2000 Summer Olympics / Participant (Japan)

JPN

5	8th	5

Japan participated in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney with a delegation of 266 athletes (156 men and 110 women) in 156 competitions in 28 sports. The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the judoka Kōsei Inoue .

Participants by sport

badminton

Men Keita Masuda Singles: 2nd round Hidetaka Yamada Singles: 2nd round

Women Takako Ida Singles: 2nd round Yasuko Mizui Singles: quarter-finals Kanako Yonekura Singles: Round of 16 Satomi Igawa & Hiroko Nagamine Doubles: 1st round Yoshiko Iwata & Haruko Matsuda Doubles: 2nd round

baseball

Men

• 4th Place

• Squad

  Shinnosuke Abe

  Norihiro Akahoshi

  Yoshikazu Doi

  Jun Heima

  Jun Hirose

  Tomohiro Iizuka

  Masanori Ishikawa

  Yoshihiko Kajiyama

  Masato Kawano

  Tomohiro Kuroki

  Nobuhiko Matsunaka

  Daisuke Matsuzaka

  Norihiro Nakamura

  Kosuke Noda

  Osamu Nogami

  Yoshinori Okihara

  Toshiya Sugiuchi

  Masanori Sugiura

  Fumihiro Suzuki

  So Taguchi

  Yukio Tanaka

  Shunsuke Watanabe

  Akichika Yamada

  Yuji Yoshimi

Archery

Men Yuji Hamano Singles: 42nd place Team: 14th place Masafumi Makiyama Individual: 15th place Team: 14th place Takayoshi Matsushita Singles: 33rd place Team: 14th place

Women Mayumi Asano Singles: 40th place Sayoko Kawauchi Singles: 5th place

Boxing

Men

• Kazumasa Tsujimoto

  Bantamweight: 2nd round

• Hidehiko Tsukamoto

  Featherweight: 1st round

fencing

Men Masashi Nagara Saber, single: 36th place Naoto Okazaki Foil, singles: 33rd place

Women Yuko Arai Foil, singles: 26th place Miwako Shimada Foil, singles: 33rd place

Soccer

Men

• Quarter finals

• Squad
  • goal

  1 Seigō Narazaki

  18 Ryōta Tsuzuki

  22 Hitoshi Sogahata (reserve)

  • Defense

  2 Yūji Nakazawa

  3 Naoki Matsuda

  4 Ryūzō Morioka

  5 Tsuneyasu Miyamoto

  16 Kōji Nakata

  20 Satoshi Yamaguchi (reserve)

  • midfield

  6 Jun'ichi Inamoto

  7 Hidetoshi Nakata

  8 Tomokazu Myōjin

  10 Shunsuke Nakamura

  11 Atsuhiro Miura

  12 Tomoyuki Sakai

  14 Masashi Motoyama

  15 Norihiro Nishi

  21 Yasuhito Endō (reserve)

  • Storm

  9 Tomoyuki Hirase

  13 Atsushi Yanagisawa

  17 Naohiro Takahara

  19 Kōta Yoshihara (reserve)

Weightlifting

Men Hiroshi Ikehata Featherweight: 6th place Yasuji Kikuzuma Bantamweight: 15th place Yoshihisa Miyaji Lightweight: 11th place Koki Tagashira Bantamweight: 13th place Hisaya Yoshimoto Super heavyweight: DNF

Women Mari Nakaga Featherweight: 7th place Kaori Niyanagi Flyweight: 6th place Yuriko Takahashi Lightweight: DNF

Judo

Men Kōsei Inoue Light Heavyweight: Gold Kenzo Nakamura Lightweight: 9th place Yukimasa Nakamura Half-light weight: 7th place Tadahiro Nomura Ultra light weight: gold Shinichi Shinohara Heavyweight: silver Makoto Takimoto Light middleweight: gold Hidehiko Yoshida Middleweight: 9th place

Women Noriko Anno Light Heavyweight: Quarter Finals Kie Kusakabe Lightweight: bronze Keiko Maeda Light Middleweight: Quarter Finals Noriko Narazaki Half light weight: silver Ryoko Tamura Ultra light weight: gold Masae Ueno Middleweight: 9th place Mayumi Yamashita Heavyweight: bronze

canoe

Men Taro Ando Kayak single, slalom: 23rd place

Women Sayuri Maruyama Kayak single, 500 meters: preliminary round

athletics

Men Nobuharu Asahara 4 x 100 meters: 6th place Katsuhiko Hanada 5000 meters: heats 10,000 meters: 15th place Daisuke Ikeshima 20 kilometers of walking: 27th place Fumio Imamura 50 kilometers of walking: 36th place Takayuki Inubushi Marathon: DNF Koji Ito 100 meters: semi-finals 200 meters: semi-finals 4 x 100 meters: 6th place Shunji Karube 4 x 400 meters: semi-finals Shingo Kawabata 100 meters: quarter-finals 4 x 100 meters: 6th place (not used in the final) Hideaki Kawamura 400 meter hurdles: prelims Shinji Kawashima Marathon: 21st place Akihiko Koike 50 kilometers of walking: disqualified Shigeyuki Kojima 100 meters: heats 4 x 100 meters: 6th place Masaki Morinaga Long jump: 23rd place in qualification Kōji Murofushi Hammer throw: 9th place Jun Osakada 400 meters: quarter-finals 4 x 400 meters: semi-finals Nobuyuki Satō Marathon: 41st place Shingo Suetsugu 200 meters: semi-finals 4 x 100 meters: 6th place Takanori Sugibayashi Triple jump: 16th place in qualification Kenji Tabata 400 meters: heats 4 x 400 meters: semi-finals Toshinari Takaoka 5000 meters: 15th place 10,000 meters: 7th place Dai Tamesue 400 meter hurdles: prelims Satoru Tanigawa 110 meter hurdles: quarter-finals Daisuke Watanabe Long jump: no valid attempt in qualification Takahiko Yamamura 400 meters: heats 4 x 400 meters: semi-finals Kazuhiko Yamazaki 400 meter hurdles: prelims Satoshi Yanagisawa 20 kilometers of walking: 22nd place Manabu Yokoyama Pole vault: 25th place in qualification Takahisa Yoshida High jump: 27th place in qualification

Women Harumi Hiroyama 10,000 meters: 20th place Ari Ichihashi Marathon: 15th place Yoshiko Ichikawa 5000 meters: heats Miki Imai High jump: 16th place Yvonne Kanazawa 100 meter hurdles: semi-finals Yuko Kawakami 10,000 meters: 10th place Yoko Ota High jump: 11th place Michiko Shimizu 5000 meters: heats Chiemi Takahashi 10,000 meters: 15th place Naoko Takahashi Marathon: gold Megumi Tanaka 5000 meters: heats Eri Yamaguchi Marathon: 7th place

Cycling

Men Yoshiyuki Abe Road race: DNF Makoto Iijima Points race: 16th place Narihiro Inamura 1000 meter time trial: 9th place Team sprint: 5th place Yuichiro Kamiyama Keirin: disqualified in hopelessness Team sprint: 5th place Tomohiro Nagatsuka Sprint: hope run Team sprint: 5th place Shinichi Ota Sprint: hope run Keirin: semifinals Raita Suzuki Mountain bike: 34th place

Women Akemi Morimoto Points race: 16th place Hiroko Nambu Mountain bike: 26th place Miho Oki Road race: 41st place

horse riding

• Masaru Fuse

  Eventing, team: DNF

• Tadayoshi Hayashi

  Jumping, singles: DNF

  Jumping, team: 11th place

• Ryuma Hirota

  Jumping, singles: 66th place in qualification

  Jumping, team: 11th place

• Shigeyuki Hosono

  Eventing, team: DNF

• Daisuke Kato

  Eventing, individual: DNF

  Eventing, team: DNF

• Takeshi Shirai

  Jumping, singles: DNF

  Jumping, team: 11th place

• Taizo Sugitani

  Jumping, singles: 25th place

  Jumping, team: 11th place

• Takeaki Tsuchiya

  Eventing, team: DNF

Rhythmic sports gymnastics

Women

• Rieko Matsunaga

  Singles: 16th place in qualification

• Ayako Inada , Yukari Mizobe , Yukari Murata , Rie Nakashima , Masami Nakata & Madoka Okamori

  Team: 5th place

Wrestling

Men

• Takamitsu Katayama

  Middleweight, Greco-Roman: 17th place

• Tatsuo Kawai

  Light heavyweight, freestyle: 17th place

• Kazuyuki Miyata

  Lightweight, freestyle: 13th place

• Yasutoshi Motoki

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: 9th place

• Katsuhiko Nagata

  Greterweight, Greco-Roman: silver

• Makoto Sasamoto

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: 8th place

• Chikara Tanabe

  Bantamweight, freestyle: 10th place

• Takahiro Wada

  Welterweight, freestyle: 12th place

rowing

Men Hitoshi Hase & Daisaku Takeda Lightweight double scull: 6th place Keisuke Murai , Atsushi Obata , Hiroya Sato & Yasunori Tanabe Lightweight four without a helmsman: hope run

Women Akiko Iwamoto & Ayako Yoshida Lightweight double scull: 14th place

shoot

Men Naoki Kurita Small caliber, three-position fight: 40th place Small caliber, lying: 35th place Masaru Nakashige Air pistol: 25th place Free pistol: 14th place Noriyuki Nishitani Air pistol: 36th place Free pistol: 23rd place Masaru Yanagida Air rifle: 34th place

Women Michiko Hasegawa Air pistol: 5th place Sports pistol: 5th place Yoko Inada Air pistol: 8th place Sports pistol: 7th place Hiromi Misaki Air rifle: 15th place Small caliber, three-position fight: 37th place Yukie Nakayama Double trap: 13th place Taeko Takeba Trap: 16th place

swim

Men Yota Arase 1500 meters freestyle: 16th place Akira Hayashi 100 meters chest: 21st place 200 meters chest: 14th place Masato Hirano 400 meters freestyle: 11th place 1500 meters freestyle: 13th place Kosuke Kitajima 100 meters chest: 4th place 200 meters chest: 17th place Jiro Miki 200 meter medley: 16th place Susumu Tabuchi 200 meter medley: 30th place 400 meter medley: 13th place Hisayoshi Tanaka 200 meter butterfly: 12th place Shinya Taniguchi 400 meter medley: 8th place Takashi Yamamoto 100 meter butterfly: 5th place 200 meter butterfly: 9th place

Women Tomoko Hagiwara 200 meters back: 4th place 200 meter medley: 8th place Noriko Inada 100 meters back: 5th place Junko Isoda 200 meters chest: 16th place Sumika Minamoto 50 meter freestyle: 8th place 100 meter freestyle: 7th place 4 x 100 meter layers: bronze Maki Mita 100 meter butterfly: 21st place 200 meter butterfly: 8th place Mai Nakamura 100 meter back: silver 4 x 100 meter layers: bronze Yūko Nakanishi 200 meter butterfly: 7th place Miki Nakao 200 meters back: bronze Junko Onishi 100 meter butterfly: 6th place 4 x 100 meter layers: bronze Yasuko Tajima 400 meters freestyle: 23rd place 200 meter medley: 26th place 400 meter layers: silver Masami Tanaka 100 meters chest: 6th place 200 meters chest: 7th place 4 x 100 meter layers: bronze Sachiko Yamada 400 meters freestyle: 12th place 800 meters freestyle: 8th place

sailing

Men Motokazu Kenjo Windsurfing: 20th place Eiichiro Hamazaki & Yuji Miyai 470s: 18th place

Open class Kunio Suzuki Laser: 27th place Kenji Nakamura & Tomoyuki Sasaki 49er: 16th place

Women Masako Imai Windsurfing: 10th place Maiko Sato Europe: 23rd place Alicia Kinoshita & Yumiko Shige 470s: 8th place

Softball

Women

• silver

• Squad

  Haruka somersault

  Misako Ando

  Reika Utsugi

  Noriko Yamaijy

  Miyo Yamada

  Shiori Koseki

  Kazue Ito

  Emi Naito

  Hiroko Tamoto

  Mariko Masubuchi

  Yoshimi Kobayasi

  Naomi Matsumoto

  Yumiko Fujii

  Taeko Ishakawa

  Yuri Takayama

Synchronized swimming

Women

• Miya Tachibana & Miho Takeda

  Duet: silver

• Ayano Egami , Raika Fujii , Yoko Isoda , Rei Jimbo , Miya Tachibana , Miho Takeda , Juri Tatsumi , Yoko Yoneda & Yuko Yoneda

  Team: silver

Taekwondo

Men Kiyoteru Higuchi Flyweight: 10th place

Women Yoriko Okamoto Welterweight: bronze

tennis

Men Satoshi Iwabuchi & Thomas Shimada Doubles: 1st round

Women Shinobu Asagoe Singles: 1st round Nana Miyagi Doubles: Round of 16 Ai Sugiyama Singles: 1st round Doubles: Round of 16

Table tennis

Men Seiko Iseki Singles: 1st round Doubles: 1st round Kōji Matsushita Singles: 2nd round Doubles: group stage Hiroshi Shibutani Doubles: group stage Toshio Tasaki Singles: 1st round Doubles: 1st round

Women Ai Fujinuma Doubles: 1st round To Konishi Singles: 2nd round Doubles: 1st round Chire Koyama Singles: quarter-finals Kazuko Naito Doubles: group stage Rinko Sakata Singles: 1st round Doubles: group stage

Trampoline exercise

Men Daisuke Nakata Preliminary round

Women Akiko Furu 6th place

Triathlon

Men Hideo Fukui 36th place Hiroyuki Nishiuchi 46th place Takumi Obara 21st place

Women Akiko Sekine 17th place Haruna Hosoya DNF Kiyomi Niwata 14th place

do gymnastics

Men Kenichi Fujita Individual all-around: 25th place Team all-around competition: 4th place Floor: 24th place in qualification Horse: 14th place in qualification Bars: 68th place in qualification Horizontal bar: 36th place in qualification Rings: 36th place in qualification Pommel horse: 33rd place in qualification Mutsumi Harada Individual all-around: 58th place in qualification Team all-around competition: 4th place Floor: 41st place in qualification Bars: 48th place in qualification Horizontal bar: 33rd place in qualification Rings: 36th place in qualification Pommel horse: 50th place in qualification Norimasa Iwai Individual all-around: 86th place in qualification Team all-around competition: 4th place Horse: 35th place in qualification Bars: 23rd place in qualification Rings: 7th place Akihiro Kasamatsu Individual all-around: 66th place in qualification Team all-around competition: 4th place Floor: 26th place in qualification Horse: 14th place in qualification Bars: 28th place in qualification Pommel horse: 23rd place in qualification Yoshihiro Saito Individual all-around: 12th place Team all-around competition: 4th place Floor: 44th place in qualification Horse: 27th place in qualification Bars: 63rd place in qualification Horizontal bar: 13th place in qualification Rings: 18th place in qualification Pommel horse: 40th place in qualification Naoya Tsukahara Individual all-around: 18th place Team all-around competition: 4th place Floor: 42nd place in qualification Horse: 21st place in the qualification Bars: 54th place in qualification Horizontal bar: 8th place Rings: 11th place in qualification Pommel horse: 28th place in qualification

Women Miho Takenaka Individual all-around: 54th place in qualification Floor: 69th place in qualification Horse: 53rd place in qualification Uneven bars: 76th place in qualification Balance beam: 46th place in qualification Kana Yamawaki Individual all-around: 27th place Floor: 36th place in qualification Horse: 26th place in qualification Uneven bars: 41st place in qualification Balance beam: 63rd place in qualification

Volleyball (beach)

Women The two Japanese teams met in the first round.

• Yukiko Ishizaka & Chie Seike

  Losers round

• Mika Saiki & Yukiko Takahashi

  4th Place

Diving

Men

• Ken Terauchi

  Jumping. 8th place

  Diving: 5th place

Web links

• Japanese Olympic Team from 2000 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )