1932 Summer Olympics / Participant (Japan)

JPN

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The Japanese Empire took part in the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles with 119 athletes . They represented athletics , swimming , boxing , diving , water polo , field hockey , wrestling , gymnastics , rowing and horse riding .

Participants from Japan and their works were also registered for the art competition .

In addition, the Japanese members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Jigoro Kano and Seiichi Kishi were on site along with coaches, referees and other supervisors. The entire Japanese delegation ran into the stadium with more than 150 people for the opening ceremony.

Medalist

gold

Gold medalist triple jumper Nambu Chūhei

Name (s)	Gender m / f	sport	competition
Chuhei Nambu	m	athletics	Triple jump
Masaji Kiyokawa	m	swim	00100 m backstroke
Yasuji Miyazaki	m	swim	00100 m freestyle swimming
Yoshiyuki Tsuruta	m	swim	00200 m backstroke
Kusuo Kitamura	m	swim	01,500 m freestyle swimming
Hisakichi Toyoda , Masanori Yusa , Yasuji Miyazaki , Takashi Yokoyama	m	swim	4 × 200 m relay swim
Takeichi Nishi	m	horse riding	Hunting jumping

silver

Silver medalist swimmer Hideko Maehata

Name (s)	Gender m / f	sport	competition
Shuhei Nishida	m	athletics	Pole vault
Tasugo Kawaishi	m	swim	100 m freestyle swimming
Toshio Irie	m	swim	100 m backstroke
Hideko Maehata	w	swim	200 m breaststroke
Reizo Koike	m	swim	200 m breaststroke
Shozo Makino	m	swim	1,500 m freestyle swimming
Shunkichi Hamada, Junzo Inohara, Sadayoshi Kobayashi, Haruhiko Kon, Kenichi Konishi, Hiroshi Nagata, Eiichi Nakamura, Yoshio Sakai, Katsumi Shibata, Akio Sohda, Toshio Usami	m	hockey	Field hockey

Bronze medalist Ōshima Kenkichi

bronze

Name (s)	Gender m / f	sport	competition
Chuhei Nambu	m	athletics	Long jump
Kenkichi Oshima	m	athletics	Triple jump
Kentato Kawatsu	m	swim	100 m backstroke
Tsutomu Oyokota	m	swim	400 m freestyle swimming

Participants by sport and their placement

Men

All results up to 6th place are entered in the official roll of honor . For the team competitions, sorting by name is only possible according to the first named.

sport	discipline	Name and possibly result	placement	comment
Athletics , running	00100 m	Isuzu Anno	: 10.6  s	Didn't make it to the final
	00100 m	Takayoshi Yoshioka	06th place
	00200 m	Takayoshi Yoshioka		none made it to the final
	00200 m	Itaro Nakajima
	00200 m	Teichi Nishi
	00400 m	Iwao Masuda		none made it to the semi-finals
	00400 m	Seiken Cho
	00400 m	Seikan Oki
	05000 m	Masamichi Kitamoto		not qualified
	05000 m	Schoichiro Takenaka	13th place	of 14 finalists
	10,000 m	Masamichi Kitamoto	11th place	of 14 finalists
	10,000 m	Schoichiro Takenaka	12th place
	Marath.	Seiichiro Tsuda		not in the first 20; a total of 28 athletes started
	Marath.	Taika Gon	09th place: 2:42:52 hours
	Marath.	Onbai Kin		not among the first 20
	0110 m hurdles	Tatsuzo Fujita		got to the semifinals
	0400 m hurdles	Seiken Cho		eliminated in the first attempt
	4 × 100 m relay	Takayoshi Yoshioka, Chuhei Nambu , Izuo Anno, Itaro Nakajima	05th place	of 6 finalists
	4 × 400 m relay	Itaro Nakajima, Iwao Masuda, Seikan Oki, Teichi Nishi	05th place	of 6 finalists
Athletics, jumping	high jump	Misao Ono	: 1.90 m	( 08th place)
	high jump	Kazuo Kimura	06th place: 1.94 m
	Long jump	Naoto Tajma	06th place: 7.15 m
	Long jump	Chuhei Nambu	03rd place: 7.45 m	WR holder 1931
	Triple jump	Chuhei Nambu	01st place: 15.72 m	New WR
	Triple jump	Mikio Oda	: 13.97 m	(12th place)
	Triple jump	Kenkichi Oshima	03rd place: 15.12 m
	Pole vault	Shuhei Nishida	02nd place: 4.30 m	only 9 athletes were registered; Nishida had the longest run-up of all, in the various jumps he tore the bar 'sometimes with his hand,' sometimes with his chest. First place, Miller managed a new WR with 4,315 m .
	Pole high.	Shizuo Moshizuki	05th place: 4.0 m
Athletics, throwing	spear	Kohasku Sumiyoshi	: 61.14 m	( 08th place)
	spear	Saburo Nagao	: 59.83 m	(10th place)
	hammer	Masayoshi Ochiai	: 41.00 m	(12th place)
	hammer	Yuji Nagao	: 43.41 m	(10th place)
swim	0100 m freestyle	Tasugo Kawaishi	02nd place, 58.6 s
	0100 m freestyle	Zenjiro Tajkahashi	05th place: 59.2 s
	0100 m freestyle	Yasuji Miyazaki	01st place: 58.2 s	IMAGE; in the semifinals set Miyazaki 58.0 s a new OR on
	0100 m back	Toshio Irie	02nd place: 1: 10.0 min.	The top three winners broke all records that had been set up to then.
	0100 m back	Kentato Kawatsu	03rd place: 1: 10.9 min.
	0100 m back	Masaji Kiyokawa	01st place: 68.6 s
	0200 m chest	Yoshiyuki Tsuruta	01st place: 2: 45.4 min.	In the run Tsuruta presented with 2: 44.9 minutes a new one. OR on
	0200 m chest	Reizo Koike	02nd place: 2: 46.6 min.
	0200 m chest	Shigeo Nakagawa	06th place: 2: 52.8 min.
	0400 m freestyle	Takashi Yokoyama	04th place: 4: 52.5 min.
	0400 m freestyle	Nobaru Sugimoto	05th place
	0400 m freestyle	Tsutomu Oyokota	03rd place: 4: 52.3 min.
	1500 m freestyle	Sunao Ishirada		04th place in the semifinals
	1500 m freestyle	Shozo Makino	02nd place
	1500 m freestyle	Kusuo Kitamura	01st place: 19: 12.4 min.	OR
	4 × 200 m relay	Yasuji Miyazaki , Masanori Yusa , Hisakichi Toyoda , Takashi Yokoyama	01st place: 8: 58.8 min.
Diving	Jump from the 3-meter board is mandatory and freestyle	Kazuo Kobayashi	06th place
	3 m board	Tetsutaro Namae
	Jump from the Tower (High Diving)	Hidekatsu Ishida	08th place
Ball game	Water polo ( water polo )	Akira Fujita, Yasutaro Sakagami, Takaji Takebayashi, Seibei Kimura, Tosuke Sawami, Iwao Tokito, Shuji Dol, Takashige Matsumoto	04th Place	of 4 teams (Hungary, Germany, USA)
Gymnastics (= gymnastics)	Free rings, (swing rings )	Takashi Kondo	08th place	The Japanese took part in a demonstration of gymnastics on the eve of the day of competition (August 10), together with participants from other countries.
	Parallel bars	Toshihiko Sasano	12th place
	Uneven bars	Mahito Haga	08th place
	Mannsch. u. All-round	Fujio Kakuta, Yoshitake Takeda; Kondō; Sasano; Shigao homma	05th place out of 5 teams
	Multiple devices, individually	Sasano	18th place
	Multiple devices, individually	Homma	21st place
	Multiple devices, individually	Kondo	22nd place
	Multiple devices, individually	Kakuta	23rd place (last)
Wrestling , freestyle	Featherweight	Ishiro Hatta		eliminated 2nd round
	lightweight	Eitaro Suzuki		eliminated 2nd round
	Welterweight	Yoshio Kohno		Eliminated 2nd round by throwing in 11:42 min.
	medium weight	Sumiyuki Kotani		when compared with the Canadian Stockton, Kotani was eliminated in the 3rd round
Wrestling, Greco-Roman	Featherweight	Kiyoshi cheese		eliminated 2nd round
	lightweight	Yoneishi Miyazaki		eliminated 2nd round
	Welterweight	Shiichi Yoshida		eliminated 2nd round
Boxing	Flyweight	Kiyonobu Murakami		eliminated 2nd round
	Bantamweight	Akira Nakao		eliminated 2nd round
	Featherweight	Katsuo Kameoka		Eliminated 1st round
	lightweight	Otsu Shu Ko		Eliminated 1st round
	Welterweight	Aikoku Hirabshi		Eliminated 1st round
Lawn sports	Field hockey	Shunkichi Hamada, Junzo Inohara, Sadayoshi Kobayashi, Haruhiko Kon, Kenichi Konishi, Hiroshi Nagat, Eichi Nakamura, Yoshio Sakai, Katsumi Shibata, Akio Sohda, Toshio Usami	02nd place	First participation of Japanese players in the OSS. The Japanese won the fight against the USA team 9-2. However, the Americans also took part in an Olympic hockey tournament for the first time, their team mostly consisted of students.
rowing	Foursome with a helmsman	Daikichi Suzuki, Umetaro Shibata, Norio Ban, Rokuro Takahashi, Shokichi Nanba		3rd place in the 2nd run, no participation in the final
	Eighth	Suburo Hara, Yoshio Enamoto, Shigeo Fujiwara, Hidemitsu Tanaka, Setsuo Matsuura, Taro Nishidono, Setsuji Tanaka, Keizo Ikeda, Toshi Sano		3rd place in 1st run, 3rd place in 2nd run, no finals
horse riding	3-day event dressage, road ride, cross-country line, obstacle, jumping	Morishige Yamaotoa on "Kingo"	07th place
	3-day event	Taro Nara on "Sonshin"		11th place in the preliminary round
	3-day event	Shunzo Kido on "Kyu Gun"		12th place in the preliminary round
	Prize of Nations : Hunting Jump	Takeichi Nishi on "Uranus"	01st place	8 errors; Nishi is known as the captain and prince . The Nations Prize could not be awarded because none of the teams made it through the competitions completely.
	Nations Cup: jumping	Yasushi Imamura on "Sonny Boy"		eliminated

Women

sport	discipline	Name and possibly result	placement	comment
athletics	100 m run	Sumiko Watanabe		3rd place in the 2nd round, eliminated in the semifinals
	100-m	Taka Shibata	06th place
	100-m	Asa Dogura	04th Place
	080 m hurdles	Michi Nakanishi		Missed the final
	4 × 100 m relay	Mie Muroaka, Michi Nakanishi, Asa Dogura, Sunika Watanabe	05th place
	high jump	Yayeko Sagar	08th place: 1.49 m	10 finalists
	high jump	Yuriko Hirohashi	09th place: 1.46 m
	Discus throwing	Mitsue Ishizu	07th place: 33.52 m
	spear	Mitsue Ishizu	08th place: 30.81 m
	spear	Masako Shimpo	04th place: 39.07 m
swim	100 m freestyle	Hatsuho Matsuzawa	: 1: 17.1 min.	eliminated in the first run
	100 m freestyle	Yukie Arata	: 1: 16.1 min.	Eliminated in the 3rd preliminary run
	100 m freestyle	Kazue Kojima	: 1: 16.2 min.	eliminated in the 2nd preliminary
	100 m back	Masao Yokota	: 1: 25.1 min.	eliminated in the first run
	200 m chest	Hideko Maehata	02nd place: 3: 06.4 min.	died in the same year
	400 m freestyle	Hatsuko Morioka	: 6: 07.4 min.	3rd place in the 4th preliminary
	4 × 100 m relay	Kojima; Arata; Yokota; Morioka	05th place
Diving	board	Etsuki Kamakura	07th place
	tower	Etsuki Kamakura	06th place

Art competition

31 nations took part with 1100 exhibits. The exhibition took place at the Museum of Art and Science in Los Angeles. All works that were included in the IX. Olympiad emerged, d. H. between January 1, 1928 and the start of the Los Angeles Games. Jurors evaluated pictures - according to the type of color (oil, watercolor ..) - sculptures, architecture (buildings). Of the Japanese exhibits, the picture A Wrestling Match of the Insects by Eijiyo Naga took 3rd place in the prints category . In addition, a medal design (title and designer not mentioned in the report) received the Honorable Mention award . Japan did not take part in the literature and music categories.

Assessments and experience reports (selection)

swim

The city of Los Angeles had gone to great lengths to make a wonderful stadium for the swimmers. Among other things, 15 million pure tap water was poured into the basin and the sun warmed the water to an average temperature of 25 degrees Celsius. Since it was also very soft, some athletes had problems with it, such as the Finn Reingoldt, who said he couldn't get a proper grip on it. Under the heading Nippon, the new world power of water sports , the following assessment can be read:
“Far beyond the scope of the swimming competitions, these games were shaped by the triumphant advance of Japanese swimmers. [...] At a time when bathing, and especially swimming, was considered a disgrace in Germany, Japan's swimming culture was already old and popular. [...] The old culture is very often the basis for a fast, healthy modern one Development. ”The Japanese government made sure that swimming lessons could take place in schools. Hundreds of new swimming pools have been built since the 1928 OSS . Swimming festivals, competitions and national championships promoted the best and especially young talent. In addition to the traditional breaststroke, other types of swimming such as the crawl with a special leg kick and rotating ( paragraph-shaped ) arm movements were also developed.

Kitamura , who was just 15 years old at the time of the start, was the second youngest participant in the entire 1932 Games and won the 1500 meters. About the final it says: “Kitamura seems to slide over the water, Makino ( who won the silver medal ) takes a breath by turning his head to the left, Kitamura turns him to the right. So the two saw each other face to face and were able to direct each other. The young Australian Ryan offered more than a third desperate resistance, [...] but before the kilometer was completed it was decided that this was a purely Japanese matter. "

“Japan has fought for supremacy in swimming and it looks like it will be able to defend its primacy for a few Olympics now. His master guard is as numerous as it is strong, as young as it is practiced and soon also experienced. "

horse riding

All riding teams were exclusively soldiers. Before the final show jumping, there was a big parade in the stadium, where among others the golden Frenchman Xavier François Lesage gave a special dressage demonstration to the great applause of the audience. - A brief description of the final situation reads as follows: “A scream broke out when the American Chamberlain had made the last jump on Tanbark . Only twelve penalty points! [...] But the little Japanese prince Nishi is already riding up on a huge steed . He flies over every obstacle, his horse refuses to jump only once and at the last obstacle he throws up a beam with one hind leg. Eight mistakes, that is more than a flawless course today, that is really victory. "

literature

• Olympia 1932. The X. Olympic Games in Los Angeles 1932 , Verlag Philipp Reemtsma, Hamburg, 1932.

Web links

• Official (complete) Olympic report of the IOC on the OSS 1932 : The Games of the Xth Olympiad Los Angeles 1932 (English), 840 pp.

See also

• Japanese medalists in the 1932 Olympics

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official Olympic report of the IOC, pictures from the opening ceremony and the details of the respective sports.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Olympiareport , p. 754 ff.
3. ↑ Report 1932, from p. 803.
4. ↑ Olympia 1932 . Reemtsma p. 59.
5. ↑ Olympia 1932 . Reemtsma, pp. 36/37.
6. ↑ Olympia 1932 . Reemtsma, p. 126.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Olympia 1932 . Reemtsma, p. 105.
8. ↑ Olympia 1932 . Reemtsma, pp. 78/79.
9. ↑ Olympia 1932 . Official IOC report; from page 767.
10. ↑ ^{a b} Olympia 1932 . Reemtsma, pp. 62-67.
11. ↑ Olympia 1932 . Reemtsma 1932, pp. 103-105: The expedition of the Japanese prince .