caption birth_place height discipline birth_date image article_title name
akinori nakayama in 1966 nagoya , japan 1.63 m ftin on mag 01 march 1943 akinori nakayama 1966d.jpg akinori nakayama
 akinori nakayama 中山彰規
akinori nakayama

he won six medals at the world championships in 1966 , including three gold medals in the team all-around , the floor exercise and the horizontal bar .
two years later , with four gold , one silver and one bronze medals he became the most successful male athlete at the 1968 summer olympics .
in 1970 , he won another four world titles : in team competition , on rings , floor and parallel bars .
he won four more medals at the 1972 summer olympics .
after retirement he was the vice-president of the japanese gymnastics federation .
he also served as a gymnastics coach at his alma mater , chukyo university .
in 2005 , he was inducted into the international gymnastics hall of fame .
