2000 Summer Olympics / Participant (Japan)
JPN
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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
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Women
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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
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Women
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Boxing
Men
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Kazumasa Tsujimoto
- Bantamweight: 2nd round
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Hidehiko Tsukamoto
- Featherweight: 1st round
fencing
Men
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Women
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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
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Women
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Judo
Men
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Women
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canoe
Men
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Women
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athletics
Men
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Women
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Cycling
Men
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Women
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horse riding
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Masaru Fuse
- Eventing, team: DNF
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Tadayoshi Hayashi
- Jumping, singles: DNF
- Jumping, team: 11th place
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Ryuma Hirota
- Jumping, singles: 66th place in qualification
- Jumping, team: 11th place
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Shigeyuki Hosono
- Eventing, team: DNF
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Daisuke Kato
- Eventing, individual: DNF
- Eventing, team: DNF
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Takeshi Shirai
- Jumping, singles: DNF
- Jumping, team: 11th place
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Taizo Sugitani
- Jumping, singles: 25th place
- Jumping, team: 11th place
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Takeaki Tsuchiya
- Eventing, team: DNF
Rhythmic sports gymnastics
Women
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Rieko Matsunaga
- Singles: 16th place in qualification
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Ayako Inada , Yukari Mizobe , Yukari Murata , Rie Nakashima , Masami Nakata & Madoka Okamori
- Team: 5th place
Wrestling
Men
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Takamitsu Katayama
- Middleweight, Greco-Roman: 17th place
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Tatsuo Kawai
- Light heavyweight, freestyle: 17th place
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Kazuyuki Miyata
- Lightweight, freestyle: 13th place
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Yasutoshi Motoki
- Lightweight, Greco-Roman: 9th place
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Katsuhiko Nagata
- Greterweight, Greco-Roman: silver
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Makoto Sasamoto
- Featherweight, Greco-Roman: 8th place
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Chikara Tanabe
- Bantamweight, freestyle: 10th place
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Takahiro Wada
- Welterweight, freestyle: 12th place
rowing
Men
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Women
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shoot
Men
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Women
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swim
Men
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Women
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sailing
Men
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Open class
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Women
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Softball
Women
- silver
- Squad
Synchronized swimming
Women
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Miya Tachibana & Miho Takeda
- Duet: silver
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Ayano Egami , Raika Fujii , Yoko Isoda , Rei Jimbo , Miya Tachibana , Miho Takeda , Juri Tatsumi , Yoko Yoneda & Yuko Yoneda
- Team: silver
Taekwondo
Men
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Women
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tennis
Men
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Women
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Table tennis
Men
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Women
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Trampoline exercise
Men
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Women
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Triathlon
Men
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Women
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do gymnastics
Men
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Women
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Volleyball (beach)
Women The two Japanese teams met in the first round.
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Yukiko Ishizaka & Chie Seike
- Losers round
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Mika Saiki & Yukiko Takahashi
- 4th Place
Diving
Men
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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 )