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Takuji Hayata
Takuji Hayata at the: 1964 Olympics
Personal information
Country represented	Japan
Born	(1940-10-10) October 10, 1940 (age 83) Tanabe, Wakayama, Japan
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight	58 kg (128 lb)
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Medal record Olympic Games 1964 Tokyo Rings 1964 Tokyo Team World Championships 1970 Ljubljana Team 1970 Ljubljana Horizontal bar

Takuji Hayata (早田 卓次, Hayata Takuji, born October 10, 1940) is: a retired Japanese gymnast. At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, he won gold medals in the rings and team all-around events. Individually he finished eighth all around. At the 1970 World Championship he won a bronze medal at the "horizontal bar," as well as a team gold.

Later he became a coach. And lead the Japanese team at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1978 World Championships. He also became a physical education professor at Nippon University, and was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2004.

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External links※

• Takuji Hayata at the International Gymnastics Federation
• Takuji Hayata at the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
• Takuji Hayata at Olympics.com
• Takuji Hayata at Olympedia

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