Japan at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Japan competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and Stockholm, Sweden (equestrian events). 110 competitors, 94 men and 16 women, took part in 71 events in 13 sports.^[1]

Japan at the 1956 Summer Olympics
IOC code	JPN
NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
Website	www.joc.or.jp (in Japanese and English)
in Melbourne/Stockholm
Competitors	110 in 13 sports
Flag bearer	Shozo Sasahara
Medals Ranked 10th	Gold 4 Silver 10 Bronze 5 Total 19
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Takashi Ono from gymnastics is the most successful athlete with 1 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze.

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Mitsuo Ikeda Wrestling Men's freestyle welterweight 1 December  Gold Shozo Sasahara Wrestling Men's freestyle featherweight 1 December  Gold Masaru Furukawa Swimming Men's 200 m breaststroke 6 December  Gold Takashi Ono Gymnastics Men's horizontal bar 7 December  Silver Takashi Ishimoto Swimming Men's 200 m butterfly 1 December  Silver Shigeru Kasahara Wrestling Men's freestyle lightweight 1 December  Silver Tsuyoshi Yamanaka Swimming Men's 400 m freestyle 4 December  Silver Masahiro Yoshimura Swimming Men's 200 m breaststroke 6 December  Silver Tsuyoshi Yamanaka Swimming Men's 1500 m freestyle 7 December  Silver Takashi Ono Masao Takemoto Masami Kubota Nobuyuki Aihara Akira Kono Shinsaku Tsukawaki Gymnastics Men's artistic team all-around 7 December  Silver Takashi Ono Gymnastics Men's individual all-around 7 December  Silver Takashi Ono Gymnastics Men's pommel horse 7 December  Silver Nobuyuki Aihara Gymnastics Men's floor 7 December  Silver Masumi Kubota Gymnastics Men's parallel bars 7 December  Bronze Takashi Ono Gymnastics Men's parallel bars 7 December  Bronze Masao Takemoto Gymnastics Men's parallel bars 7 December  Bronze Masao Takemoto Gymnastics Men's horizontal bar 7 December  Bronze Masao Takemoto Gymnastics Men's rings 7 December  Bronze Masami Kubota Gymnastics Men's rings 7 December

Medals by sport Sport Total Wrestling 2 1 0 3 Gymnastics 1 5 5 11 Swimming 1 4 0 5 Total 4 10 5 19

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Men's Marathon

• Yoshiaki Kawashima — 2:29:19 (→ 5th place)
• Hideo Hamamura — 2:40:53 (→ 16th place)
• Kurao Hiroshima — 3:04:17 (→ 33rd place)

Basketball

Main article: Basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Time trial

• Tetsuo Ōsawa — 1:13.3 (→ 12th place)

Individual road race

• Tetsuo Ōsawa — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Men's 10m Platform

• Yutaka Baba

• Preliminary Round — 70.76
• Final — 123.69 (→ 11th place)

• Ryō Mabuchi

• Preliminary Round — 69.76
• Final — 120.20 (→ 12th place)

Women's 10m Platform

• Kanoko Tsutani

• Preliminary Round — 48.45
• Final — 70.95 (→ 10th place)

• Hatsuko Hirose

• Preliminary Round — 46.15
• Final — 69.71 (→ 11th place)

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

One fencer represented Japan in 1956.

Men's foil

• Masayuki Sano

Men's épée

• Masayuki Sano

Men's sabre

• Masayuki Sano

Football

Main article: Association football at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics

Main article: Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Japan had nine male rowers participate in one out of seven rowing events in 1956.^[2]

Men's eight

• Yozo Iwasaki
• Yasukuni Watanabe
• Sadahiro Sunaga
• Yoshiki Hiki
• Takashi Imamura
• Yasuhiko Takeda
• Masao Hara
• Junichi Kato
• Toshiji Eda (cox)

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Six shooters represented Japan in 1956.

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
		Score	Rank
Choji Hosaka	50 m pistol	550	4
	25 m rapid fire pistol	563	15
Yukio Inokuma	Men's 50 metre rifle three positions	1110	36
	Men's 50 metre rifle prone	594	24
Tokusaburo Iwata	Trap	155	23
Ujitoshi Konomi		140	30
Tomokazu Maruyama	Men's 50 metre rifle three positions	1085	40
	Men's 50 metre rifle prone	584	43
Yoshihide Ueda	50 m pistol	526	17
	25 m rapid fire pistol	521	31

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics