Wataru Tanigawa won a gold medal with the Japanese team at the 2024 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
29 Facts About Wataru Tanigawa
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Wataru Tanigawa won team bronze medals at the 2018 and 2019 World Championships.
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Wataru Tanigawa is the 2022 Asian Games vault champion and a two-time World University Games champion.
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Wataru Tanigawa studied sports science at Juntendo University in Tokyo.
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Wataru Tanigawa won a silver medal on the vault at the 2015 Osijek World Challenge Cup behind Ukraine's Igor Radivilov.
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Wataru Tanigawa won a bronze medal on the vault at the Melbourne World Cup behind Kenzo Shirai and Christopher Remkes.
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Wataru Tanigawa won the bronze medals in four individual events: the all-around, floor exercise, parallel bars and horizontal bar.
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Wataru Tanigawa competed at the World Championships in Montreal but did not advance to any finals.
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Wataru Tanigawa was the second reserve for the parallel bars final.
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Wataru Tanigawa competed at the Swiss Cup, a mixed pairs event, alongside Hitomi Hatakeda, and they won the silver medal behind Switzerland.
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Wataru Tanigawa then competed at the Toyota International and won a gold medal on the parallel bars, a silver medal on the floor exercise, and a bronze medal on the still rings.
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Wataru Tanigawa won a silver medal in the all-around at the Tokyo World Cup behind teammate Kenzo Shirai.
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Wataru Tanigawa then placed fifth in the all-around at the NHK Trophy.
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Wataru Tanigawa was selected to compete at the 2018 World Championships alongside Kazuma Kaya, Kenzo Shirai, Yusuke Tanaka, and Kohei Uchimura, with his brother Kakeru being the team alternate.
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Wataru Tanigawa competed at the Toyota International, finishing fourth on the still rings.
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At the 2019 Tokyo World Cup, Wataru Tanigawa won a silver medal in the all-around behind American Sam Mikulak.
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Wataru Tanigawa then won the silver medal at the NHK Trophy, behind his brother Kakeru.
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Wataru Tanigawa won the gold medal in the team event at the Summer Universiade in Naples, Italy.
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Wataru Tanigawa competed at the 2019 World Championships alongside Daiki Hashimoto, Yuya Kamoto, Kazuma Kaya, and Kakeru Wataru Tanigawa, and they won the bronze medal behind Russia and China.
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In November 2020, Wataru Tanigawa competed at the Friendship and Solidarity Competition in Tokyo, competing as part of Team Solidarity who won over Team Friendship.
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Wataru Tanigawa won the silver medal in the all-around at the All-Japan Championships behind Daiki Hashimoto.
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Wataru Tanigawa then won the all-around bronze medal at the NHK Trophy.
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Wataru Tanigawa finished seventh in the all-around at the All-Japan Championships.
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Wataru Tanigawa then finished eighth in the all-around at the NHK Trophy.
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Wataru Tanigawa competed at the World Championships alongside Ryosuke Doi, Daiki Hashimoto, Yuya Kamoto, and Kakeru Wataru Tanigawa.
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Wataru Tanigawa finished fourth in the all-around at the All-Japan Championships, and he placed seventh at the NHK Trophy.
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Wataru Tanigawa then competed at the 2022 Asian Games held in 2023 in Hangzhou, China.
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Wataru Tanigawa then competed at the All-Japan Team Championships, winning a bronze medal with his club team.
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Wataru Tanigawa was selected to represent Japan at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, alongside Takaaki Sugino, Shinnosuke Oka, Kazuma Kaya, and Daiki Hashimoto.