Japan at the 1976 Summer Olympics

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Japan at the Olympic Games

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At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal
Competitors
Medals Gold
9		 Silver
6		 Bronze
10		 Total
25
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Japan competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.

Contents

[edit] Medals

[edit] Image:Med_1.png Gold

  • Yuko Arakida, Takako Iida, Katsuko Kanesaka, Kiyomi Kato, Echiko Maeda, Noriko Matsuda, Mariko Okamoto, Takako Shirai, Shoko Takayanagi, Hiromi Yano, Juri Yokoyama, and Mariko Yoshida — Volleyball, Women's Team Competition
  • Jiichiro Date — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Welterweight

[edit] Image:Med_2.png Silver

  • Hiroshi Michinaga — Archery, Men's Individual Competition
  • Sawao Kato — Gymnastics, Men's All-Around Individual Competition
  • Koji Kuramoto — Judo, Men's Half Middleweight (70 kg)

[edit] Image:Med_3.png Bronze

  • Sumio Endo — Judo, Men's Heavyweight
  • Koichiro Hirayama — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Flyweight
  • Akira Kudo — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Light Flyweight
  • Masao Arai — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Bantamweight
  • Yasaburo Sugawara — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Lightweight

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Archery

In their second Olympic archery competition, Japan won a silver medal and placed third on the national leaderboard for the sport. The medal was won by Hiroshi Michinaga. Two men and two women competed for Japan.

Women's Individual Competition:

  • Minako Sato — 2308 points (→ 14th place)
  • Kyoko Yamazaki — 2094 points (→ 26th place)

Men's Individual Competition:

  • Hiroshi Michinaga — 2502 points (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)
  • Takanobu Nishi — 2422 points (→ 8th place)

[edit] Athletics

Men's 10.000 metres

  • Toshiaki Kamata
  • Heat — 28:36.21 (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

  • Shigeru So — 2:18:26 (→ 20th place)
  • Noriyasu Mizukami — 2:18:44 (→ 21st place)
  • Akio Usami — 2:22:29 (→ 32nd place)

Men's High Jump

  • Katsumi Fukura
  • Qualification — 2.13m (→ did not advance)
  • Kazunori Koshikawa
  • Qualification — 2.13m (→ did not advance)

Men's 20km Race Walk

  • Yoshio Morikawa — 1:42:20 (→ 34th place)

[edit] Basketball

[edit] Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group A):
  • Lost to Canada (76-104)
  • Lost to Mexico (90-108)
  • Lost to Cuba (56-97)
  • Lost to Soviet Union (69-123)
  • Lost to Australia (79-117)
  • Classification Match:
  • 9th/11th place: Lost to Puerto Rico (91-111) → 11th place
  • Team Roster
  • Shigeaki Abe
  • Nobuo Chigusa
  • Satoshi Mori
  • Shoji Yuki
  • Yutaka Fujimoto
  • Hirofumi Numata
  • Kiyohide Kuwata
  • Koji Yamamoto
  • Shigeto Shimizu
  • Fumio Saito
  • Norihiko Kitahara
  • Hideki Hamaguchi
  • Head Coach: Masahiko Yoshida.

[edit] Women's Team Competition

  • Team Roster
  • Kimiko Hashimoto
  • Kazuko Kadoya
  • Kimi Wakitashiro
  • Mieko Fukui
  • Miyako Otsuka
  • Miho Matsuoka
  • Kazuyo Hayashida
  • Teruko Miyamoto
  • Keiko Namai
  • Reiko Aonuma
  • Sachiyo Yamamoto
  • Misako Satake
  • Head Coach: Masatoshi Ozaki

[edit] Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

  • Noboru Uchizama
    1. First Round — Lost to Brendan Dunne (IRL), RSC-2

Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)

  • Toshinori Koga
    1. First Round — Bye
    2. Second Round — Defeated Virgilio Palomo (COL), 5:0
    3. Third Round — Lost to Ramón Duvalón (CUB), 0:5

[edit] Cycling

Men's 1.000m Time Trial

  • Yoshikazu Cho — 1:09.664 (→ 17th place)

Men's 1.000m Sprint (Scratch)

  • Yoshikazu Cho — 5th place

Men's 4.000m Individual Pursuit

  • Yoichi Machishima — 15th place

[edit] Modern pentathlon

Men's Individual Competition:

  • Shoji Uchida — 4850 points (→ 31st place)
  • Akira Kubo — 4700 points (→ 37th place)
  • Hiroyuki Kawazoe — 4591 points (→ 40th place)

Men's Team Competition:

  • Uchida, Kubo, and Kawazoe — 14234 points (→ 12th place)

[edit] Volleyball

[edit] Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group B)
  • Defeated Italy (3-0)
  • Defeated Brazil (3-0)
  • Lost to Soviet Union (0-3)
  • Semi Finals
  • Lost to Poland (2-3)
  • Bronze Medal Match
  • Lost to Cuba (0-3) → Fourth place
  • Team Roster
  • Taka Maruiyama
  • Katsutoshi Nekoda
  • Katsumi Oda
  • Tetsuo Nishimoto
  • Yassunori Yassuda
  • Yoshi Fukao
  • Shoichi Yanagimoto
  • Miki Tanaka
  • Tadayoshi Yokota
  • Seiji Ohko
  • Kinji Shimaoka
  • Tetsuo Sato
  • Head Coach: Tsutomu Koyama

[edit] Women's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Defeated Hungary (3-0)
  • Defeated Peru (3-0)
  • Defeated Canada (3-0)
  • Semi Finals
  • Defeated South Korea (3-0)
  • Final
  • Defeated Soviet Union (3-0) → Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal
  • Team Roster
  • Takako Iida
  • Mariko Okamoto
  • Echiko Maeda
  • Noriko Matsuda
  • Takako Shirai
  • Kiyomi Kato
  • Yuko Arakida
  • Katsuko Kanesaka
  • Mariko Yoshida
  • Shoko Takayanagi
  • Hiromi Yano
  • Juri Yokoyama
  • Head Coach: Shigeo Yamada


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