was able to compete when Larisa Iordache withdrew. She finished sixth. In October Ashikawa competed at the 2021 World Championships in Kitakyushu. While there she won gold on the balance beam. This was Japan's second world gold medal on the apparatus following Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda's win in 1954. Ashikawa became the third Japanese woman to win a world title in artistic gymnastics following Tanaka-Ikeda and Mai Murakami. Competitive history References External links 2003 births Living people Japanese female artistic gymnasts Sportspeople from Shizuoka Prefecture Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts of Japan World champion gymnasts Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships 21st-century Japanese women