1960 Summer Olympics / Participant (Japan)

JPN

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Japan took part in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome with a delegation of 162 athletes (142 men and 20 women) in 96 competitions in 17 sports. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was gymnast Takashi Ono , who, like four years earlier, was the most successful athlete in his nation, winning a total of six medals. Otherwise Japan was particularly successful in gymnastics, as well as in swimming. A medal was won in each of four other sports.

Participants by sport

basketball

Men

• 15th place

• Kenichi Imaizumi
• Takashi Itoyama
• Shoji Kamata
• Hideo Kanekawa
• Takashi Masuda
• Setsuo Nara
• Yasakuni Oshima
• Hiroshi Saitō
• Masashi Shiga
• Shutaro Shoji
• Takeo Sugiyama
• Kaoru Wakabayashi

Boxing

Men

• Katsuo Haga
• Yasuyuki Ito
• Shinetsu Suzuki
• Kiyoshi Tanabe

  Bronze flyweight

• Katsuji Watanabe

fencing

Men

• Sonosuke Fujimaki
• Mitsuyuki Funamizu
• Heizaburo Okawa
• Tsugeo Ozawa
• Kazuhiko Tabuchi

Weightlifting

Men

• Yoshinobu Fujishima
• Yukio Furuyama
• Shigeo Kogure
• Minoru Kubota
• Yoshinobu Miyake

  Silver bantamweight

• Kenji Ōnuma
• Hiroshi Yamazaki

hockey

Men

• 14th place

• Tadatoshi Abe
• Hiroyuki Fujiwara
• Kenji Iijima
• Kunio Iwahashi
• Masaru Kanbe
• Seiji Kihara
• Hiroshi Kojima
• Yoshio Kojima
• Toshiharu Nakamura
• Ichiro Sado
• Michinori Watada
• Teruo Yaguchi
• Hisatoshi Yamazaki
• Tsuneya Yuzaki

athletics

Men Jun Ebina Hirotada Hayase Kurao Hiroshima Keiji Ogushi Noboru Okamoto Takayuki Okazaki Tomio Ota Nobuyoshi Sadanaga Kōji Sakurai Hiroshi Shibata Takeo Sugawara Kuniyoshi Sugioka Kazumi Watanabe Noriaki Yasuda Yukishige Yasuma

Women Akiko Fukuda Fumiko Ito Yasuko Kimura Yasuko Matsuda Hiroko Uchida-Yokoyama

Modern pentathlon

Men

• Kazuhiro Tanaka
• Shigeaki Uchino

Cycling

Men

• Kanji Kubomura
• Masashi Omiya
• Tetsuo Osawa
• Katsuya Saito
• Nobuhira Takanuki

horse riding

• Yugo Araki
• Yuzo Kageyama
• Kunihiro Ohta

Wrestling

Men

• Kazuo Abe
• Noboru Aomi
• Tadashi Asai
• Takashi Hirata
• Masamitsu Ichiguchi
• Kaoru Ishiguro
• Shunta Ishikura
• Yutaka Kaneko
• Shunichi Kawano
• Mitsuharu Kitamura
• Masayuki Matsubara

  Silver flyweight freestyle

• Takashi Nagai
• Tamiji Sato
• Kanji Shigeoka
• Masatoshi Takahira
• Sachihiko Takeda

rowing

Men

• Kenro Chiba
• Koji Fukuda
• Tetsuzo Hirose
• Hironori Itsuki
• Hiroyuki Misawa
• Hatsuhiko Mizuki
• Shunji Murai
• Naotake Okubo
• Hiroshi Saitō
• Osamu Saito
• Tadashi Saito
• Tetsuo Sato
• Shigemi Tamura
• Yosuke Tazaki

shoot

• Yukio Inokuma
• Takao Ishii
• Kenichi Kumagai
• Tadao Matsui
• Osamu Ochiai
• Fumio Ryosenan
• Mitsuo Yamane
• Yoshihisa Yoshikawa

  Bronze free pistol 50 m

swim

Men Tatsuo Fujimoto Silver 4 x 200 m freestyle Makoto Fukui Silver 4 x 200 m freestyle Koichi Hirakida Bronze 4 x 100 m layers Katsuki Ishihara Bronze 4 x 100 m layers Hiroshi Ishii Silver 4 x 200 m freestyle Kenzo Izutsu Isao Masuda Masami Nakabo Yoshihiko Osaki Silver 200 m chest Bronze 4 x 100 m layers Keigo Shimizu Bronze 4 x 100 m layers Kazuo Tomita Bronze 4 x 100 m layers Kazuo Watanabe Bronze 4 x 100 m layers Tsuyoshi Yamanaka Silver 400 m freestyle Silver 4 x 200 m freestyle Haruo Yoshimuta

Women Kimiko Ezaka Hitomi Jinno Shizue Miyabe Yoshiko Sato Yoshiko Takamatsu Satoko Tanaka Bronze 100 m back Eiko Wada

sailing

• Yasuo Hozumi
• Masayuki Ishii
• Setsuo Kawada
• Yutaka Okamoto
• Yoshimatsu Sakaibara
• Mizuki Yamada

do gymnastics

Men Nobuyuki Aihara Gold team all- around Gold ground Yukio Endo Gold team all- around Takashi Mitsukuri Gold team all- around Takashi Ono Silver individual all-around Gold team all- around Gold horse Bronze ingot Gold horizontal bar Bronze rings Masao Takemoto Gold team all- around Silver horizontal bar Shūji Tsurumi Gold team all- around Bronze pommel horse

Women Ginko Abukawa-Chiba Kiyoko Ono Toshiko Shirasu-Aihara Kazuko Sogabe Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda Kimiko Tsukada

Water polo

Men

• Group stage

• Kanji Asanuma
• Shigenobu Fujimoto
• Mineo Kato
• Motonobu Miyamura
• Takanao Sato
• Yoji Shimizu
• Koki Takagi

Diving

Men Shunsuke Kaneto Ryo Mabuchi Toshio Yamano

Women Kanoko Tsutani-Mabuchi Kumiko Watanabe

Web links

• Japanese Olympic team from 1960 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )