Eizo Kenmotsu
Eizo Kenmotsu (監物永三, Kenmotsu Eizō, born February 13, 1948) is a former Japanese artistic gymnast, who won seven world titles and three Olympic gold medals between 1968 and 1979.In 2006, Kenmotsu was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.[1][2] Kenmotsu was 20 years and 8 months old in October 1968 when he became the youngest Japanese artistic gymnast in history to win an Olympic gold medal after the team event finals at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and he held on to that longstanding record for almost 48 years until recently when it was finally broken by Kenzō Shirai, who in August 2016 acquired the honour when only 19 years and 11 months old, at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro–also after the team event finals.This biographical article related to Japanese artistic gymnastics is a stub.You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This article about a Japanese Olympic medalist is a stub.