2012 Summer Olympics / Participant (Japan)

JPN

7th	14th	17th

Japan took part inthe 2012 Olympic Games in London . It was the 21st participation in the Summer Olympics. The Japanese Olympic Committee nominated 295 athletes in 28 sports.

Medals

7 won gold, 14 silver and 17 bronze medals, the Japanese team was ranked 11 in the medal count .

Participants by sport

badminton

Athletes	competition	Group stage				Round of 16		Quarter finals		Semifinals		final		rank
		opponent	Result	Points	rank	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result
Women
Sayaka Sato	singles	M. Tvrdy S. Engelstaff	2: 0 (22:20, 21:18) 2: 1 (18:21 21:16 21:12)	4: 1 (103: 87)	1	T. Baun	0: 2 canceled at the status of (14:15)	eliminated
Mizuki Fujii Reika Kakiiwa	Double	Jwala Gutta A. Ponnappa Shinta Mulia S. Yao L. Chien YC Cheng WH	2: 0 (21:16, 21:18) 2: 1 (16:21, 21:10, 21:19) 0: 2 (19:21, 11:21)	4: 3 (130: 126)	2	-		K. Rytter Juhl C. Pedersen	2: 0 (22:20, 21:10)	A. Bruce M. Li	2: 1 (21:12, 19:21, 21:13)	Tian Q. Zhao Y.	0: 2 (20:21, 23:25)
Miyuki Maeda Satoko Suetsuna	Double	K. Rytter Juhl C. Pedersen Tian Q. Zhao Y. Poon LY Tse YS	2: 1 (18:21, 21:14, 21:17) 0: 2 (16:21, 17:21) 2: 1 (21:15, 21:19)	4: 4 (137: 128)	3	-		eliminated
Men
Ken'ichi Tago	singles	N. Karunaratne	0: 2 (18:21, 16:21)	-		eliminated
Shō Sasaki	singles	V. Soeroredjo	2: 0 (21:12, 21: 7)	-		K. Cordon	2: 0 (23:21, 21:10)	´ Lin Dan	1: 2 (12:21, 21:16, 16:21)	eliminated				8th
Naoki Kawamae Shōji Satō	Double	Koo KK Tan BH Lee YD Jung JS H. Bach T. Gunawan	0: 2 (12:21, 14:21) 0: 2 (16:21, 15:21) 2: 0 (21:15, 21:15)	2: 4 (99: 114)	3	-		eliminated						9
Mixed
Shintarō Ikeda Reiko Shiota	Double	N. Zięba R. Mateusiak G. Gao T. Ng J. Fischer Nielsen C. Pedersen	0: 2 (18:21, 20:22) 2: 1 (21:10, 11:21, 21:15) 0: 2 (11:21, 10:22)	2: 5 (112: 132)	3	-		eliminated

Archery

Athletes	competition	qualification		1 round		2nd round		Round of 16		Quarter finals		Semifinals		final		rank
		Rings	rank	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result
Women
Ren Hayakawa	singles	654	16	-		Christine Bjerendal	6 - 4	Inna Stepanova	7-3	Ki Bo-bae	0 - 6	eliminated
Miki Kanie	singles	665	6th	-		Tetyana Dorokhova	7 - 1	Xu Jing	6 -0	Aída Román	3 - 7	eliminated
Kaori Kawanaka	singles	646	28	-		Bérengère shoe	2 - 6	eliminated
Ren Hayakawa Miki Kanie Kaori Kawanaka	team	1965	5	-		-		Ukraine	207-192	Mexico	219-209	South Korea	206-221	Russia	209-207	bronze
Men
Takaharu Furukawa	singles	679	5	Lee Kar Wai	6 - 4	Dmytro Hratschow	6 - 4	Bård Nesteng	6 - 2	Khairul Mohamad	6 - 2	Rick van der Ven	6 - 5	Oh Jin-hyek	1 - 7	silver
Yu Ishizu	singles	671	15th	Simon Terry	1 -7	eliminated
Hideki Kikuchi	singles	659	44	Bård Nesteng	5 - 6	eliminated
Takaharu Furukawa Yu Ishizu Hideki Kikuchi	team	2009	5	-		-		India	214 (T29) - 214 (T27)	United States	219-220	eliminated

Boxing

Athletes	competition	1 round		Round of 16		Quarter finals		Semifinals		final		rank
		opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result
Men
Katsuaki Susa	Fly weight up to 52 kg	Robeisy Ramírez	10: 7	eliminated								-
Satoshi Shimizu	Bantam weight up to 56 kg	Isaac Dogboe	10: 9	Magomed Abdulhamidov	RSC	Mohamed Ouadahi	17:15	Luke Campbell	11:20	eliminated		bronze
Yasuhiro Suzuki	Welter weight up to 69 kg	Mehdi Khalsi	14:13	Serik Säpiev	11:25	eliminated						9
Ryota Murata	Average weight up to 75 kg	bye		Abdelmalek Rahou	21:12	Adem Kılıççı	17:13	Abbos Atoyev	13:12	Esquiva Falcão Florentino	14:13	gold

fencing

Athletes	competition	1 round		2nd round		Round of 16		Quarter finals		Semifinals		final		rank
		opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result
Women
Nozomi Nakano	Epee single	-		Rossella Fiamingo	11:15	eliminated
Kanae Ikehata	Foil single	bye		Sylwia Gruchała	9: 8	Ysaora Thibus	15:11	Nam Hyun-He	6:15	eliminated
Shiho Nishioka	Foil single	Lin Pe-Heung	13:10	Valentina Vezzali	8:14	eliminated
Chieko Sugawara	Foil single	bye		Jeon He-Sook	15:13	Corinne Maîtrejean	15: 9	Elisa Di Francisca	9:15	eliminated
Kanae Ikehata Shiho Nishioka Chieko Sugawara	Foil team	-		-		bye		Russia	17:45	United States	22:44	Great Britain	30:21	7th
Seira Nakayama	Saber single	-		Leonore Perrus	15:12	Mariel Zagunis	9:15	eliminated
Men
Kenta Chida	Foil single	bye		Victor Sintès	11:15	eliminated
Ryō Miyake	Foil single	bye		Andrea Baldini	6:15	eliminated
Yūki Ōta	Foil single	bye		Benjamin Kleibrink	15: 5	Andrea Cassarà	14:15	eliminated
Kenta Chida Ryō Miyake Yūki Ōta	Foil team	-		-		-		China	45:30	Germany	41:40	Italy	39:45	silver

Soccer

competition	Women	Men
Athletes	Kozue Andō Miho Fukumoto Mana Iwabuchi Azusa Iwashimizu Ayumi Kaihori Nahomi Kawasumi Yukari Kinga Saki Kumagai Karina Maruyama Aya Miyama Yūki Ōgimi Shinobu Ōno Mizuho Sakaguchi Aya Sameshima Homare Yano Sawa Megaka Takōase Asuna Tan	Shunsuke Ando Shūichi Gonda Keigo Higashi Hiroshi Kiyotake Taisuke Muramatsu Kensuke Nagai Takahiro Ogihara Manabu Saitō Gōtoku Sakai Hiroki Sakai Ken'yū Sugimoto Daisuke Suzuki Yūhei Tokunaga Takashi Usami Hotaru Yamaguchi Kazuya Yamamura Ryohei Yamazaki Maya Yoshida
Trainer	Norio Sasaki	Takashi Sekizuka
Group stage	Canada 2: 1 (2: 0) Sweden 0: 0 South Africa 0: 0	Spain 1: 0 (1: 0) Morocco 1: 0 (1: 0) Honduras (0: 0)
Quarter finals	Brazil 2: 0 (1: 0)	Egypt 3: 0 (1: 0)
Semifinals	France 2: 1 (1: 0)	Mexico 1: 3 (1: 1)
Bronze game		South Korea 0: 2 (0: 1)
final	United States 1: 2 (0: 1)
rank	silver	4th

Weightlifting

Athletes	competition	Tear		Bump		Duel		rank
		Weight	rank	Weight	rank	Weight	rank
Women
Hiromi Miyake	Class up to 48 kg	87 kg		110 kg		197 kg		silver
Honami Mizuochi	Class up to 48 kg	80 kg		96 kg		176 kg		6th
Kanae Yagi	Class up to 53 kg	82 kg		109 kg		191 kg		12
Men
Kazuomi Ōta	Class over 105 kg	185 kg		215 kg		400 kg		13

hockey

competition	Women
Athletes	Chie Akutsu Sakiyo Asano Kaori Fujio Nagisa Hayashi Mika Iimura Mika Imura Sachimi Iwao Akemi Katō Rika Komazawa Keiko Manabe Aki Mitsuhashi Ai Murakami Miyuki Nakagawa Ryōko Oie Shiho Otsuka Masako Satō Akane Shibata Izuki Tanaka Yukari Yamamoto
Trainer
Group stage	Great Britain 0: 4 (0: 4) Netherlands 2: 3 (0: 2) South Korea 0: 1 (0: 0) Belgium 1: 1 (0: 1) People's Republic of China 1: 0 (0: 0)
Placement game	Game for 9th place: South Africa 2: 1 a.s. (0: 1, 1: 1)
Semifinals	eliminated
final
placement	9

Judo

Athletes	competition	1st round Round of 64		2nd round Round of 32		Knockout round Round of 16		Quarter Finals Quarter Final		Round of hope semi-final repechage		Semifinals		Hope Round Final Bronze Medal		final		rank
		opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result
Women
Tomoko Fukumi	Class up to 48 kg	-		Oiana Blanco	100 KOJ (GS) - 0001	Kelly Edwards	020 TSG - 000	Paula Pareto	001 P29 (GS) - 0002	-		Alina Dumitru	0011 - 0102 KSG	Éva Csernoviczki	0001 - 1001 KSG (GS)	eliminated		5
Misato Nakamura	Class up to 52 kg	-		bye		To Kum-ae	002 - 0102 TNO	eliminated
Kaori Matsumoto	Class up to 57 kg	-		Vesna Đukić	011 SMK - 0002	Kifayat Gasimova	010 HIZ - 000	Giulia Quintavalle	010 DAB - 0001	-		Automne Pavia	001 OSG (GS) - 000	-		Corina Căprioriu	100 P30 (GS) - 000H	gold
Yoshie Ueno	Class up to 63 kg	-		Garima Chaudhary	1000 - 0000	Marijana Mišković	0010 - 0000	Young Da-woon	0010 - 0000	Elisabeth Willeboordse	0010 - 0000	eliminated		Tsedevsurengiin monkdsajaa	0010 - 0002	eliminated		bronze
Haruka Tachimoto	Class up to 70 kg	-		bye		Onix Cortés	0000 - 0001	Chen Fei	0020 - 0020	Edith Bosch	0002 - 0011	eliminated						7th
Akari Ogata	Class up to 78 kg	-		Jeong Gyeong-mi	0001 - 0002	Marhinde Verkerk	0002 - 0011	eliminated
Mika Sugimoto	Class over 78 kg	-		bye		Giovanna Blanco	0100 - 0000	Maria Suelen Altheman	0100 - 0000	-		Karina Bryant	0011 - 0002	-		Idalys Ortíz	0001 - 0000	silver
Men
Hiroaki Hiraoka	Class up to 60 kg	bye		Ashley McKenzie	0111 - 0000	Artiom Arshansky	0012 - 0000	Sofiane Milous	0012 - 0010	-		Elio Verde	0110 - 0001	-		Arsen Galstyan	0000 - 1000	silver
Masashi Ebinuma	Class up to 66 kg	bye		Sasha Mehmedovic	0111 - 0000	Sergei Lim	0010 - 0001	Cho Jun-ho	0001 - 0001	-		Lascha Shawdatuashvili	0000 - 0100	Paweł Zagrodnik	0110 - 0101	eliminated		bronze
Riki Nakaya	Class up to 73 kg	bye		Kyle Maxwell	0100 - 0001	Soso Palelashvili	0101 - 0000	Rassul Boqiyev	0011 - 0002	-		Dex Elmont	0000 - 0001	-		Mansur Issayev	0001 - 0011	silver
Takahiro Nakai	Class up to 81 kg	bye		Boas Munyonga	1000 - 0000	Sergiu Toma	1010 - 0003	Ole Bishop	0000-1010	Leandro Guilheiro	0011 - 0002	-		Ivan Nifontov	0000 - 0201	eliminated		5
Masashi Nishiyama	Class up to 90 kg	-		Chynggy's Mamedov	0110 - 0001	Timur Bolat	0010 - 0000	Song Dae-nam	0101 - 0011	Dilshod Choriyev	0012 - 0012	eliminated		Kirill Denisov	0000 - 0000	eliminated		bronze
Takamasa Anai	Class up to 100 kg	-		James Austin	0101 - 0003	Lukáš Krpálek	0000 - 1001	eliminated
Daiki Kamikawa	Class over 100 kg	-		Darrel Castillo	0100 - 0000	Ihar Makarau	0010 - 0011	eliminated

canoe

Canoe racing

Athletes	competition	leader		Semifinals		final		rank
		time	rank	time	rank	time	rank
Women
Shinobu Kitamoto	K-1 200 m	42.007 s	1	41.816 s	3	45.387 s	13	13
Shinobu Kitamoto Asumi Ōhmura	K-2 500 m	1: 47.323 min	6th	eliminated				6th
Men
Momotaro Matsushita	K-1 200 m	36.096 s	3	37,201 s	7th	38.040 s	11	11
Momotaro Matsushita Hiroki Watanabe	K-2 200 m	34.669 s	6th	-		35.739 s	10	10
Naoya Sakamoto	C-1 200 m	41.528 s	3	41.771 s	3	44.699 s	8th	8th

Canoe slalom

Athletes	competition	leader		Semifinals		final		rank
		time	rank	time	rank	time	rank
Women
Moe Kaifuchi	K-1	121.29 s	19th	eliminated				19th
Men
Kazuki Yazawa	K-1	92.57 s	15th	99.99 s	9	104.44 s	9	9
Takuya Haneda	C-1	92.72 s	3	104.16 s	6th	110.62 s	7th	7th

athletics

Running and walking

Athletes	competition	leader		Semifinals		final		rank
		time	rank	time	rank	time	rank
Women
Chisato Fukushima	100 m	11.41 s	5	eliminated
Chisato Fukushima	200 m	24.14 s	7th	eliminated
Mika Yoshikawa	5000 m	15: 16.77 min	13	-		eliminated
Kayoko Fukushi	10,000 m	-		-		31: 10.35 min	10	10
Hitomi Niiya	10,000 m	-		-		30: 59.19 min	9	9
Mika Yoshikawa	10,000 m	-		-		31: 47.67 min	16	16
Ryoko Kizaki	marathon	-		-		2:27:16 h	16	16
Yoshimi Ozaki	marathon	-		-		2:27:43 h	19th	19th
Risa Shigetomo	marathon	-		-		2:40:06 h	79	79
Ayako Kimura	100 m hurdles	13.75 s	7th	eliminated
Satomi Kubokura	400 m hurdles	55.85 s	5	56.25 s	8th	eliminated
Anna Doi Chisato Fukushima Kana Ichikawa Yumeka Sano Momoko Takahashi	4 × 100 m relay	44.25 s	8th	-		eliminated		8th
Masumi Fuchise	20 km walking	-		-		1:28:41 h	11	11
Mayumi Kawasaki	20 km walking	-		-		1:30:20 h	18th	18th
Kumi Otoshi	20 km walking	-		-		1:33:50 h	37	37
Men
Masashi Eriguchi	100 m	10.30 s	6th	eliminated
Ryota Yamagata	100 m	10.07 s	2	10.10 s	6th	eliminated
Shota Iizuka	200 m	20.81 s	5	eliminated
Shinji Takahira	200 m	20.57 s	3	20.77 s	6th	eliminated
Kei Takase	200 m	20.72 s	2	20.70 s	8th	eliminated
Yūzō Kanemaru	400 m	46.01 s	4th	eliminated
Masato Yokota	800 m	1: 48.48 min	4th	eliminated
Yūki Satō	5000 m	13: 38.22 min	11	-		eliminated
Yūki Satō	10,000 m	-		-		28: 44.06 h	22nd	22nd
Arata Fujiwara	marathon	-		-		2:19:11 h	45	45
Kentaro Nakamoto	marathon	-		-		2:11:16 h	6th	6th
Ryō Yamamoto	marathon	-		-		2:18:34 h	40	40
Takayuki Kishimoto	400 m hurdles	DSQ		eliminated
Tetsuya Tateno	400 m hurdles	49.95 s	4th	eliminated
Masashi Eriguchi Shōta Iizuka Takumi Kuki Shinji Takahira Ryōta Yamagata	4 × 100 m relay	38.07 s	2	-		38.35 s	5	5
Yoshihiro Azuma Yūzō Kanemaru Hiroyuki Nakano Kei Takase	4 × 400 m relay	3: 03.86 min	6th	-		eliminated		6th
Isamu Fujisawa	20 km walking	-		-		1:21:48 h	18th	18th
Takumi Saito	20 km walking	-		-		1:22:43 h	25th	25th
Yūsuke Suzuki	20 km walking	-		-		1:23:53 h	36	36
Kōichirō Morioka	50 km of walking	-		-		3:43:14 h	10	10
Takayuki Tanii	50 km of walking	-		-		DNF		-
Yūki Yamazaki	50 km of walking	-		-		DSQ		-

Jumping and throwing

Athletes	competition	qualification		final		rank
		Width / height	rank	Width / height	rank
Women
Tomomi Abiko	Pole vault	4.25 m	19th	eliminated		19th
Yūki Ebihara	Javelin	59.25 m	16	eliminated		16
Men
Seito Yamamoto	Pole vault	LMWH		eliminated		-
Kōji Murofushi	Hammer throwing	78.48 m	2	78.71 m	3	bronze
Roderick Genki Dean	Javelin	82.07 m	7th	79.95 m	10	10
Yukifumi Murakami	Javelin	77.80 m	24	eliminated		24

All-around

Athletes	100 m		Long jump		Shot put		high jump		400 m		110 m hurdles		Discus throwing		Pole vault		Javelin		1500 m		Points	rank
	time	Points	Expanse	Points	Expanse	Points	height	Points	time	Points	time	Points	Expanse	Points	height	Points	Expanse	Points	time	Points
Decathlon men
Keisuke Ushiro	11.32 s	791	6.86 m	781	13.59 m	703	1.99 m	794	50.78 s	779	15.47 s	794	46.66 s	801	4.90 m	880	66.38 m	834	4: 39.33 min	685	7842	20th

