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Yukio Endo

1937 - 2009

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Yukio Endō (遠藤 幸雄, Endō Yukio, January 18, 1937 – March 25, 2009) was a Japanese artistic gymnast, Olympic champion and world champion. He was part of the first Japanese team that succeeded to win gold medals in the team event at the Summer Olympics (1960) and World Championships (1962). In 1964 he won the first individual all-around Olympic gold medal for Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yukio Endo has received more than 33,261 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Yukio Endo is the 23rd most popular gymnast (down from 19th in 2019), the 963rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 826th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Gymnast.

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Among GYMNASTS

Among gymnasts, Yukio Endo ranks 23 out of 370Before him are Nellie Kim, Takashi Ono, Mitsuo Tsukahara, Alfred Schwarzmann, Akinori Nakayama, and Viktor Chukarin. After him are Ioannis Mitropoulos, Conrad Böcker, Alina Kabaeva, Miroslav Cerar, Gustave Sandras, and Shuji Tsurumi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Yukio Endo ranks 250Before him are David Del Tredici, George Zweig, Hildegard Behrens, Johnny Dorelli, Dyan Cannon, and Vlatko Marković. After him are Richard Marquand, Hiroshi Ninomiya, Jaime Lerner, Rupiah Banda, Renato Longo, and Lorraine Gary. Among people deceased in 2009, Yukio Endo ranks 164Before him are Dušan Džamonja, Lyudmila Zykina, Hildegard Behrens, Mike Bongiorno, Ekaterina Maximova, and David Eddings. After him are Helen Levitt, Zequinha, František Veselý, Chuck Daly, Dan O'Bannon, and Juvenal Amarijo.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yukio Endo ranks 963 out of 6,245Before him are Tsuru Aoki (1892), Ryozo Suzuki (1939), Chieko Baisho (1941), Satoru Nakajima (1953), Kanō Motonobu (1476), and Kafū Nagai (1879). After him are Tanaka Hisashige (1799), Shiro Misaki (null), Yoshiichi Watanabe (1954), Kenzo Yokoyama (1943), Mitsuteru Yokoyama (1934), and Nobuko Yoshiya (1896).

Among GYMNASTS In Japan

Among gymnasts born in Japan, Yukio Endo ranks 5Before him are Sawao Kato (1946), Takashi Ono (1931), Mitsuo Tsukahara (1947), and Akinori Nakayama (1943). After him are Shuji Tsurumi (1938), Haruhiro Yamashita (1938), Masao Takemoto (1919), Nobuyuki Aihara (1934), Shigeru Kasamatsu (1947), Eizo Kenmotsu (1948), and Kōji Gushiken (1956).