1968 Winter Olympics / Participant (Japan)

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Japan took part in the X. Winter Olympic Games in 1968 in Grenoble, France, with a delegation of 61 athletes in eight disciplines, including 52 men and 9 women. None of the athletes managed to win a medal.

The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the ice hockey player Takaaki Kaneiri .

Participants by sport

biathlon

• Shozo Okuyama

  20 km individual: 34th place (1: 28: 51.0 h)

  4 x 7.5 km relay: 13th place (2: 35: 21.0 h)

• Isao Ono

  20 km individual: 33rd place (1: 28: 47.8 h)

  4 x 7.5 km relay: 13th place (2: 35: 21.0 h)

• Miki Shibuya

  20 km individual: 28th place (1: 27: 37.1 h)

  4 x 7.5 km relay: 13th place (2: 35: 21.0 h)

• Hajime Yoshimura

  20 km individual: 43rd place (1: 32: 05.5 h)

  4 x 7.5 km relay: 13th place (2: 35: 21.0 h)

ice Hockey

Men

Toshimitsu Otsubo Katsuji Morishima Isao Asai Michihiro Sato Takaaki Kaneiri Hisashi Kasai Toru Itabashi Kenji Toriyabe Minoru Ito

Takeshi Akiba Kimihisa Kudo Mamoru Takashima Koji Iwamoto Yutaka Ebina Takao Hikigi Toru Okajima Kazuo Matsuda Nobuhiro Araki

• 10th place

figure skating

Men

• Yutaka Higuchi

  25th place (1529.6)

• Tsuguhiko Kozuka

  21st place (1584.0)

Women

• Haruko Ishida

  26th place (1552.7)

• Kumiko Ōkawa

  8th place (1763.6)

• Kazumi Yamashita

  14th place (1639.0)

Speed ​​skating

Men

• Tamio Dejima

  500 m: 33rd place (42.6 s)

• Takayuki Hida

  500 m: 37th place (42.9 s)

• Yoshiaki Demachi

  5000 m: 21st place (7: 55.6 min)

  10,000 m: 22nd place (16: 54.6 min)

• Keiichi Suzuki

  500 m: 8th place (40.8 s)

  1500 m: 31st place (2: 13.1 min)

• Masaki Suzuki

  500 m: 15th place (41.2 s)

  1500 m: 40th place (2: 14.8 min)

• Tadao Ishihata

  1500 m: 30th place (2: 12.7 min)

  5000 m: 22nd place (7: 55.8 min)

• Mutsuhiko Maeda

  1500 m: 40th place (2: 14.8 min)

  5000 m: 33rd place (8: 08.3 min)

• Hirofumi Otsuka

  10,000 m: 28th place (17: 38.8 min)

Women

• Kaname Ide

  500 m: 27th place (50.0 s)

  1500 m: 23rd place (2: 34.2 min)

  3000 m: 21st place (5: 27.9 min)

• Jitsuko Saito

  1500 m: 26th place (2: 36.6 min)

  3000 m: 20th place (5: 27.8 min)

• Sachiko Saito

  500 m: race not finished

  1000 m: 26th place (1: 41.0 min)

  1500 m: 18th place (2: 31.4 min)

• Misae Takeda

  500 m: 25th place (49.4 s)

  1000 m: 25th place (1: 40.4 min)

Nordic combination

• Hiroshi Itagaki

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 10th place (414.65)

• Katsutoshi Okubo

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 24th place (382.23)

• Masatoshi Suto

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 21st place (359.03)

• Akemi Taniguchi

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 23rd place (383.14)

Alpine skiing

Men

• Yoshiharu Fukuhara

  Downhill: 54th place (2: 14.09 min)

  Giant slalom: 50th place (3: 51.97 min)

  Slalom: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Hitonari Maruyama

  Downhill: 59th place (2: 18.04 min)

• Juichi Maruyama

  Downhill: 64th place (2: 19.33 min)

• Tsuneo Noto

  Downhill: 45th place (2: 10.32 min)

  Giant Slalom: 40th place (3: 46.65 min)

  Slalom: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Yoshinari Kida

  Giant slalom: disqualified

  Slalom: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Tomio Sasaki

  Giant Slalom: 47th place (3: 50.15 min)

  Slalom: eliminated in the preliminary run

Women

• Mihoko Otsue

  Departure: 34th place (1: 51.60 min)

  Giant slalom: 36th place (2: 10.56 min)

  Slalom: 31st place (1: 51.37 min)

Cross-country skiing

Men

• Akiyoshi Matsuoka

  15 km: 53rd place (54: 46.2 min)

  4 x 10 km relay: 10th place (2: 20: 54.8 h)

• Hiroshi Ogawa

  15 km: 65th place (59: 55.4 min)

• Sotoo Okushiba

  50 km: 38th place (2: 45: 09.4 h)

  4 x 10 km relay: 10th place (2: 20: 54.8 h)

• Kazuo Sato

  15 km: race not finished

  30 km: 45th place (1: 46: 12.4 h)

  4 x 10 km relay: 10th place (2: 20: 54.8 h)

• Tokyo Sato

  15 km: 50th place (53: 41.2 min)

  30 km: 33rd place (1: 43: 13.8 h)

  50 km: 29th place (2: 40: 00.5 h)

  4 x 10 km relay: 10th place (2: 20: 54.8 h)

Women

• Fujiko Kato

  5 km: 32nd place (18: 28.2 min)

  10 km: 23rd place (40: 40.0 min)

Ski jumping

• Seiji Aochi

  Large hill: 26th place (185.0)

• Masakatsu Asari

  Normal hill: 57th place (169.8)

• Takashi Fujisawa

  Normal hill: 26th place (194.5)

  Large hill: 18th place (192.7)

• Yukio Kasaya

  Normal hill: 23rd place (196.4)

  Large hill: 20th place (191.1)

• Akitsugu Konno

  Normal hill: 24th place (196.3)

  Large hill: 20th place (191.1)

Web links

• Japan at the 1968 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )