Kōhei Uchimura (内村 航平 Uchimura Kōhei, born January 3, 1989, in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture) is a Japanese gymnast. He is a seven-time Olympic medalist (all-around, team and floor exercise), winning three golds and four silvers, a nineteen-time World medalist (all-around, team, floor, horizontal bar and parallel bars) and considered by many in the sport to be the greatest gymnast of all time. He is known for being the first gymnast (male or female) to win every major all-around title in an entire single Olympic cycle, accomplishing this feat twice by winning six world (2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015) and two Olympic (2012 Olympics in London and 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro) individual all-around titles. Uchimura is also 2008 Olympic individual all-around silver medalist. He is also known for delivering difficult and accurately executed routines. The International Gymnast Magazine had praised his skills as a "combination of tremendous difficulty, supreme consistency and extraordinary elegance of performance."
