1968 Summer Olympics / Participant (Japan)
JPN
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Japan participated in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City with a delegation of 171 athletes (146 men and 25 women) in 97 competitions in 18 sports.
The Japanese athletes won eleven gold, seven silver and seven bronze medals, with Japan taking third place in the medal table. The most successful participant was the gymnast Akinori Nakayama , who became a four-time Olympic champion and won another silver and bronze medal. The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the gymnast Yukio Endo .
Participants by sport
Boxing
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Junji Watanabe
- Light flyweight: eliminated in the 1st round
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Tetsuaki Nakamura
- Flyweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals
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Eiji Morioka
- Bantamweight: bronze
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Tadashi Okamoto
- Featherweight: eliminated in the 1st round
fencing
- Men
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Heizaburō Ōkawa
- Foil: 9th place
- Foil team: 7th place
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Kazuo Mano
- Foil: 25th place
- Foil team: 7th place
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Fujio Shimizu
- Foil: 25th place
- Foil team: 7th place
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Masaya Fukuda
- Foil team: 7th place
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Kazuhiko Wakasugi
- Foil team: 7th place
Soccer
- bronze
Weightlifting
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Shirō Ichinoseki
- Bantamweight: 5th place
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Yoshinobu Miyake
- Featherweight: gold
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Yoshiyuki Miyake
- Featherweight: bronze
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Nobuyuki Hatta
- Lightweight: 4th place
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Takeo Kimura
- Lightweight: 7th place
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Masushi Ōuchi
- Middleweight: silver
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Sadahiro Miwa
- Middleweight: 10th place
hockey
- Men
- 13th place
canoe
- Men
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Tetsumasa Yamaguchi
- Single Canadier 1000 m: eliminated in the semifinals
- Two-man Canadians 1000 m: eliminated in the semi-finals
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Nobuatsu Yoshino
- Two-man Canadians 1000 m: eliminated in the semi-finals
athletics
- Men
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Hideo Iijima
- 100 m: eliminated in the semi-finals
- 4 x 100 meter relay: eliminated in the run-up
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Jun Nagai
- 800 m: eliminated in the preliminary run
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Keisuke Sawaki
- 5000 m: eliminated in the preliminary run
- 10,000 m: 28th place
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Tsugumichi Suzuki
- 10,000 m: 20th place
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Kenji Kimihara
- Marathon: silver
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Akio Usami
- Marathon: 9th place
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Seiichirō Sasaki
- Marathon: race not finished
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Kiyoo Yui
- 400 m hurdles: eliminated in the preliminary run
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Nobuyoshi Miura
- 3000 m obstacle: eliminated in the preliminary run
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Taketsugu Saruwatari
- 3000 m obstacle: eliminated in the preliminary run
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Naoki Abe
- 4 x 100 meter relay: eliminated in the run-up
- Long jump: 22nd place
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Hiroomi Yamada
- 4 x 100 meter relay: eliminated in the run-up
- Long jump: 10th place
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Shinji Ogura
- 4 x 100 meter relay: eliminated in the run-up
- Long jump: 24th place
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Kazuo Saitō
- 20 km walking: race not finished
- 50 km walking: 17th place
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Kuniyoshi Sugioka
- High jump: 15th place
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Kiyoshi Niwa
- Pole vault: 11th place
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Yukito Muraki
- Triple jump: 19th place
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Takeo Sugawara
- Hammer throw: 4th place
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Yoshihisa Ishida
- Hammer throw: 13th place
Modern pentathlon
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Yūsō Makihira
- Individual: 14th place
- Team: 7th place
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Katsuaki Tashiro
- Individual: 27th place
- Team: 7th place
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Toshio Fukui
- Individual: 36th place
- Team: 7th place
Cycling
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Sanji Inou
- Track sprint: eliminated in the 4th round
- Track 1000 m time trial: 19th place
horse riding
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Tadashi Fukushima
- Show jumping: 26th place
- Show jumping team: 14th place
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Masayasu Sugitani
- Show jumping: 26th place
- Show jumping team: 14th place
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Yugo Araki
- Show jumping: eliminated
- Show jumping team: 14th place
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Mikio Chiba
- Versatility: Eliminated
Wrestling
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Shuichi Ishiguro
- Flyweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round
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Kōji Sakurama
- Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: 5th place
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Hideo Fujimoto
- Featherweight, Greco-Roman: silver
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Muneji Munemura
- Lightweight, Greco-Roman: gold
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Toshirō Tashiro
- Welterweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round
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Kenjirō Hiraki
- Middleweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round
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Takeshi Nagao
- Light heavyweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 3rd round
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Yorihide Isogai
- Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round
- Heavyweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 2nd round
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Shigeo Nakata
- Flyweight, freestyle: gold
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Yōjirō Uetake
- Bantamweight, Freestyle: Gold
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Masaaki Kaneko
- Featherweight, freestyle: gold
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Iwao Horiuchi
- Lightweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 5th round
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Tatsuo Sasaki
- Welterweight, freestyle: 5th place
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Shigeru Endo
- Middleweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 4th round
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Shunichi Kawano
- Light heavyweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 3rd round
rowing
- Men
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Tsugio Ito
- One: eliminated in the quarterfinals
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Masatoshi Shimizu
- Eighth with helmsman: 12th place
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Tomio Murai
- Eighth with helmsman: 12th place
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Tadamasa Kato
- Eighth with helmsman: 12th place
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Shigeru Miyagawa
- Eighth with helmsman: 12th place
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Fumio Nakata
- Eighth with helmsman: 12th place
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Jūjirō Tanaka
- Eighth with helmsman: 12th place
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Toshi Fukumasu
- Eighth with helmsman: 12th place
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Yoshinori Arai
- Eighth with helmsman: 12th place
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Katsumi Yamamoto
- Eighth with helmsman: 12th place
shoot
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Takeo Kamachi
- Rapid fire pistol 25 m: 12th place
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Makoto Shiraishi
- Rapid fire pistol 25 m: 23rd place
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Yoshihisa Yoshikawa
- Free pistol 50 m: 17th place
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Shigeto Kusunoki
- Free pistol 50 m: 50th place
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Hiromu Sekine
- Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 60th place
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Shigemi Saitō
- Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 84th place
swim
- Men
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Kunihiro Iwasaki
- 100 m freestyle: eliminated in the semi-finals
- 200 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run
- 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: 8th place
- 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run
- 4 x 100 meter medley relay: 5th place
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Masayuki Ōsawa
- 100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run
- 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: 8th place
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Noboru Waseda
- 200 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run
- 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run
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Satoru Nakano
- 200 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run
- 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: 8th place
- 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run
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Katsuji Ito
- 1500 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run
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Teruhiko Kitani
- 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: 8th place
- 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run
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Kishio Tanaka
- 100 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run
- 4 x 100 meter medley relay: 5th place
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Osamu Tsurumine
- 100 m chest: eliminated in the semifinals
- 200 m chest: 8th place
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Nobutaka Taguchi
- 100 m chest: eliminated in the semifinals
- 200 m chest: eliminated in the semifinals
- 4 x 100 meter medley relay: 5th place
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Satoshi Maruya
- 100 m butterfly: 5th place
- 200 m butterfly: eliminated in the semi-finals
- 4 x 100 meter medley relay: 5th place
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Yasuo Takada
- 100 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run
- 200 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run
- Women
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Shigeko Kawanishi
- 100 m freestyle: eliminated in the semi-finals
- 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: 6th place
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Miwako Kobayashi
- 100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run
- 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: 6th place
- 4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up
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Yoshimi Nishigawa
- 200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run
- 200 m individual medley: 5th place
- 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: 6th place
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Yasuko Fujii
- 100 m butterfly: eliminated in the semifinals
- 200 m butterfly: 8th place
- 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: 6th place
- 4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up
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Yumiko Ono
- 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: 6th place
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Yukiko Goshi
- 100 m back: eliminated in the semi-finals
- 4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up
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Kiyoe Nakagawa
- 100 m chest: 6th place
- 4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up
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Yukari Takemoto
- 100 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run
- 200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run
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Chieno Shibata
- 200 m chest: 7th place
do gymnastics
- Men
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Sawao Kato
- Individual all-around: gold
- Bottom: gold
- Horse jump: 5th place in the qualification
- Bars: 3rd place in qualification
- Horizontal bar: 3rd place in qualification
- Rings: bronze
- Pommel horse: 8th place
- Team all-around: gold
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Akinori Nakayama
- Individual all-around: bronze
- Bottom: silver
- Horse jump: 5th place
- Ingot: gold
- Horizontal bar: gold
- Rings: gold
- Pommel horse: 12th place
- Team all-around: gold
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Eizō Kenmotsu
- Individual all-around: 4th place
- Floor: 6th place
- Horse jump: 6th place
- Bars: 5th place
- Horizontal bar: bronze
- Rings: 7th place
- Pommel horse: 5th place
- Team all-around: gold
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Takeshi Kato
- Individual all-around: 5th place
- Bottom: bronze
- Horse jump: 4th place
- Bars: 4th place
- Horizontal bar: 11th place
- Rings: 5th place
- Pommel horse: 20th place
- Team all-around: gold
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Yukio Endo
- Individual all-around: 8th place
- Floor: 11th place
- Horse jump: silver
- Bars: 9th place
- Horizontal bar: 6th place
- Rings: 8th place
- Pommel horse: 26th place
- Team all-around: gold
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Mitsuo Tsukahara
- Individual all-around: 18th place
- Floor: 4th place
- Horse jump: 27th place
- Bars: 74th place
- Horizontal bar: 11th place
- Rings: 4th place
- Pommel horse: 53rd place
- Team all-around: gold
- Women
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Kazue Hanyu
- Individual all-around: 13th place
- Floor: 24th place
- Horse jump: 17th place
- Uneven bars: 7th place
- Balance beam: 16th place
- Team all-around competition: 4th place
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Miyuki Matsuhisa
- Individual all-around: 17th place
- Floor: 14th place
- Horse jump: 12th place
- Uneven bars: 39th place
- Balance beam: 9th place
- Team all-around competition: 4th place
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Taniko Nakamura-Mitsukuri
- Individual all-around: 18th place
- Floor: 14th place
- Horse jump: 31st place
- Uneven bars: 7th place
- Balance beam: 23rd place
- Team all-around competition: 4th place
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Chieko Oda
- Individual all-around: 19th place
- Floor: 14th place
- Horse jump: 17th place
- Uneven bars: 20th place
- Balance beam: 30th place
- Team all-around competition: 4th place
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Mitsuko Kandori
- Individual all-around: 22nd place
- Floor: 27th place
- Horse jump: 20th place
- Uneven bars: 21st place
- Balance beam: 23rd place
- Team all-around competition: 4th place
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Kayoko Hashiguchi-Saka
- Individual all-around: 33rd place
- Floor: 17th place
- Horse jump: 29th place
- Uneven bars: 68th place
- Balance beam: 23rd place
- Team all-around competition: 4th place
volleyball
- Men
- silver
- Women
- silver
Water polo
- 12th place
Diving
- Men
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Junji Yuasa
- 3 m jumping: 18th place
- 10 m diving platform: 23rd place
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Toshio Otsubo
- 10 m high diving: 24th place
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Yōsuke Arimitsu
- 10 m high diving: 26th place
- Women
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Keiko Osaki-Otsubo
- 10 m high diving: 7th place
Web links
- Japanese Olympic team from 1968 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )