Kazuki Minami
Japanese artistic gymnast
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Kazuki Minami (born 24 January 2000)[1] is a Japanese artistic gymnast. He turned senior in 2019 and became the 2019 World Cup gold medalist on Floor Exercise at Cottbus and Paris.[2] At the 2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships he qualified for the floor exercise final in third place. In the final he took home the silver medal.[3][4]
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| Born | 24 January 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gymnastics career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented |  Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Sendai University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Hisashi Mizutori [national], Ryota Suzuki [club] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Competitive history
| Year | Event | Team | AA | FX | PH | SR | VT | PB | HB |
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| 2019 | World Cup Cottbus |  | |||||||
| World Cup Paris | | ||||||||
| 2021 | |||||||||
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| 2023 | |||||||||
| Doha World Cup | | 6 | |||||||
| 2025 | |||||||||
| World Championships | N/a | 8 | 8 |
Eponymous skills
At the 2023 Doha World Cup Minami became the first gymnast to successfully perform a "double salto bwd with 7/2 t." on floor. The skill was added to the Code of Points and was given the value H (0.8).
| Apparatus | Name | Description | Difficulty | Added to Code of Points |
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| Floor Exercise | Minami | Double salto bwd. tucked with 7/2 t. | H (0.8) | 2023 World Cup Doha |