Haruhiro Yamashita

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Olympic medal record
Men's artistic gymnastics
Gold 1964 Tokyo Team competition
Gold 1964 Tokyo Vault

Haruhiro Yamashita (born November 11, 1938) is a Japanese gymnast, who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics. He won two gold medals for his country in Team Combined Exercises, and Long Horse Vault.

In 2000 Yamashita was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. [1]

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  1.   HARUHIRO YAMASHITA. International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Retrieved on May 8, 2006.

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Olympic champions in men's vault
1896: Carl Schumann | 1904: George Eyser | 1924: Frank Kriz | 1928: Eugen Mack | 1932: Savino Guglielmetti | 1936: Karl-Alfred Schwarzmann | 1948: Paavo Aaltonen | 1952: Viktor Chukarin | 1956: Helmut Bantz-Valentin Muratov | 1960: Boris Shakhlin-Takashi Ono | 1964: Haruhiro Yamashita | 1968: Mikhail Varonin | 1972: Klaus Köste | 1976: Nikolai Andrianov | 1980: Nikolai Andrianov | 1984: Yun Lou | 1988: Yun Lou | 1992: Vitaly Scherbo | 1996: Alexei Nemov | 2000: Gervasio Deferr | 2004: Gervasio Deferr