Japan at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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Japan at the Olympic Games

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At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney
Competitors
Flag bearer Kosei Inoue
Medals Gold
5		 Silver
8		 Bronze
5		 Total
18
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Japan competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Contents

[edit] Medals

[edit] Image:Med 1.png Gold

[edit] Image:Med 2.png Silver

[edit] Image:Med 3.png Bronze

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Archery

Sayoko Kawauchi was the most successful Japanese archer in Sydney, advancing to the quarterfinal before being defeated by eventual silver medallist Kim Nam-Soon.

Men's individual
Masafumi Makiyama Yuji Hamano Takayoshi Matsushita
1/32 eliminations Defeated Alexandr Li
Kazakhstan		 151-150 Lost to Ilario di Buo
Italy		 163-158 Lost to Grzegorz Targonski
Poland		 166-164
1/16 eliminations Defeated Matteo Bisiani
Italy		 162-159 - - - - - -
1/8 eliminations Lost to Kyo-Moon Oh
Korea		 166-160 - - - - - -
Quarterfinal - - - - - - - - -
Semifinal - - - - - - - - -
Final - - - - - - - - -
- - -
Women's individual
Sayoko Kawauchi Mayumi Asano
1/32 eliminations Defeated Denisse Astrid van Lamoen
Chile		 151-146 Lost to Jianping Yang
China		 156-154
1/16 eliminations Defeated Kate Fairweather
Australia		 160-156 - - -
1/8 eliminations Defeated Karen Scatotto
United States		 159-157 - - -
Quarterfinal Lost to Nam-Soon Kim
Korea		 114-100 - - -
5th place 40th place

Men's team competition:

  • Makiyama, Matsushita, Hamano – Round of 16, 14th place (0-1)

[edit] Athletics

[edit] Men's competition

Men's 100 m

  • Shingo Kawabata
    1. Round 1 – 10.39
    2. Round 2 – 10.6 (did not advance)
  • Koji Ito
    1. Round 1 – 10.45
    2. Round 2 – 10.25
    3. Semifinal – 10.39 (did not advance)
  • Shigeyuki Kojima
    1. Round 1 – 10.59 (did not advance)

Men's 200 m

  • Shingo Suetsugu
    1. Round 1 – 20.6
    2. Round 2 – 20.37
    3. Semifinal – 20.69 (did not advance)
  • Koji Ito
    1. Round 1 – 20.75
    2. Round 2 – 20.56
    3. Semifinal – 20.67 (did not advance)

Men's 400 m

  • Jun Osakada
    1. Round 1 – 45.88
    2. Round 2 – 46.15 (did not advance)
  • Takahiko Yamamura
    1. Round 1 – 46.25 (did not advance)
  • Kenji Tabata
    1. Round 1 – 46.59 (did not advance)

Men's 5,000 m

  • Toshinari Takaoka
    1. Round 1 – 13:29.99
    2. Final – 13:46.90 (15th place)
  • Katsuhiko Hanada
    1. Round 1 – 13:41.31 (did not advance)

Men's 10,000 m

  • Toshinari Takaoka
    1. Round 1 – 27:59.95
    2. Final – 27:40.44 (7th place)
  • Katsuhiko Hanada
    1. Round 1 – 27:45.13
    2. Final – 28:08.11 (15th place)

Men's 110 m Hurdles

  • Satoru Tanigawa
    1. Round 1 – 13.74
    2. Round 2 – 13.94 (did not advance)

Men's 400 m Hurdles

  • Kazuhiko Yamazaki
    1. Round 1 – 50.15 (did not advance)
  • Hideaki Kawamura
    1. Round 1 – 50.68 (did not advance)
  • Dai Tamesue
    1. Round 1 – 01:01.81 (did not advance)

Men's 4x100 m

Men's 4x400 m

Men's Hammer Throw

Men's Long Jump

  • Masaki Morinaga
    1. Qualifying – 7.84 (did not advance)
  • Daisuke Watanabe
    1. Qualifying – NM (did not advance)

Men's Triple Jump

  • Takamori Sugibayashi
    1. Qualifying – 16.67 (did not advance)

Men's High Jump

  • Takahisa Yoshida
    1. Qualifying – 2.15 (did not advance)

Men's Pole Vault

  • Manabu Yokoyama
    1. Qualifying – 5.55 (did not advance)

Men's 20 km Walk

  • Satoshi Yanagisawa
    1. Final – 1:25:03 (22nd place)
  • Daisuke Ikeshima
    1. Final – 1:25:34 (27th place)

Men's 50 km Walk

  • Fumio Immura
    1. Final – 4:13:28 (36th place)
  • Akihiko Koike
    1. Final – DQ

Men's marathon

  • Shinji Kawashima
    1. Final – 2:17:21 (21st place)
  • Nobuyuki Sato
    1. Final – 2:20:52 (41st place)
  • Takayuki Inubushi
    1. Final – DNF

[edit] Women's competition

Women's 5,000 m

  • Yoshiko Ichikawa
    1. Round 1 – 15:23.41 (did not advance)
  • Megumi Tanaka
    1. Round 1 – 15:39.83 (did not advance)
  • Michiko Shimizu
    1. Round 1 – 15:48.20 (did not advance)

Women's 10,000 m

  • Harumi Hiroyama
    1. Round 1 – 32:07.68
    2. Final – 32:24.17 (20th place)
  • Chiemi Takahashi
    1. Round 1 – 32:34.70
    2. Final – 31:52.59 (15th place)
  • Yuko Kawakami
    1. Round 1 – 32:36.60
    2. Final – 31:27.44 (10th place)

Women's 100 m Hurdles

  • Yvonne Kanazawa
    1. Round 1 – 13.13
    2. Round 2 – 13.11
    3. Semifinal – 13.16 (did not advance)

Women's 800 m Wheelchair

Women's High Jump

  • Yoko Ota
    1. Qualifying – 1.94
    2. Final – 1.90 (11th place)
  • Miki Imai
    1. Qualifying – 1.92 (did not advance)

Women's Marathon

[edit] Badminton

Men's Singles

Women's Singles

  • Kanako Yonekura
    1. Round of 64: Defeated Tatiana Vattier of France
    2. Round of 32: Defeated Anu Weckstrom of Finland
    3. Round of 16: Lost to Dai Yun of China
  • Yasuko Mizui
    1. Round of 64: Bye
    2. Round of 32: Defeated Marina Yakusheva of Russia
    3. Round of 16: Defeated Julia Mann of Great Britain
    4. Quarterfinal: Lost to Gong Zhichao of China
  • Takako Ida
    1. Round of 64: Bye
    2. Round of 32: Lost to Mette Sorensen of Denmark

Women's Doubles

  • Haruko Matsuda, Yoshiko Iwata
    1. Round of 32: Defeated Amrita Sawaram, Marie-Helene Valerie Pierre of Mauritius
    2. Round of 16: Lost to Qin Yiyuan, Gao Ling of China
  • Satomi Igawa, Hiroko Nagamine
    1. Round of 32: Lost to Irina Rousliakova, Marina Yakusheva of Russia

[edit] Baseball

[edit] Men's Team Competition

Japan, which had won a bronze medal in the first Olympic baseball tournament and a silver medal in the second, once again made the semifinals in the third. The Japanese team defeated the Netherlands, Italy, Australia, and Africa but lost to the three teams that finished at the top of the group: the United States, Korea, and Cuba. In the semifinals, Japan played Cuba for the second time in as many games, losing again to the two-time gold medallists. Playing for the bronze medal against Korea, the Japanese team was again defeated.

  • Preliminary Round (4-3)
    1. Lost to United States 2-4
    2. Defeated Netherlands 10-2
    3. Defeated Australia 7-3
    4. Defeated Italy 6-1
    5. Defeated South Africa 8-0
    6. Lost to Korea 6-7
    7. Lost to Cuba 2-6
  • Semifinals
    1. Lost to Cuba 0-3
  • Bronze Medal Match
    1. Lost to Korea 1-3
  • Team Roster
  • Akichika Yamada
  • Toshiya Sugiuchi
  • Daisuke Matsuzaka
  • Masanori Sugiura
  • Shinnosuke Abe
  • Kosuke Noda
  • Tomohiro Iizuka
  • Jun Hirose
  • Norihiro Akahoshi
  • Tomohiro Kuroki
  • Manager: Kozo Ohtagaki
  • Coach: Hiroyuki Hayashi
  • Coach: Keiichi Nagasaki
  • Coach: Osamu Nomura

[edit] Boxing

Men's 54 kg

  • Kazumasa Tsujimoto

Men's 57 kg

  • Hidehiko Tsukamoto
    • Round 1 – Lost to Yosvany Aguilera Zamora of Cuba (did not advance)

[edit] Canoe / Kayak

[edit] Flatwater

[edit] Women's competition

Women's Kayak Singles 500 m

  • Sayuri Maruyama
    1. Qualifying Heat – 02:00.833 (did not advance)

[edit] Slalom

[edit] Men's competition

Men's Kayak Singles

  • Taro Ando
    1. Qualifying – 442.64 (did not advance)

[edit] Cycling

[edit] Cross Country Mountain Bike

Men's Cross Country Mountain Bike

  • Raita Suzuki
    1. Final – Lapped (34th place)

Women's Mountain Bike

  • Hiroko Nambu
    1. Final – 2:06:13.88 (26th place)

[edit] Road Cycling

Men's Road Race

  • Yoshiyuki Abe
    1. Final – DNF

Women's Road Race

  • Miho Oki
    1. Final – 3:12:40 (40th place)

[edit] Track Cycling

[edit] Men's competition

Men's Sprint

  • Shinichi Ota
    • Qualifying – 10.603
    • Repechage – 2nd place – Heat 2
    • First Round – Lost to Viesturs Berzins of Latvia
  • Tomohiro Nagatsuka
    • Qualifying – 10.595
    • Repechage – 3rd place – Heat 1
    • First Round – Lost to Pavel Buran of Czech Republic

Men's 1 km Time Trial

  • Narihiro Inamura
    • Final – 01:05.085 (9th place)

Men's Point Race

  • Makoto Iljima
    • Points – 6
    • Laps Down – 2 (16th place)

Men's Keirin

  • Shinichi Ota
    • First Round – Heat – 1; Place – 3
    • Repechage – Heat – 1; Place – 2
    • Second Round – Heat – 2; Place – 6 (did not advance)
  • Yuichiro Kamiyama
    • First Round – Heat – 3; Place – 6
    • Repechage – Heat – 3; DNF (did not advance)

Men's Olympic Sprint

  • Narihiro Inamura, Yuichiro Kamiyama, Tomohiro Nagatsuka
    • Qualifying – 45.406
    • Second Round – 45.264 (did not advance)

[edit] Women's competition

Women's Point Race

  • Akemi Morimoto
    • Points – 0 (16th place)

[edit] Diving

Men's 3 Metre Springboard

  • Ken Terauchi
    1. Preliminary – 389.88
    2. Semi-final – 226.89 – 616.77
    3. Final – 407.58 – 634.47 (8th place)

Men's 10 Metre Platform

  • Ken Terauchi
    1. Preliminary – 457.59
    2. Semi-final – 191.49 – 649.08
    3. Final – 445.41 – 636.90 (5th place)

[edit] Football (soccer)

[edit] Men's Team Competition

  • Group D
  • Quarter Finals
  • Japan – United States 2-2 (USA wins after penalties)
  • Team Roster

[edit] Sailing

Five men and four women competed in six different Sailing events at the 2000 Olympics, including two top 10 finishes.

Men's Double Handed Dinghy (470)

  • Eiichiro Hamazaki and Yuji Miyai
    1. Race 1 – 19
    2. Race 2 – (22)
    3. Race 3 – (26)
    4. Race 4 – 13
    5. Race 5 – 4
    6. Race 6 – 16
    7. Race 7 – 17
    8. Race 8 – 18
    9. Race 9 – 10
    10. Race 10 – 16
    11. Race 11 – 20
    12. Final – 133 (18th place)

Women's Mistral

  • Masako Imai
    1. Race 1 – 6
    2. Race 2 – 12
    3. Race 3 – 10
    4. Race 4 – 10
    5. Race 5 – (15)
    6. Race 6 – 5
    7. Race 7 – 9
    8. Race 8 – 11
    9. Race 9 – (16)
    10. Race 10 – 7
    11. Race 11 – 8
    12. Final – 78 (10th place)

Women's Single Handed Dinghy (Europe)

  • Maiko Sato
    1. Race 1 – 21
    2. Race 2 – 13
    3. Race 3 – 20
    4. Race 4 – 22
    5. Race 5 – 22
    6. Race 6 – 17
    7. Race 7 – 22
    8. Race 8 – (24)
    9. Race 9 – 22
    10. Race 10 – (23)
    11. Race 11 – 13
    12. Final – 172 (23rd place)

Women's Double Handed Dinghy (470)

  • Yumiko Shige and Yurie Alicia Kinoshita
    1. Race 1 – 9
    2. Race 2 – 5
    3. Race 3 – 10
    4. Race 4 – 7
    5. Race 5 – 1
    6. Race 6 – (14)
    7. Race 7 – 8
    8. Race 8 – 3
    9. Race 9 – (12)
    10. Race 10 – 12
    11. Race 11 – 11
    12. Final – 66 (8th place)

Open Laser

  • Kunio Suzuki
    1. Race 1 – (38)
    2. Race 2 – 12
    3. Race 3 – 19
    4. Race 4 – 15
    5. Race 5 – 32
    6. Race 6 – (36)
    7. Race 7 – 17
    8. Race 8 – 25
    9. Race 9 – 24
    10. Race 10 – 30
    11. Race 11 – 28
    12. Final – 202 (27th place)

Open High Performance Two Handed Dinghy (49er)

  • Kenji Nakamura and Tomoyuki Sasaki
    1. Race 1 – 4
    2. Race 2 – 4
    3. Race 3 – 10
    4. Race 4 – 15
    5. Race 5 – 9
    6. Race 6 – 16
    7. Race 7 – (17)
    8. Race 8 – 15
    9. Race 9 – 15
    10. Race 10 – 13
    11. Race 11 – 16
    12. Race 12 – (17)
    13. Race 13 – 14
    14. Race 14 – 16
    15. Race 15 – 14
    16. Race 16 – 12
    17. Final – 173 (16th place)

[edit] Softball

[edit] Women's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round Robin
  • Defeated Cuba (4:1)
  • Defeated PR China (3:1)
  • Defeated United States (2:1)
  • Defeated Australia (1:0)
  • Defeated Canada (4:3)
  • Defeated Italy (2:0)
  • Defeated New Zealand (2:1)
  • Semifinals
  • Defeated Australia (1:0)
  • Final
  • Lost to United States (1:2) → Image:Med 2.png Silver Medal
  • Team Roster
  • Misako Ando
  • Yumiko Fujii
  • Taeko Ishikawa
  • Kazue Ito
  • Yoshimi Kobayashi
  • Shiori Koseki
  • Mariko Masubuchi
  • Naomi Matsumoto
  • Emi Naito
  • Haruka Saito
  • Juri Takayama
  • Hiroko Tamoto
  • Reika Utsugi
  • Miyo Yamada
  • Noriko Yamaji

[edit] Swimming

Men's 400 m Freestyle

  • Masato Hirano
    1. Preliminary Heat – 03:51.41 (did not advance)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle

  • Masato Hirano
    1. Preliminary Heat – 15:14.43 (did not advance)
  • Yota Arase
    1. Preliminary Heat – 15:18.20 (did not advance)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

  • Takashi Yamamoto
    1. Preliminary Heat – 52.91
    2. Semi-final – 53.01
    3. Final – 52.58 (5th place)

Men's 200 m Butterfly

  • Takashi Yamamoto
    1. Preliminary Heat – 01:58.07
    2. Semi-final – 01:57.66 (did not advance)
  • Hisayoshi Tanaka
    1. Preliminary Heat – 01:59.00
    2. Semi-final – 01:58.06 (did not advance)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

  • Kosuke Kitajima
    1. Preliminary Heat – 01:01.68
    2. Semi-final – 01:01.31
    3. Final – 01:01.00 (4th place)
  • Akira Hayashi
    1. Preliminary Heat – 01:02.86 (did not advance)

Men's 200 m Breaststroke

  • Akira Hayashi
    1. Preliminary Heat – 02:15.54
    2. Semi-final – 02:15.16 (did not advance)
  • Kosuke Kitajima
    1. Preliminary Heat – 02:15.71 (did not advance)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

  • Susumu Tabuchi
    1. Preliminary Heat – 02:05.68 (did not advance)

Men's 400 m Individual Medley

  • Shinya Taniguchi
    1. Preliminary Heat – 04:17.36 (did not advance)
    2. Final – 04:20.93 (8th place)
  • Susumu Tabuchi
    1. Preliminary Heat – 04:20.76 (did not advance)

Women's 50 m Freestyle

  • Sumika Minamoto
    1. Preliminary Heat – 25.52
    2. Semi-final – 25.43
    3. Final – 25.65 (8th place)

Women's 100 m Freestyle

  • Sumika Minamoto
    1. Preliminary Heat – 55.8
    2. Semi-final – 55.62
    3. Final – 55.53 (7th place)

Women's 400 m Freestyle

Women's 800 m Freestyle

  • Sachiko Yamada
    1. Preliminary Heat – 08:33.06
    2. Final – 08:37.39 (8th place)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

  • Junko Onishi
    1. Preliminary Heat – 59.11
    2. Semi-final – 59.04
    3. Final – 59.13 (6th place)
  • Maki Mita
    1. Preliminary Heat – 01:00.97 (did not advance)

Women's 200 m Butterfly

  • Maki Mita
    1. Preliminary Heat – 02:09.85
    2. Semi-final – 02:09.88
    3. Final – 02:09.66 (7th place)
  • Yuko Nakanishi
    1. Preliminary Heat – 02:10.22
    2. Semi-final – 02:09.89
    3. Final – 02:10.72 (8th place)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

  • Masami Tanaka
    1. Preliminary Heat – 01:09.12
    2. Semi-final – 01:09.04
    3. Final – 01:08.37 (6th place)
  • Junko Isoda
    1. Preliminary Heat – DNS (did not advance)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

  • Masami Tanaka
    1. Preliminary Heat – 02:27.39
    2. Semi-final – 02:26.24
    3. Final – 02:26.98 (8th place)
  • Junko Isoda
    1. Preliminary Heat – 02:29.60
    2. Semi-final – 02:31.71 (did not advance)

Women's 100 m Backstroke

  • Mai Nakamura
    1. Preliminary Heat – 01:00.88
    2. Semi-final – 01:01.07
    3. Final – 01:00.55 (Silver medal)
  • Noriko Inada
    1. Preliminary Heat – 01:02.19
    2. Semi-final – 01:01.25
    3. Final – 01:01.14 (5th place)

Women's 200 m Backstroke

  • Miki Nakao
    1. Preliminary Heat – 02:11.69
    2. Semi-final – 02:12.49
    3. Final – 02:11.05 (Bronze medal)
  • Tomoko Hagiwara
    1. Preliminary Heat – 02:12.15
    2. Semi-final – 02:11.02
    3. Final – 02:11.21 (4th place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley

  • Tomoko Hagiwara
    1. Preliminary Heat – 02:15.16
    2. Semi-final – 02:15.09
    3. Final – 02:15.64 (8th place)
  • Yasuko Tajima
    1. Preliminary Heat – 02:21.65 (did not advance)

Women's 400 m Individual Medley

  • Yasuko Tajima
    1. Preliminary Heat – 04:40.35 (did not advance)
    2. Final – 04:35.96 (Silver medal)

Women's 4x100 m Medley

[edit] Synchronized swimming

Japan won two silver medals in the synchronized swimming competition at the 2000 Olympics.

Team

  • Ayano Egami, Raika Fujii, Yoko Isoda, Rei Jimbo, Miya Tachibana, Miho Takeda, Yoko Yondeda, Yoko Yoneda, Juri Tatsumi
    1. Technical Routine – 34.51
    2. Free Routine – 64.35
    3. Final – 98.86 (Silver medal)

Duet

[edit] Triathlon

At the inaugural Olympic triathlon competition, Japan was represented by three men and three women. Five of the six triathletes finished the race.

Women's Individual Competition:

Men's Individual Competition:

[edit] References

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