Murakami at the 2018 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships
Personal information
Country represented
Japan
Born
(1996-08-05) 5 August 1996 (age 27) Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
Height
1.48 m (4 ft 10 in)[1]
Discipline
Women's artistic gymnastics
Level
Senior International Elite
Years on national team
2009–2021 (JPN)
Club
Yukio Iketani Gymnastics Club
College team
Nippon Sport Science University
Head coach(es)
Kazukuni Ohno
Music
Floor music
2012–2013: "Beating" (Inside the Sun Remix) / "Fuyu no Sakura" by Yoshida Brothers 2014–2015: "This Society, They've Opened Pandora's Box" by Johnny / "Self Repair" by Adam Bonilla Morales 2016: “Mad Skills”by Brian Tyler/“Show Me How You Burlesque “ by Christina Aguilera 2017–2018: "Field of Fusion/Volcano High" by DAITA 2021: “Supa Freak” by Terry ft. Trouble/“Hydro 84” by Wazgogg/“Pump Up The Volume” by M/A/R/R/S
Retired
24 October 2021
Medal record
Women's artistic gymnastics
Representing Japan
Olympic Games
2020 Tokyo
Floor exercise
World Championships
2017 Montreal
Floor exercise
2021 Kitakyushu
Floor exercise
2018 Doha
All-around
2018 Doha
Floor exercise
2021 Kitakyushu
Balance beam
FIG World Cup
Event
1st
2nd
3rd
All-Around World Cup
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Mai Murakami (村上茉愛, Murakami Mai, born 5 August 1996) is a Japanese retired artistic gymnast and Olympic medalist. She is the 2017 and 2021 World champion on floor exercise, the 2018 World all-around silver medalist and floor exercise bronze medalist, the 2021 World balance beam bronze medalist, and a four-time Japanese national all-around champion (2016–2018, 2020). She represented Japan at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics, winning a bronze medal on floor exercise in the latter. This made her the first female Japanese gymnast to win an individual medal at the Olympics.
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side. Teammate and defending champion Morgan Hurd placed third. Japan's MaiMurakami recorded her country's highest-ever finish in the all-around, and her...
club place fourth, and she finished second in the all-around behind MaiMurakami. Her final competition of the season was the Toyota International where...
Sugihara, and MaiMurakami. Tsurumi won a bronze medal in the all-around and silver on bars at the 2009 World Championships, and Murakami won gold on floor...
all-around silver medalists, Canada's Ellie Black (2017) and Japan's MaiMurakami (2018), who tied for third place. She debuted numerous upgrades, most...
qualified third for the floor exercise final (14.100), behind Smith and MaiMurakami of Japan, and second for the vault final, behind reigning world champion...
Hatakeda, MaiMurakami, and Yuna Hiraiwa. Then at the All-Japan Event Championships, she won the silver medal on the balance beam behind Murakami, and she...
allowed her to claim the title with a score of 57.491 over silver medalist MaiMurakami of Japan and bronze medalist Morgan Hurd. Earning her fourth world all-around...
affiliated with Aoni Production. She played Ayano in Lucky Star, Natsumi Murakami in Negima and Mio Naganohara in Nichijou. Her album, Moi, was illustrated...
team for the World Championships alongside Sasada, Teramoto, Yu Minobe, MaiMurakami, and Wakana Inoue, where she was the youngest member. At the World Championships...
behind Natsumi Sasada and vault bronze medalist behind Sae Miyakawa and MaiMurakami. Due to her results, Teramoto was named to Japan's 2014 World Championships...
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replaced by first reserve Ellie Black of Canada in the floor final. MaiMurakami won Japan's first-ever gold for women on the event. Oldest and youngest...
the uneven bars and silver on balance beam and floor exercise behind MaiMurakami on each. Melnikova was named as team captain of the Russian women's national...
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