1976 Summer Olympics / Participant (Japan)

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Japan took part in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal with a delegation of 213 athletes (153 men and 60 women) in 119 competitions in 20 sports.

The Japanese athletes won nine gold, six silver and ten bronze medals, placing Japan in fifth place in the medal table. The most successful participants were the two gymnasts Sawao Katō and Mitsuo Tsukahara , who were each two-time Olympic champions and also won other silver and bronze medals. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was volleyball player Katsutoshi Nekoda .

Participants by sport

basketball

Men

• 11th place

  Shigeaki Abe

  Nobuo Chigusa

  Yutaka Fujimoto

  Hideki Hamaguchi

  Norihiko Kitahara

  Kiyohide Kuwata

  Satoshi Mori

  Hirofumi Numata

  Fumio Saitō

  Shigeto Shimizu

  Kōji Yamamoto

  Shōji Yūki

Women

• 5th place

  Kazuko Kadoya

  Kazuyo Hayashida

  Keiko Namai

  Kimi Wakitashiro

  Kimiko Hashimoto

  Mieko Fukui

  Miho Matsuoka

  Misako Satake

  Miyako Ōtsuka

  Reiko Aonuma

  Sachiyo Yamamoto

  Teruko Miyamoto

Archery

Men

• Hiroshi Michinaga

  Single: silver

• Takanobu Nishi

  Singles: 8th place

Women

• Minako Satō

  Individual: 14th place

• Kyōko Yamazaki

  Singles: 26th place

Boxing

• Noboru Uchiyama

  Light flyweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Toshinori Koga

  Flyweight: eliminated in the round of 16

• Hitoshi Ishigaki

  Bantamweight: eliminated in the round of 16

• Yukio Odagiri

  Featherweight: eliminated in the second round

• Yukio Segawa

  Lightweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Yoshifumi Seki

  Welterweight: eliminated in the second round

fencing

Men

• Masanori Kawatsu

  Foil: 29th place

  Foil team: 9th place

• Noriyuki Satō

  Foil: 30th place

  Foil team: 9th place

• Toshio Jingu

  Foil: 36th place

  Foil team: 9th place

• Hideaki Kamei

  Foil team: 9th place

Women

• Hideko Oka

  Foil: 33rd place

  Foil team: 9th place

• Yukari Kajihara

  Foil: 40th place

  Foil team: 9th place

• Mariko Yoshikawa

  Foil: 46th place

  Foil team: 9th place

• Hiroko Kamada

  Foil team: 9th place

Weightlifting

• Masatomo Takeuchi

  Flyweight: 4th place

• Takeshi Horikoshi

  Flyweight: competition not finished

• Kenkichi Andō

  Bantamweight: bronze

• Jiro Hosotani

  Bantamweight: competition not ended

• Kazumasa Hirai

  Featherweight: bronze

• Takashi Saitō

  Featherweight: 4th place

• Yatsuo Shimaya

  Lightweight: 5th place

• Yūsaku Ono

  Lightweight: competition not over

• Sueo Fujishiro

  Light Heavyweight: 7th place

Handball

Men

• 9th place

  Hiroshi Hanawa

  Hiroshi Honda

  Ken'ichi Sasaki

  Kenji Fujinaka

  Kōzō Matsubara

  Masaki Shibata

  Minoru cinema

  Satoshi Kikuchi

  Seimei Gamō

  Takezō Nakai

  Toyohiko Hozumi

  Yōji Satō

Women

• 5th place

  Eiko Kawada

  Emiko Yamashita

  Hiroko Kosahara

  Hitomi Matsushita

  Kuriko Komori

  Mihoko Hozumi

  Mikiko Kato

  Nanami cinema

  Natsue Shimada

  Shōko Wada

  Terumi Kurata

  Tokuko Kubo

Judo

• Yoshiha Minami

  Lightweight: 12th place

• Kōji Kuramoto

  Light middleweight: silver

• Isamu Sonoda

  Middleweight: gold

• Kazuhiro Ninomiya

  Light Heavyweight: Gold

• Sumio Endo

  Heavyweight: bronze

• Haruki Uemura

  Open class: gold

canoe

Men

• Atsunobu Ogata

  Single Canoe 500 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  Two-man Canadians 500 m: eliminated in the quarter-finals

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

• Mitsuo Nakanishi

  Single Canadier 1000 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Mitsuhide Hata

  Two-man Canadians 500 m: eliminated in the quarter-finals

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

athletics

Men

• Masahide Jinno

  100 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Toshiaki Kamata

  5000 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  10,000 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Shigeru So

  Marathon: 20th place

• Noriyasu Mizukami

  Marathon: 21st place

• Akio Usami

  Marathon: 32nd place

• Takaharu Koyama

  3000 m obstacle: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Yoshio Morikawa

  20 km walking: 34th place

• Katsumi Fukura

  High jump: 17th place

• Kazunori Koshikawa

  High jump: 19th place

• Itsuo Takanezawa

  Pole vault: 8th place

• Yoshiomi Iwama

  Pole vault: without a valid attempt

• Toshiaki Inoue

  Triple jump: 16th place

• Shigenobu Murofushi

  Hammer throw: 11th place

Women

• Mikiko Sone

  High jump: 27th place

• Sumie Awara

  Long jump: 21st place

Modern pentathlon

• Shōji Uchida

  Singles: 31st place

  Team: 12th place

• Akira Kubo

  Singles: 37th place

  Team: 12th place

• Hiroyuki Kawazoe

  Singles: 40th place

  Team: 12th place

Cycling

• Yoshikazu Chō

  Track Sprint: 6th place

  Track 1000 m time trial: 17th place

• Yōichi Machishima

  Track 4000 m single pursuit: 15th place

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 14th place

• Tadashi Ogasawara

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 14th place

• Yoshiaki Ogasawara

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 14th place

• Tsutomu Okabori

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 14th place

horse riding

• Hirokazu Higashira

  Show jumping: 30th place

  Show jumping team: 13th place

• Tsunekazu Takeda

  Show jumping: 39th place

  Show jumping team: 13th place

• Ryuichi Obata

  Show jumping: 42nd place

  Show jumping team: 13th place

• Masayasu Sugitani

  Show jumping team: 13th place

• Gen Ueda

  Versatility: Eliminated

  Versatility team: eliminated

• Kenkichi Ishiguro

  Versatility: Eliminated

  Versatility team: eliminated

• Kenji Etō

  Versatility: Eliminated

  Versatility team: eliminated

Wrestling

• Yoshite Moriwaki

  Paper weight, Greco-Roman: 4th place

• Kōichirō Hirayama

  Flyweight, Greco-Roman: bronze

• Yoshima Suga

  Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: 4th place

• Teruhiko Miyahara

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: 4th place

• Takeshi Kobayashi

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 3rd round

• Yasuo Nagatomo

  Welterweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 3rd round

• Kazuhiro Takanishi

  Middleweight, Greco-Roman: 6th place

• Sadao Sato

  Light Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 7th place

• Yasunari Akiyama

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

• Seiji Matsunaga

  Super heavyweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Akira Kudo

  Paper weight, freestyle: bronze

• Yūji Takada

  Flyweight, freestyle: gold

• Masao Arai

  Bantamweight, freestyle: bronze

• Kenkichi Maekawa

  Featherweight, freestyle: 7th place

• Yasaburo Sugawara

  Lightweight, freestyle: bronze

• Jiichirō date

  Welterweight, freestyle: gold

• Masaru Motegi

  Middleweight, freestyle: 8th place

• Yoshiaki Yatsu

  Light heavyweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 4th round

• Kazuo Shimizu

  Heavyweight, freestyle: 6th place

• Yorihide Isogai

  Super heavyweight, freestyle: 6th place

rowing

Men

• Shigeru Miyagawa

  Eighth with helmsman: 11th place

• Toshihai Kitaura

  Eighth with helmsman: 11th place

• Masanobu Yamamoto

  Eighth with helmsman: 11th place

• Takashi Murayama

  Eighth with helmsman: 11th place

• Hiroshi Toriba

  Eighth with helmsman: 11th place

• Kenji Kaneyasu

  Eighth with helmsman: 11th place

• Tomiaki Iso

  Eighth with helmsman: 11th place

• Shirō Mataki

  Eighth with helmsman: 11th place

• Akio Kakishita

  Eighth with helmsman: 11th place

shoot

• Takeo Kamachi

  Rapid fire pistol 25 m: 12th place

• Kanji Kubo

  Rapid fire pistol 25 m: 20th place

• Shigetoshi Tashiro

  Free pistol 50 m: 21st place

• Masanobu Ōhata

  Free pistol 50 m: 28th place

• Kaoru Matsuo

  Small bore rifle, three-position fight 50 m: 41st place

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 68th place

• Michiha Ozaki

  Small-bore rifle, three-position fight 50 m: 44th place

• Saijo Hosokawa

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 31st place

• Jitsuka Matsuoka

  Trap: 16th place

• Toshiyasu Ishige

  Trap: 18th place

• Kazuyo Kato

  Skeet: 35th place

• Tarō Asō

  Skeet: 41st place

swim

Men

• Kōzō Higuchi

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Tsuyoshi Yanagidate

  200 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  400 m individual medley: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: 8th place

• Tadashi Honda

  100 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: 8th place

• Nobutaka Taguchi

  100 m chest: eliminated in the semifinals

  200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: 8th place

• Tateki Shin'ya

  100 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Hideaki Hara

  100 m butterfly: 7th place

  200 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: 8th place

• Shinsuke Kayama

  100 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

Women

• Sachiko Yamazaki

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: 7th place

• Yoshimi Nishigawa

  100 m back: eliminated in the semi-finals

  200 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: 7th place

• Naoko Miura

  100 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Toshiko Haruoka

  100 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: 7th place

• Kazuyo Inaba

  100 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Chiharu Mori

  200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Yasue Hatsuda

  100 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: 7th place

• Kuniko Banno

  100 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

sailing

• Takaharu Hirozawa

  Finn Dinghy: 21st place

• Kazunori Komatsu

  470s: 10th place

• Mitsushi Kuroda

  470s: 10th place

• Kazuo Hanaoka

  Flying Dutchman: 18th place

• Takumi Horiuchi

  Flying Dutchman: 18th place

do gymnastics

Men

• Sawao Kato

  Individual all-around: silver

  Floor: 5th place

  Horse jump: 7th place

  Ingot: gold

  Horizontal bar: 4th place in qualification

  Rings: 6th place

  Pommel horse: 5th place

  Team all-around: gold

• Mitsuo Tsukahara

  Individual all-around: bronze

  Floor: 8th place

  Horse jump: silver

  Ingot: bronze

  Horizontal bar: gold

  Rings: 9th place

  Pommel horse: 8th place

  Team all-around: gold

• Hiroshi Kajiyama

  Individual all-around: 5th place

  Floor: 12th place

  Horse jump: bronze

  Bars: 3rd place in qualification

  Horizontal bar: 9th place

  Rings: 12th place

  Pommel horse: 7th place

  Team all-around: gold

• Eizō Kenmotsu

  Individual all-around: 6th place in qualification

  Floor: 6th place

  Horse jump: 15th place

  Bars: 17th place

  Horizontal bar: silver

  Rings: 5th place

  Pommel horse: silver

  Team all-around: gold

• Hisato Igarashi

  Individual all-around: 15th place

  Floor: 29th place

  Horse jump: 19th place

  Bars: 9th place

  Horizontal bar: 3rd place in qualification

  Rings: 29th place

  Pommel horse: 11th place

  Team all-around: gold

• Shun Fujimoto

  Individual all-around: 89th place

  Floor: 14th place

  Horse jump: 90th place

  Bars: 90th place

  Horizontal bar: 88th place

  Rings: 15th place

  Pommel horse: 29th place

  Team all-around: gold

Women

• Miyuki Matsuhisa-Hironaka

  Individual all-around: 20th place

  Floor: 37th place

  Horse jump: 25th place

  Uneven bars: 41st place

  Balance beam: 25th place

  Team all-around competition: 8th place

• Satoko Okazaki

  Individual all-around: 30th place

  Floor: 31st place

  Horse jump: 22nd place

  Uneven bars: 33rd place

  Balance beam: 30th place

  Team all-around competition: 8th place

• Nobue Yamazaki

  Individual all-around: 54th place

  Floor: 34th place

  Horse jump: 58th place

  Uneven bars: 45th place

  Balance beam: 34th place

  Team all-around competition: 8th place

• Chieko Kikkawa

  Individual all-around: 53rd place

  Floor: 44th place

  Horse jump: 28th place

  Uneven bars: 58th place

  Balance beam: 68th place

  Team all-around competition: 8th place

• Sakiko Nozawa

  Individual all-around: 57th place

  Floor: 19th place

  Horse jump: 66th place

  Uneven bars: 63rd place

  Balance beam: 62nd place

  Team all-around competition: 8th place

• Kyōko Mano

  Individual all-around: 65th place

  Floor: 62nd place

  Horse jump: 53rd place

  Uneven bars: 73rd place

  Balance beam: 58th place

  Team all-around competition: 8th place

volleyball

Men

• 4th Place

  Katsumi Oda

  Katsutoshi Nekoda

  Kenji Shimaoka

  Mikiyasu Tanaka

  Seiji Ōko

  Shōichi Yanagimoto

  Tadayoshi Yokota

  Takashi Maruyama

  Tetsuo Nishimoto

  Tetsuo Sato

  Yasunori Yasuda

  Yoshihide Fukao

Women

• gold

  Takako Iida

  Mariko Okamoto

  Echiko Maeda

  Noriko Matsuda

  Takako Shirai

  Kiyomi Kato

  Yūko Arakida

  Katsuko Kanesaka

  Mariko Yoshida

  Shoko Takayanagi

  Hiromi Yano

  Yuri Yokoyama

Diving

Men

• Yoshino Nishide

  10 m high diving: 16th place

Women

• Rikiko Yamanaka

  3 m jumping: 18th place

  10 m high diving: 10th place

• Fusako Kakumaru

  3 m jumping: 24th place

  10 m high diving: 15th place

Web links

• Japanese Olympic team from 1976 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Only the two best gymnasts of a nation qualified for the finals in the individual disciplines.
2. ↑ Only the three best gymnasts in a nation qualified for the final of the individual all-around event.