Modern pentathlon

Athletes	fencing		swim		horse riding		Combined		Points	rank
	Balance sheet	Points	time	Points	time	Points	time	Points
Women
Narumi Kurosu	8:27	592	2: 22.39 min	1092	496	704	13: 52.94 min	1672	4060	34
Shino Yamanaka	7:28	568	2: 30.36 min	996	64	1136	11: 58.56 min	2128	4828	30th
Men
Shinichi Tomii	18:17	832	2: 01.19 min	1348	112	1088	11: 19.03 min	2284	5552	22nd

Cycling

train

Athletes	competition	qualification		Finals		rank
		time	rank	time	rank
Women
Kayono Maeda	sprint	11,600 s	17th	-	-	17th
Men
Seiichirō Nakagawa	sprint	10.144 s	7th	Race for 9th place: 10.950 s		9
Kazunari Watanabe	Keirin	-	6th	-	6th	11
Seiichiro Nakagawa Yudai Nitta Kazunari Watanabe	Team sprint	44.324 s	8th	-	-	-

Street

Athletes	competition	time	rank
Women
Mayuko Hagiwara	Road racing	DNF
Men
Yukiya Arashiro	Road racing	5:46:37 h	48
Fumiyuki Beppu	Road racing	5:46:05 h	22nd
Fumiyuki Beppu	Individual time trial	55: 40.64	24

Mountain bike

Athletes	competition	time	rank
Women
Rie Katayama	Cross country	1:38:26 h	20th
Men
Kōhei Yamamoto	Cross country	1:35:26 h	27

horse riding

Athletes	competition	percent	rank
dressage
Hiroshi Hoketsu	singles	68.739	40
Athletes	competition	Failure points	rank
Leap
Taizo Sugitani	singles	14th	33
Reiko Takeda	singles	22nd	71
Athletes	competition	Penalty points	rank
versatility
Atsushi Negishi	singles	88.00	39
Yoshiaki Ōiwa	singles	eliminated
Kenki Sato	singles	eliminated
Toshiyuki Tanaka	singles	119.00	48
Takayuki Yumira	singles	eliminated
Atsushi Negishi Yoshiaki Oiwa Kenki Satō Toshiyuki Tanaka Takayuki Yumira	team	1207.00	12

Rhythmic sports gymnastics

Athletes	competition	qualification		final		rank
		Points	rank	Points	rank
Women
Natsuki Fukase Airi Hatakeyama Rie Matsubara Rina Miura Nina Saeedyokota Kotono Tanaka	All-around team	53.025	8th	54,100	7th	7th

Wrestling

Athletes	competition	1 round		Round of 16		Quarter finals		Semifinals		Round of Hope quarterfinals		Hope round semifinals		Hope round final		final		rank
		opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result
Freestyle women
Hitomi Obara	Class up to 48 kg	bye		Maroi Mezien	5-0	Isabella Sambou	3-0	Carol Huynh	3-0	-		-		-		Mariya Stadnik	3: 1	gold
Saori Yoshida	Class up to 55 kg	bye		Kelsey Campbell	3-0	Yulia Ratkevich	3-0	Valery Sholobova	3-0	-		-		-		Tonya Verbeek	3-0	gold
Kaori Icho	Class up to 63 kg	bye		Martine Dugrenier	3-0	Henna Johansson	3-0	Sorondsonboldyn Battsetseg	3-0	-		-		-		Jing Ruixue	3-0	gold
Kyōko Hamaguchi	Class up to 72 kg	bye		Güzäl Mänürowa	1: 3	eliminated												11
Greco-Roman style men
Kohei Hasegawa	Class up to 55 kg	bye		Elbek Tazhyieu	3-0	Håkan Nyblom	0: 3	eliminated										10
Ryūtaro Matsumoto	Class up to 60 kg	bye		Rahman Bilici	3-0	Tarik Belmadani	3-0	Omid Noroozi	1: 3	-		-		Almat Kebispayev	5-0	eliminated		bronze
Tsutomu Fujimura	Class up to 66 kg	bye		Justin Lester	0: 3	eliminated												13
Norikatsu Saikawa	Class up to 96 kg	bye		Jimmy Lidberg	0: 3	eliminated												17th
Freestyle men
Shin'ichi Yumoto	Class up to 55 kg	bye		Kim Jin-cheol	3: 1	Mihran Jaburyan	3-0	Vladimer Khinchegashvili	1: 3	-		-		Radoslav Velikov	3: 1	eliminated		bronze
Ken'ichi Yumoto	Class up to 60 kg	bye		Yowlys Bonne	3: 1	Toğrul Əsgərov	1: 3	eliminated		-		Tim Schleicher	3: 1	Coleman Scott	1: 3	eliminated		5
Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu	Class up to 66 kg	bye		Liván Azcuy	3: 1	Haislan Garcia	3: 1	Cəbrayıl Həsənov	3-0	-		-		-		Sushil Kumar	3-0	gold
Sōsuke Takatani	Class up to 74 kg	Əşrəf Əliyev	0: 3	eliminated														16
Takao Isokawa	Class up to 96 kg	Nathaniel Tuamoheloa	5-0	Magomed Musaev	1: 3	eliminated												8th

rowing

Athletes	competition	leader		Reunion		Quarter finals		Semifinals		final		rank
		time	rank	time	rank	time	rank	time	rank	time	rank
Women
Haruna Sakakibara	One	7: 52.98 min	5	-		8: 12.26 min	5	8: 05.65 min	5	8: 42.90 min	23	23
Atsumi Fukumoto Akiko Iwamoto	Lightweight double scull	7: 30.29 min	3	7: 23.79 min	2	-		7: 34.23 min	6th	7: 32.12 min	12	12
Men
Daisaku Takeda Kazushige Ura	Lightweight double scull	6: 54.01 min	5	6: 39.81 min	2	-		6: 48.61 min	6th	6: 48.27 min	12	12

shoot

Athletes	competition	qualification		final		Rings	rank
		Rings	rank	Rings	rank
Women
Yukari Konishi	Air pistol 10 m	377	31	eliminated		377	31
Yukari Konishi	Sports pistol 25 m	574	31	eliminated		574	31
Yukie Nakayama	Trap	65	15th	eliminated		65	15th
Men
Tomoyuki Matsuda	Air pistol 10 m	581	13	eliminated		581	13
Tomoyuki Matsuda	Free pistol 50 m	559	11	eliminated		559	11
Midori Yajima	Air rifle 10 m	589	38	eliminated		589	38
Midori Yajima	Small caliber three-position fight 50 m	1148	39	eliminated		1148	39
Midori Yajima	Small bore, lying 50 m	590	33	eliminated		590	33

swim

Athletes	competition	leader		Semifinals		final		rank
		time	rank	time	rank	time	rank
Women
Yayoi Matsumoto	50 m freestyle	25.73 s	35	eliminated				35
Haruka Ueda	100 m freestyle	54.35 s	12	54.59 s	16	eliminated		16
Hanae Itō	200 m freestyle	1: 58.93 min	15th	1: 59.24 min	16	eliminated		16
Aya Takano	400 m freestyle	4: 12.33 min	26th	-		eliminated		26th
Natsumi Hoshi	100 m butterfly	59.06	23	eliminated				23
Yuka Kato	100 m butterfly	58.72 s	15th	58.26 s	11	eliminated		11
Natsumi Hoshi	200 m butterfly	2: 08.04 min	6th	2: 06.37 min	3	2: 05.48 min	3	bronze
Mina Matsushima	100 m chest	1: 07.69 min	14th	1: 08.26 min	16	eliminated		16
Satomi Suzuki	100 m chest	1: 07.08 min	6th	1: 07.10 min	7th	1: 06.46 min	3	bronze
Satomi Suzuki	200 m chest	2: 23.22 min	3	2: 22.40 min	3	2: 20.70 min	2	silver
Kanako Watanabe	200 m chest	2: 26.38 min	12	2: 27.32 min	14th	eliminated		14th
Aya Terakawa	100 m back	59.82 s	4th	59.34 s	3	58.83 s	3	bronze
Miyu Otsuka	200 m back	2: 11.65 min	21st	eliminated				21st
Izumi Kato	200 m layers	2: 13.85 min	14th	2: 14.47 min	14th	eliminated		14th
Miyu Otsuka	400 m layers	4: 39.13 min	12	-		eliminated		12
Miho Takahashi	400 m layers	4: 45.10 min	20th	-		eliminated		20th
Hanae Itō Yayoi Matsumoto Aya Takano Miki Uchida Haruka Ueda	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3: 38.06 min	5	-		3: 37.96 min	7th	7th
Hanae Itō Yayoi Matsumoto Aya Takano Miki Uchida Haruka Ueda	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7: 54.56 min	8th	-		7: 56.73 min	8th	8th
Yuka Katō Yayoi Matsumoto Mina Matsushima Satomi Suzuki Aya Terakawa Haruka Ueda	4 × 100 m individual medley relay	3: 57.87 min	2	-		3: 55.73 min	3	bronze
Yumi Kida	10 km of open water	-		-		1: 58: 59.1 h	13	13
Men
Takurō Fujii	100 m butterfly	52.49 s	20th	eliminated				20th
Takeshi Matsuda	100 m butterfly	52.36 s	16	eliminated				16
Kazuya Kaneda	200 m butterfly	1: 55.70 min	7th	1: 55.56 min	10	eliminated		10
Takeshi Matsuda	200 butterfly	1: 55.81 min	8th	1: 54.25 min	1	1: 53.21 min	3	bronze
Kosuke Kitajima	100 m chest	59.63 s	2	59.69 s	6th	59.79 s	5	5
Ryō Tateishi	100 m chest	59.86 s	8th	59.93 s	10	eliminated		10
Kosuke Kitajima	200 m chest	2: 09.43 min	5	2: 09.03 min	5	2: 08.35 min	4th	4th
Ryō Tateishi	200 m chest	2: 09.37 min	4th	2: 09.13 min	7th	2: 08.29 min	3	bronze
Ryosuke Irie	100 m back	53.56 s	5	53.29 s	4th	52.97 s	3	bronze
Ryosuke Irie	200 m back	1: 56.81 min	4th	1: 55.68 min	4th	1: 53.78 min	2	silver
Kazuki Watanabe	200 m back	1: 58.17 min	13	1: 56.81 min	6th	1: 57.03 min	6th	6th
Kosuke Hagino	200 m layers	1: 58.22 min	3	1: 57.95 min	5	1: 57.35 min	5	5
Ken Takakuwa	200 m layers	1: 58.82 min	9	1: 58.31 min	6th	1: 58.53 min	6th	6th
Kosuke Hagino	400 m layers	4: 10.01 min	1	-		4: 08.94 min NO	3	bronze
Yuya Horihata	400 m layers	4: 13.09 min	7th	-		4: 13.30 min	6th	6th
Kōsuke Hagino Yuya Horihata Chiaki Ishibashi Yūki Kobori Takeshi Matsuda Sho Sotodate	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7: 11.74 min	9	-		eliminated		9
Takurō Fujii Ryōsuke Irie Kōsuke Kitajima Takeshi Matsuda Ryō Tateishi	4 × 100 m individual medley relay	3: 33.64 min	3	-		3: 31.26 min	2	silver
Yasunari Hirai	10 km of open water	-		-		1: 51: 20.1 h	15th	15th

sailing

Fleet Race

Athletes	competition	qualification		Medal Race		Points	rank
		Points	rank	Points	rank
Women
Yūki Sunaga	Windsurfing RS: X	180	21st	eliminated		180	21st
Manami Doi	Laser Radial	253	31	eliminated		253	31
Ai Kondō Wakako Tabata	470s	103	14th	eliminated		103	14th
Men
Makoto Tomizawa	Windsurfing RS: X	209	28	eliminated		209	28
Ryunosuke Harada Yugo Yoshida	470s	131	18th	eliminated		131	18th
Yukio Makino Kenji Takahashi	49er	188	18th	eliminated		188	18th

Synchronized swimming

Athletes	competition	qualification						final
		Technical freestyle TK		Free freestyle FK-Q		total		Free freestyle FK-F		Total TK + FK-F
		Points	rank	Points	rank	Points	rank	Points	rank	Points	rank
Women
Yukiko Inui Chisa Kobayashi	duet	93.200	5	93.200	5	186,400	5	93,540	5	186.740	5
Yumi Adachi Aika Hakoyama Yukiko Inui Mayo Itoyama (Final) Chisa Kobayashi Risako Mitsui Mai Nakamura (Qualification) Mariko Sakai Kurumi Yoshida	group	93,800	5	-				93.830	5	187.630	5

Taekwondo

Athletes	competition	Round of 16		Quarter finals		Semifinals		Hope round semifinals		Hope round final		final		rank
		opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result
Women
Erika Kasahara	Class up to 49 kg	Theresa Tona	12: 0	Wu Jingyu	0:14	eliminated		Elizabeth Zamora	2: 6	eliminated
Mayu Hamada	Class up to 57 kg	Ana Zaninović	14:11	Jade Jones	3:13	eliminated		Dragana Gladović	15: 2	Marlène Harnois	8:12	eliminated		5

tennis

Athletes	competition	1 round		2nd round		Round of 16		Quarter finals		Semifinals		final
		opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result
Men
Tatsuma Ito	singles	Milos Raonic	3: 6, 4: 6	eliminated
Kei Nishikori	singles	Bernard Tomic	7: 6 4 , 7: 6 4	Nikolai Davydenko	4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 1	David Ferrer	6: 0, 3: 6, 6: 4	Juan Martín del Potro	4: 6, 6: 7 4	eliminated
Go Soeda	singles	Marcos Baghdatis	7: 6 6 , 6: 7 5 , 2: 6	eliminated
Kei Nishikori Go Soeda	Double	Roger Federer / Stanislas Wawrinka	7: 6 5 , 4: 6, 4: 6	eliminated

Table tennis

Athletes	competition	1 round		2nd round		3rd round		4th round		Quarter finals		Semifinals		final		rank
		opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result
Women
Ai Fukuhara	singles	bye		bye		Anna Tikhomirova	4-0	Li Jie	4: 3	Ding Ning	0: 4	eliminated
Kasumi Ishikawa	singles	bye		bye		Li Qiangbing	4: 2	Li Qian	4: 1	Wang Yuegu	4: 1	Li Xiaoxia	1: 4	Feng Tianwei	0: 4	4th
Ai Fukuhara Sayaka Hirano Kasumi Ishikawa	team	United States	3-0	-		-		-		Germany	3-0	Singapore	3-0	People's Republic of China	0: 3	silver
Men
Seiya Kishikawa	singles	-		-		Panagiotis Gionis	4: 3	Oh Sang-eun	4: 1	Wang Hao	0: 4	eliminated
Jun Mizutani	singles	-		-		El-sayed Lashin	4: 1	Michael Maze	0: 4	eliminated
Seiya Kishikawa Jun Mizutani Kōki Niwa	team	Canada	3-0	-		-		-		Hong Kong	2: 3	eliminated

Triathlon

Athletes	competition	time	rank
Women
Mariko Adachi	singles	2:02:04 h	14th
Yuri Ide	singles	2:04:43 h	34
Ai Ueda	singles	2:06:34 h	39
Men
Yuichi Hosoda	singles	1:51:40 h	43
Hirokatsu Tayama	singles	1:49:24 h	20th

Trampoline exercise

Athletes	competition	qualification		final		rank
		Points	rank	Points	rank
Women
Ayano Kishi	singles	97.985	14th	eliminated		14th
Men
Masaki Ito	singles	109.810	4th	60.895	4th	4th
Yasuhiro Ueyama	singles	109,809	5	60.240	5	5

do gymnastics

Athletes	competition	qualification		final		rank
		Points	rank	Points	rank
Women
Rie Tanaka	All-around single	54,333	27	55.632	16	16
Asuka Teramoto	All-around single	57.865	8th	57.332	11	11
Koko Tsurumi	Uneven bars	15.033	9	14.966	7th	7th
Yu Minobe Yūko Shintake Rie Tanaka Koko Tsurumi Asuka Teramoto	All-around team	170.196	6th	166.646	8th	8th
Men
Kazuhito Tanaka	All-around single	86.841	22nd	89.407	6th	6th
Kōhei Uchimura	All-around single	89.764	9	92.690	1	gold
Kōji Yamamuro	All-around single	87.632	18th	not started
Kōhei Uchimura	ground	15.766	2	15,800	2	silver
Kazuhito Tanaka	Ingots	15.725	2	15,500	4th	4th
Yūsuke Tanaka	Ingots	15.866	1	15,100	8th	8th
Ryōhei Katō Kazuhito Tanaka Yūsuke Tanaka Kōhei Uchimura Kōji Yamamuro	All-around team	270.503	5	271,952	2	silver

volleyball

beach volleyball

Athletes	Group stage				Round of 16		Quarter finals		Semifinals		final		rank
	opponent	Result	Points	rank	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result
Men
Kentarō Asahi Katsuhiro Shiratori	P. Dannhauser / T. Rogers P. Beneš / P. Kubala A. Gavira / P. Herrera	0: 2 (15:21, 16:21) 1: 2 (21:17, 12:21, 7:15) 0: 2 (19:21, 20:22)	3	4th	eliminated								19th

Indoor volleyball

competition	Women
Athletes	Erika Araki Yukiko Ebata Kaori Inoue Maiko Kano Saori Kimura Hitomi Nakamichi Ai Otomo Saori Sakoda Yūko Sano Risa Shinnabe Yoshie Takeshita Mai Yamaguchi
Trainer	Masayoshi Manabe
Group stage	Algeria (3: 0) Italy (1: 3) Dominican Republic (3: 0) Russia (1: 3) Great Britain (3: 0)
Quarter finals	People's Republic of China (3: 2)
Semifinals	Brazil (0: 3)
3rd place match	South Korea (3-0) bronze

Diving

Athletes	competition	Pre-fight		Semifinals		final		rank
		Points	rank	Points	rank	Points	rank
Women
Mai Nakagawa	Diving 10 m	327.65	8th	260.05	18th	eliminated		18th

Web links

Commons : 2012 Summer Olympics / Participant (Japan)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Japan - Athletes. Official London 2012 website. The London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Limited ( LOCOG ), accessed November 29, 2012 . 
• JAPAN. Official website of the Olympic Movement. The International Olympic Committee ( IOC ), accessed November 29, 2012 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Country: Japan. london2012.com, accessed July 23, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Brad Van Wely, The Olympics' most dangerous sport?  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in BipPondSport.com, August 8, 2012