1972 Summer Olympics / Participant (Japan)

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Japan took part in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich with a delegation of 184 athletes (148 men and 36 women) in 113 competitions in 21 sports. The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the judoka Masatoshi Shinomaki .

Participants by sport

basketball

Men

• 14th place

• Squad

  Shigeaki Abe

  Nobuo Chigusa

  Nobuo Hattori

  Satoshi Mori

  Hirofumi Numata

  Kazufumi Sakai

  Kenji soda

  Atsushi Somatomo

  Katsuhiko Sugita

  Masatomo Taniguchi

  Kunihiko Yokoyama

  Mineo Yoshikawa

Archery

Men Hiroshi Kajikawa Individual: 19th place Seiji Hibino Individual: 29th place Shinji Nakamoto Individual: 38th place

Women Yoshiko Akiyama Individual: 17th place

Boxing

Men

• Yoshimitsu Aragaki

  Light flyweight: 1st round

• Fujio Nagai

  Flyweight: 2nd round

• Kazuo Kobayashi

  Featherweight: quarterfinals

• Kyoji Shinohara

  Light welterweight: quarterfinals

fencing

Men

• Hiroshi Nakajima

  Foil, singles: quarter-finals

  Foil, team: 6th place

• Ichiro Serizawa

  Foil, singles: quarter-finals

  Foil, team: 6th place

• Kiyoshi Uehara

  Foil, singles: quarter-finals

  Foil, team: 6th place

• Masaya Fukuda

  Foil, team: 6th place

• Shiro Maruyama

  Foil, team: 6th place

Weightlifting

Men

• Tetsuhide Sasaki

  Flyweight: 4th place

• Kyujiro Saito

  Flyweight: 12th place

• Hiroshi Ono

  Bantamweight: 7th place

• Koji Miki

  Bantamweight: 10th place

• Yoshinobu Miyake

  Featherweight: 4th place

• Kenkichi Ando

  Featherweight: DNF

• Masao Kato

  Lightweight: 8th place

• Yusaku Ono

  Lightweight: 10th place

• Ryoichi Goto

  Middle heavyweight: DNF

Handball

Men

• 11th place

• Squad

  Shuji Arinaga

  Katsuhiko Chikamori

  Kiyotaka Hayakawa

  Hiroshi Honda

  Masayuki Hyokai

  Nobuyuki Iida

  Minoru cinema

  Takezo Nakai

  Toshio Niimi

  Kiyoshi Noda

  Kenichi Sasaki

  Toshihiko Shimosato

Judo

Men

• Takao Kawaguchi

  Lightweight: gold

• Toyokazu Nomura

  Light middleweight: gold

• Shinobu Sekine

  Middleweight: gold

• Fumio Sasahara

  Light heavyweight: 13th place

• Motoki Nishimura

  Heavyweight: bronze

• Masatoshi Shinomaki

  Open class: 11th place

canoe

Men

• Tadamasa Sato

  Kayak single, 1000 meters: hope run

• Shoken Okada

  Kayak single, slalom: 36th place

• Tetsumasa Yamaguchi

  Canoe single, 1000 meters: hope run

• Mitsuhide Hata & Mitsuo Nakanishi

  Canoe two-man, 1000 meters: hope run

athletics

Men Kosei Gushiken Triple jump: 14th place in qualification Toshiaki Inoue Triple jump: 12th place Yoshihisa Ishida Hammer throw: 25th place in qualification Takayoshi Kawagoe Long jump: 28th place in the qualification Kenji Kimihara Marathon: 5th place Takaharu Koyama 5000 meters: heats 3000 meter obstacle: 9th place Yukito Muraki Triple jump: 26th place in qualification Shigenobu Murofushi Hammer throw: 8th place Keisuke Sawaki 5000 meters: heats 10,000 meters: heats Takeo Sugawara Hammer throw: 20th place Kuniyoshi Sugioka High jump: 31st place in qualification Akira Takeuchi 3000 meter obstacle: prelims Hidehiko Tomizawa High jump: 19th place Yoshiharu Tomonaga 400 meters: quarter-finals Yoshiaki Unetani Marathon: 36th place Akio Usami 10,000 meters: heats Marathon: 12th place

Women Michiyo Inaoka High jump: 33rd place in qualification Mihoko Yama High jump: 35th place in qualification Hiroko Yamashita Long jump: 21st place in qualification

Modern pentathlon

Men

• Masaru Sakano

  Singles: 31st place

  Team: 13th place

• Yuso Makihira

  Singles: 33rd place

  Team: 13th place

• Akira Kubo

  Individual: 49th place

  Team: 13th place

Cycling

Men

• Yoshikazu Cho

  Sprint: 4th round

  Tandem sprint: DNF / 2. round

• Takafumi Matsuda

  1000 meter time trial: 20th place

• Yaichi Numata

  Sprint: 2nd round

  Tandem sprint: DNF / 2. round

horse riding

• Kikuko Inoue

  Dressage, individual: 32nd place

• Tsunekazu Takeda

  Jumping, singles: 42nd place

  Jumping, team: 16th place

• Masayasu Sugitani

  Jumping, singles: 43rd place

  Jumping, team: 16th place

• Tadashi Fukushima

  Jumping, singles: 43rd place

  Jumping, team: 16th place

• Teruchiyo Takamiya

  Jumping, team: 16th place

Wrestling

Men

• Kazuharu Ishida

  Light flyweight, Greco-Roman: 5th place

• Koichiro Hirayama

  Flyweight, Greco-Roman: silver

• Ikuei Yamamoto

  Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: 7th place

• Hideo Fujimoto

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: 4th place

• Takashi Tanoue

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: 5th place

• Jiichiro date

  Greterweight, Greco-Roman: 3rd round

• Sadao Sato

  Middleweight, Greco-Roman: 3rd round

• Kimuchi Tani

  Light Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 4th round

• Makoto Saito

  Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 2nd round

• Tomomi Tsuruta

  Super heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 2nd round

• Masahiko Umeda

  Light flyweight, freestyle: 6th place

• Kiyomi Kato

  Flyweight, freestyle: gold

• Hideaki Yanagida

  Bantamweight, Freestyle: Gold

• Kiyoshi Abe

  Featherweight, freestyle: 4th place

• Kikuo Wada

  Lightweight, freestyle: silver

• Toshitada Yoshida

  Welterweight, freestyle: withdrawal before 3rd round

• Tatsuo Sasaki

  Middleweight, freestyle: 5th place

• Makoto Kamada

  Light heavyweight, freestyle: 2nd round

• Shizuo Yada

  Heavyweight, freestyle: 2nd round

• Yorihide Isogai

  Super heavyweight, freestyle: 3rd round

rowing

Men

• Hideo Okamoto

  One: reunion

• Tsugio Ito & Yoshio Minato

  Double sculls: hope run

shoot

• Minoru Ito

  Small caliber, three-position battle: 41st place

  Small bore, lying: 59th place

• Takeo Kamachi

  Rapid Fire Pistol: 33rd place

• Kanji Kubo

  Rapid fire pistol: 30th place

• Takeshi Sugita

  Small bore, lying: 82nd place

• Shigetoshi Tashiro

  Free pistol: 22nd place

• Yoshihisa Yoshikawa

  Free pistol: 25th place

swim

Men Tadashi Honda 100 meters back: 8th place 200 meters back: heats 4 x 100 meters: 6th place Yasuhiro Komazaki 100 meter butterfly: prelims 200 meters butterfly: heats 4 x 100 meters: 6th place Jiro Sasaki 200 meter medley: prelims 400 meter individual medley: prelims 4 x 100 meters: 6th place Nobutaka Taguchi 100 meters chest: gold 200 meters chest: bronze 4 x 100 meters: 6th place

Women Mayumi Aoki 100 meter butterfly: bronze 200 meter butterfly: 8th place 4 x 100 meters: 6th place Noriko Asano 100 meter butterfly: 8th place 200 meter butterfly: 5th place Kazu Fujimura 100 meters back: heats 200 meters back: heats Eiko Goshi 4 x 100 meter freestyle: prelims Kikuyo Ishii 100 meters back: heats 200 meters back: heats Shigeko Kawanishi 100 meters freestyle: prelims 4 x 100 meter freestyle: prelims Suzuko Matsumura 200 meters back: heats 4 x 100 meters: 6th place Yoshimi Nishigawa 4 x 100 meter freestyle: prelims 200 meter medley: 7th place 4 x 100 meters: 6th place Chieno Shibata 200 meters chest: heats Yukari Takemoto 4 x 100 meter freestyle: prelims 200 meter medley: prelims 400 meter medley: 7th place Yoko Yamamoto 100 meter chest: heats 200 meters chest: heats 4 x 100 meters: 6th place

