Championships. At the 2018 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Doha, Qatar the Japanese team finished in sixth place. Individually, she finished second in the all-around final, behind Simone Biles. It was the first women’s all-around silver medal in Japan’s history. She then won the bronze medal in the floor exercise final behind Biles and Morgan Hurd. 2019 Murakami won a bronze medal in the all-around at the American Cup behind Americans Leanne Wong and Grace McCallum. Murakami missed the NHK Cup due to a back injury, but because of this, Murakami was deemed ineligible to make the Japanese team for the World Championships. Murakami's petition was denied. 2020-2021 In February it was announced that Murakami would represent Japan at the Tokyo World Cup taking place on April 4. However the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. Murakami returned to competition in September at the All-Japan Senior Championships, where she won gold in the all-around. In addition, she performed well enough to win medals on each of the individual events, including two additional golds on vault and floor. She next competed at the All-Japan Championships in December. In April 2021, it was announced that she, along with Hatakeda Hitomi, Hiraiwa Yuna and Sugihara Aiko, would represent Japan at Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The team finished in 5th place and Murakami finished 5th in the all-around. On 2 August 2021, Murakami achieved a score of 14.166 for the individual women's floor event and won bronze at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics (tied with Angelina Melnikova of ROC who also won bronze). She became the first female Japanese gymnast to win an individual medal at the Olympics. This was also only the second time that Japan had won an Olympic medal on any women's gymnastics event, since finishing 3rd in the team compettion at the 1964 Olympics which were also held in Tokyo. In October 2021, Murakami competed at the 2021 World Championships, where she won gold on the floor exercise and bronze on the balance beam. After this achievement, she announced her retirement from gymnastics. Competitive history References External links 1996 births Living people Japanese female artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts of Japan World champion gymnasts Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in gymnastics Olympic bronze medalists for Japan Nippon