (1989), and Daiki Hashimoto (2001).

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