1968 Summer Olympics / Participant (Japan)

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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

• Junji Watanabe

  Light flyweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Tetsuaki Nakamura

  Flyweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Eiji Morioka

  Bantamweight: bronze

• Tadashi Okamoto

  Featherweight: eliminated in the 1st round

fencing

Men

• Heizaburō Ōkawa

  Foil: 9th place

  Foil team: 7th place

• Kazuo Mano

  Foil: 25th place

  Foil team: 7th place

• Fujio Shimizu

  Foil: 25th place

  Foil team: 7th place

• Masaya Fukuda

  Foil team: 7th place

• Kazuhiko Wakasugi

  Foil team: 7th place

Soccer

• bronze

  Kunishige Kamamoto

  Mitsuo Kamata

  Hiroshi Katayama

  Yasuyuki Kuwahara

  Ikuo Matsumoto

  Masakatsu Miyamoto

  Teruki Miyamoto

  Takaji Mori

  Aritatsu Ogi

  Ryuichi Sugiyama

  Masashi Watanabe

  Shigeo Yaegashi

  Yoshitada Yamaguchi

  Kenzō Yokoyama

Weightlifting

• Shirō Ichinoseki

  Bantamweight: 5th place

• Yoshinobu Miyake

  Featherweight: gold

• Yoshiyuki Miyake

  Featherweight: bronze

• Nobuyuki Hatta

  Lightweight: 4th place

• Takeo Kimura

  Lightweight: 7th place

• Masushi Ōuchi

  Middleweight: silver

• Sadahiro Miwa

  Middleweight: 10th place

hockey

Men

• 13th place

  Norihiko Matsumoto

  Katsuhiro Yuzaki

  Akio Takashima

  Shigeo Kaoku

  Tsuneya Yuzaki

  Akio Kudo

  Kyōichi Nagaya

  Hiroshi Tanaka

  Shōzō Nishimura

  Masashi Onda

  Minoru Yoshimura

  Akihito Wada

  Yukio Kamimura

  Kazuo Kawamura

canoe

Men

• Tetsumasa Yamaguchi

  Single Canadier 1000 m: eliminated in the semifinals

  Two-man Canadians 1000 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

• Nobuatsu Yoshino

  Two-man Canadians 1000 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

athletics

Men

• Hideo Iijima

  100 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

  4 x 100 meter relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Jun Nagai

  800 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Keisuke Sawaki

  5000 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  10,000 m: 28th place

• Tsugumichi Suzuki

  10,000 m: 20th place

• Kenji Kimihara

  Marathon: silver

• Akio Usami

  Marathon: 9th place

• Seiichirō Sasaki

  Marathon: race not finished

• Kiyoo Yui

  400 m hurdles: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Nobuyoshi Miura

  3000 m obstacle: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Taketsugu Saruwatari

  3000 m obstacle: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Naoki Abe

  4 x 100 meter relay: eliminated in the run-up

  Long jump: 22nd place

• Hiroomi Yamada

  4 x 100 meter relay: eliminated in the run-up

  Long jump: 10th place

• Shinji Ogura

  4 x 100 meter relay: eliminated in the run-up

  Long jump: 24th place

• Kazuo Saitō

  20 km walking: race not finished

  50 km walking: 17th place

• Kuniyoshi Sugioka

  High jump: 15th place

• Kiyoshi Niwa

  Pole vault: 11th place

• Yukito Muraki

  Triple jump: 19th place

• Takeo Sugawara

  Hammer throw: 4th place

• Yoshihisa Ishida

  Hammer throw: 13th place

Modern pentathlon

• Yūsō Makihira

  Individual: 14th place

  Team: 7th place

• Katsuaki Tashiro

  Individual: 27th place

  Team: 7th place

• Toshio Fukui

  Individual: 36th place

  Team: 7th place

Cycling

• Sanji Inou

  Track sprint: eliminated in the 4th round

  Track 1000 m time trial: 19th place

horse riding

• Tadashi Fukushima

  Show jumping: 26th place

  Show jumping team: 14th place

• Masayasu Sugitani

  Show jumping: 26th place

  Show jumping team: 14th place

• Yugo Araki

  Show jumping: eliminated

  Show jumping team: 14th place

• Mikio Chiba

  Versatility: Eliminated

Wrestling

• Shuichi Ishiguro

  Flyweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Kōji Sakurama

  Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: 5th place

• Hideo Fujimoto

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: silver

• Muneji Munemura

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: gold

• Toshirō Tashiro

  Welterweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Kenjirō Hiraki

  Middleweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Takeshi Nagao

  Light heavyweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 3rd round

• Yorihide Isogai

  Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round

  Heavyweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Shigeo Nakata

  Flyweight, freestyle: gold

• Yōjirō Uetake

  Bantamweight, Freestyle: Gold

• Masaaki Kaneko

  Featherweight, freestyle: gold

• Iwao Horiuchi

  Lightweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 5th round

• Tatsuo Sasaki

  Welterweight, freestyle: 5th place

• Shigeru Endo

  Middleweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 4th round

• Shunichi Kawano

  Light heavyweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 3rd round

rowing

Men

• Tsugio Ito

  One: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Masatoshi Shimizu

  Eighth with helmsman: 12th place

• Tomio Murai

  Eighth with helmsman: 12th place

• Tadamasa Kato

  Eighth with helmsman: 12th place

• Shigeru Miyagawa

  Eighth with helmsman: 12th place

• Fumio Nakata

  Eighth with helmsman: 12th place

• Jūjirō Tanaka

  Eighth with helmsman: 12th place

• Toshi Fukumasu

  Eighth with helmsman: 12th place

• Yoshinori Arai

  Eighth with helmsman: 12th place

• Katsumi Yamamoto

  Eighth with helmsman: 12th place

shoot

• Takeo Kamachi

  Rapid fire pistol 25 m: 12th place

• Makoto Shiraishi

  Rapid fire pistol 25 m: 23rd place

• Yoshihisa Yoshikawa

  Free pistol 50 m: 17th place

• Shigeto Kusunoki

  Free pistol 50 m: 50th place

• Hiromu Sekine

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 60th place

• Shigemi Saitō

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 84th place

swim

Men

• 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

• Masayuki Ōsawa

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: 8th place

• Noboru Waseda

  200 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

• 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

• Katsuji Ito

  1500 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Teruhiko Kitani

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: 8th place

  4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Kishio Tanaka

  100 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: 5th place

• Osamu Tsurumine

  100 m chest: eliminated in the semifinals

  200 m chest: 8th place

• Nobutaka Taguchi

  100 m chest: eliminated in the semifinals

  200 m chest: eliminated in the semifinals

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: 5th place

• Satoshi Maruya

  100 m butterfly: 5th place

  200 m butterfly: eliminated in the semi-finals

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: 5th place

• Yasuo Takada

  100 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

Women

• Shigeko Kawanishi

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the semi-finals

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: 6th place

• 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

• Yoshimi Nishigawa

  200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m individual medley: 5th place

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: 6th place

• 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

• Yumiko Ono

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: 6th place

• Yukiko Goshi

  100 m back: eliminated in the semi-finals

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Kiyoe Nakagawa

  100 m chest: 6th place

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Yukari Takemoto

  100 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Chieno Shibata

  200 m chest: 7th place

do gymnastics

Men

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

  Masayuki Minami

  Katsutoshi Nekoda

  Mamoru Shiragami

  Isao Koizumi

  Kenji Kimura

  Yasuaki Mitsumori

  Jungo Morita

  Tadayoshi Yokota

  Seiji Ōko

  Tetsuo Sato

  Kenji Shimaoka

Women

• silver

  Setsuko Yoshida

  Suzue Takayama

  Toyoko Iwahara

  Yukiyo Kojima

  Sachiko Fukunaka

  Kunie Shishikura

  Setsuko Inoue

  Sumie Oinuma

  Keiko Hama

Water polo

• 12th place

  Tetsunosuke Ishii

  Hirokatsu Kuwayama

  Kōji Nakano

  Shūzō Yajima

  Shigeharu Kuwabara

  Haruo Sato

  Kazuya Takeuchi

  Kunio Yonehara

  Seiya Sakamoto

Diving

Men

• Junji Yuasa

  3 m jumping: 18th place

  10 m diving platform: 23rd place

• Toshio Otsubo

  10 m high diving: 24th place

• Yōsuke Arimitsu

  10 m high diving: 26th place

Women

• 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 )

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Although Katō was qualified for the final, he did not appear in this.