1964 Winter Olympics / Participant (Japan)

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Japan participated in the IX. 1964 Olympic Winter Games in Austrian Innsbruck with a delegation of 47 athletes in eight disciplines in part, of which 41 men and 6 women. None of the athletes managed to win a medal.

The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the ski jumper Sadao Kikuchi .

Participants by sport

biathlon

• Yoshio Ninomine

  20 km individual: 26th place (1: 35: 38.6 h)

• Yūji Yamanaka

  20 km individual: 19th place (1: 33: 51.8 h)

ice Hockey

Men

Shinichi Honma Toshiei Honma Hidenori Inatsu Atsuo Irie Koji Iwamoto Kimio Kazahari Isao Kawabuchi Kimihisa Kudo Hiroyuki Matsuura

Katsuji Morishima Minoru Nakano Jiro Ogawa Isao Ono Masahiro Sato Shigeru Shimada Mamoru Takashima Masami Tanabu

• 11th place

figure skating

Men

• Nobuo Sato

  28th place (1571.9)

Women

• Junko Hiramatsu

  22nd place (1685.0)

• Kumiko Ōkawa

  13th place (1725.4)

• Miwa Fukuhara

  5th place (1845.1)

Speed ​​skating

Men

• Toyofumi Aruga

  1500 m: 41st place (2: 20.7 min)

  5000 m: 24th place (8: 15.9 min)

  10,000 m: 22nd place (17: 09.9 min)

• Yoshihiro Kawano

  5000 m: 26th place (8: 19.4 min)

  10,000 m: 32nd place (17: 39.0 min)

• Fumio Nagakubo

  500 m: 16th place (41.8 s)

• Satoshi Shinpo

  500 m: 41st place (44.4 s)

  1500 m: 34th place (2: 18.5 min)

  5000 m: 23rd place (8: 12.5 min)

  10,000 m: 24th place (17: 11.3 min)

• Keiichi Suzuki

  500 m: 5th place (40.7 s)

  1500 m: 31st place (2: 17.5 min)

Women

• Hatsue Nagakubo-Takamizawa

  500 m: 12th place (47.9 s)

  1000 m: race not finished

  1500 m: 10th place (2: 30.9 min)

  3000 m: 6th place (5: 25.4 min)

• Kaneko Takahashi

  500 m: 24th place (50.5 s)

  1000 m: 18th place (1: 40.5 min)

  1500 m: 18th place (2: 34.6 min)

  3000 m: 16th place (5: 39.6 min)

• Yasuko Takano

  500 m: 19th place (49.3 s)

  1000 m: 20th place (1: 41.6 min)

  1500 m: 14th place (2: 33.1 min)

  3000 m: 12th place (5: 30.4 min)

Nordic combination

• Takashi Fujisawa

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 20th place (375.22)

• Eiichi Tanaka

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 30th place (337.50)

• Akemi Taniguchi

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 31st place (291.51)

Alpine skiing

Men

• Yoshiharu Fukuhara

  Downhill: 45th place (2: 34.55 min)

  Giant Slalom: 25th place (1: 58.35 min)

  Slalom: 23rd place (2: 20.71 min)

• Yoshinari Kida

  Giant Slalom: 39th place (2: 04.22 min)

  Slalom: 34th place (2: 29.11 min)

• Tsuneo Noto

  Downhill: 46th place (2: 34.76 min)

  Giant Slalom: 35th place (2: 01.26 min)

• Yoshihiro Ohira

  Downhill: 57th place (2: 40.82 min)

  Slalom: 38th place (2: 37.87 min)

• Hajime Tomii

  Downhill: 33rd place (2: 30.02 min)

  Giant Slalom: 22nd place (1: 56.65 min)

  Slalom: 31st place (2: 25.09 min)

Cross-country skiing

Men

• Tatsuo Kitamura

  15 km: 26th place (55: 24.3 min)

  30 km: 51st place (1: 46: 13.4 h)

  4 x 10 km relay: 10th place (2: 32: 05.5 h)

• Hidezo Takahashi

  15 km: 42nd place (57: 03.4 min)

  30 km: 47th place (1: 43: 11.0 h)

  50 km: 35th place (3: 14: 31.4 h)

  4 x 10 km relay: 10th place (2: 32: 05.5 h)

• Kazuo Sato

  15 km: 35th place (56: 04.5 min)

  30 km: 41st place (1: 42: 39.2 h)

  50 km: 27th place (3: 03: 57.9 h)

  4 x 10 km relay: 10th place (2: 32: 05.5 h)

• Chogoro Yahata

  15 km: 58th place (1: 00: 46.1 h)

  30 km: 62nd place (1: 51: 45.3 h)

  50 km: race not finished

  4 x 10 km relay: 10th place (2: 32: 05.5 h)

Ski jumping

• Yosuke Etō

  Normal hill: 27th place (198.4)

  Large hill: 44th place (177.8)

• Yukio Kasaya

  Normal hill: 23rd place (200.6)

  Large hill: 11th place (206.7)

• Sadao Kikuchi

  Normal hill: 26th place (198.5)

  Large hill: 47th place (174.8)

• Naoki Shimura

  Normal hill: 40th place (190.9)

  Large hill: 37th place (184.5)

Web links

• Japan at the 1964 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )