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Shinji Morisue
Born	(1957-05-22) May 22, 1957 (age 67) Okayama, Okayama
Height	5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	Japan
Level	Senior
Retired	1985
Medal record Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Horizontal Bar 1984 Los Angeles Vault 1984 Los Angeles Team World Championships 1983 Budapest Team

Shinji Morisue (森末 慎二, Morisue Shinji, born May 22, 1957) is a Japanese gymnast and Olympic champion. The parallel bar skill Morisue is named after him.

Early life

Morisue hails from Okayama City and attended the Nippon College of Physical Education (now called Nippon Sport Science University).

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.

World championships

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

Post sports career

Morisue is now a show business personality in Japan and is frequently seen on TV, especially in sports programs, and to comment on the Olympics and other international competitions. In April, 2006 he was appointed professor at Kyushu Kyoritsu University.

Writer

In the early nineties amateur athletes have decreased. Morisue, concerned about the phenomenon of the moment, wrote the scenarios for the sports manga Ganba! Fly High, based in part on his experiences as a gymnast, for which he and the illustrator Hiroyuki Kikuta received the 1998 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga.

Filmography

References

1. "D - Morisue". Code Of Points. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
2. Mc, Rick (2008-01-18). "gymnastics skills we want to see". Gymnastics Coaching.com. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
3. "Archived copy" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2008-10-11. Retrieved 2008-10-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
4. "1984 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles, United States – Gymnastics" Archived 2008-08-27 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 3, 2008)
5. "Gymn Forum: Shinji Morisue Biography".
6. "森末 慎二 (講師陣データベース) | 株式会社ブレーン". www.kkbrain.co.jp. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
7. 小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on 2008-07-10. Retrieved 2008-06-13.
8. "Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla (2002)". IMDb.

External links

• Morisue(Parallel bars)
• Shinji Morisue at the International Gymnastics Federation
• Shinji Morisue at Olympedia

• 1957 births
• Living people
• Japanese male artistic gymnasts
• Gymnasts at the 1984 Summer Olympics
• Olympic gymnasts for Japan
• Olympic gold medalists for Japan
• Olympic silver medalists for Japan
• Sportspeople from Okayama
• Nippon Sport Science University alumni
• Olympic medalists in gymnastics
• Asian Games medalists in gymnastics
• Gymnasts at the 1982 Asian Games
• Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
• Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• Olympic bronze medalists for Japan
• Asian Games silver medalists for Japan
• Medalists at the 1982 Asian Games
• 20th-century Japanese sportsmen
• Competitors at the 1981 Summer Universiade