Japan at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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Japan at the Olympic Games

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At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
Competitors
Medals
Rank: 23		 Gold
3		 Silver
6		 Bronze
5		 Total
14
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Japan competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.

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[edit] Medals

[edit] Image:Med_1.png Gold

  • Yuko Emoto — Judo, Women's Half Middleweight (61 kg)

[edit] Image:Med_2.png Silver

  • Yukimasa Nakamura — Judo, Men's Half Lightweight (65 kg)
  • Alicia Kinoshita and Yumiko Shige — Sailing, Women's 470 Team Competition

[edit] Image:Med_3.png Bronze

  • Junko Tanaka, Miya Tachibana, Kaori Takahashi, Miho Takeda, Miho Kawabe, Akiko Kawase, Riho Nakajima, Raika Fujii, Mayuko Fujiki, and Rei Jinbo — Synchronised Swimming, Women's Team Competition
  • Takuya Ota — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Welterweight (74 kg)

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Archery

In the nation's sixth Olympic archery competition, three of Japan's five archers won their first matches. All three lost in the second round, however.

Women's Individual Competition:

  • Kinue Kodama → Round of 32, 24th place (1-1)
  • Ai Ouchi → Round of 64, 41st place (0-1)
  • Misato Koide → Round of 64, 56th place (0-1)

Men's Individual Competition:

  • Hiroshi Yamamoto → Round of 32, 19th place (1-1)
  • Takayoshi Matsushita → Round of 32, 27th place (1-1)

Women's Team Competition:

  • Kodama, Ouchi, and Koide → Round of 16, 14th place (0-1)

[edit] Athletics

Men's 4x400m Relay

  • Heat — 3:02.82
  • Semi Final — 3:01.92
  • Final — 3:00.76 (→ 5th place)

Men's 400m Hurdles

  • Heat — 48.96s (→ did not advance)
  • Hideaki Kawamura
  • Heat — 49.88s (→ did not advance)
  • Kazuhiko Yamazaki
  • Heat — 49.07s (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

  • Masaki Oya — 2:22.13 (→ 54th place)
  • Kenjiro Jitsui — 2:33.27 (→ 93rd place)

Men's Long Jump

  • Qualification — 7.46m (→ did not advance)


Women's 10.000 metres

  • Qualification — 31:37.03
  • Final — 31:20.62 (→ 5th place)
  • Qualification — 32:31.69
  • Final — 31:23.23 (→ 7th place)
  • Hiromi Suzuki
  • Qualification — 31:54.89
  • Final — 32:43.39 (→ 16th place)

Women's Marathon

  • Izumi Maki — 2:32.35 (→ 12th place)

Women's 10km Walk

  • Yuka Mitsumori — dsq (→ no ranking)

Women's Javelin Throw

  • Akiko Miyajima
  • Qualification — 53.98m (→ did not advance)

[edit] Baseball

Defending bronze medalist Japan competed for the second time in the Olympic baseball tournament. They got off to a rough start, losing three of their first four games to Australia, Cuba, and the United States. After winning their next three, however, the Japanese were in a tie with the Nicaraguans for third and fourth places. Since Japan had beat Nicaragua in head-to-head competition, they won the tie-breaker and faced the United States in the semifinals rather than the Cubans, which had not lost any of their 16 games in the 1992 and 1996 Olympiads. Japan defeated the United States to advance to the final, where they became the Cubans' 18th victim (Nicaragua's loss in the semifinals being the 17th win for Cuba).

Men's Team Competition:

  • Japan - Silver Medal (5-4)

[edit] Boxing

Men's Flyweight (51 kg)

  • Kazumasa Tsujimoto
    1. First Round — Lost to Lernik Papyan (Armenia), 5-10

Men's Light Welterweight (63,5 kg)

  • Nitami Fumitaka
    1. First Round — Lost to Edward Zakharov (Russia), 6-21

Men's Middleweight (75 kg)

  • Hirokuni Moto
    1. First Round — Defeated Tao Chen (China), 15-10
    2. First Round — Lost to Tomasz Borowski (Poland), 6-11

[edit] Cycling

[edit] Track Competition

Men's Points Race

  • Masahiro Yasuhara
  • Final – 2 points (→ 15th place)

[edit] Mountain Bike

Men's Cross Country

  • Kyoshi Miura
  • Final — 2:45:03 (→ 26th place)

Women's Cross Country

  • Kanako Tanikawa
  • Final — 2:05.44 (→ 23rd place)

[edit] Softball

[edit] Women's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round Robin
  • Defeated Netherlands (3:0)
  • Defeated PR China (3:0)
  • Lost to United States (1:6)
  • Defeated Canada (4:0)
  • Lost to Australia (0:10)
  • Defeated Puerto Rico (8:1)
  • Defeated Chinese Taipei (5:1)
  • Semifinals
  • Lost to Australia (0:3)
  • Bronze Medal Match
  • Did not advance → 4th place
  • Team Roster
  • Juri Takayama
  • Noriko Yamaji
  • Haruka Saito
  • Misako Ando
  • Naomi Matsumoto
  • Yoshiko Fujimoto
  • Ikuko Fukita
  • Noriko Harada
  • Mayumi Inoue
  • Chika Kodama
  • Kyoko Kobayashi
  • Kyoko Mochida
  • Emi Tsukada
  • Masako Watanabe
  • Tomoko Watanabe
  • Head Coach: Mitsutoshi Suzumura

[edit] Swimming

Men's 50 metres Freestyle:

  • Yukihiro Matsushita
    1. Heat – 23.60 (→ did not advance, 35th place)

Men's 100 metres Freestyle:

  • Shunsuke Ito
    1. Heat – 51.29 (→ did not advance, 37th place)

Men's 200 metres Freestyle:

  • Shunsuke Ito
    1. Heat – 1:51.97 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Men's 400 metres Freestyle:

  • Hisato Yasui
    1. Heat – 4:00.19 (→ did not advance, 24th place)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle

  • Masato Hirano
    1. Heat – 15:19.48
    2. B-Final – 15:17.28 (→ 6th place)
  • Hisato Yasui
    1. Heat – 15:43.66 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

  • Keitaro Konnai
    1. Heat – 56.35
    2. B-Final – 55.74 (→ 9th place)
  • Hajime Itoi
    1. Heat – 56.22
    2. B-Final – 56.23 (→ 11th place)

Men's 200 m Backstroke

  • Hajime Itoi
    1. Heat – 2:00.43
    2. Final – 2:00.10 (→ 5th place)
  • Ryuji Horii
    1. Heat – 2:02.33
    2. B-Final – 2:01.54 (→ 9th place)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

  • Akira Hayashi
    1. Heat – 1:02.63
    2. B-Final – 1:02.75 (→ 12th place)
  • Yoshinobu Miyazaki
    1. Heat – 1:03.13 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's 200 m Breaststroke

  • Akira Hayashi
    1. Heat – 2:15.37
    2. B-Final – 2:16.69 (→ 16th place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

  • Yukihiro Matsushita
    1. Heat – 54.50 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Men's 200 m Butterfly

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

  • Tatsuya Kinugasa
    1. Heat – 2:03.42
    2. B-Final – 2:04.59 (→ 14th place)
  • Jo Yoshimi
    1. Heat – 2:04.49
    2. B-Final – 2:05.42 (→ 16th place)

Men's 400 m Individual Medley

  • Toshiaki Kurasawa
    1. Heat – 4:24.83
    2. B-Final – 4:23.36 (→ 10th place)
  • Tatsuya Kinugasa
    1. Heat – 4:26.73
    2. B-Final – 4:24.25 (→ 11th place)

Men's 4x100 m Medley Relay

  • Keitaro Konnai, Akira Hayashi, Takashi Yamamoto and Shunsuke Ito
    1. Heat – 3:41.78
    2. Final – 3:40.51 (→ 5th place)

Women's 50 m Freestyle

Women's 100 m Freestyle

Women's 200 m Freestyle

  • Suzu Chiba
    1. Heat – 2:01.11
    2. B-Final – 2:01.00 (→ 10th place)
  • Naoko Imoto
    1. Heat – 2:03.78 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Women's 400 m Freestyle

  • Eri Yamanoi
    1. Heat – 4:13.40
    2. Final – 4:11.68 (→ 7th place)
  • Suzu Chiba
    1. Heat – 4:16.07
    2. B-Final – 4:16.60 (→ 13th place)

Women's 800 m Freestyle

  • Eri Yamanoi
    1. Heat – 8:40.47 (→ did not advance, 10th place)
  • Aiko Miyake
    1. Heat – 8:55.77 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Women's 100 m Backstroke

  • Mai Nakamura
    1. Heat – 1:02.35
    2. Final – 1:02.33 (→ 4th place)
  • Miki Nakao
    1. Heat – 1:02.90
    2. Final – 1:02.78 (→ 8th place)

Women's 200 m Backstroke

  • Mai Nakamura
    1. Heat – 2:15.05
    2. B-Final – 2:13.40 (→ 9th place)
  • Miki Nakao
    1. Heat – 2:12.92
    2. Final – 2:13.57 (→ 5th place)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

  • Masami Tanaka
    1. Heat – 1:09.89
    2. B-Final – 1:10.43 (→ 13th place)
  • Kyoko Iwasaki
    1. Heat – 1:11.33 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

  • Masami Tanaka
    1. Heat – 2:29.36
    2. Final – 2:28.05 (→ 5th place)
  • Kyoko Iwasaki
    1. Heat – 2:30.84
    2. B-Final – 2:29.32 (→ 10th place)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

  • Hitomi Kashima
    1. Heat – 1:00.85
    2. Final – 1:00.11 (→ 4th place)
  • Ayari Aoyama
    1. Heat – 1:00.20
    2. Final – 1:00.18 (→ 6th place)

Women's 200 m Butterfly

  • Hitomi Kashima
    1. Heat – 2:16.04
    2. B-Final – 2:13.97 (→ 14th place)
  • Mika Haruna
    1. Heat – 2:12.59
    2. Final – 2:11.93 (→ 7th place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley

  • Fumie Kurotori
    1. Heat – 2:20.58 (→ did not advance, 28th place)

Women's 400 m Individual Medley

  • Fumie Kurotori
    1. Heat – 4:48.51
    2. B-Final – 4:47.98 (→ 12th place)
  • Hideko Hiranaka
    1. Heat – 4:49.32
    2. B-Final – 4:48.72 (→ 13th place)

Women's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay

Women's 4x200 m Freestyle Relay

Women's 4x100 m Medley Relay

[edit] Tennis

Men's Singles Competition

Men's Doubles Competition

Women's Singles Competition

[edit] Volleyball

[edit] Women's Indoor Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Lost to South Korea (0-3)
  • Defeated Ukraine (3-0)
  • Lost to Netherlands (0-3)
  • Lost to United States (0-3)
  • Lost to China (0-3)
  • Quarterfinals
  • did not advance (→ Ninth place)
  • Team Roster
  • Kaiyo Hoshini
  • Aki Nagatomi
  • Kazumi Nakamura
  • Chieko Nakanishi
  • Motoko Ohbayashi
  • Ikumi Ogake
  • Mika Saiki
  • Kiyomi Sakamoto
  • Asako Tajimi
  • Chiho Torii
  • Mika Yamauchi
  • Tomoko Yoshihara
  • Head Coach: Kuniaki Yoshida

[edit] Men's Beach Competition

  • Shoji Setoyama and Kazuyuki Takao — 17th place overall

[edit] References


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