2008 Summer Paralympics / Participant (Japan)

JPN

5	14th	8th

Japan took part in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing with 168 athletes. In total, the Japanese athletes won 27 medals. The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was Tōru Suzuki .

Medals

Medal table

Medal table Japan
space	sport				total
1	athletics	2	7th	3	12
2	Cycling	1	3	2	6th
3	swim	1	2	2	5
4th	Wheelchair tennis	1	-	1	2
5	Judo	-	1	-	1
	Archery	-	1	-	1
Total		5	14th	8th	27

Medalist

gold

Surname	sport	competition
Masashi Ishii	Cycling	Track 1 km time trial (CP 4) men
Tomoya Itō	athletics	400 m (T52) men
Tomoya Itō	athletics	800 m (T52) men
Shingo Kunieda	Wheelchair tennis	Single men
Takayuki Suzuki	swim	50 meter chest (SB3) men

silver

Surname	sport	competition
Satoshi Fujimoto	Judo	Half-light weight (up to 66 kg) men
Masaki Fujita	Cycling	Track 1 km time trial (LC 3-4) men
Masaki Fujita	Cycling	Track individual pursuit (LC 3) men
Masashi Ishii	Cycling	Track individual pursuit (CP 4) men
Chieko Kamiya	Archery	Compound (open) women
Jun'ichi Kawai	swim	50 meter freestyle (S11) men
Kyōsuke Ōyama	swim	50 meter butterfly (S6) men
Hiroki Sasahara	athletics	Marathon (T54) men
Toshihiro Takada	athletics	400 m (T52) men
Toshihiro Takada	athletics	800 m (T52) men
Hirokazu Ueyonabaru	athletics	Marathon (T52) men
Tomomi Yamaki	athletics	100 m (T52) women
Tomomi Yamaki	athletics	200 m (T52) women
Atsushi Yamamoto	athletics	Long jump (F42 / 44) men

bronze

Surname	sport	competition
Masaki Fujita	Cycling	Road individual time trial (LC 3) men
Masashi Ishii	Cycling	Road individual time trial (CP 4) men
Jun'ichi Kawai	swim	100 meter butterfly (S11) men
Shingo Kunieda , Satoshi Saida	Wheelchair tennis	Double men
Toshie Ōi	athletics	Discus throw (F53 / 54) men
Takayuki Suzuki	swim	150 meter medley (SM4) men
Toshihiro Takada	athletics	Marathon (T52) men
Teruyo Tanaka	athletics	100 m (T52) women

Participants by sport

Boccia

• Single BC1
  • Takayuki Kitani
• Single BC2
  • Takayuki Hirose
  • Risa Kainuma
  • Keizō Uchida
• Team BC1 / BC2
  • Takayuki Hirose
  • Risa Kainuma
  • Takayuki Kitani
  • Keizō Uchida
• k. A.
  • Shunji Kawai

Archery

Women

• Compound (open)
  • Chieko Kamiya (silver )

• Recurve (ST)
  • Kimiko Konishi
  • Yae Yamakawa

• Recurve (W1 and W2)
  • Aya Nakanishi
  • Ayako Saitō

• Recurve (team)
  • Kimiko Konishi
  • Aya Nakanishi
  • Yae Yamakawa

Men

• Recurve (ST)
  • Akira Haraguchi
  • Takehiro Hasegawa
  • Kimimasa Onodera

• Recurve (W1 and W2)
  • Tsunehiko Naganuma
  • Nobuji Yoshida

• Recurve (team)
  • Akira Haraguchi
  • Takehiro Hasegawa
  • Kimimasa Onodera

Goalball

Women

• Akiko Adachi
• Mieko Kato
• Masae Komiya
• Yuki Naoi
• Tomoe Takada
• Rie Urata

Judo

Women

• Masami Akatsuka (up to 48 kg)
• Rikei Komatsu (over 70kg )
• Minako Tsuchiya (up to 52 kg)

Men

• Satoshi Fujimoto (up to 66 kg: silver )
• Yūsuke Hatsuse (up to 90 kg)
• Haruka Hirose (up to 100 kg)
• Makoto Hirose (up to 60 kg)
• Takayuki Kimura (up to 73 kg)
• Kenji Ōga (up to 81 kg)

athletics

Women

• Mariko Fujita (shot put F35 / 36, discus throw F35 / 36)
• Yuki Katō (100 m T36, 200 m T36)
• Maya Nakanishi (100 m T44, 200 m T44)
• Mami Satō (100 m T44, long jump F44)
• Uran Sawada (100 m T13, long jump F13)
• Teruyo Tanaka (100 m T52: bronze , 200 m T52)
• Wakako Tsuchida (5000 m T54, Marathon T54)
• Tomomi Yamaki (100 m T52: silver , 200 m T52: silver )

Men

• Jun Hiromichi (400 m T53, 800 m T53, 5000 m T54, marathon T54)
• Kōta Hokinoue (5000 m T54, Marathon T54)
• Tadashi Horikoshi (1500 m T13, 5000 m T13)
• Tomoya Itō (400 m T52: gold , 800 m T52: gold )
• Hiroaki Kajisa (Marathon T12)
• Susumu Kangawa (400 m T53, 800 m T53, 4 × 400 m T53 / T54)
• Satoshi Kimura
• Takahiro Kinjō
• Kenji Kotani (400 m T54, 800 m T54, 4 × 400 m T53 / T54)
• Hitoshi Matsunaga (400 m T53, 800 m T53, 4 × 400 m T53 / T54)
• Nobuaki Nagai
• Yoshifumi Nagao (200 m T54, 400 m T54, 4 × 400 m T53 / T54)
• Masahito Niino (Marathon T12)
• Naohiro Ninomiya (1500 m T46, 5000 m T46, 4 × 100 m T42-T46)
• Toshie Ōi (discus throw F53 / 54: bronze )
• Mineho Ozaki (Javelin Throw F11 / 12)
• Hiroki Sasahara (800 m T54, marathon T54: silver )
• Jun Shida
• Masazumi Soejima (1500 m T54, 5000 m T54, marathon T54)
• Tōru Suzuki (4 × 100 m T42-T46, high jump F44 / 46)
• Tomoki Tagawa (100 m T46, 200 m T46, 4 × 100 m T42-T46)
• Kōichi Takada (100 m T11, long jump F11)
• Toshihiro Takada (400 m T52: silver , 800 m T52: silver , marathon T52: bronze )
• Yūichi Takahashi (Marathon T12)
• Hirokazu Ueyonabaru (200 m T52, 400 m T52, 800 m T52, marathon T52: silver )
• Atsushi Yamamoto (100 m T42, 4 × 100 m T42-T46, long jump F42 / 44: silver )
• Hiroyuki Yamamoto (1500 m T54, 4 × 400 m T53 / T54, marathon T54)
• Choke Yasuoka (200 m T54, 400 m T54, 800 m T54, 1500 m T54, Marathon T54)

Powerlifting (bench press)

Men

• Hideki Ōdō (up to 75 kg)

Cycling

Men

• Masaki Fujita (road race individual (LC 3 / LC 4 / CP 3), road individual time trial (LC 3): bronze , track individual pursuit (LC 3): silver , track 1 km time trial (LC 3-4): silver )
• Masashi Ishii (road race single (LC 1 / LC 2 / CP 4), road single time trial (CP 4): bronze , track single pursuit (CP 4): silver , track 1 km time trial (CP 4): gold )
• Mutsuhiko Ogawa (Mixed Road Individual Time Trial (CP 1 / CP 2), Mixed Road Race Individual (CP 1 / CP 2))
• Tatsuyuki Ōshiro (road race single (B&VI 1-3), road single time trial (B&VI 1-3), track 1 km time trial (B&VI), track sprint (B&VI 1-3))
• Hitoshi Takahashi (road race single (B&VI 1-3), road single time trial (B&VI 1-3), track 1 km time trial (B&VI), track sprint (B&VI 1-3))

horse riding

Men

• Yutaka Shibuya (Individual Freestyle (Grade III), Individual Championship (Grade III))

Wheelchair basketball

Women	Men
Mari Amimoto Yuka Betto Rie Kawakami Tomomi Kosuzuki Megumi Mashiko Tomoe Soeda Naoko Sugahara Mika Takabayashi Ikumi Takubo Kimi Taneda Miki Uramoto Erika Yoshida	Shingo Fujii Reo Fujimoto Keisuke Koretomo Hiroaki Kozai Kazuyuki Kyōya Kenzō Maeda Fumiharu Miura Tetsuya Miyajima Noriyuki Mori Tomohiko Ōshima Satoshi Satō Akimasa Suzuki

Wheelchair fencing

Men

• Toyoaki Hisakawa (single foil (B), single epee (B))

Wheelchair rugby

Men

• Shingo Fujishima
• Shunsuke Kawano
• Hiroyuki Misaka
• Takuo Murohashi
• Yū Nagayasu
• Shin Nakazato
• Koichi Ogino
• Yoshito Satō
• Shin'ichi Shimakawa
• Yoshinobu Takahashi
• Manabu Tamura

Wheelchair tennis

Women

• Kanako Dōmori (singles, doubles with Chiyoko Ohmae)
• Chiyoko Ōmae (singles, doubles with Kanako Domori)
• Yūko Okabe (singles, doubles with Mie Yaosa)
• Mie Yaosa (singles, doubles with Yuko Okabe)

Men

• Yoshinobu Fujimoto (singles, doubles with Toshio Ikenoya)
• Toshio Ikenoya (singles, doubles with Yoshinobu Fujimoto)
• Sadahiro Kimura (Quadriplegic Individual)
• Shingo Kunieda (singles: gold , doubles with Satoshi Saida: bronze )
• Satoshi Saida (singles, doubles with Shingo Kunieda: bronze )

rowing

Women

• Megumi Matsumoto (two 1000 m)

Men

• Miho Hamada (two 1000 m)

shoot

Women

• Yukiko Kinoshita (Mixed air rifle 10 meters prone (SH2), Mixed air rifle 10 meters standing (SH2))
• Aki Taguchi (Mixed free rifle 50 meters prone (SH1), Mixed air rifle 10 meters prone (SH1))
• Izumi Takehi (women air rifle 10 meters (SH1), women sport rifle 50 meters (SH1), mixed air rifle 10 meters prone (SH1))

Men

• Kiyoto Matayoshi (Men air rifle 10 meters (SH1), Men free rifle 50 meters (SH1), Mixed air rifle 10 meters prone (SH1), Mixed free rifle 50 meters prone (SH1))
• Kenji Ōhashi (Men Air Pistol 10 meters (SH1), Mixed Free Pistol 50 meters (SH1))

swim

Women

• Rina Akiyama (50 meters freestyle (S11), 100 meters freestyle (S11))
• Naomi Ikinaga (50 meters freestyle (S11), 100 meters freestyle (S11))
• Noriko Kajiwara (100 meter chest (SB4))
• Akari Kasamoto (100 meters butterfly (S13), 100 meters back (S13), 200 meters medley (SM13))
• Yuka Kawamura (50 meters freestyle (S5), 100 meters freestyle (S5), 200 meters freestyle (S5), 50 meters back (S5))
• Yuri Kitamura (100 meter chest (SB5))
• Erika Nara (50 meters freestyle (S6), 100 meters freestyle (S6), 400 meters freestyle (S6))
• Mayumi Narita (50 meters freestyle (S5), 100 meters freestyle (S5), 50 meters back (S5), 200 meters medley (SM6))
• Manami Nomura (100 meters chest (SB8), 100 meters butterfly (S8), 200 meters medley (SM8))
• Sugako Takeuchi (50 meters freestyle (S5), 100 meters freestyle (S5), 200 meters freestyle (S5))

Men

• Jun'ichi Kawai (50 meters freestyle (S11): silver , 100 meters butterfly (S11): bronze , 100 meters back (S11))
• Jumpei Kimura (100 meters freestyle (S7), 400 meters freestyle (S7), 200 meters medley (SM7), 100 meters chest (SB6))
• Keiichi Kimura (50 meters freestyle (S11), 100 meters freestyle (S11), 400 meters freestyle (S11), 100 meters chest (SB11), 100 meters butterfly (S11))
• Tomotarō Nakamura (100 meter chest (SB7))
• Kyōsuke Oyama (50 meters freestyle (S6), 100 meters freestyle (S6), 400 meters freestyle (S6), 50 meters butterfly (S6): silver )
• Takayuki Suzuki (50 meters freestyle (S5), 100 meters freestyle (S5), 200 meters freestyle (S5), 50 meters chest (SB3): gold , 150 meters medley (SM4): bronze )
• Takurō Yamada (50 meters freestyle (S9), 100 meters freestyle (S9), 400 meters freestyle (S9), 100 meters chest (SB8), 200 meters medley (SM9))

Sitting volleyball

Women	Men
Sachie Awano Junko Fujii Noriko Kaneda Emi Kaneki Yukari Okahira Shiori Ōmura Mamiko Osada Yōko Saitō Harumi Sakamoto Tomoko Sakamoto Kiyoko Tomiya	Shun Azuma Satoshi Kanao Susumu Kaneda Tetsuo Minakawa Kaname Nakayama Susumu Takasago Yoshihito Takeda Tsutomu Tanabe Kōji Tanaka Arata Yamamoto Atsushi Yonezawa Hitoshi Yoshida

(C) = captain of the team, (L) = libero

Table tennis

Women

• Kimie Bessho (single TT 5)

Men

• Toshihiko Oka (single TT 4 - TT 5)