2010 Winter Olympics / Participant (Japan)

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Entry of the Japanese delegation

Japan took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada with 94 athletes in 14 sports.

Flag bearer

At the opening ceremony, speed skater Tomomi Okazaki , who was taking part in the Olympic Games for the fifth time , led the team as the flag bearer. The figure skater Mao Asada carried the Japanese flag during the graduation ceremony.

Medalist

silver

Surname	sport	competition
Keiichirō Nagashima	Speed ​​skating	500 m (M)
Mao Asada	figure skating	Single (F)
Masako Hozumi , Nao Kodaira , Maki Tabata	Speed ​​skating	Team tracking (F)

bronze

Surname	sport	competition
Jōji Katō	Speed ​​skating	500 m (M)
Daisuke Takahashi	figure skating	Single (M)

Participants by sport

biathlon

Men

• Hidenori Isa
• Fuyuko Suzuki

bob

Men Hiroshi Suzuki & Two-man bobsleigh: 21st place Ryūichi Kobayashi & Two-man bobsleigh: 21st place Shinji Doigawa & Masaru Miyauchi

Women Manami Hino & Konomi Asazu 16th place

Curling

Women

• Moe Meguro (Skip)
• Mari Motohashi (Third)
• Mayo Yamaura (Second)
• Kotomi Ishizaki (Lead)
• Anna Ōmiya (replacement)

figure skating

Men Takahiko Kozuka (Individual) Nobunari Oda (singles) Daisuke Takahashi (Singles) bronze Chris Reed (ice dance)

Women Miki Andō (individual) Mao Asada (individual) silver Cathy Reed (ice dance) Akiko Suzuki (Individual)

Speed ​​skating

Men Shigeyuki Dejima 5000 m: 27th place Shingo Doi 1500 m: 30th place Ryōhei Haga 1000 m: 29th place Hiroki Hirako 5000 m: 19th place 10000 m: 11th place Jōji Katō 500 m: bronze Keiichirō Nagashima 500 m: silver Tadashi Obara 1000 m: 17th place Akio Ōta 500 m: 17th place Yūya Oikawa 500 m: 13th place Teruhiro Sugimori 1000 m: 26th place 1500 m: 26th place

Women Masako Hozumi 3000 m: 6th place Team Pursuit: Silver Shiho Ishizawa 3000 m: 15th place Nao Kodaira 500 m: 12th place 1000 m: 5th place 1500 m: 5th place Team Pursuit: Silver Eri Natori 3000 m: 20th place Tomomi Okazaki 500 m: 16th place 1000 m: 34th place Shihomi Shin'ya 500 m: 14th place Maki Tabata 1500 m: 19th place Team Pursuit: Silver Miho Takagi 1000 m: 35th place 1500 m: 23rd place Sayuri Yoshii 500 m: 5th place 1000 m: 15th place 1500 m: 26th place

Freestyle skiing

Men Shō Endō (Moguls) Nobuyuki Nishi (Moguls) Kai Ozaki (Moguls) Hiroomi Takizawa (ski cross) Yūgo Tsukita (Moguls)

Women Noriko Fukushima (ski cross) Miki Itō (Moguls) Arisa Murata (Moguls) Tae Satoya (Moguls) Aiko Uemura (Moguls)

Nordic combination

Men

• Taihei Kato
• Norihito Kobayashi
• Yūsuke Minato
• Daito Takahashi
• Akito Watabe

Luge

Men Takahisa Oguchi , 30th place

Women Madoka Harada , 26th place Aya Yasuda , disqualified

Short track

Men Takahiro Fujimoto Yūzō Takamidō Jumpei Yoshizawa

Women Ayuko Itō Mika Ozawa Hiroko Sadakane 1500 m: 12th place Yui Sakai Biba Sakurai

skeleton

Men Kazuhiro Koshi , 20th place Shinsuke Tayama , 19th place

Women Nozomi Komuro , disqualified

Alpine skiing

Men

• Kentaro Minagawa
• Akira Sasaki

Cross-country skiing

Men Nobu Naruse 50 km mass start (classic): 35th place Yūichi Onda

Women Nobuko Fukuda Masako Ishida Michiko Kashiwabara Madoka Natsumi

Ski jumping

Men

• Noriaki Kasai

  Normal hill: 17th place

• Takanobu Okabe
• Daiki Itō

  Normal hill: 15th place

• Shōhei Tochimoto

  Normal hill: 37th place

• Taku Takeuchi

  Normal hill: 34th place

Snowboard

Men Ryō Aono (half pipe) Kazuhiro Kokubo (half pipe) Kōhei Kudō (halfpipe) Daisuke Murakami (half pipe) Yūki Nofuji (Parallel)

Women Natsuko Doi (snowboard cross) Yuka Fujimori (snowboard cross) Shiho Nakashima (half pipe) Rana Okada (half pipe) Tomoka Takeuchi (Parallel) Sōko Yamaoka (halfpipe) Eri Yanetani (parallel)

Web links

• Nihon Olympic Iinkai (Japanese Olympic Committee) (Japanese, English: Japanese Olympic Committee )