1956 Summer Olympics / Participant (Japan)
JPN
4th | 10 | 5 |
Japan took part in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne with a delegation of 110 athletes (94 men and 16 women) in 71 competitions in 13 sports. The nation was most successful in gymnastics competitions, Takashi Ono alone won five medals. Gold and silver were also won in swimming and wrestling. The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the wrestler Shōzō Sasahara .
Five months earlier, Japan took part in the Olympic Equestrian Games in Stockholm with two riders, they could not win a medal.
Participants by sport
basketball
Men
- 10th place
- Riichi Arai
- Manabu Fujita
- Kenichi Imaizumi
- Takashi Itoyama
- Hitoshi Konno
- Setsuo Nara
- Tetsuro Noborisaka
- Reizo Ohira
- Hiroshi Saitō
- Shutaro Shoji
- Takeo Sugiyama
Boxing
Men
fencing
Men
Soccer
Men
- Round of 16
- Yoshio Furukawa
- Ryūzō Hiraki
- Isao Iwabuchi
- Tadao Kobayashi
- Waichirō Ōmura
- Michihiro Ozawa
- Hiroaki Satō
- Yasuo Takamori
- Masanori Tokita
- Masao Uchino
- Shigeo Yaegashi
- Yukio Shimomura
- Isamu Kinoshita
- Takashi Takabayashi
- Kakuichi Mimura
- Taizo Kawamoto
- Ken Naganuma
- Akira Kitaguchi
Weightlifting
Men
athletics
Men |
Women |
Cycling
Men
horse riding
Wrestling
Men
- Tadashi Asai
- Minoru Iizuka
-
Mitsuo Ikeda
- Gold welterweight freestyle
-
Shigeru Kasahara
- Silver lightweight freestyle
- Kazuo Katsuramoto
- Saburo Nakao
- Mitsuhiro Ohira
-
Shōzō Sasahara
- Gold featherweight freestyle
rowing
Men
- Toshiji Eda
- Masao Hara
- Yoshiki Hiki
- Takashi Imamura
- Yozo Iwasaki
- Junichi Kato
- Sadahiro Sunaga
- Yasuhiko Takeda
- Yasukuni Watanabe
shoot
swim
Men
|
Women |
do gymnastics
Men
|
Women |
Diving
Men |
Women |
Web links
- Japanese Olympic team from 1956 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Japanese Olympic team from 1956 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )