1928 Summer Olympics / Participant (Japan)

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Japan participated in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam , Netherlands , with a delegation of 40 athletes (39 men and one woman).

Medalist

gold

Name (s)	sport	competition
Oda Mikio	athletics	Triple jump
Tsuruta Yoshiyuki	swim	200 meters chest

silver

Name (s)	sport	competition
Hitomi Kinue	athletics	Women, 800 meters
Yoneyama Hiroshi , Arai Nobuo , Sada Tokuhei & Takaishi Katsuo	swim	4 × 200 meter freestyle

bronze

Name (s)	sport	competition
Takaishi Katsuo	swim	100 meters freestyle

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Okamoto Fuji

  Bantamweight: 9th place

• Usuda Kintaro

  Welterweight: 5th place

athletics

• Aizawa Iwao

  100 meters: heats

  200 meters: heats

  4 × 100 meters: prelims

• Nagatani Juichi

  10,000 meters: 19th place

  Marathon: 48th place

• Yamada Kanematsu

  Marathon: 4th place

• Tsuda Seiichirō

  Marathon: 6th place

• Miki Yoshio

  110 meter hurdles: semi-finals

• Inuma Seishichi

  4 × 100 meters: prelims

• Osawa Shigetoshi

  4 × 100 meters: prelims

• Nambu Chuhei

  4 × 100 meters: prelims

  Long jump: 9th place in qualification

  Triple jump: 4th place

• Kimura Kazuo

  High jump: 6th place

• Oda Mikio

  High jump: 7th place

  Long jump: 11th place in qualification

  Triple jump: gold

• Nakazawa Yonetaro

  Pole vault: 6th place

  Decathlon: 12th place

• Furuyama Ichirō

  Discus throw: 27th place in qualification

• Okita Yoshio

  Discus throw: 30th place in qualification

  Hammer throw: 15th place in qualification

• Sumiyoshi Kosaku

  Javelin: 13th place in qualification

• Toki Tatsuo

  Decathlon: 12th place

• Hitomi Kinue

  Women, 100 meters: semi-finals

  Women, 800 meters: silver

horse riding

• Okada Kozeki

  Dressage, individual: 20th place

• Yusa Kōhei

  Dressage, individual: 28th place

• Yoshida Shigetomo

  Show jumping, singles: DNF

• Kido Shunzō

  Versatility, singles: 21st place

Wrestling

• Shimmen Isuke

  Lightweight, freestyle: 8th place

rowing

• Ishii Kin'ichirō

  One: 1st round

• Nose Kazuo

  Foursome without a helmsman: 2nd round

• Tsuchida Makoto

  Foursome without a helmsman: 2nd round

• Takashima Isamu

  Foursome without a helmsman: 2nd round

• Satō Hachirō

  Foursome without a helmsman: 2nd round

• Sonobe Tsukasa

  Foursome without a helmsman: 2nd round

swim

• Takaishi Katsuo

  100 meters freestyle: bronze

  400 meters freestyle: semi-finals

  1,500 meters freestyle: prelims

  4 × 200 meter freestyle: silver

• Yoneyama Hiroshi

  400 meters freestyle: semi-finals

  4 × 200 meter freestyle: silver

• Arai Nobuo

  400 meters freestyle: prelims

  1,500 meters freestyle: semi-finals

  4 × 200 meter freestyle: silver

• Takebayashi Takaji

  1,500 meters freestyle: semi-finals

• Sada Tokuhei

  4 × 200 meter freestyle: silver

• Noda Kazuo

  4 × 200 meter freestyle: silver

• Irie Toshio

  100 meters back: 4th place

• Kimura Shōrai

  100 meters back: heats

• Tsuruta Yoshiyuki

  200 meters chest: gold

• Mawatari Yūki

  200 meters chest: heats

Diving

• Takashina Fumio

  Art jumping: 9th place

Web links

• Japanese Olympic Team from 1928 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Japanese Olympic Committee : Athlete Database