Kohei Uchimura s national title an important step toward Olympics Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you re not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/
Kohei Uchimura poses after his horizontal bar performance during the national gymnastics championships on Sunday in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture. | KYODO
Kyodo Dec 13, 2020
Kohei Uchimura, forced to adjust his Olympic expectations due to shoulder injuries, won his fifth national horizontal bar title on Sunday and called it an important step toward the Summer Games.
The two-time defending Olympic men s overall champion, Uchimura has set his sights on qualifying instead on the horizontal bar, on which he scored 15.700 points at the national championships at Takasaki Arena in Gunma Prefecture.