Shigeru Kasamatsu (笠松 茂, Kasamatsu Shigeru, born July 16, 1947) is a retired Japanese artistic gymnast. He competed at the 1972 Olympics and won a gold medal with the Japanese team. Individually he won a silver on parallel bars and bronze medals on the floor and horizontal bar. Kasamatsu won six world titles in 1974 and 1978. The Kasamatsu vault is named after him. In 2006, he was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. His wife Kazue Hanyu and son Akihiro Kasamatsu are also retired Olympic gymnasts.^[1][2]

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Shigeru Kasamatsu
Personal information
Country represented	Japan
Born	(1947-07-16) July 16, 1947 (age 76) Kumano, Japan
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	59 kg (130 lb)
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Eponymous skills	Kasamatsu (vault)
Retired	1979
Medal record Olympic Games 1972 Munich Team 1972 Munich Parallel bars 1972 Munich Horizontal bar 1972 Munich Floor exercise World Championships 1974 Varna Team 1974 Varna All-around 1974 Varna Floor 1974 Varna Vault 1978 Strasbourg Team 1978 Strasbourg Horizontal bar 1978 Strasbourg Floor 1979 Fort Worth Team

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Kasamatsu took up gymnastics in 1957, but had his first major achievement only in 1970, when he finished second all-around in the Chunichi Cup. He had to withdraw from the 1976 Olympics due to an emergency appendectomy.^[1]