He won two gold medals, in the vault and team combined exercises.

[1] After marriage he changed his last name from Yamashita to Matsuda (松田), adopting his aunt's surname, who took care of him as a child.

[3] In the early 1970s he was an assistant gymnastics coach under Roger Council at the Indiana State University.

[4] Yamashita also trained the national gymnastics team, at the 1976 Summer Olympics and at the Asian Games in 1990,[3] and held senior positions with the Japan Gymnastics Association.

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