sailing

• Kazuoki Matsuyama

  Finn dinghy: 27th place

• Akira Yamamura & Takashi Yamamura

  Flying Dutchman: 19th place

do gymnastics

Men Shigeru Kasamatsu Individual all-around: 5th place Team all-around: gold Bottom: bronze Horse: 6th place in the qualification Ingot: silver Horizontal bar: bronze Rings: 12th place in qualification Pommel horse: 4th place Sawao Kato Individual all-around: gold Team all-around: gold Floor: 6th place Horse: 4th place Ingot: gold Horizontal bar: silver Rings: 4th place Pommel horse: silver Eizō Kenmotsu Individual all-around: silver Team all-around: gold Floor: 4th place Horse: 4th place Ingot: bronze Horizontal bar: 4th place Rings: 5th place Pommel horse: bronze Akinori Nakayama Individual all-around: bronze Team all-around: gold Bottom: silver Horse: 12th place in the qualification Bars: 5th place Horizontal bar: 5th place Rings: gold Pommel horse: 6th place in qualification Teruichi Okamura Individual all-around: 11th place Team all-around: gold Floor: 12th place in qualification Horse: 54th place in qualification Bars: 14th place in qualification Horizontal bar: 10th place in qualification Rings: 9th place in qualification Pommel horse: 29th place in qualification Mitsuo Tsukahara Individual all-around: 8th place Team all-around: gold Floor: 8th place in qualification Horse: 71st place in qualification Bars: 11th place in qualification Horizontal bar: gold Rings: bronze Pommel horse: 34th place in qualification

Women Kazue Hanyu Individual all-around: 43rd place in qualification Team all-around competition: 7th place Floor: 62nd place in qualification Horse: 46th place in qualification Uneven bars: 49th place in qualification Balance beam: 30th place in qualification Takako Hasegawa Individual all-around: 35th place Team all-around competition: 7th place Floor: 33rd place in qualification Horse: 37th place in qualification Uneven bars: 22nd place in qualification Balance beam: 37th place in qualification Kayoko Hashiguchi-Saka Individual all-around: 40th place in qualification Team all-around competition: 7th place Floor: 38th place in qualification Horse: 69th place in qualification Uneven bars: 36th place in qualification Balance beam: 17th place in qualification Eiko Hirashima Individual all-around: 25th place Team all-around competition: 7th place Floor: 62nd place in qualification Horse: 44th place in qualification Uneven bars: 22nd place in qualification Balance beam: 25th place in qualification Miyuki Matsuhisa-Hironaka Individual all-around: 20th place Team all-around competition: 7th place Floor: 28th place in qualification Horse: 37th place in qualification Uneven bars: 14th place in qualification Balance beam: 32nd place in qualification Toshiko Miyamoto Individual all-around: 60th place in qualification Team all-around competition: 7th place Floor: 74th place in qualification Horse: 75th place in qualification Uneven bars: 49th place in qualification Balance beam: 64th place in qualification

volleyball

Men gold Squad Yoshihide Fukao Kenji Kimura Masayuki Minami Jungo Morita Yuzo Nakamura Katsutoshi Nekoda Tetsuo Nishimoto Yasuhiro Noguchi Seiji Oko Tetsuo Sato Kenji Shimaoka Tadayoshi Yokota

Women silver Squad Makiko Furukawa Keiko Hama Takako Iida Toyoko Iwahara Katsumi Matsumura Sumie Oinuma Mariko Okamoto Seiko Shimakage Michiko Shiokawa Takako Shirai Noriko Yamashita Yaeko Yamazaki

Water polo

Men

• 15th place

• Squad

  Toru Arase

  Hiroshi Hashimoto

  Tatsuo Jihira

  Takashi Kimura

  Hirokatsu Kuwayama

  Naoto Minegishi

  Koji Nakano

  Yukiharu Oshita

  Toshio Takahashi

  Shuzo Yajima

  Yoshihiro Yasumi

Diving

Men Junji Yuasa Art jumping: 24th place in the qualification High diving: 19th place in qualification

Women Taeko Kubo Art jumping: 24th place in the qualification Keiko Osaki-Otsubo High diving: 23rd place in qualification

Web links

• Japanese Olympic team from 1972 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )