Shinji Morisue

Shinji Morisue
Personal information
Country represented  Japan
Born May 22, 1957 (1957-05-22) (age 54)
Okayama, Okayama
Discipline Men's artistic gymnastics

Shinji Morisue (森末慎二 Morisue Shinji?, born May 22, 1957) is a Japanese gymnast and Olympic champion. He hails from Okayama City.[1]

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Olympics

He received a gold medal in horizontal bar, a silver medal in vault, and a bronze medal in team combined exercises at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.[2]

World championships

Morisue received a bronze medal with the Japan team in the 1983 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Budapest.

Writer

Morisue wrote the scenarios for the sports manga Ganba! Fly High, based in part on his experiences as a gymnast, for which he received the 1998 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga.[3]

References

  1. ^ [1](Japanese)
  2. ^ "1984 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles, United States – Gymnastics" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 3, 2008)
  3. ^ "小学館漫画賞:歴代受賞者" (in Japanese). Shogakukan. http://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/mangasho/rist.html. Retrieved 2008-06-13.