1972 Winter Olympics / Participant (Japan)

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Japan participated in the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo with a delegation of 85 athletes, 65 men and 20 women.

It was Japan's ninth participation in the Winter Olympics since 1928 .

Medals

With one gained gold, silver and bronze medals, the Japanese team was ranked 11 in the medal count .

gold

• Yukio Kasaya : Nordic skiing, ski jumping, normal hill (K70)

silver

• Akitsugu Konno : Nordic skiing, ski jumping, normal hill (K70)

bronze

• Seiji Aochi : Nordic skiing, ski jumping, normal hill (K70)

Participants by sport

Alpine skiing

Ladies

• Miyuki Katagiri

  Departure: 35th place - 1: 44.10 min

  Giant slalom: 30th place - 1: 39.11 min

  Slalom: DNF

• Mitsuyo Nagumo

  Downhill: 32nd place - 1: 43.07 min

  Giant slalom: DSQ

  Slalom: DNF

• Emiko Okazaki

  Departure: 40th place - 1: 45.37 min

  Giant slalom: 22nd place - 1: 35.33 min

  Slalom: 16th place - 1: 40.67 min

• Harue Okitsu

  Downhill: 13th place - 1: 40.62 min

  Giant slalom: 9th place - 1: 33.08 min

  Slalom: DNF

Men's

• Haruhisa Chiba

  Giant slalom: 19th place - 3: 17.23 min

  Slalom: DNF

• Toshimasa Furukawa

  Giant slalom: 15th place - 3: 15.34 min

  Slalom: 17th place - 1: 54.83 min

• Masami Ichimura

  Departure: 29th place - 1: 56.67 min

• Masayoshi Kashiwagi

  Giant slalom: DSQ

  Slalom: 18th place - 1: 56.61 min

• Masahiko Otsue

  Departure: DSQ

  Giant slalom: 6th place - 3: 11.94 min

• Sumihiro Tomii

  Departure: 22nd place - 1: 55.34 min

biathlon

Men's

• Isao Ono

  Individual (20 km): 25th place - 1: 23: 26.83 h; 7 mistakes

  Relay (4 × 7.5 km): 8th place - 1: 59: 09.81 min

• Shozo Sasaki

  Individual (20 km): 23rd place - 1: 23: 05.54 h; 5 mistakes

  Relay (4 × 7.5 km): 8th place - 1: 59: 09.81 min

• Kazuo Sasakubo

  Individual (20 km): 38th place - 1: 28: 07.43 h; 9 mistakes

  Relay (4 × 7.5 km): 8th place - 1: 59: 09.81 min

• Miki Shibuya

  Individual (20 km): 17th place - 1: 21: 57.27 h; 5 mistakes

  Relay (4 × 7.5 km): 8th place - 1: 59: 09.81 min

bob

Two-man bobsleigh

• Kazumi Abe / Susumu Esashika (JAP I)

  15th place - 5: 06.59 min

• Rikio Sato / Akihiko Suzuki (JAP II)

  21st place - 5: 11.91 min

Four-man bobsleigh

• Kazumi Abe / Susumu Esashika / Yoshiyuki Ichihashi / Rikio Sato (JAP I)

  12th place - 4: 47.92 min

• Hiroshi Inaba / Toshihisa Nagata / Koichi Sugawara / Akihiko Suzuki (JAP II)

  DSQ

ice Hockey

Men: 7th place

Takeshi Akiba Tsutomu Hanzawa Takao Hikigi Teruyasu Honma Hiroshi Hori Yoshio Hoshino Minoru Ito Koji Iwamoto Isao Kakihara Hideaki Kurokawa

Minoru Misawa Iwao Nakayama Toru Okajima Toshimitsu Otsubo Hideo Suzuki Yasushio Tanaka Takashi Tsuburai Osamu Wakabayashi Fumio Yamazaki

figure skating

Ladies

• Kazumi Yamashita

  10th place

Men's

• Yutaka Higuchi

  16th place

Couples

• Kotoe Nagasawa / Hiroshi Nagakubo

  Pair skating: 10th place

Speed ​​skating

Ladies

• Akiko Aruga

  3000 m: 18th place - 5: 22.60 min

• Kaname Ide

  1500 m: 18th place - 2: 28.34 min

  3000 m: 16th place - 5: 17.30 min

• Satomi Koike

  1500 m: 11th place - 2: 25.16 min

  3000 m: 12th place - 5: 09.21 min

• Ryoko Onozawa

  500 m: 21st place - 46.70 s

  1000 m: 28th place - 1: 36.99 min

• Sachiko Saito

  500 m: 9th place - 45.35 s

  1000 m: 18th place - 1: 35.12 min

• Emiko Taguchi

  1000 m: 15th place - 1: 34.40 min

  1500 m: 17th place - 2: 28.19 min

Men's

• Takayuki Hida

  500 m: 13th place - 40.62 s

• Norio Hirate

  500 m: 17th place - 41.08 s

• Kiyomi Ito

  1500 m: 22nd place - 2: 11.96 min

  5000 m: 13th place - 7: 45.96 min

  10,000 m: 10th place - 15: 48.17 min

• Mutsuhiko Maeda

  1500 m: 20th place - 2: 11.09 min

• Osamu Naito

  5000 m: 16th place - 7: 56.97 min

  10,000 m: 12th place - 15: 52.93 min

• Keiichi Suzuki

  500 m: 19th place - 41.28 s

• Masaki Suzuki

  500 m: 8th place - 40.35 s

Sledding

Ladies

• Miyako Kawase

  19th place - 3: 08.10 min

• Yuko Otaka

  5th place - 3: 00.98 min

• Hiroko Shibuya

  13th place - 3: 04.45 min

Men's singles

• Satoru Arai

  26th place - 3: 37.31 min

• Masako Eguchi

  18th place - 3: 33.81 min

• Kazuaki Ichikawa

  20th place - 3: 34.99 min

• Masatoshi Kobayashi

  24th place - 3: 36.39 min

Men's two-seater

• Satoru Arai / Masatoshi Kobayashi

  4th place - 1: 29.63 min

• Masako Eguchi / Kazuaki Ichikawa

  18th place - 1: 33.56 min

Nordic skiing

Cross-country skiing

Ladies

• Akiko Akasaka

  5 km: 43rd place - 19: 49.74 min

• Harumi Imai

  5 km: 38th place - 19: 05.73 min

  10 km: 37th place - 39: 33.13 min

• Tokiko Ozeki

  5 km: 37th place - 19: 00.82 min

  10 km: 33rd place - 38: 07.24 min

  3x5 km relay: 9th place - 53: 20.75 min

• Hideko Saito

  10 km: 38th place - 39: 51.61 min

  3x5 km relay: 9th place - 53: 20.75 min

• Hiroko Takahashi

  5 km: 34th place - 18: 32.75 min

  10 km: 25th place - 36: 53.84 min

  3x5 km relay: 9th place - 53: 20.75 min

Men's

• Seiji Kudo

  30 km: 44th place - 1: 47: 00.40 h

  50 km: 29th place - 2: 57: 42.62 h

• Motoharu Matsumura

  15 km: 51st place - 50: 43.76 min

  50 km: DNF

• Akiyoshi Matsuoka

  15 km: 43rd place - 49: 50.72 min

  4x10 km relay: 10th place - 2: 13: 59.14 h

• Tomio Okamura

  30 km: 47th place - 1: 47: 50.22 h

  4x10 km relay: 10th place - 2: 13: 59.14 h

• Kunio Shibata

  15 km: 41st place - 49: 38.95 min

  30 km: 23rd place - 1: 42: 30.83 h

  4x10 km relay: 10th place - 2: 13: 59.14 h

• Hideo Tanifuji

  15 km: 37th place - 49: 06.97 min

  30 km: 37th place - 1: 45: 37.13 h

  4x10 km relay: 10th place - 2: 13: 59.14 h

Ski jumping

• Yukio Kasaya

  Normal hill: - 244.2 points

  Large hill: 7th place - 209.4 points

• Akitsugu Konno

  Normal hill: - 234.8 points

  Large hill: 12th place - 199.1 points

• Seiji Aochi

  Normal hill: - 229.5 points

• Takashi Fujisawa

  Normal hill: 23rd place - 207.8 points

  Large hill: 14th place - 197.1 points

• Hiroshi Itagaki

  Large hill: 19th place - 183.1 points

Nordic combination

• Kazuo Araya

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

• Yūji Katsuro

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 5th place

• Hideki Nakano

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 13th place

• Nobutaka Sasaki

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

Web link

• Japanese Olympic team 1972 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )