2014 Winter Olympics / Participant (Japan)

JPN

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Japan took part in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi in part with 136 athletes in 15 sports. The flag bearer of the Japanese delegation at the opening ceremony was Ayumi Ogasawara .

sports

biathlon

Women Miki Kobayashi Yuki Nakajima Fuyuko Suzuki Rina Suzuki

Men Hidenori Isa

bob

Men Hiroshi Suzuki Two-man bobsleigh Four-man bobsleigh Hisashi Miyazaki Two-man bobsleigh Four-man bobsleigh Toshiki Kuroiwa Four-man bobsleigh Shintaro Sato Four-man bobsleigh

Curling

Women Ayumi Ogasawara (Skip) Yumie Funayama Kaho Onodera Michiko Tomabechi Chinami Yoshida

ice Hockey

Women

Goalkeepers: Nana Fujimoto ( Vortex Sapporo ) Akane Konishi ( Kushiro Bears ) Azusa Nakaoku ( Toyota Cygnus ) Defenders: Kanae Aoki (Mitsuboshi Daito Peregrine) Mika Hori (Toyota Cygnus) Shiori Koike ( Mitsuboshi Daito Peregrine ) Yoko Kondō ( Seibu Princess Rabbits ) Sena Suzuki (Seibu Princess Rabbits) Aina Takeuchi (Daishin) Ayaka Toko ( Daishin )

Strikers: Yurie Adachi (Seibu Princess Rabbits) Moeko Fujimoto (Mitsuboshi Daito Peregrine) Yuka Hirano (Mitsuboshi Daito Peregrine) Hanae Kubo (Seibu Princess Rabbits) Ami Nakamura (Seibu Princess Rabbits) Chiho Ōsawa (Mitsuboshi Daito Peregrine) Tomoko Sakagami (Mitsuboshi Daito Peregrine) Miho Shishiuchi (Kushiro Bears) Rui Ukita (Daishin) Tomoe Yamane (Daishin) Haruna Yoneyama (Mitsuboshi Daito Peregrine)

figure skating

Women Mao Asada 6th place Kanako Murakami 12th place Akiko Suzuki 8th place

Men Yuzuru Hanyu Figure skating: gold Tatsuki Machida 5th place Daisuke Takahashi 6th place

Pair skating Narumi Takahashi , Ryuichi Kihara 18th place

Ice dance Cathy Reed , Chris Reed 21st place

Speed ​​skating

Women Shoko Fujimura 3000 m 5000 m Masako Hozumi 3000 m 5000 m Shiho Ishizawa 3000 m 5000 m Ayaka Kikuchi 1500 m Nao Kodaira 500 m 1000 m Misaki Oshigiri 1500 m Miyako Sumiyoshi 500 m 1000 m Maki Tabata 1500 m Nana Takagi 1500 m Maki Tsuji 500 m 1000 m

Men Yuji Kamijo 500 m Jōji Katō 500 m Taro Kondo 1000 m 1500 m Keiichirō Nagashima 500 m Yūya Oikawa 500 m Shane Williamson 5000 m Daichi Yamanaka 1000 m

Freestyle skiing

Women

Moguls Junko Hoshino Miki Ito Arisa Murata Aiko Uemura

halfpipe Manami Mitsuboshi Ayana Onozuka Half pipe: bronze

Slopestyle Chiho Takao

Men

Moguls Shō Endō Nobuyuki Nishi

halfpipe Kentaro Tsuda

Nordic combination

• Taihei Kato
• Yūsuke Minato
• Hideaki Nagai
• Akito Watabe

  Single normal hill: silver

• Yoshito Watabe

Sledding

Men Hidenari Kanayama

Short track

Women Ayuko Itō 500m 1000m 1500m 3000m relay Yui Sakai 500m 1000m 1500m 3000m relay Biba Sakurai 500m 1500m 3000m relay Sayuri Shimizu 1000m 3000m relay Moemi Kikuchi 3000m relay

Men Satoshi Sakashita 500m 1500m Ryosuke Sakazume 1000m 1500m Yuzo Takamido 1000m 1500m

skeleton

Women Nozomi Komuro

Men Yūki Sasahara Hiroatsu Takahashi

Alpine skiing

Men Akira Sasaki Naoki Yuasa

Cross-country skiing

Women Masako Ishida Skiathlon: 10th place

Men Nobu Naruse Keishin Yoshida Hiroyuki Miyazawa Yūichi Onda

Ski jumping

Women Yūki Itō Sara Takanashi Yurina Yamada

Men Daiki Itō Team large hill: bronze Noriaki Kasai Single large hill: silver Team large hill: bronze Reruhi Shimizu Team large hill: bronze Taku Takeuchi Team large hill: bronze Yuta Watase

Snowboard

Women

Parallel giant slalom & slalom Tomoka Takeuchi Parallel giant slalom: silver

Snowboard cross Yuka Fujimori

halfpipe Rana Okada

Men

Slopestyle Yuki Kadono

halfpipe Ryō Aono Ayumu Hirano Halfpipe: silver Taku Hiraoka Half pipe: bronze Ayumu Nedefuji

Web links

• Olympic team of Japan 2014 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Team profile on sochi2014.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olympics: JOC names ski jumper Kasai captain, curler Ogasawara flag-bearer. In: kyodonews.jp . January 14, 2014, accessed February 6, 2014.