Japan at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Japan competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, from February 8 to February 23, 1992. As many as 63 athletes competed accompanied by 42 officers. Japanese athletes compete in all disciplines except ice hockey.

Japan at the 1992 Winter Olympics
IOC code	JPN
NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
Website	www.joc.or.jp (in Japanese and English)
in Albertville, France 8–23 February 1992
Competitors	60 in 11 sports
Flag bearer	Tsutomu Kawasaki
Medals Ranked 11th	Gold 1 Silver 2 Bronze 4 Total 7
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The flag bearer is short track speed skater Tsutomu Kawasaki at the opening and closing ceremony, while the captain of the delegation is cross-country skier Kazunari Sasaki.

The Nordic combined team consisting of Kenji Ogiwara, Takanori Kono and Reiichi Mikata won gold which became Japan's first medal in Nordic combined and also the first gold after four previous Winter Olympics editions without gold. The last gold which was also Japan's first gold at the Winter Olympics was won by Yukio Kasaya at their home, Sapporo 1972. Midori Ito also won Japan's first medal in figure skating.

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Reiichi Mikata Takanori Kono Kenji Ogiwara Nordic combined Men's team 17 February  Silver Toshiyuki Kuroiwa Speed skating Men's 500 metres 15 February  Silver Midori Ito Figure skating Ladies' singles 21 February  Bronze Seiko Hashimoto Speed skating Women's 1500 metres 12 February  Bronze Junichi Inoue Speed skating Men's 500 metres 15 February  Bronze Yukinori Miyabe Speed skating Men's 1000 metres 18 February  Bronze Yuichi Akasaka Tatsuyoshi Ishihara Toshinobu Kawai Tsutomu Kawasaki Short track speed skating Men's 5000 metre relay 22 February

Medals by sport Sport Total Nordic combined 1 0 0 1 Speed skating 0 1 3 4 Figure skating 0 1 0 1 Short track speed skating 0 0 1 1 Total 1 2 4 7 Medals by gender Gender Total Male 1 1 3 5 Female 0 1 1 2 Total 1 2 4 7

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[1]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Alpine skiing	4	2	6
Biathlon	2	1	3
Bobsleigh	4	–	4
Cross-country skiing	2	4	6
Figure skating	3	3	6
Freestyle skiing	1	0	1
Luge	3	0	3
Nordic combined	4	–	4
Short track speed skating	4	4	8
Ski jumping	4	–	4
Speed skating	9	6	15
Total	40	20	60

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Tsuyoshi Tomii	Downhill			1:54.23	25
Tsuyoshi Tomii	Super-G			DNF	–
Takuya Ishioka				1:17.81	41
Kiminobu Kimura				1:17.06	33
Tsuyoshi Tomii	Giant slalom	1:13.36	DNF	DNF	–
Takuya Ishioka		1:09.28	1:06.64	2:15.92	29
Kiminobu Kimura		1:07.20	1:04.90	2:12.10	21
Takuya Ishioka	Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–
Kiminobu Kimura		DNF	–	DNF	–
Tetsuya Okabe		54.99	54.49	1:49.48	18

Men's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Points	Rank
Kiminobu Kimura	1:50.98	49.47	52.08	64.14	15
Takuya Ishioka	1:49.29	49.48	52.94	51.83	9

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Sachiko Yamamoto	Downhill			1:58.52	26
Emi Kawabata				1:54.52	11
Sachiko Yamamoto	Super-G			1:27.54	33
Emi Kawabata				1:27.31	31
Emi Kawabata	Giant slalom	1:10.44	DSQ	DSQ	–
Sachiko Yamamoto	Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–

Women's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Points	Rank
Sachiko Yamamoto	1:30.70	36.56	DNF	DNF	–
Emi Kawabata	1:27.13	37.56	37.81	66.10	13

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses 1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Atsushi Kazama	6	30:34.7	78
	Misao Kodate	3	28:07.0	36

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time 2	Rank
20 km	Atsushi Kazama	58:32.8	6	1'04:32.8	63
	Misao Kodate	58:53.1	2	1'00:53.1	28

Women

Event	Athlete	Misses 1	Time	Rank
7.5 km Sprint	Yoshiko Honda-Mikami	2	26:57.3	22

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time 2	Rank
15 km	Yoshiko Honda-Mikami	54:55.8	3	57:55.8	35

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² One minute added per missed target.

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
JPN-1	Naomi Takewaki Fuminori Tsushima	Two-man	1:01.74	26	1:01.99	22	1:01.77	16	1:01.95	19	4:07.45	21
JPN-2	Toshio Wakita Ryoji Yamazaki	Two-man	1:01.22	19	1:01.65	18	1:02.03	19	1:01.96	20	4:06.86	19

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
JPN-1	Toshio Wakita Ryoji Yamazaki Fuminori Tsushima Naomi Takewaki	Four-man	59.23	21	59.30	18	59.33	17	59.38	17	3:57.24	17

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
10 km C	Kazunari Sasaki	31:31.4	46
	Hiroyuki Imai	30:17.3	27
15 km pursuit1 F	Kazunari Sasaki	43:08.6	35
	Hiroyuki Imai	42:32.8	29
30 km C	Kazunari Sasaki	1'30:35.9	40
	Hiroyuki Imai	1'29:35.6	32
50 km F	Kazunari Sasaki	2'17:20.1	40
	Hiroyuki Imai	2'13:33.0	25

¹ Starting delay based on 10 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km C	Yumi Inomata	16:49.4	54
	Naomi Hoshikawa	16:13.2	48
	Miwa Ota	16:03.1	43
	Fumiko Aoki	15:33.0	30
10 km pursuit2 F	Yumi Inomata	31:58.6	47
	Miwa Ota	31:17.3	43
	Naomi Hoshikawa	30:10.8	34
	Fumiko Aoki	28:44.4	19
15 km C	Miwa Ota	DNF	–
	Naomi Hoshikawa	49:46.2	42
	Fumiko Aoki	48:30.2	37
30 km F	Fumiko Aoki	1'36:21.9	44
	Naomi Hoshikawa	1'35:29.4	42
	Miwa Ota	1'35:19.4	41

² Starting delay based on 5 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Miwa Ota Fumiko Aoki Naomi Hoshikawa Yumi Inomata	1'04:09.3	12

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Mitsuhiro Murata	22	23	34.0	23
Masakazu Kagiyama	11	15	20.5	13

Women

Athlete	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Yuka Sato	7	7	10.5	7
Midori Ito	4	2	4.0

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Rena Inoue Tomoaki Koyama	14	14	21.0	14

Freestyle skiing

Main article: Freestyle skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Final
		Time	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank
Osamu Yamazaki	Moguls	35.31	14.49	40	did not advance

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kazuhiko Takamatsu	46.283	20	46.065	17	46.838	18	46.614	17	3:05.800	17

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Atsushi Sasaki Yuji Sasaki	47.776	19	47.566	18	1:35.342	18

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Men's individual

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping (Best two out of three jumps)
• 15 km cross-country skiing (start delay, based on ski jumping results)

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping		Cross-country		Total
		Points	Rank	Start at	Time	Rank
Takanori Kono	Individual	197.4	25	+3:27.4	48:46.3	19
Masashi Abe		197.9	24	+3:24.0	51:08.5	30
Kenji Ogiwara		215.3	6	+1:28.0	46:25.5	7
Reiichi Mikata		226.1	2	+16.0	52:09.1	34

Men's team

Three participants per team.

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping (Best two out of three jumps per team member were counted.)
• 10 km cross-country skiing (start delay, based on ski jumping results)

Athletes	Ski jumping		Cross-country		Total
	Points	Rank	Start at	Time	Rank
Reiichi Mikata Takanori Kono Kenji Ogiwara	645.1	1	+0.0	1'23:36.5

Short track speed skating

Main article: Short track speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Tsutomu Kawasaki	1000 m	1:38.75	2 Q	1:35.66	4	did not advance
Toshinobu Kawai		1:42.28	3	did not advance
Tatsuyoshi Ishihara		1:34.11	2 Q	1:34.86	4	did not advance
Yuichi Akasaka Tatsuyoshi Ishihara Toshinobu Kawai Tsutomu Kawasaki	5000 m relay			7:22.43	2 Q	7:22.84	1 QA	7:18.18

Women

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Nobuko Yamada	500 m	48.79	1 Q	57.69	3	did not advance
Mie Naito Rie Sato Hiromi Takeuchi Nobuko Yamada	3000 m relay					4:37.08	1 Q	4:44.50	4

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Noriaki Kasai	Normal hill	77.5	89.0	83.5	98.1	187.1	31
Kenji Suda		80.0	93.5	79.5	91.2	184.7	39
Jiro Kamiharako		80.0	94.0	80.5	94.8	188.8	28
Masahiko Harada		83.5	98.6	84.0	102.4	201.0	14
Jiro Kamiharako	Large hill	100.0	79.5	97.5	76.0	155.5	25
Noriaki Kasai		101.5	82.1	84.5	72.3	154.4	26
Kenji Suda		106.5	91.1	97.5	77.0	168.1	17
Masahiko Harada		113.5	102.4	116.0	108.9	211.3	4

Men's team large hill

Athletes	Result
	Points 1	Rank
Masahiko Harada Kenji Suda Jiro Kamiharako Noriaki Kasai	571.0	4

¹ Four teams members performed two jumps each. The best three were counted.

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Yukinori Miyabe	38.12	18
	Yasunori Miyabe	37.49	5
	Junichi Inoue	37.26
	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa	37.18
1000 m	Yasunori Miyabe	1:16.52	19
	Yuji Fujimoto	1:15.78	11
	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa	1:15.56	9
	Yukinori Miyabe	1:14.92
1500 m	Keiji Shirahata	2:05.47	44
	Kazuhiro Sato	2:00.51	28
	Toru Aoyanagi	1:57.36	12
	Yukinori Miyabe	1:56.99	9
5000 m	Keiji Shirahata	7:24.95	22
	Toshihiko Itokawa	7:20.50	18
	Kazuhiro Sato	7:19.69	17
10,000 m	Keiji Shirahata	14:47.56	18
	Toshihiko Itokawa	14:42.35	13
	Kazuhiro Sato	14:28.30	5

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Yoko Fukazawa	42.18	24
	Noriko Toda	41.97	23
	Seiko Hashimoto	41.32	12
	Kyoko Shimazaki	40.98	7
1000 m	Yoko Fukazawa	1:25.00	24
	Noriko Toda	1:24.96	23
	Kyoko Shimazaki	1:24.28	18
	Seiko Hashimoto	1:22.63	5
1500 m	Yumi Kaeriyama	2:10.75	19
	Mie Uehara	2:09.33	11
	Seiko Hashimoto	2:06.88
3000 m	Mie Uehara	4:37.54	17
	Yumi Kaeriyama	4:33.53	13
	Seiko Krohn	4:32.12	12
5000 m	Mie Uehara	7:54.15	14
	Yumi Kaeriyama	7:50.77	12
	Seiko Hashimoto	7:47.65	9

References

1. Japan at the 1992 Winter Olympics

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Japan Olympic Committee database Archived 2014-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
• Olympic Winter Games 1992, full results by sports-reference.com