Japan at the 1996 Summer Olympics
| Japan at the 1996 Summer Olympics | |||||||||
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| IOC code | JPN | ||||||||
| NOC | Japanese Olympic Committee | ||||||||
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| Competitors | 306 (157 men and 149 women) in 27 sports | ||||||||
| Flag bearer | Ryoko Tamura | ||||||||
| Medals Ranked 23rd |
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| Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |||||||||
Japan competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. 306 competitors, 157 men and 149 women, took part in 168 events in 27 sports.[1]
Medalists
Gold
- Tadahiro Nomura — Judo, Men's Extra Lightweight (60 kg)
- Kenzo Nakamura — Judo, Men's Lightweight (71 kg)
- Yuko Emoto — Judo, Women's Half Middleweight (61 kg)
Silver
- Masanori Sugiura, Takayuki Takabayashi, Yoshitomo Tani, Hitoshi Ono, Yasuyuki Saigou, Tomoaki Sato, Daishin Nakamura, Masahiro Nojima, Hideaki Okubo, Koichi Misawa, Masahiko Mori, Masao Morinaka, Takashi Kurosu, Takao Kuwamoto, Nobuhiko Matsunaka, Takeo Kawamura, Jutaro Kimura, Kosuke Fukudome, Tadahito Iguchi, Makoto Imaoka — Baseball, Men's Team Competition
- Yukimasa Nakamura — Judo, Men's Half Lightweight (65 kg)
- Toshihiko Koga — Judo, Men's Half Middleweight (78 kg)
- Ryoko Tani — Judo, Women's Extra Lightweight (48 kg)
- Yoko Tanabe — Judo, Women's Half Heavyweight (72 kg)
- Alicia Kinoshita and Yumiko Shige — Sailing, Women's 470 Team Competition
Bronze
- Yuko Arimori — Athletics, Women's Marathon
- Takanobu Jumonji — Cycling, Men's 1.000 m Time Trial
- Noriko Narazaki — Judo, Women's Half Lightweight (52 kg)
- 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)
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)
Athletics
Men's 100 metres
Men's 200 metres
- Koji Ito
- Takahiro Mazuka
Men's 400 metres
Men's 10,000 metres
Men's 4 × 100 metres Relay
Men's 4 × 400 metres 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)
- Heat — 49.88s (→ did not advance)
- Heat — 49.07s (→ did not advance)
Men's Marathon
- Hiromi Taniguchi — 2:17.26 (→ 19th place)
- Masaki Oya — 2:22.13 (→ 54th place)
- Kenjiro Jitsui — 2:33.27 (→ 93rd place)
Men's 20 km Walk
- Daisuke Ikeshima — 1:24.54 (→ 22nd place)
Men's 50 km Walk
- Tadahiro Kosaka — 4:05.57 (→ 29th place)
Men's High Jump
- Tomohiro Nomura
Men's Long Jump
- Qualification — 7.46m (→ did not advance)
Men's Pole Vault
- Teruyasu Yonekura
Women's 5,000 metres
- Michiko Shimizu
- Harumi Hiroyama
- Yoshiko Ichikawa
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)
- Qualification — 31:54.89
- Final — 32:43.39 (→ 16th place)
Women's Marathon
- Yuko Arimori — 2:28.39 (→ Bronze Medal)
- Izumi Maki — 2:32.35 (→ 12th place)
- Junko Asari — 2:34.31 (→ 17th place)
Women's 100 metres Hurdles
Women's 10 km Walk
- Yuka Mitsumori — dsq (→ no ranking)
Women's Javelin Throw
- Akiko Miyajima
- Qualification — 53.98m (→ did not advance)
Badminton
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 beaten 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)
Basketball
Beach volleyball
- Shoji Setoyama and Kazuyuki Takao — 17th place overall
Boxing
Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)
- First Round — Lost to Lernik Papyan (Armenia), 5-10
Men's Light Welterweight (– 63,5 kg)
- First Round — Lost to Eduard Zakharov (Russia), 6-21
Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg)
- First Round — Defeated Tao Chen (China), 15-10
- First Round — Lost to Tomasz Borowski (Poland), 6-11
Canoeing
Cycling
Track Competition
Men's Points Race
- Final — 2 points (→ 15th place)
Mountain Bike
Men's Cross Country
- Final — 2:45:03 (→ 26th place)
Women's Cross Country
- Kanako Tanikawa
- Final — 2:05.44 (→ 23rd place)
Diving
Women's 3m Springboard
- Yuki Motobuchi
- Preliminary Heat — 262.71
- Semi Final — 210.00
- Final — 296.04 (→ 6th place)
Equestrianism
Fencing
Four fencers, one man and three women, represented Japan in 1996.
Football
Gymnastics
Judo
Rhythmic gymnastics
Rowing
Sailing
Shooting
Softball
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
Swimming
Men's 50 metres Freestyle:
- Heat — 23.60 (→ did not advance, 35th place)
Men's 100 metres Freestyle:
- Heat — 51.29 (→ did not advance, 37th place)
Men's 200 metres Freestyle:
- Heat — 1:51.97 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)
Men's 400 metres Freestyle:
- Heat — 4:00.19 (→ did not advance, 24th place)
Men's 1500 m Freestyle
- Heat — 15:19.48
- B-Final — 15:17.28 (→ 6th place)
- Heat — 15:43.66 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)
Men's 100 m Backstroke
- Heat — 56.35
- B-Final — 55.74 (→ 9th place)
- Heat — 56.22
- B-Final — 56.23 (→ 11th place)
Men's 200 m Backstroke
- Heat — 2:00.43
- Final — 2:00.10 (→ 5th place)
- Heat — 2:02.33
- B-Final — 2:01.54 (→ 9th place)
Men's 100 m Breaststroke
- Heat — 1:02.63
- B-Final — 1:02.75 (→ 12th place)
- Heat — 1:03.13 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)
Men's 200 m Breaststroke
- Heat — 2:15.37
- B-Final — 2:16.69 (→ 16th place)
Men's 100 m Butterfly
- Heat — 53.95
- B-Final — 53.98 (→ 13th place)
- Heat — 54.50 (→ did not advance, 20th place)
Men's 200 m Butterfly
- Heat — 2:00.87 (→ did not advance, 20th place)
Men's 200 m Individual Medley
- Heat — 2:03.42
- B-Final — 2:04.59 (→ 14th place)
- Heat — 2:04.49
- B-Final — 2:05.42 (→ 16th place)
Men's 400 m Individual Medley
- Heat — 4:24.83
- B-Final — 4:23.36 (→ 10th place)
- Heat — 4:26.73
- B-Final — 4:24.25 (→ 11th place)
Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay
- Heat — 3:41.78
- Final — 3:40.51 (→ 5th place)
Women's 50 m Freestyle
- Heat — 25.89
- B-Final — 26.05 (→ 12th place)
Women's 100 m Freestyle
- Heat — 57.25 (→ did not advance, 25th place)
Women's 200 m Freestyle
- Heat — 2:01.11
- B-Final — 2:01.00 (→ 10th place)
- Heat — 2:03.78 (→ did not advance, 20th place)
Women's 400 m Freestyle
- Heat — 4:13.40
- Final — 4:11.68 (→ 7th place)
- Heat — 4:16.07
- B-Final — 4:16.60 (→ 13th place)
Women's 800 m Freestyle
- Heat — 8:40.47 (→ did not advance, 10th place)
- Heat — 8:55.77 (→ did not advance, 21st place)
Women's 100 m Backstroke
- Heat — 1:02.35
- Final — 1:02.33 (→ 4th place)
- Heat — 1:02.90
- Final — 1:02.78 (→ 8th place)
Women's 200 m Backstroke
- Heat — 2:15.05
- B-Final — 2:13.40 (→ 9th place)
- Heat — 2:12.92
- Final — 2:13.57 (→ 5th place)
Women's 100 m Breaststroke
- Heat — 1:09.89
- B-Final — 1:10.43 (→ 13th place)
- Heat — 1:11.33 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)
Women's 200 m Breaststroke
- Heat — 2:29.36
- Final — 2:28.05 (→ 5th place)
- Heat — 2:30.84
- B-Final — 2:29.32 (→ 10th place)
Women's 100 m Butterfly
- Heat — 1:00.85
- Final — 1:00.11 (→ 4th place)
- Heat — 1:00.20
- Final — 1:00.18 (→ 6th place)
Women's 200 m Butterfly
- Heat — 2:16.04
- B-Final — 2:13.97 (→ 14th place)
- Heat — 2:12.59
- Final — 2:11.93 (→ 7th place)
Women's 200 m Individual Medley
- Heat — 2:20.58 (→ did not advance, 28th place)
Women's 400 m Individual Medley
- Heat — 4:48.51
- B-Final — 4:47.98 (→ 12th place)
- Heat — 4:49.32
- B-Final — 4:48.72 (→ 13th place)
Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay
- Heat — 3:48.77 (→ did not advance, 12th place)
Women's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay
- Heat — 8:09.46
- Final — 8:07.46 (→ 4th place)
Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay
- Heat — 4:10.71 (→ did not advance, 9th place)
Synchronized swimming
Table tennis
Tennis
Men's Singles Competition
- First round — Lost to Tim Henman (Great Britain) 6-7 3-6
Men's Doubles Competition
- First round — Defeated Juan-Carlos Bianchi and Nicolas Pereira (Venezuela) 6-4, 6-7, 8-6
- Second round — Lost to Sergi Bruguera and Tomás Carbonell (Spain) 7-6, 2-6, 5-7
Women's Singles Competition
- First round — Defeated Katarina Studenikova (Slovakia) 6-2 6-3
- Second round — Defeated Martina Hingis (Switzerland) 6-4 6-4
- Third round — Lost to Jana Novotná (Czech Republic) 3-6 4-6
- First round — Defeated Dally Randriantefy (Madagascar) 6-0 6-1
- Second round — Defeated Virag Csurgo (Hungary) 6-2 6-3
- Third round — Defeated Magdalena Maleeva (Bulgaria) 6-4 6-4
- Quarter Finals — Lost to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (Spain) 6-4 3-6 8-10
- First round — Defeated Sung-Hee Park (South Korea) 6-3 4-6 6-3
- Second round — Lost to Lindsay Davenport (United States) 2-6 2-6
Volleyball
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
- Head Coach: Kuniaki Yoshida
Weightlifting
Wrestling
Notes
- (ed.) Watkins, Ginger T. (1997). The Official Report of the Centennial Olympic Games, Volume III The Competition Results (PDF). Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers. ISBN 1-56145-150-9. Retrieved 2008-02-05.
References
- ↑ "Japan at the 1996 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2012-02-16.