1976 Winter Olympics / Participant (Japan)

JPN

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Japan took part in the 1976 Winter Olympic Games in the Austrian Innsbruck with a delegation of 58 athletes, 50 men and 8 women, in part.

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

Flag bearer

The speed skater Masaki Suzuki carried the flag of Japan during the opening ceremony in the Bergisel Stadium.

Participants by sport

Alpine skiing

Men's:

• Haruhisa Chiba

  Giant slalom: DSQ

  Slalom: DNF

• Masami Ichimura

  Giant Slalom: DNF

  Slalom: DNF

• Mikio Katagiri

  Downhill: 27th place - 1: 50.03 min

  Giant slalom: 37th place - 3: 52.73 min

  Slalom: DNF

• Sumihiro Tomii

  Downhill: 20th place - 1: 48.88 min

  Giant slalom: 34th place - 3: 49.73 min

  Slalom: 29th place - 2: 18.67 min

biathlon

Men's:

• Hiroyuki Deguchi

  Individual (20 km): 30th place - 1: 24: 53.84 h; 6 mistakes

  Relay (4 × 7.5 km): 14th place - 2: 17: 09.04 h; 10 mistakes

• Isao Ono

  Relay (4 × 7.5 km): 14th place - 2: 17: 09.04 h; 10 mistakes

• Kazuo Sasakubo

  Individual (20 km): 41st place - 1: 27: 35.31 h; 6 mistakes

• Yoshiyuki Shirate

  Relay (4 × 7.5 km): 14th place - 2: 17: 09.04 h; 10 mistakes

• Manabu Suzuki

  Individual (20 km): 38th place - 1: 26: 35.79 h; 7 mistakes

  Relay (4 × 7.5 km): 14th place - 2: 17: 09.04 h; 10 mistakes

bob

Two-man bobsleigh: Kazumi Abe / Susumu Esashika (JPN I) 24th place - 3: 56.06 min Rikio Sato / Kimihiro Shinada (JPN II) 22nd place - 3: 53.72 min

Four-man bobsleigh: Kazumi Abe / Susumu Esashika / Rikio Sato / Kimihiro Shinada 18th place - 3: 49.41 min

ice Hockey

Men: 9th place

Takeshi Akiba Takeshi Azuma Kiyoshi Esashika Tsutomu Hanzawa Sadaki Honma Hiroshi Hori Yoshio Hoshino Minoru Ito Yoshiaki Kyoya

Minoru Misawa Hitoshi Nakamura Iwao Nakayama Toshimitsu Otsubo Hideo Sakurai Yasushio Tanaka Hideo Urabe Osamu Wakabayashi Koji Wakasa

figure skating

Women: Emi Watanabe 13th place

Men's: Mitsuru Matsumura 11th place Minoru Sano 9th place

Speed ​​skating

Women: Keiko Hasegawa 500 m: 17th place - 45.09 s 1000 m: 24th place - 1: 35.42 min Chieko Ito 1500 m: 22nd place - 2: 25.27 min 3000 m: 21st place - 5: 02.57 min Makiko Nagaya 500 m: 7th place - 43.88 s 1000 m: 9th place - 1: 31.23 min Yuko Yaegashi-Ota 1000 m: 20th place - 1: 33.99 min 1500 m: 24th place - 2: 25.74 min 3000 m: 19th place - 4: 58.92 min

Men's: Norio Hirate 500 m: 16th place - 40.85 s 1000 m: 30th place - 1: 29.42 min Masayuki Kawahara 5000 m: 24th place - 8: 10.08 min Mikio Oyama 500 m: 18th place - 40.90 s 1000 m: 24th place - 1: 25.91 min Masaki Suzuki 500 m: 11th place - 40.22 s 1000 m: 19th place - 1: 23.40 min Masahiko Yamamoto 1500 m: 21st place - 2: 06.67 min 5000 m: 22nd place - 8: 06.97 min 10,000 m: 16th place - 16: 20.83 min

Sledding

Women: Mieko Ogawa 19th place - 3: 00.730 min Teruko Yamada 20th place - 3: 00.808 min

Men's: Kazuaki Ichikawa 27th place - 3: 42.442 min Hidetoshi Sato 24th place - 3: 40.931 min

Double seater: Kazuaki Ichikawa / Masaaki Oyagi 18th place - 1: 30.583 min

Nordic skiing

Cross-country skiing

Women: Mikiko Terui 5 km: 26th place - 17: 29.65 min 10 km: 30th place - 33: 25.81 min

Men's: Ryoji Fujiki 15 km: 58th place - 49: 40.48 min 30 km: 57th place - 1: 42: 59.25 h Kiyoshi Hayasaka 15 km: 50th place - 48: 46.93 min 30 km: 55th place - 1: 41: 33.76 h

Ski jumping

• Hiroshi Itagaki

  Normal hill: 20th place - 221.1 points

  Large hill: 19th place - 183.1 points

• Takao Ito

  Normal hill: 24th place - 213.9 points

  Large hill: 22nd place - 183.2 points

• Kōji Kakuta

  Normal hill: 29th place - 210.4 points

• Yukio Kasaya

  Normal hill: 16th place - 224.0 points

  Large hill: 17th place - 192.3 points

• Minoru Wakasa

  Large hill: 29th place - 177.5 points

Nordic combination

• Yūji Katsuro

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

• Michio Kubota

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

Web links

• Japanese Olympic Team 1976 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )