1936 Winter Olympics / Participant (Japan)

JPN

-	-	-

Japan took part in the IV Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936 with a delegation of 31 athletes in 7 sports. Here the athletes could not win any medals. The most successful athlete was Ishihara Shōzō with a 4th place in speed skating over 500 meters. Japan was the only Asian country with a delegation to the 1936 Winter Games.

Participants by sport

Ice Hockey (9)

Men (9th place)

• Homma Teiji
• Hayama Masahiro
• Ichikawa Tatsuo
• Kamei Shinkichi
• Shōji Toshihiko
• Hirano Susumu
• Kitazawa Masatatsu
• Furuya Ken'ichi
• Kinoshita Kozue

Figure Skating (5)

Men

• Katayama Toshiichi (15th place)
• Oimatsu Kazuyoshi (20th place)
• Hasegawa Tsugio (21st place)
• Watanabe Zenjirō (23rd place)

Women

• Inada Etsuko (10th place), the youngest participant in these Olympic Games at the age of 12

Speed ​​Skating (7)

500 m

• Ishihara Shōzō (4th place)
• Nakamura Reikichi (11th place)
• Nandō Kunio (22nd place)
• Ri Seitoku (16th place)

1500 m

• Ishihara Shōzō (19th place)
• Kin Beien (15th place)
• Ri Seitoku (23rd place)
• Kawamura Yasuo (28th place)

5000 m

• Chō Yūshoku (No. 27)
• Kin Beien (21st place)
• Nandō Kunio (31st place)
• Ri Seitoku (27th place)

10,000 m

• Chō Yūshoku (26th place)
• Kin Beien (13th place)
• Ri Seitoku (25th place)

Cross-country skiing (5)

18 km

• Sekido Tsutomu (55th place)
• Tadano Hiroshi (59th place)
• Yamada Ginzō (56th place)
• Yamada Shinzō (49th place)

50 km

• Okayama Tadao (34th place)
• Tadano Hiroshi (28th place)

4 × 10 km relay (12th place)

• Yamada Ginzo
• Sekido Tsutomu
• Yamada Shinzo
• Tadano Hiroshi

Nordic Combined (3)

Men

• Sekiguchi Isamu (29th place)
• Sekido Tsutomu (25th place)
• Yamada Shinzō (43rd place)

Alpine skiing (3)

Men

• Sekido Tsutomu (seat -)
• Sekiguchi Isamu (Square -)
• Tadano Hiroshi (seat -)

Ski jumping (4)

Men

• Iguro Masaji (7th place)
• Miyajima Iwao (31st place)
• Adachi Gorō (46th place)
• Tatsuta Shunji (46th place)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games. In: Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved February 19, 2010 . 

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} The Korean-born Japanese Lee Seong-deok, Kim Jeong-yeon and Jang Wu-shik had to start under their Japanese names Ri Seitoku , Kin Seien and Chō Yūshoku .

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Ishihara is the family name, Shōzō the first name.