Gymnastics Anime TV Series

I believe I caught an episode or two of this during one summer in Japan during the 80s while visiting family:





The only other cartoon series I know that featured gymnasts was Mr T.'s animated series.

This is like an animated "American Anthem" meets "Stick It" meets Japanese weirdness.

It's so...bad, I was a bit transfixed and curious to understand the oddball logic to it.

If this is the series I had seen, I dunno...it seemed way cooler when I was 15 and couldn't understand what was being said.

Wikipedia:

Ganba! Fly High (ガンバ! Fly high^?) is a shōnen sports manga written by Shinji Morisue and illustrated by Hiroyuki Kikuta. It is about high school gymnast Shun Fujimaki as he pursues his goal of competing in the 2000 Olympic Games, and is in part based on Morisue's experiences as an Olympic champion. The series was published by Shogakukan in Shōnen Sunday from 1994 to 2000 and collected in 35 bound volumes. It received the 1998 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen.^[1]

The series was adapted as a 30-episode anime television series called Ganbarist! Shun (ガンバリスト!駿, Ganbarisuto! Shun^?) produced by Sunrise. It was broadcast on Yomiuri TV from 1 July 1996 to 10 March 1997.

So I don't think this was the series I saw...I'm pretty sure the show I remember was in the 80's.