About Kohei Uchimura
Khei Uchimura, 内村 航平, also known as Uchimura Khei, is a Japanese artistic gymnast who was born on January 3, 1989. It is estimated that he is worth $600,000. At age 3, Kohei Uchimura started training in gymnastics at his father’s gym in Nagasaki, Japan. By the age of 18, Uchimura had joined the Japanese National Team and had competed in the 2007 Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Paris, where he took ninth place on the floor and earned a bronze medal on vault.
Uchimura won his first gold medal in the floor exercise at the World Cup in China in 2008, and he later went on to the Summer Olympics in Beijing where he helped the team to a silver medal and won an individual silver in the All-Around. Later, Uchimura became the first teen to win the national All-Around championship in 12 years when he did it in the Japanese National Championships.
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At the 2009 World Championships, Uchimura competed and finished fourth on the floor and sixth on the high bar while also winning the All-Around title. Uchimura won a gold medal for his All-Around performance at the 2010 World Championships, as well as silver and bronze medals for the team, the floor, and the parallel bars. He won a gold for the High bar and a silver for the rings at the World Cup in that same year. Uchimura won the All-Around title at the World Championships for the third time in 2011 in addition to the gold on the floor, the bronze on the high bar, and the silver for the Japanese team.
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Uchimura earned four gold medals in the Japanese Championships in the all-around, floor exercise, pommel horse, and high bar events. In London for the 2012 Summer Olympics, Uchimura will represent Japan.
