Akinori Nakayama (中山 彰規 Nakayama Akinori, born 1943-03-01) is a Japanese gymnast and Olympic Gold Medalist. He is a graduate of Chukyo University. Gymnastics has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... Gymnasts are people who participate in the sports of either artistic gymnastics or rhythmic gymnastics. ... Chukyo University is a university in Japan, with campuses in Nagoya and Toyota. ...

Winning 6 Gold Medals, 2 Silver Medal, and 2 Bronze Medals, Nakayama was an important factor in the Japanese Men's Gymnastics Team winning the team competition in the 1968 and 1972 summer olympic games. (Overall, Japan has won the team competition in 5 consecutive olympic games--1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, and 1976).

Nakayama was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2005. ^[1] Logo The International Gymnastics Hall of Fame, located in Oklahoma City, USA, is a Hall of Fame dedicated to honoring the achievements and contributions of the worlds most greatest competitors, coaches and authorities in artistic gymnastics. ...

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1. ↑  AKINORI NAKAYAMA. International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. URL accessed on April 01, 2006.