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Hazuki Watanabe (渡部 葉月, born 7 August 2004) is a Japanese artistic gymnast. She is the 2022 World Champion on the balance beam. She was part of the bronze medal winning team at the 2022 Asian Championships. Additionally she represented Japan at the inaugural Junior World Championships.

Watanabe was born in Mie, Japan in 2004.^[1]

Watanabe competed at the 2019 City of Jesolo Trophy where she helped Japan finish fifth as a team. She was later selected to compete at the inaugural Junior World Championships alongside Shoko Miyata and Chiaki Hatakeda; they finished eleventh as a team.^[2]

Vault

Uneven bars

Balance beam

Floor exercise

Watanabe at the 2019 Junior World Championships

Watanabe competed at the Asian Championships where she helped Japan finish third as a team.^[3] Later in the year Watanabe was selected to represent Japan at the 2022 World Championships alongside Shoko Miyata, Kokoro Fukasawa, Ayaka Sakaguchi, Chiharu Yamada, and Arisa Kasahara; she was initially the alternate. However Kasahara later withdrew from the team due to injury and Watanabe was added to the main team. While at the World Championships Watanabe helped Japan finish seventh as a team and individually she qualified to the balance beam final. During the balance beam final Watanabe won gold, becoming the third Japanese gymnast to win the World title on balance beam after Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda and Urara Ashikawa.^[4][5]

Year	Event	Team	AA	VT	UB	BB	FX
Junior
2019	City of Jesolo Trophy	5	13
	All-Japan Championships		9
	NHK Trophy		6
	Junior World Championships	11
	All-Japan Junior Championships		7
	All-Japan Team Championships	7
Senior
2020	All-Japan Senior Championships		42
2021	All-Japan Championships		22
	NHK Trophy		21
	All-Japan Event Championships					6
	All-Japan Team Championships	13	5
2022	All-Japan Championships		4
	NHK Trophy		4
	Asian Championships
	World Championships	7
2023	DTB Pokal Team Challenge	5
	DTB Pokal Mixed Cup
	All-Japan Championships