1960 Winter Olympics / Participant (Japan)

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Japan took part in the VIII Winter Olympics in 1960 in the US Squaw Valley Ski Resort with a delegation of 41 athletes in seven disciplines, including 36 men and 5 women. None of the athletes managed to win a medal.

The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the figure skater Junko Ueno .

Participants by sport

ice Hockey

Men

Shikashi Akazawa Shinichi Honma Toshiei Honma Hidenori Inatsu Atsuo Irie Yuji Iwaoka Takashi Kakihara Yoshihiro Miyazaki Masao Murano

Isao Ono Akiyoshi Segawa Shigeru Shimada Kunito Takagi Mamoru Takashima Masami Tanabu Shōichi Tomita Toshihiko Yamada

• 8th place

figure skating

Men

• Nobuo Sato

  14th place (1206.8)

Women

• Miwa Fukuhara

  21st place (1134.7)

• Junko Ueno

  17th place (1176.5)

Speed ​​skating

Men

• Yoshitaki Hori

  500 m: 16th place (41.8 s)

  1500 m: 29th place (2: 21.7 min)

• Takeo Mizoo

  500 m: 36th place (43.7 s)

  1500 m: 33rd place (2: 22.6 min)

  5000 m: 23rd place (8: 28.7 min)

  10,000 m: 25th place (17: 42.0 min)

• Fumio Nagakubo

  500 m: 9th place (41.1 s)

  1500 m: 21st place (2: 18.7 min)

• Shinkichi Takemura

  500 m: 43rd place (45.9 s)

• Shuji Kobayashi

  1500 m: 34th place (2: 23.0 min)

  5000 m: 24th place (8: 29.8 min)

  10,000 m: 21st place (17: 20.8 min)

Women

• Fumie Hama

  500 m: 8th place (47.4 s)

  1000 m: 7th place (1: 36.1 min)

  1500 m: 10th place (2: 33.3 min)

• Hatsue Nagakubo-Takamizawa

  500 m: 5th place (46.6 s)

  1000 m: 5th place (1: 35.8 min)

  1500 m: 19th place (2: 43.7 min)

  3000 m: 4th place (5: 21.4 min)

• Yoshiko Takano

  500 m: 19th place (50.3 s)

  1000 m: 16th place (1: 39.9 min)

  1500 m: 12th place (2: 34.0 min)

  3000 m: 10th place (5: 30.9 min)

Nordic combination

• Yōsuke Etō

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 15th place (429.984)

• Takashi Matsui

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): Cross-country race not finished

• Akemi Taniguchi

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 24th place (409.226)

• Rikio Yoshida

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): Cross-country race not finished

Alpine skiing

Men

• Chiharu Igaya

  Downhill: 34th place (2: 25.0 min)

  Giant Slalom: 23rd place (1: 55.8 min)

  Slalom: 12th place (2: 20.2 min)

• Masayoshi Mitani

  Downhill: 53rd place (2: 31.3 min)

  Giant Slalom: 33rd place (2: 05.6 min)

  Slalom: disqualified

• Osamu Tada

  Downhill: 46th place (2: 28.5 min)

  Giant slalom: 35th place (2: 06.5 min)

  Slalom: 26th place (2: 44.0 min)

• Takashi Takeda

  Giant Slalom: 44th place (2: 13.4 min)

  Slalom: 33rd place (2: 56.0 min)

Cross-country skiing

Men

• Eiji Kurita

  15 km: 45th place (58: 57.0 min)

  30 km: 39th place (2: 11: 25.8 h)

  50 km: 27th place (3: 38: 40.6 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 10th place (2: 36: 44.9 h)

• Takashi Matsuhashi

  15 km: 40th place (57: 49.1 min)

  30 km: 35th place (2: 06: 25.5 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 10th place (2: 36: 44.9 h)

• Kazuo Satō

  15 km: 30th place (56: 15.0 min)

  30 km: 37th place (2: 07: 07.2 h)

  50 km: race not finished

  4 × 10 km relay: 10th place (2: 36: 44.9 h)

• Akemi Taniguchi

  4 × 10 km relay: 10th place (2: 36: 44.9 h)

Ski jumping

• Yōsuke Etō

  Normal hill: 25th place (197.7)

• Sadao Kikuchi

  Normal hill: 15th place (206.2)

• Takashi Matsui

  Normal hill: 30th place (189.6)

• Kōichi Satō

  Normal hill: 22nd place (200.3)

Web links

• Japan at the 1960 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )