1998 Winter Olympics / Participant (Japan)

JPN

5	1	4th

Japan took part in the 1998 Winter Olympics in their native Nagano with a delegation of 156 athletes in all 14 disciplines, 92 of them men and 64 women. With five gold medals, one silver medal and four bronze medals, the host achieved seventh place in the medal table. The most successful Japanese participant was the ski jumper Kazuyoshi Funaki , who became Olympic champion on the large hill and with the team. He also won silver on the normal hill.

The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the speed skater Hiroyasu Shimizu .

Participants by sport

biathlon

Men

• Atsushi Kazama

  10 km sprint: 61st place (31: 41.2 min)

  20 km individual: 45th place (1: 02: 23.5 h)

  4 × 7.5 km relay: 15th place (1: 27: 55.7 h)

• Hironao Meguro

  20 km individual: 28th place (1: 00: 38.2 h)

  4 × 7.5 km relay: 15th place (1: 27: 55.7 h)

• Shuichi Sekiya

  10 km sprint: 43rd place (30: 33.4 min)

  4 × 7.5 km relay: 15th place (1: 27: 55.7 h)

• Kyōji Suga

  10 km sprint: 18th place (29: 19.4 min)

  20 km individual: 14th place (59: 15.6 min)

  4 × 7.5 km relay: 15th place (1: 27: 55.7 h)

Women

• Hiromi Suga

  7.5 km sprint: 53rd place (26: 13.5 min)

  15 km individual: 37th place (1: 01: 21.9 h)

  4 × 7.5 km relay: 14th place (1: 46: 23.0 h)

• Mami Shindo

  15 km individual: 29th place (59: 59.3 min)

  4 × 7.5 km relay: 14th place (1: 46: 23.0 h)

• Ryoko Takahashi

  7.5 km sprint: 55th place (26: 34.2 min)

  15 km individual: 6th place (56: 17.4 min)

  4 × 7.5 km relay: 14th place (1: 46: 23.0 h)

• Mie Takeda

  7.5 km sprint: 61st place (28: 10.1 min)

  4 × 7.5 km relay: 14th place (1: 46: 23.0 h)

bob

Men, twos

• Naomi Takewaki , Hiroaki Ohishi (JPN-1)

  17th place (3: 40.71 min)

• Hiroshi Suzuki , Masanori Inoue (JPN-2)

  19th place (3: 40.80 min)

Men, foursome

• Naomi Takewaki , Hiroaki Ohishi , Takashi Ohori , Masanori Inoue (JPN-1)

  15th place (2: 41.55 min)

• Toshio Wakita , Yasuo Nakamura , Toshiya Onoda , Shinji Aoto (JPN-2)

  16th place (2: 41.96 min)

Curling

Men

• Makoto Tsuruga (Skip), Hiroshi Satō , Yoshiyuki Ōmiya , Hirofumi Kudō , Hisaaki Nakamine

  5th place

Women

• Mayumi Ōkutsu (Skip), Akiko Katō , Yukari Kondō , Yōko Mimura , Akemi Niwa

  5th place

ice Hockey

Men

Dusty Imoo Shichi Iwasaki Jirō Nihei Takeshi Yamanaka Takayuki Kobori Hiroyuki Miura Tatsuki Katayama Yutaka Kawaguchi Takayuki Miura Atsuo Kudo Shin Yahata Fujita Kiyoshi

Matthew Kabayama Akihito Sugisawa Ryan Kuwabara Kunihiko Sakurai Toshiyuki Sakai Tsutsumi Ōtomo Yūji Iga Chris Yule Steven Tsujiura Hiroshi Matsuura Makoto Kawahira

• 13th place

Women

Miharu Araki Shiho Fujiwara Akiko Hatanaka Mitsuko Igarashi Yokō Kondō Akiko Naka Maiko Obikawa Yuka Oda Yukari Ohno Chie Sakuma

Ayumi Sato Masako Satō Rie Sato Satomi Ōno Yuiko Satomi Aki Sudo Yuki Togawa Aki Tsuchida Haruka Watanabe Naho Yoshimi

• 6th place

figure skating

Men

• Takeshi Honda

  15th place (21.0)

• Yamato Tamura

  17th place (24.5)

Women

• Shizuka Arakawa

  13th place (21.0)

Couples

• Marie Arai & Shin Amano

  20th place (30.0)

Ice dance

• Aya Kawai & Hiroshi Tanaka

  23rd place (45.6)

Speed ​​skating

Men

• Toru Aoyanagi

  1500 m: 8th place (1: 50.68 min)

• Manabu Horii

  500 m: 13th place (72.78 s)

  1000 m: 17th place (1: 12.40 min)

• Yusuke Imai

  1000 m: 11th place (1: 11.96 min)

  1500 m: 16th place (1: 51.70 min)

• Toshiyuki Kuroiwa

  500 m: 16th place (72.97 s)

• Hiroyuki Noake

  1000 m: 25th place (1: 12.68 min)

  1500 m: 7th place (1: 50.49 min)

  5000 m: 25th place (6: 51.35 min)

• Takahiro Nozaki

  5000 m: 17th place (6: 42.30 min)

• Hiroyasu Shimizu

  500 m: gold (71.35 s)

  1000 m: bronze (1: 11.00 min)

• Keiji Shirahata

  1500 m: 21st place (1: 52.23 min)

  5000 m: 7th place (6: 36.71 min)

  10,000 m: 14th place (13: 57.45 min)

• Hiroaki Yamakage

  500 m: 15th place (72.91 s)

Women

• Shiho Kusunose

  500 m: 12th place (78.80 s)

  1000 m: 11th place (1: 18.82 min)

  1500 m: 23rd place (2: 04.38 min)

• Noriko Munekata

  3000 m: 18th place (4: 20.72 min)

• Nami Nemoto

  5000 m: 15th place (7: 36.77 min)

• Chiharu Nozaki

  1500 m: 15th place (2: 02.78 min)

  3000 m: 17th place (4: 19.60 min)

• Tomomi Okazaki

  500 m: bronze (77.10 s)

  1000 m: 7th place (1: 18.27 min)

• Eriko Sanmiya

  500 m: 11th place (78.56 s)

  1000 m: 8th place (1: 18.36 min)

• Kyoko Shimazaki

  500 m: 5th place (77.68 s)

  1000 m: 22nd place (1: 20.49 min)

• Aki Tonoike

  1500 m: 16th place (2: 02.84 min)

• Mie Uehara

  1500 m: 21st place (2: 03.37 min)

  3000 m: 14th place (4: 17.92 min)

  5000 m: 11th place (7: 21.72 min)

Freestyle skiing

Men

• Kazuaki Ando

  Jumping: 23rd place (eliminated in qualification)

• Daigo Hara

  Mogul slope: 15th place (12.13)

• Gota Miura

  Moguls: 13th place (23.06)

• Takehiro Sakamoto

  Mogul slope: 30th place (eliminated in qualification)

• Yugo Tsukita

  Mogul slope: 18th place (eliminated in qualification)

Women

• Tae Satoya

  Moguls: Gold (25.06)

• Aiko Uemura

  Mogul slope: 7th place (23.79)

Nordic combination

• Junichi Kogawa

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 23rd place (45: 36.8 min)

• Satoshi Mori

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 38th place (48: 29.0 min)

  Team (normal hill / 5 km): 5th place (56: 18.8 min)

• Kenji Ogiwara

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 4th place (42: 42.2 min)

  Team (normal hill / 5 km): 5th place (56: 18.8 min)

• Tsugiharu Ogiwara

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 6th place (42: 46.4 min)

  Team (normal hill / 5 km): 5th place (56: 18.8 min)

• Gen Tomii

  Team (normal hill / 5 km): 5th place (56: 18.8 min)

Luge

Men, single-seaters

• Shigeaki Ushijima

  16th place (3: 22.303 min)

Men, two-seaters

• Atsushi Sasaki & Kei Takahashi

  14th place (1: 43.376 min)

Women

• Yumie Kobayashi

  25th place (3: 30.770 min)

• Eriko Yamada

  21st place (3: 29.423 min)

• Shino Yanagisawa

  23rd place (3: 29.834 min)

Short track

Men

• Takafumi Nishitani

  500 m: gold (42.862 s)

• Takehiro Kodera

  5000 m relay: 5th place (7: 01.660 min, Olympic record in the B final)

• Yugo Shinohara

  5000 m relay: 5th place (7: 01.660 min, Olympic record in the B final)

• Naoya Tamura

  1000 m: 5th place (1: 32.927 min)

  5000 m relay: 5th place (7: 01.660 min, Olympic record in the B final)

• Satoru Terao

  500 m: 13th place (eliminated in the quarterfinals)

  1000 m: 9th place (eliminated in the semi-finals)

  5000 m relay: 5th place (7: 01.660 min, Olympic record in the B final)

• Hitoshi Uematsu

  500 m: bronze (43.713 s)

  1000 m: 15th place (disqualified in the quarterfinals)

Women

• Sachi Ozawa

  1000 m: 10th place (eliminated in the quarterfinals)

  3000 m relay: 4th place (4: 30.612 min)

• Chikage Tanaka

  500 m: 9th place (eliminated in the semi-finals)

  1000 m: 15th place (eliminated in the quarterfinals)

  3000 m relay: 4th place (4: 30.612 min)

• Ikue Teshigawara

  500 m: 6th place (46.889 s)

  1000 m: 5th place (1: 37.693 min)

  3000 m relay: 4th place (4: 30.612 min)

• Ayako Tsubaki

  500 m: 25th place (eliminated in the preliminary run)

• Nobuko Yamada

  3000 m relay: 4th place (4: 30.612 min)

Alpine skiing

Men

• Gaku Hirasawa

  Slalom: 20th place (1: 55.24 min)

• Takuya Ishioka

  Giant Slalom: 29th place (2: 49.51 min)

  Slalom: 21st place (1: 55.69 min)

• Kiminobu Kimura

  Giant Slalom: 25th place (2: 46.35 min)

  Slalom: 13th place (1: 52.15 min)

• Kentaro Minagawa

  Giant slalom: race not finished

  Slalom: race not finished

• Yasuyuki Takishita

  Departure: race not finished

  Super-G: 27th place (1: 38.39 min)

  Combination: slalom race not finished

• Tsuyoshi Tomii

  Downhill: 17th place (1: 52.62 min)

  Super-G: 24th place (1: 37.86 min)

Women

• Kumiko Kashiwagi

  Super-G: 36th place (1: 21.89 min)

  Giant Slalom: 27th place (3: 01.91 min)

  Slalom: 24th place (1: 40.46 min)

• Noriyo Hiroi

  Giant slalom: race not finished

  Slalom: disqualified

• Kazuko Ikeda

  Giant slalom: 25th place (3: 00.71 min)

  Slalom: 17th place (1: 37.29 min)

• Junko Yamakawa

  Giant Slalom: 29th place (3: 03.95 min)

  Slalom: 20th place (1: 38.10 min)

  Combination: 16th place (2: 50.36 min)

Cross-country skiing

Men

• Katsuhito Ebisawa

  10 km classic: 34th place (29: 30.0 min)

  15 km pursuit: 21st place (42: 46.0 min)

  30 km classic: 27th place (1: 40: 48.0 h)

  50 km freestyle: 39th place (2: 18: 52.5 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 7th place (1: 43: 06.7 h)

• Mitsuo Horigome

  10 km classic: 36th place (29: 44.8 min)

  15 km pursuit: 22nd place (42: 47.1 min)

  50 km freestyle: 32nd place (2: 17: 09.2 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 7th place (1: 43: 06.7 h)

• Hiroyuki Imai

  10 km classic: 19th place (28: 51.5 min)

  15 km pursuit: 28th place (43: 31.0 min)

  30 km classic: 24th place (1: 40: 40.9 h)

  50 km freestyle: 30th place (2: 16: 49.5 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 7th place (1: 43: 06.7 h)

• Masaaki Kōzu

  10 km classic: 29th place (29: 23.1 min)

  15 km pursuit: 24th place (42: 59.9 min)

  30 km classic: 56th place (1: 48: 15.3 h)

• Kazutoshi Nagahama

  30 km classic: 42nd place (1: 42: 58.7 h)

  50 km freestyle: 33rd place (2: 17: 24.4 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 7th place (1: 43: 06.7 h)

Women

• Fumiko Aoki

  5 km classic: 31st place (19: 04.8 min)

  10 km pursuit: 29th place (31: 50.1 min)

  15 km classic: 37th place (51: 53.7 min)

  4 × 5 km relay: 10th place (58: 22.8 min)

• Midori Furusawa

  30 km freestyle: 38th place (1: 33: 16.2 h)

• Tomomi Ōtaka

  5 km classic: 46th place (19: 28.8 min)

  10 km pursuit: 48th place (33: 21.9 min)

  4 × 5 km relay: 10th place (58: 22.8 min)

• Emiko Sato

  15 km classic: 54th place (54: 11.1 min)

• Kumiko Yokoyama

  5 km classic: 50th place (19: 34.5 min)

  10 km pursuit: 46th place (33: 07.0 min)

  15 km classic: 34th place (51: 48.7 min)

  30 km freestyle: 39th place (1: 33: 19.7 h)

  4 × 5 km relay: 10th place (58: 22.8 min)

• Sumiko Yokoyama

  5 km classic: 25th place (18: 55.1 min)

  10 km pursuit: 25th place (31: 04.2 min)

  15 km classic: 24th place (50: 55.3 min)

  30 km freestyle: 32nd place (1: 32: 04.3 h)

  4 × 5 km relay: 10th place (58: 22.8 min)

Ski jumping

• Kazuyoshi Funaki

  Normal hill: Silver (233.5)

  Large hill: Gold (272.3)

  Team: Gold (933.0)

• Masahiko Harada

  Normal hill: 5th place (228.5)

  Large hill: Bronze (258.3)

  Team: Gold (933.0)

• Noriaki Kasai

  Normal hill: 7th place (221.5)

• Takanobu Okabe

  Large hill: 6th place (250.1)

  Team: Gold (933.0)

• Hiroya Saitō

  Normal hill: 9th place (213.5)

  Large hill: 47th place (not qualified for the 2nd jump)

  Team: Gold (933.0)

Snowboard

Men

• Takamasa Imai

  Halfpipe: 28th place (not qualified for the final)

• Takashi Nishida

  Halfpipe: 20th place (not qualified for the final)

• Makoto Takagaki

  Halfpipe: 22nd place (not qualified for the final)

• Shin'ichi Watanabe

  Halfpipe: 26th place (not qualified for the final)

Women

• Kaori Takeyama

  Halfpipe: 18th place (not qualified for the final)

• Shinobu Ueshima

  Giant Slalom: 15th place (2: 28.05 min)

• Yuri Yoshikawa

  Halfpipe: 16th place (not qualified for the final)

Web links

• Japan at the 1998 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )