Yukio Endō
His mother died from tuberculosis[6] when he was a nine-year-old student at Hiroomote Elementary School.[1] He studied at Kubota Junior High School[7] and Akita Technical High School, after which he studied at the Tokyo University of Education (now the University of Tsukuba), graduating in 1959.He received two individual silver medals at the 1966 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, and Japan won the team competition.He retired after the 1968 Olympics to become a gymnastics coach and eventually professor at Nihon University.In 1996, he received the Japanese Emperor's Medal, and in 1999 induced into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.
HiroomoteAkita-kenChiyoda-ku, TokyoMen's artistic gymnasticsOlympic Games1960 Rome1964 TokyoAll-aroundParallel bars1968 Mexico CityFloor exerciseWorld Artistic Gymnastics Championships1962 Prague1966 Dortmundartistic gymnast1968 Summer OlympicspharmaciststuberculosisUniversity of TsukubaNihon University1964 Summer Olympicsindividual all-around1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships1966 World Artistic Gymnastics ChampionshipsJapanese all-around championEmperor's MedalInternational Gymnastics Hall of Fameesophageal cancerList of multiple Olympic gold medalistsWayback MachineMallon, BillSports Reference LLCInternational Gymnastics FederationOlympics.comOlympediaSummaryGustave SandrasJulius LenhartAlberto BragliaGiorgio ZamporiLeon ŠtukeljGeorges MiezRomeo NeriAlfred SchwarzmannVeikko HuhtanenViktor ChukarinBoris ShakhlinSawao KatōNikolai AndrianovAlexander DityatinKōji GushikenVladimir ArtemovVitaly ScherboLi XiaoshuangAlexei NemovPaul HammYang WeiKōhei UchimuraDaiki HashimotoShinnosuke OkaAlfred FlatowGeorge EyserAugust GüttingerLadislav VáchaKonrad FreyMichael ReuschHans EugsterAkinori NakayamaAleksandr TkachyovBart ConnerRustam SharipovLi XiaopengValeriy HoncharovFeng ZheOleg VerniaievZou JingyuanMixed teamSwedenSwitzerlandGermanyFinlandSoviet UnionUnited StatesUnified TeamRussiaNobuyuki AiharaYukio EndoTakashi MitsukuriTakashi OnoMasao TakemotoShuji TsurumiTakuji HayataHaruhiro YamashitaSawao KatoTakeshi KatoEizo KenmotsuMitsuo TsukaharaWorld Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Men's Team CompetitionFranceBohemiaCzechoslovakiaBelarusTakeshi KatōHaruhiro MatsudaWorld Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Men's Floor ExerciseJosip PrimožičAlois HudecJan GajdošErnst GebendingerJosef StalderValentin MuratovShigeru KasamatsuKurt ThomasRoland BrücknerYuri KorolyovLi YuejiuTong FeiLou YunIhor KorobchynskyiHrihoriy MisyutinMarian DrăgulescuYordan YovchevDiego HypólitoEleftherios KosmidisKenzō ShiraiDenis Ablyazin