1980 Winter Olympics / Participant (Japan)

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Japan took part in the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid with a delegation of 50 athletes (46 men, 4 women). Ice hockey player Osamu Wakabayashi was chosen as the flag bearer for the opening ceremony.

Participants by sport

biathlon

Men's:

• Hiroyuki Deguchi

  10 km: 26th place

  20 km: 39th place

  4 × 7.5 km: 13th place

• Tsusumisa Kikuchi

  20 km: 41st place

  4 × 7.5 km: 13th place

• Masaichi Kinoshita

  10 km: 43rd place

  20 km: 28th place

  4 × 7.5 km: 13th place

• Takashi Shibata

  10 km: 37th place

  4 × 7.5 km: 13th place

bob

Two-man bobsleigh:

• Yuji Funayama / Yoshimitsu Kadowaki

  19th place

ice Hockey

Men: 11th place

Takeshi Azuma Tadamitsu Fujii Tsutomu Hanzawa Sadaki Honma Hiroshi Hori Yoshio Hoshino Mikio Hosoi Norio Ito Takeshi Iwamoto Katsutoshi Kawamura

Yoshiaki Kyoya Mikio Matsuda Minoru Misawa Satoru Misawa Hitoshi Nakamura Iwao Nakayama Hideo Sakurai Hideo Urabe Osamu Wakabayashi Koji Wakasa

figure skating

Women: Emi Watanabe 6th place

Men's: Fumio Igarashi 9th place Mitsuru Matsumura 8th place

Speed ​​skating

Women: Miyoshi Kato 1000 m: 17th place 1500 m: 24th place 3000 m: 21st place Makiko Nagaya 500 m: 7th place 1000 m: 9th place Yuko Yaegashi-Ota 1000 m: 25th place 1500 m: 23rd place 3000 m: 25th place

Men's: Kaoru Fukuda 500 m: 14th place 1000 m: 19th place Kazuaki Ichimura 500 m: 20th place 1000 m: 25th place Masayuki Kawahara 1000 m: 23rd place 1500 m: 20th place 5000 m: 25th place Yasuhiro Shimizu 1500 m: 24th place 5000 m: 16th place 10,000 m: 9th place Masahiko Yamamoto 1500 m: 19th place 5000 m: 21st place 10,000 m: 17th place

Sledding

Men's: Koji Kuriyama 19th place Takashi Takagi 23rd place

Double seater: Koji Kuriyama / Takashi Takagi 13th place

Alpine skiing

Men's:

• Toshihiro Kaiwa

  Giant slalom: 29th place

  Slalom: DNF

• Mikio Katagiri

  Departure: 21st place

• Osamu Kodama

  Giant Slalom: DNF

  Slalom: DNF

• Atsushi Sawada

  Giant slalom: 36th place

  Slalom: 15th place

Nordic skiing

Cross-country skiing

Men's:

• Shiro Sato

  15 km: 43rd place

  30 km: 39th place

  50 km: 37th place

Nordic combination

Men's:

• Toshihiro Hanada

  Individual: 27th place

• Michio Kubota

  Singles: 25th place

Ski jumping

Men's:

• Hiroyasu Aizawa

  Normal hill: 42nd place

  Large hill: 35th place

• Masahiro Akimoto

  Normal hill: 4th place

  Large hill: 10th place

• Takafumi Kawabata

  Normal hill: 29th place

  Large hill: 32nd place

• Hirokazu Yagi

  Normal hill:

  Large hill: 19th place

Web links

• Japanese Olympic team 1980 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )