2004 Summer Olympics / Participant (Japan)

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Gold medals Silver medals Bronze medals
16 9 12

Japan took part in the 2004 Summer Olympics in the Greek capital, Athens, with 306 athletes, 139 women and 167 men.

Since 1912 , it was Japan's 19th participation in the Summer Olympics . To date (status: after the 2016 Summer Olympics ), Japan's participation in 2004 is the one with the most female athletes (167).

Flag bearer

The wrestler Kyōko Hamaguchi carried the flag of Japan during the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium .

See also → List of flag bearers of the Japanese teams at the Olympic Games

Medals

16 won gold, nine silver and bronze medals twelve the Japanese team finished fifth in the medal count .

Medals by sports

sport Gold medal.svg Silver medal.svg Bronze medal.svg total
baseball 0- 0- 01 01
Archery 0- 01 0- 01
Judo 08th 02 0- 10
athletics 02 0- 0- 02
Cycling 0- 01 0- 01
Wrestling 02 01 03 06th
swim 03 01 04th 08th
sailing 0- 0- 01 01
Softball 0- 0- 01 01
Synchronized swimming 0- 02 0- 02
do gymnastics 01 01 02 04th
total 16 09 12 37

Medalist

The most successful participants were the swimmers Kōsuke Kitajima (2 × gold and 1 × bronze) and the gymnast Hiroyuki Tomita (1 × gold and 1 × silver).

Gold medal.svg gold

Name / s sport competition
Tadahiro Nomura Judo Men up to 60 kg
Masato Uchishiba Judo Men up to 66 kg
Keiji Suzuki Judo Men over 100 kg
Ryoko Tani Judo Women up to 48 kg
Ayumi Tanimoto Judo Women up to 63 kg
Masae Ueno Judo Women up to 70 kg
Noriko Anno Judo Women up to 78 kg
Maki Tsukada Judo Women over 78 kg
Kōji Murofushi athletics Men's hammer throw
Mizuki Noguchi athletics Women's marathon
Saori Yoshida Wrestling Women freestyle up to 55 kg
Kaori Icho Wrestling Women freestyle up to 72 kg
Kosuke Kitajima swim Men 100 m chest
Kosuke Kitajima swim Men 200 m chest
Ai Shibata swim Men's 800 m freestyle
Takehiro Kashima , Hisashi Mizutori , Daisuke Nakano , Hiroyuki Tomita , Naoya Tsukahara , Isao Yoneda do gymnastics Men team all-around

Silver medal.svg Siber

Name / s sport competition
Hiroshi Izumi Judo Men up to 90 kg
Yuki Yokosawa Judo Women up to 52 kg
Hiroshi Yamamoto Archery Men singles
Chiharu Icho Wrestling Women freestyle up to 48 kg
Takashi Yamamoto swim Men 200m butterfly
Miya Tachibana and Miho Takeda Softball Women synchronized swimming (duet)
Michiyo Fujimaru , Saho Harada , Kanako Kitao , Emiko Suzuki , Miya Tachibana , Miho Takeda , Juri Tatsumi and Yōko Yoneda Softball Women synchronized swimming (team)
Hiroyuki Tomita do gymnastics Women parallel bars

Bronze medal.svg bronze

Name / s sport competition
Ryoji Aikawa , Yuya Ando , Atsushi Fujimoto , Kosuke Fukudome , Hirotoshi Ishii , Hisashi Iwakuma , Hitoki Iwase , Kenji Jojima , Makoto Kaneko , Takuya Kimura , Masahide Kobayashi , Hiroki Kuroda , Daisuke Matsuzaka , Daisuke Miura , Shin'ya Miyamoto , Arihito Muramatsu , Norihiro Nakamuru , Michihiro Ogasawara , Naoyuki Shimizu , Yoshinobu Takahashi , Yoshitomo Tani , Kōji Uehara , Kazuhiro Wada and Tsuyoshi Wada baseball baseball
Toshiaki Fushimi , Masaki Inoue and Tomohiro Nagatsuka Cycling Olympic sprint
Chikara Tanabe Wrestling Men freestyle up to 55 kg
Kenji Inoue Wrestling Men freestyle up to 60 kg
Kyōko Hamaguchi Wrestling Women freestyle up to 72 kg
Tomomi Morita swim Men 100 m back
Tomomi Morita , Kōsuke Kitajima , Takashi Yamamoto and Yoshihiro Okumura swim Men 4 × 100 m medley
Reiko Nakamura swim Women 200 m back
Yūko Nakanishi swim Women 200 m butterfly
Kazuto Seki and Kenjirō Todoroki sailing Men 470s
Emi Inui , Kazue Ito , Masumi Ishina , Emi Naito , Haruka Saito , Hiroko Sakai , Naoko Sakamoto , Rie Sato , Yuki Sato , Juri Takayama , Yukiko Ueno , Reika Utsugi , Eri Yamada and Noriko Yamaji Softball Softball
Takehiro Kashima do gymnastics Men pommel horse
Isao Yoneda do gymnastics Men horizontal bar

Participants by sport

Badminton pictogram.svg badminton

Name / s competition Results
Hidetaka Yamada Mars symbol (male) singles 1st round: 8: 15/10: 15 defeat against Taufik Hidayat from Indonesia
Shōji Satō Mars symbol (male) singles 1st round: 6: 15/5: 15 defeat against Bao Chunlai from the People's Republic of China
Keita Masuda / Tadashi Ōtsuka Mars symbol (male) Double 1st round: 7:15 / 17:16 / 9:15 defeat against Cai Yun / Fu Haifeng from the People's Republic of China
Kaori Mori Venus symbol (female) singles 1st round: 11: 5/11: 4 victory against Anu Weckström from Finland
2nd round: 2: 11/4: 11 defeat against Zhou Mi from People's Republic of China
Miho Tanaka Venus symbol (female) singles 1st round: 11: 7/5: 11/11: 8 defeat against Salakjit Ponsana from Thailand
Kanako Yonekura Venus symbol (female) singles 1st round: 4: 11/7: 11 defeat against Camilla Martin from Denmark
Chikako Nakayama / Keiko Yoshitomi Venus symbol (female) Double 1st round: BYE
round of 16: 4:15 / 11:15 defeat against Saralee Thungthongkam / Sathinee Chankrachangwong from Thailand
Shizuka Yamamoto / Seiko Yamada Venus symbol (female) Double 1st round: 7:15/9:15 defeat to Chin Eei Hui / Wong Pei Tty from Malaysia

Baseball pictogram.svg baseball

Legend: VR = preliminary round game, HF = semi-finals

Names competition Results
Japanese baseball team : Ryoji Aikawa , Yuya Ando , Atsushi Fujimoto , Kosuke Fukudome , Hirotoshi Ishii , Hisashi Iwakuma , Hitoki Iwase , Kenji Jojima , Makoto Kaneko , Takuya Kimura , Masahide Kobayashi , Hiroki Kuroda , Daisuke Matsuzaka , Daisuke Miura , Shin'ya Miyamoto , Arihito Muramatsu , Norihiro Nakamuru , Michihiro Ogasawara , Naoyuki Shimizu , Yoshinobu Takahashi , Yoshitomo Tani , Kōji Uehara , Kazuhiro Wada and Tsuyoshi Wada Mars symbol (male) Men's tournament VR1: 12-0 win against Italy
VR2: 3-8 win against the Netherlands
VR3: 6-3 win against Cuba
VR4: 9-4 defeat against Australia
VR5: 1-9 win against Canada
VR6: 3: 4-win against Chinese Taipei
VR7: 6-1 win against Greece
HF: 1-0 defeat against Australia
Game for third place: 11-2 win against Canada , 3rd placeBronze medal.svg

Basketball pictogram.svg basketball

Legend: VRA = preliminary round game in group A, S9 = game for ninth place

Names competition Results
Japan women's national basketball team Venus symbol (female) Women tournament VRA: 62: 128-defeat against Brazil
VRA: 73: 79-win against Nigeria
VRA: 78: 97-defeat against Australia
VRA: 94: 71-defeat against Russia
VRA: 93: 91-defeat against Greece
VRA: 62: 128 -Loss against Brazil
S9: 63: 82-defeat against the People's Republic of China , 10th place

Archery pictogram.svg Archery

Names competition Results
Takaharu Furukawa Mars symbol (male) Men singles 1st round: 146: 143 victory against Yong Fujun from the People's Republic of China
2nd round: 166: 163 defeat against Jang Yong-ho from the Republic of Korea
Yuji Hamano Mars symbol (male) Men singles 1st round: 155: 150 defeat against Satyadev Prasad from India
Hiroshi Yamamoto Mars symbol (male) Men singles 1st round: 155: 147 win against Franck Fisseux from France
2nd round: 162: 154 win against Michele Frangilli from Italy
Round of 16: 168: 160 win against Oleksandr Serdjuk from Ukraine
Quarter-finals: 111: 110 win against Im Dong-hyun from the Republic of Korea
Semifinals: 115 10 : 115 9 - Victory against Tim Cuddihy from Australia
Final: 111: 109 defeat against Marco Galiazzo from Italy ,
2nd placeSilver medal.svg
Japanese National Archery Team ( Hiroshi Yamamoto , Yuji Hamano , Takaharu Furukawa ) Mars symbol (male) Men team 1st round: 254: 241 win against France,
quarterfinals: 242: 236 loss against Ukraine , 8th place
Yukari Kawasaki Venus symbol (female) Women singles 1st round: 119: 106 defeat against Iwona Marcinkiewicz from Poland
Sayoko Kawauchi Venus symbol (female) Women singles 1st round: 137: 129 win against Natalija Burdejna from the Ukraine
2nd round: 154: 150 loss against Alison Williamson from the United Kingdom
Sayami Matsushita Venus symbol (female) Women singles 1st round: 165: 157 win against Alexandra Fouace from France
2nd round: 173: 149 loss against Yun Mi-jin from the Republic of Korea
Japan Women's National Archery Team ( Yukari Kawasaki , Sayoko Kawauchi , Sayami Matsushita ) Venus symbol (female) Women team 1st round: 240: 226 defeat against Chinese Taipei

Boxing pictogram.svg Boxing

Names competition Results
Toshiyuki Igarashi Mars symbol (male) Male half-fly weight (up to 48 kg) 1st round: 21:26 defeat against Endalkachew Kebede from Ethiopia

Fencing pictogram.svg fencing

Names competition Results
Masashi Nagara Mars symbol (male) Men saber singles Qualification: 15: 8 victory against Marios Basmatzian from Greece
1st round: 15: 9 defeat against Stanislaw Alexejewitsch Posdnjakow from Russia
Yūki Ōta Mars symbol (male) Men's foil singles 1st round: 15: 9 win against Edgar Chumacero from Mexico.
Round of 16: 15: 8 loss against Renal Ramilevich Ganeyev from Russia
Megumi Ikeda Venus symbol (female) Women's epee singles Qualification: 15: 6 win against Kelly-Anne Wilson from South Africa
1st round: 15:14 loss against Cristiana Cascioli from Italy
Chieko Sugawara Venus symbol (female) Women's foil singles 1st round: 15: 6 win against Alejandra Carbone from Argentina.
Round of 16: 15: 2 defeat against Giovanna Trillini from Italy
Madoka Hisagae Venus symbol (female) Women saber singles 1st round: 15-6 win against Orsolya Nagy from Hungary.
Round of 16: 15-13 defeat against
Mariel Zagunis from the United States

Football pictogram.svg Soccer

Legend: VR = preliminary round match, VF = quarter-finals

Names competition Results
Japanese national soccer team : Hitoshi Sogahata , Marcus Tulio Tanaka , Teruyuki Moniwa , Daisuke Nasu , Yuki Abe , Yasuyuki Konno , Kōji Morisaki , Shinji Ono , Daiki Takamatsu , Daisuke Matsui , Tatsuya Tanaka , Naoya Kikuchi , Yuichi Komano , Naohiro Ishikawa , Yūhei Tokunaga , Yoshito Ōkubo , Sōta Hirayama , Takaya Kurokawa Mars symbol (male) Men VR: 4: 3 (3: 1) defeat against Paraguay
VR: 2: 3 (1: 3) defeat against Italy
VR: 1: 0 (1: 0) victory against Ghana , 13th place
Japanese women's national soccer team : Nozomi Yamagō , Kyōko Yano , Hiromi Ikeda , Yumi Ōbe , Naoko Kawakami , Tomoe Katō , Emi Yamamoto , Tomomi Miyamoto , Eriko Arakawa , Homare Sawa , Mio Ōtani , Yasuyo Yamagishi , Aya Shimokozuru , Karina Maruyama , Miyuki Yanagita , Karina Maruyama Yayoi Kobayashi , Kozue Andō , Shiho Onodera Venus symbol (female) Women VR: 0: 1 (0: 1) - win against Sweden
VR: 0: 1 (0: 0) - defeat against Nigeria
VF: 2: 1 (1: 0) - loss against the United States , 7th place

Weightlifting Weightlifting

Men

Women

hockey hockey

Legend: VR = preliminary round game

Names competition Results
Japan Women's National Hockey Team : Kaori Chiba-Fujio , Rika Ishida , Sachimi Iwao , Akemi Kato , Chie Kimura , Akiko Kitada , Rika Komazawa , Tomomi Komori , Keiko Miura , Nami Miyazaki , Sakae Morimoto , Miyuki Nakagawa , Naoko Saito , Emi Sakurai , Rie Terazono , Yukari Yamamoto Venus symbol (female) Women VR: 0: 3 (0: 1) defeat against China
VR: 1: 3 (1: 1) loss against Argentina
VR: 2: 0 (1: 0) - win against New Zealand
VR: 2: 1 (2: 0) -Win against Spain
Placement game: 1: 3 (1: 3) -Loss against Australia
7th place game: 1: 3 (1: 3) -Defeat against South Korea , 8th place

Judo Judo

Men

Women

canoe canoe

Women

athletics athletics

Men

Women

Road cycling Cycling

Men

Women

horse riding horse riding

  • Tadayoshi Hayashi
    Jumping Individual: DNF (Qualification)
    Jumping team: 12th place
  • Ryuichi Obata
    Jumping Individual: DNF (Qualification)
    Jumping team: 12th place
  • Taizo Sugitani
    Jumping singles: 15th place
    Jumping team: 12th place
  • Yuka Watanabe
    Jumping Individual: DNF (Final)
    Jumping team: 12th place

Rhythmic sports gymnastics Rhythmic sports gymnastics

Women

Wrestling Wrestling

Men

Women

rowing rowing

Men

Women

shoot shoot

Men

  • Masaru Nakashige
    Air pistol: 23rd place
    Free pistol: 38th place
  • Shuji Tazawa
    Air pistol: 30th place
    Rapid fire pistol: 15th place
  • Masaru Yanagida
    Air rifle: 9th place
    Small caliber three-position battle: 16th place
    Small caliber lying: 24th place

Women

swim swim

Men

  • Yoshihiro Okumura
    100 m freestyle: 27th place
    200 m freestyle: 10th place
    4 x 100 m layers: bronze
  • Takeshi Matsuda
    400 m freestyle: 8th place
    1500 m freestyle: 13th place
    200 m butterfly: 14th place
  • Tomomi Morita
    100 m back: bronze
    200 m back: 5th place
    4 x 100 m layers: bronze
  • Kosuke Kitajima
    100 m chest: gold
    200 m chest: gold
    4 x 100 m layers: bronze
  • Genki Imamura
    200 m chest: 11th place
  • Takashi Yamamoto
    100 m butterfly: 9th place
    200 m butterfly: silver
    4 x 100 m layers: bronze
  • Takahiro Mori
    200 m medley: 6th place
  • Jiro Miki
    200 m individual medley: 8th place
    400 m individual medley: 7th place
  • Susumu Tabuchi
    400 m individual medley: 18th place

Women

  • Tomoko Nagai
    100 m freestyle: 16th place
    200 m freestyle: 13th place
    4 x 100 m layers: 5th place
  • Ai Shibata
    400 m freestyle: 5th place
    800 m freestyle: gold
  • Sachiko Yamada
    400 m freestyle: 6th place
    800 m freestyle: 12th place
  • Reiko Nakamura
    100 m back: 4th place
    200 m back: bronze
    4 x 100 m layers: 5th place
  • Noriko Inada
    100 m back: 11th place
    4 x 100 m layers: 5th place
  • Aya Terakawa
    200 m back: 8th place
  • Masami Tanaka
    100 m chest: 9th place
    200 m chest: 4th place
    4 x 100 m layers: 5th place
  • Junko Ōnishi
    100 m butterfly: 8th place
    4 x 100 m layers: 5th place
  • Yūko Nakanishi
    100 m butterfly: 14th place
    200 m butterfly: bronze
  • Yukiko Osada
    200 m butterfly: 13th place
  • Misa Amano
    200 m individual medley: 17th place
    400 m individual medley: 10th place

sailing sailing

Men

Open class

Women

Softball Softball

Legend: VR = preliminary round game, HF = semi-finals

Names competition Results
Japanese national softball team : Kazue Ito , Yumi Iwabuchi , Masumi Mishina , Emi Naito , Haruka Saito , Hiroko Sakai , Naoko Sakamoto , Rie Sato , Yuki Sato , Juri Takayama , Yukiko Ueno , Reika Utsugi , Eri Yamada and Noriko Yamaji Venus symbol (female) Ladies tournament VR1: 2-4 defeat against Australia
VR2: 6-0 win against Chinese Taipei
VR3: 0-3 loss against the United States
VR4: 0-1 loss against Canada
VR5: 6-0 win against Greece
VR6: 1-0 win against Italy
VR7: 2-0 win against China
HF: 1-0 win against China
Game for third place: 0-3 defeat against Australia , 3rd placeBronze medal.svg

Synchronized swimming Synchronized swimming

Taekwondo Taekwondo

Women

tennis tennis

Women

singles

Double

Table tennis Table tennis

Men

singles
Double

Women

singles
Double

Trampoline exercise Trampoline exercise

Women

Triathlon Triathlon

Men

Women

do gymnastics do gymnastics

Men

  • Hiroyuki Tomita
    Individual all-around: 6th place
    Team all-around: gold
    Floor: 62nd place in qualification
    Horse: 7th place in the qualification
    Ingot: silver
    Horizontal bar: 13th place in qualification
    Rings: 4th place
    Pommel horse: 8th place
  • Isao Yoneda
    Individual all-around: 11th place
    Team all-around: gold
    Floor: 7th place
    Horse: 10th place in the qualification
    Bars: 15th place in qualification
    Horizontal bar: bronze
    Rings: 27th place in qualification
    Pommel horse: 76th place in qualification
  • Naoya Tsukahara
    Individual all-around: 48th place
    Team all-around: gold
    Floor: 4th place in qualification
    Horse: 38th place in qualification
    Bars: 21st place in qualification
    Rings: 13th place in qualification
    Pommel horse: 12th place in qualification
  • Takehiro Kashima
    Individual all-around: 49th place
    Team all-around: gold
    Floor: 53rd place in qualification
    Horse: 13th place in qualification
    Bars: 40th place in qualification
    Horizontal bar: 6th place in qualification
    Pommel horse: bronze
  • Hisashi Mizutori
    Individual all-around: 68th place
    Team all-around: gold
    Horse: 26th place in qualification
    Horizontal bar: 6th place in qualification
    Rings: 23rd place in qualification
    Pommel horse: 35th place in qualification
  • Daisuke Nakano
    Individual all-around: 69th place
    Team all-around: gold
    Floor: 6th place
    Bars: 5th place
    Horizontal bar: 9th place
    Rings: 65th place in qualification

Women

  • Manami Ishizaka
    Individual all-around: 33rd place in qualification
    Floor: 32nd place in qualification
    Horse: 53rd place in qualification
    Uneven bars: 50th place in qualification
    Balance beam: 59th place in qualification
  • Kyoko Oshima
    Individual all-around: 51st place in qualification
    Floor: 70th place in qualification
    Horse: 82nd place in qualification
    Uneven bars: 36th place in qualification
    Balance beam: 69th place in qualification

Volleyball (hall) volleyball

Legend: VR = preliminary round match, VF = quarter-finals

Names competition Results
Japanese women's national volleyball team : Saori Kimura , Megumi Kurihara , Ikumi Narita , Kanako Omura , Ai Otomo-Yamamoto , Kana Oyama , Miki Sasaki , Sachiko Sugiyama , Miyuki Takahashi , Yoshie Takeshita , Tomoko Yoshihara Venus symbol (female) Women VR: 0: 3 loss against Brazil
VR: 0: 3 loss against Italy
VR: 3: 1 win against Greece
VR: 0: 3 loss against South Korea
VR: 3: 0 victory against Kenya
VF: 0: 3 -Loss to China , 5th place

Volleyball (beach) Volleyball (beach)

Legend: VR = preliminary round game

Names competition Results
Chiaki Kusuhara , Ryōko Tokuno Venus symbol (female) Women VR: 0-2 defeat against Kerri Walsh & Misty May-Treanor ( United States )
VR: 0-2 loss against Eva Celbová & Soňa Nováková-Dosoudilová ( Czech Republic )
VR: 2-1 win against Marrit Leenstra & Rebekka Kadijk ( Netherlands ), 17th place

Diving Diving

Men

Women

Web links

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