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Japan was the host nation for the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. It was the first time that Japan had hosted the Winter Olympic Games, but second time overall after the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. It was also the first Winter Olympic Games held in Asia. The host nation sent 90 athletes, consisting of 70 men and 20 women, along with 20 officers. The flag bearer for the Japanese team, Mineyuki Mashiko did not participate in the game, but instead held the position of team manager.
Japan at the 1972 Winter Olympics | |
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IOC code | JPN |
NOC | Japanese Olympic Committee |
Website | www |
in Sapporo | |
Competitors | 90 in 10 sports |
Flag bearer | Mineyuki Mashiko |
Medals Ranked 11th |
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Winter Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Three Japanese ski jumpers swept the medals in the normal hill event, becoming national heroes. This achievement also made Yukio Kasaya the first gold medalist for Japan at the Winter Olympic Games. He was also the first ever Asian to win a Winter Olympic gold medal.
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Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Masahiko Otsue | Downhill | 1:59.55 | 35 | ||||
Sumihiro Tomii | 1:55.34 | 22 | |||||
Masayoshi Kashiwagi | Giant Slalom | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
Masahiko Otsue | 1:38.71 | 34 | DSQ | – | DSQ | – | |
Haruhisa Chiba | 1:36.36 | 26 | 1:40.87 | 20 | 3:17.23 | 19 | |
Masami Ichimura | 1:35.77 | 22 | 1:39.57 | 12 | 3:15.34 | 15 |
Athlete | Classification | Final | ||||||
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Time | Rank | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Total | Rank | |
Haruhisa Chiba | 1:43.17 | 1 | 1:01.25 | 29 | DNF | – | DNF | – |
Toshimasa Furukawa | 1:46.33 | 3 | ? | 25 | DSQ | – | DSQ | – |
Masayoshi Kashiwagi | DNF | – | 1:00.19 | 24 | 56.42 | 17 | 1:56.61 | 18 |
Masami Ichimura | 1:42.90 | 1 | 57.58 | 13 | 57.25 | 18 | 1:54.83 | 17 |
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Emiko Okazaki | Downhill | 1:48.85 | 41 | ||||
Harue Okitsu | 1:45.37 | 40 | |||||
Miyuki Katagiri | 1:44.10 | 35 | |||||
Mitsuyo Nagumo | 1:43.07 | 32 | |||||
Mitsuyo Nagumo | Giant Slalom | DSQ | – | ||||
Emiko Okazaki | 1:40.37 | 32 | |||||
Miyuki Katagiri | 1:39.11 | 30 | |||||
Harue Okitsu | 1:35.33 | 22 | |||||
Miyuki Katagiri | Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
Mitsuyo Nagumo | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – | |
Harue Okitsu | 50.55 | 19 | 50.12 | 16 | 1:40.67 | 16 | |
Emiko Okazaki | 50.06 | 18 | 49.47 | 14 | 1:39.53 | 13 |
Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time 1 | Rank |
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20 km | Kazuo Sasakubo | 1'19:07.43 | 9 | 1'28:07.43 | 38 |
Isao Ono | 1'16:26.83 | 7 | 1'23:26.83 | 25 | |
Shozo Sasaki | 1'18:05.54 | 5 | 1'23:05.54 | 23 | |
Miki Shibuya | 1'16:57.27 | 5 | 1'21:57.27 | 17 |
Athletes | Race | ||
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Misses 2 | Time | Rank | |
Isao Ono Shozo Sasaki Miki Shibuya Kazuo Sasakubo |
5 | 1'59:09.48 | 8 |
Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
JPN-1 | Susumu Esashika Kazumi Abe |
Two-man | 1:18.13 | 16 | 1:16.43 | 6 | 1:15.17 | 14 | 1:16.86 | 18 | 5:06.59 | 15 |
JPN-2 | Akihiko Suzuki Rikio Sato |
Two-man | 1:18.98 | 21 | 1:18.46 | 21 | 1:15.63 | 16 | 1:18.84 | 21 | 5:11.91 | 21 |
Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
JPN-1 | Susumu Esashika Kazumi Abe Rikio Sato Yoshiyuki Ichihashi |
Four-man | 1:11.51 | 6 | 1:12.99 | 15 | 1:11.42 | 12 | 1:12.00 | 13 | 4:47.92 | 12 |
JPN-2 | Toshihisa Nagata Hiroshi Inaba Koichi Sugawara Akihiko Suzuki |
Four-man | 1:11.51 | 6 | 1:12.99 | 15 | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
15 km | Motoharu Matsumura | 50:43.76 | 51 |
Akiyoshi Matsuoka | 49:50.72 | 43 | |
Kunio Shibata | 49:38.95 | 41 | |
Hideo Tanifuji | 49:06.97 | 37 | |
30 km | Tomio Okamura | 1'47:50.22 | 47 |
Seiji Kudo | 1'47:00.40 | 44 | |
Hideo Tanifuji | 1'45:37.13 | 37 | |
Kunio Shibata | 1'42:30.83 | 23 | |
50 km | Motoharu Matsumura | DNF | – |
Seiji Kudo | 2'57:42.62 | 29 |
Athletes | Race | |
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Time | Rank | |
Hideo Tanifuji Kunio Shibata Akiyoshi Matsuoka Tomio Okamura |
2'13:59.14 | 10 |
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
5 km | Akiko Akasaka | 19:49.74 | 43 |
Harumi Imai | 19:05.73 | 38 | |
Tokiko Ozeki | 19:00.82 | 37 | |
Hiroko Takahashi | 18:32.75 | 34 | |
10 km | Hideko Saito | 39:51.61 | 38 |
Harumi Imai | 39:33.13 | 37 | |
Tokiko Ozeki | 38:07.24 | 33 | |
Hiroko Takahashi | 36:53.84 | 25 |
Athletes | Race | |
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Time | Rank | |
Tokiko Ozeki Hiroko Takahashi Hideko Saito |
53:20.75 | 9 |
Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
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Yutaka Higuchi | 16 | 15 | 2309.7 | 140 | 16 |
Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
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Kazumi Yamashita | 10 | 10 | 2449.9 | 93 | 10 |
Athletes | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
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Kotoe Nagasawa Hiroshi Nagakubo |
16 | 16 | 345.5 | 144 | 16 |
Winners (in bold) entered the Medal Round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th-11th places.
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Japan | 2–8 | Czechoslovakia |
Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
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7 | West Germany | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 10 | 6 |
8 | Norway | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 14 | 6 |
9 | Japan | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 16 | 5 |
10 | Switzerland | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 2 |
11 | Yugoslavia | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 17 | 1 |
Athlete | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Masatoshi Kobayashi | 55.30 | 32 | 54.43 | 25 | 53.00 | 19 | 53.66 | 27 | 3:36.39 | 24 |
Satoru Arai | 54.76 | 26 | 55.07 | 30 | 53.75 | 25 | 53.73 | 29 | 3:37.31 | 26 |
Masako Eguchi | 54.09 | 15 | 53.37 | 12 | 52.78 | 18 | 53.57 | 25 | 3:33.81 | 18 |
Kazuaki Ichikawa | 54.09 | 15 | 54.21 | 22 | 53.29 | 22 | 53.40 | 22 | 3:34.99 | 20 |
(Men's) Doubles
Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Satoru Arai Masatoshi Kobayashi |
44.73 | 4 | 44.90 | 7 | 1:29.63 | 4 |
Masako Eguchi Kazuaki Ichikawa |
46.93 | 19 | 46.63 | 18 | 1:33.56 | 18 |
Athlete | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Miyako Kawase | 47.93 | 20 | 47.31 | 19 | 46.72 | 18 | 46.14 | 18 | 3:08.10 | 19 |
Hiroko Shibuya | 46.66 | 14 | 46.41 | 13 | 45.89 | 8 | 45.49 | 12 | 3:04.45 | 13 |
Yuko Otaka | 45.21 | 4 | 45.65 | 5 | 45.39 | 5 | 44.73 | 5 | 3:00.98 | 5 |
Events:
Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Total | ||||||
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Distance 1 | Distance 2 | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
Nobutaka Sasaki | Individual | 72.5 | 76.0 | 190.3 | 8 | 54:00.6 | 169.645 | 37 | 359.945 | 24 |
Hideki Nakano | 82.0 | 81.0 | 220.5 | 1 | 55:41.2 | 154.555 | 39 | 375.055 | 13 | |
Yuji Katsuro | 74.5 | 78.0 | 195.1 | 6 | 51:10.9 | 195.100 | 18 | 390.200 | 5 | |
Kazuo Araya | 76.5 | 77.0 | 199.7 | 5 | 53:29.3 | 174.340 | 34 | 374.040 | 15 |
Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | |||
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Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank | ||
Takashi Fujisawa | Normal hill | 81.0 | 117.8 | 68.0 | 90.0 | 207.8 | 23 |
Akitsugu Konno | 82.5 | 120.2 | 79.0 | 114.6 | 234.8 | ||
Seiji Aochi | 83.5 | 123.3 | 77.5 | 106.2 | 229.5 | ||
Yukio Kasaya | 84.0 | 126.6 | 79.0 | 117.6 | 244.2 | ||
Hiroshi Itagaki | Large hill | 90.0 | 96.0 | 84.0 | 87.1 | 183.1 | 19 |
Takashi Fujisawa | 95.5 | 107.2 | 86.0 | 89.9 | 197.1 | 14 | |
Akitsugu Konno | 98.0 | 109.7 | 88.5 | 89.4 | 199.1 | 12 | |
Yukio Kasaya | 106.0 | 124.9 | 85.0 | 84.5 | 209.4 | 7 |
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Keiichi Suzuki | 41.28 | 19 |
Norio Hirate | 41.08 | 17 | |
Takayuki Hida | 40.62 | 13 | |
Masaki Suzuki | 40.35 | 8 | |
1500 m | Kiyomi Ito | 2:11.96 | 22 |
Mutsuhiko Maeda | 2:11.09 | 20 | |
5000 m | Osamu Naito | 7:56.97 | 16 |
Kiyomi Ito | 7:45.96 | 13 | |
10,000 m | Osamu Naito | 15:52.93 | 12 |
Kiyomi Ito | 15:48.17 | 10 |
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Ryoko Onozawa | 46.70 | 21 |
Sachiko Saito | 45.35 | 9 | |
1000 m | Ryoko Onozawa | 1:36.99 | 28 |
Sachiko Saito | 1:35.12 | 18 | |
Emiko Taguchi | 1:34.40 | 15 | |
1500 m | Kaname Ide | 2:28.34 | 18 |
Emiko Taguchi | 2:28.19 | 17 | |
Satomi Koike | 2:25.16 | 11 | |
3000 m | Akiko Aruga | 5:22.60 | 18 |
Kaname Ide | 5:17.30 | 16 | |
Satomi Koike | 5:09.21 | 12 |
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