Japan at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Japan at the Olympic Games

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NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
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At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid

Competitors

50 (46 men, 4 women) in 10 sports

Osamu Wakabayashi

Medals
Rank: 15

Gold
0

Silver
1

Bronze
0

Total
1

Olympic history (summary)

Japan competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
02 ! Silver	Yagi, HirokazuHirokazu Yagi	Ski jumping	Men's normal hill (K90)

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Mikio Katagiri	Downhill					1:49.77	21
Osamu Kodama	Giant Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Atsushi Sawada		1:25.23	36	1:28.82	37	2:54.05	36
Toshihiro Kaiwa		1:24.29	35	1:24.49	28	2:48.78	29
Osamu Kodama	Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Atsushi Sawada		56.80	21	53.14	14	1:49.94	15
Toshihiro Kaiwa		55.78	17	DNF	–	DNF	–

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Masaichi Kinoshita	4	38:50.19	43
	Takashi Shibata	6	37:26.91	37
	Hiroyuki Deguchi	2	36:14.61	26

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ²	Rank
20 km	Tsusumisa Kikuchi	1'13:44.30	11	1'24:44.30	41
	Hiroyuki Deguchi	1'14:53.16	7	1'21:53.16	39
	Masaichi Kinoshita	1'14:21.46	2	1'16:21.46	28

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
Hiroyuki Deguchi Masaichi Kinoshita Takashi Shibata Tsusumisa Kikuchi	7	1'45:53.98	13

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
JPN-1	Yoshimitsu Kadowaki Yuji Funayama	Two-man	1:04.62	17	1:04.92	19	1:04.82	20	1:04.30	14	4:18.66	19

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Shiro Sato	46:15.29	43
30 km	Shiro Sato	1'35:52.77	39
50 km	Shiro Sato	2'48:33.02	37

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Fumio Igarashi	13	8	6	172.04	77	9
Mitsuru Matsumura	11	7	7	172.28	75	8

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Emi Watanabe	4	8	5	179.04	48	6

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics

First Round - Red Division

	Team advanced to the Final Round
	Team advanced to Consolation Round

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Soviet Union	5	5	0	0	51	11	10
Finland	5	3	2	0	26	18	6
Canada	5	3	2	0	28	12	6
Poland	5	2	3	0	15	23	4
Netherlands	5	1	3	1	16	43	3
Japan	5	0	4	1	7	36	1

All times are local (UTC-5).

12 February 1980
20:40

0 – 16
(0–8, 0–5, 0–3)

Soviet Union

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid


				Referee: Kompalla
		0 – 1 0 – 2 0 – 3 0 – 4 0 – 5 0 – 6 0 – 7 0 – 8 0 – 9 0 – 10 0 – 11 0 – 12 0 – 13 0 – 14 0 – 15 0 – 16	03:42 - Starikov (Petrov, Mikhailov) 07:55 - Kharlamov (Mikhailov) 09:47 - A. Golikov (Makarov, Starikov) 12:19 - Fetisov (Petrov, Kharlamov) 14:59 - A. Golikov (Makarov) 17:30 - Balderis (Starikov, Zhluktov) 19:00 - V. Golikov (Makarov) 19:27 - V. Golikov (Fetisov, A. Golikov) 20:06 - Petrov (Kasatonov) 21:20 - Kasatonov (Mikhailov, Balderis) 24:20 - Makarov (V. Golikov, Vasiliev) 26:33 - Mikhailov (Starikov, Kharlamov) 38:06 - Fetisov (Mikhailov, Kharlamov) 46:26 - Zhluktov (Balderis, Skvortsov) 51:21 - Petrov (Pervukhin, Kharlamov) 54:49 - A. Golikov (Makarov, V. Golikov)
	0 min	Penalties	2 min
	17	Shots	67

14 February 1980
20:00

3 – 6
(0–2, 2–2, 1–2)

Finland

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid


				Referee: Haley
	S. Misawa (Hori, Hanzawa) - 37:57 Honma (Hori, S. Misawa) (PP) - 39:59 Azuma (Matsuda) - 47:38	0 – 1 0 – 2 0 – 3 0 – 4 1 – 4 2 – 4 2 – 5 3 – 5 3 – 6	02:02 - Hakulinen (Peltonen) (PP) 05:43 - Leinonen (Kiimalainen) 22:47 - Leppänen (Hakulinen, Levo) 33:36 - Leinonen (Leinonen, Porvari) 43:34 - Kiimalainen 51:11 - Leppänen (Levo, Peltonen)
	6 min	Penalties	8 min
	29	Shots	51

16 February 1980
16:30

3 – 3
(3–1, 0–1, 0–1)

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid


				Referee: Vladimir Šubrt
	Sakurai - 14:22 Urabe - 14:41 Urabe (Honma) - 14:41	1 – 0 2 – 0 3 – 0 3 – 1 3 – 2 3 – 3	18:43 - van Gog (deGraauw) 33:39 - de Cloe (deGraauw, Peternousek) 57:15 - de Cloe (deGraauw, van Gog)
	6 min	Penalties	8 min
	23	Shots	27

18 February 1980
13:00

Canada

6 – 0
(2–0, 2–0, 2–0)

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid


				Referee: Neagles
	Devaney (Zupancich, d'Alvise) (PP) - 09:36 Primeau - 14:35 MacLean (Maxwell) - 23:17 Davidson - 26:19 W. Anderson - 41:27 Hindmarch - 50:22	1 – 0 2 – 0 3 – 0 4 – 0 5 – 0 6 – 0
	14 min	Penalties	22 min
	48	Shots	13

20 February 1980
16:30

Poland

5 – 1
(3–0, 1–0, 1–1)

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid


				Referee: Lindgren
	Zabawa (Małysiak, Janiszewski) - 03:03 Dziubiński (Kokoszka, Chowaniec) - 04:20 Małysiak (Jobczyk, Zabawa) - 11:37 Jobczyk (Małysiak, Zabawa) - 26:05 Pytel (Marcinczak, Ujwary) (PP) - 43:57	1 – 0 2 – 0 3 – 0 4 – 0 5 – 0 5 – 1	54:50 - Fujii (Misawa, Hanzawa)
	8 min	Penalties	12 min
	53	Shots	12

	Contestants Minoru Misawa Takeshi Iwamoto Hiroshi Hori Iwao Nakayama Norio Ito Hitoshi Nakamura Tadamitsu Fujii Koji Wakasa Yoshiaki Kyoya Katsutoshi Kawamura Takeshi Azuma Satoru Misawa Mikio Matsuda Sadaki Honma Hideo Sakurai Tsutomu Hanzawa Hideo Urabe Osamu Wakabayashi Mikio Hosoi Yoshio Hoshino

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Koji Kuriyama	45.820	26	45.872	17	45.852	18	45.538	18	3:03.082	19
Takashi Takagi	45.294	20	51.003	24	45.575	17	47.962	21	3:09.564	23

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Koji Kuriyama Takashi Takagi	41.035	17	41.499	14	1:22.534	13

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Events:

normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
Athlete	Event	Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Toshihiro Hanada	Individual	73.0	78.0	192.1	15	54:44.2	157.045	28	349.145	27
Michio Kubota	Individual	78.5	72.5	187.9	16	52:34.4	176.515	26	364.415	25

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Hiroyasu Aizawa	Normal hill	69.5	88.4	68.0	88.5	176.9	42
Takafumi Kawabata		79.0	111.1	71.5	96.1	207.2	29
Masahiro Akimoto		83.5	120.8	87.5	127.7	248.5	4
Hirokazu Yagi		87.0	128.9	83.5	120.3	249.2	02 !
Hiroyasu Aizawa	Large hill	95.0	99.2	93.5	96.1	195.3	35
Hirokazu Yagi		96.5	103.3	105.5	116.9	220.2	19
Takafumi Kawabata		102.5	111.2	90.0	90.2	201.4	32
Masahiro Akimoto		104.0	113.8	108.0	120.9	234.7	10

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Kazuaki Ichimura	39.44	20
500 m	Kaoru Fukuda	39.24	14
1000 m	Kazuaki Ichimura	1:21.05	25
	Masayuki Kawahara	1:20.88	23
	Kaoru Fukuda	1:19.66	19
1500 m	Yasuhiro Shimizu	2:04.54	24
	Masayuki Kawahara	2:01.28	20
	Masahiko Yamamoto	2:01.25	19
5000 m	Masayuki Kawahara	7:42.18	25
	Masahiko Yamamoto	7:33.02	21
	Yasuhiro Shimizu	7:21.50	16
10,000 m	Masahiko Yamamoto	15:26.92	17
10,000 m	Yasuhiro Shimizu	14:57.48	9

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Makiko Nagaya	42.70	5
1000 m	Yuko Yaegashi-Ota	1:30.72	25
	Makiko Nagaya	1:30.27	22
	Miyoshi Kato	1:28.97	17
1500 m	Miyoshi Kato	2:19.80	24
1500 m	Yuko Yaegashi-Ota	2:19.41	23
3000 m	Yuko Yaegashi-Ota	5:00.40	25
3000 m	Miyoshi Kato	4:57.39	21

References

Nations at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States

Africa	none

America	Argentina Bolivia Canada Costa Rica United States

Asia	China Japan South Korea Lebanon Mongolia

Europe	Andorra Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Finland France East Germany West Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Italy Liechtenstein Netherlands Norway Poland Romania Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Yugoslavia

Oceania	Australia New Zealand