1952 Winter Olympics / Participant (Japan)

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Japan participated in the VI. 1952 Winter Olympics in the Norwegian capital Oslo with a delegation of 13 athletes in five disciplines, all 31 men. None of the athletes managed to win a medal.

Participants by sport

Speed ​​skating

Men

• Masanori Aoki

  500 m: 12th place (44.8 s)

  1500 m: 23rd place (2: 26.9 min)

• Sukenobu Kudo

  500 m: 15th place (44.9 s)

  1500 m: 33rd place (2: 31.6 min)

• Tsuneo Sato

  500 m: 18th place (45.2 s)

  1500 m: 11th place (2: 23.9 min)

• Kiyotaka Takabayashi

  500 m: 6th place (44.1 s)

  1500 m: 34th place (2: 32.0 min)

• Yoshiyasu Gomi

  5000 m: 10th place (8: 38.6 min)

  10,000 m: 14th place (17: 53.0 min)

• Kazuhiko Sugawara

  5000 m: 15th place (8: 44.4 min)

  10,000 m: 7th place (17: 34.0 min)

Nordic combination

• Ryōichi Fujisawa

  Individual (normal hill / 18 km): 14th place (396,333)

Alpine skiing

Men

• Chiharu Igaya

  Downhill: 24th place (2: 45.0 min)

  Giant Slalom: 20th place (2: 36.1 min)

  Slalom: 11th place (2: 05.7 min)

• Hisashi Mizugami

  Departure: disqualified

  Giant Slalom: 26th place (2: 40.9 min)

  Slalom: Eliminated in the preliminary run

Cross-country skiing

Men

• Ryōichi Fujisawa

  18 km: 61st place (1:14:41 h)

• Ken'ichi Yamamoto

  18 km: 22nd place (1:08:49 h)

Ski jumping

• Ryōichi Fujisawa

  Normal hill: 42nd place (148.0)

• Kōzō Kawashima

  Normal hill: 34th place (183.5)

• Tatsuo Watanabe

  Normal hill: 27th place (189.0)

• Hiroshi Yoshizawa

  Normal hill: 36th place (182.5)

Web links

• Japan at the 1952 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )