Japan at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics

Japan competed at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, the inaugural Youth Olympic Games, held in Singapore from 14 August to 26 August 2010.

Japan at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC code	JPN
NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
Website	www.joc.or.jp
in Singapore
Competitors	71 in 16 sports
Flag bearer	Ayuka Tanioka[1]
Medals Ranked 7th	Gold 8 Silver 5 Bronze 3 Total 16
Summer Youth Olympics appearances (overview)
2010 2014 2018

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Yuka Sato Triathlon Girls' triathlon 15 Aug  Gold Yu Miyahara Wrestling Girls' freestyle 46 kg 16 Aug  Gold Yuki Takahashi Wrestling Boys' freestyle 54 kg 17 Aug  Gold Yuya Kamoto Gymnastics Boys' individual all-around 18 Aug  Gold Miku Tashiro Judo Girls' 63 kg 22 Aug  Gold Koki Niwa Table tennis Boys' singles 23 Aug  Gold Ryosuke Igarashi Judo Boys' 100 kg 23 Aug  Gold Koki Niwa Ayuka Tanioka Table tennis Mixed team 26 Aug  Silver Masaki Nashimoto Athletics Boys' 100m 21 Aug  Silver Yuya Kamoto Gymnastics Boys' rings 21 Aug  Silver Keisuke Homma Athletics Boys' 200m 22 Aug  Silver Moe Kyuma Athletics Girls' 3000m 22 Aug  Silver Sho Matsubara Athletics Boys' long mump 22 Aug  Bronze Ginga Munetomo Gymnastics Boys' trampoline 20 Aug  Bronze Chisato Doihata Gymnastics Girls' trampoline 20 Aug  Bronze Maya Hamano Swimming Girls' 200m breaststroke 20 Aug

Medals by sport Sport Total Judo 2 0 0 2 Table tennis 2 0 0 2 Wrestling 2 0 0 2 Gymnastics 1 1 2 4 Triathlon 1 0 0 1 Athletics 0 4 0 4 Swimming 0 0 1 1 Total 8 5 3 16 Medals by day Day Total August 15 1 0 0 1 August 16 1 0 0 1 August 17 1 0 0 1 August 18 1 0 0 1 August 19 0 0 0 0 August 20 0 0 3 3 August 21 0 2 0 2 August 22 1 3 0 4 August 23 2 0 0 2 August 24 0 0 0 0 August 25 0 0 0 0 August 26 1 0 0 1 Total 8 5 3 16

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics

Boys

Athlete	Event	Ranking Round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Tsukushi Koiwa	Boys' individual	635	8	Chu (USA) W 6–4	Nott (AUS) L 4–6	Did not advance			9

Girls

Athlete	Event	Ranking Round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Mai Okubo	Girls' individual	583	19	Safitri (INA) W 6–4	Segina (RUS) L 4–6	Did not advance			9

Mixed Team

Athlete	Event	Partner	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
			Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Tsukushi Koiwa	Mixed Team	Alice Ingley (AUS)	Viehmeir (GER)/  Park (CAN) W 7–3	Kamel (EGY)/  Oever (NED) W 7–3	Alarcón (ESP)/  Milon (BAN) L 5–6	Did not advance		5
Mai Okubo	Mixed Team	Yuan-Hsiang Ku (TPE)	Avitia (MEX)/  Hautamaki (FIN) W 6–0	Song (CHN)/  Pianesi (ITA) L 0–6	Did not advance			9

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2010 Youth Summer Olympics

Boys

Track and road events

Athletes	Event	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Masaki Nashimoto	Boys' 100m	10.74	4 Q	10.51
Keisuke Homma	Boys' 200m	21.74	4 Q	21.27
Koki Takada	Boys' 1000m	DSQ qB		2:29.29	15
Kazuto Nishiike	Boys' 3000m	8:13.05	4 Q	8:08.57	4
Genki Naruse	Boys' 400m hurdles	54.71	14 qC	52.86	12
Masaki Nashimoto (JPN)  Xie Zhenye (CHN)  Abdullah Ahmed Abkar (KSA)  Dongbaek Choi (KOR)	Boys' medley relay			1:54.14	5

Field Events

Athletes	Event	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Daichi Nakamura	Boys' Discus Throw	52.84	11 qB	51.82	12
Sho Matsubara	Boys' Long Jump	7.51	4 Q	7.65
Wataru Tanaka	Boys' Pole Vault	4.80	1 Q	4.70	7

Girls

Track and road events

Athletes	Event	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Mai Nishiwaki	Girls' 1000m	2:52.85	10 Q	2:54.39	9
Moe Kyuma	Girls' 3000m	9:35.33	2 Q	9:23.70
Motoko Nakahara	Girls' 100m hurdles	14.32	13 qB	14.29	13

Field events

Athletes	Event	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Shoko Matsuda	Girls' shot put	13.08	12 qB	13.53	10
Tsukasa Okumura	Girls' javelin throw	42.62	10 qB	46.24	9
Yuka Takahashi	Girls' long jump	5.99	5 Q	6.08	5
Remi Odajima	Girls' pole vault	3.80	8 Q	3.65	6

Badminton

Main article: Badminton at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics

Boys

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Knock-out stage
		Match 1	Match 2	Match 3	Rank	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Kento Horiuchi	Boys' singles	Sukamta (INA) L 1–2 (7–21, 21–14, 13–21)	Pan (CAN) W 2–0 (21–18, 21–10)	Djabar (SUR) W 2–0 (21–11, 21–15)	2	Did not advance

Girls

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Knock-Out Stage
		Match 1	Match 2	Match 3	Rank	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Misaki Matsutomo	Girls' singles	Wentholt (NED) L 1–2 (17–21, 21–5, 19–21)	Kune (MRI) W 2–0 (21–4, 21–2)	Wong (CAN) W 2–0 (21–11, 21–9)	2	Did not advance
Naoko Fukuman	Girls' singles	Zharka (UKR) W 2–0 (21–8, 21–8)	Choi (KOR) L 0–2 (15–21, 14–21)	Vu (VIE) L 1–2 (15–21, 21–16, 10–21)	3	Did not advance

Basketball

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Girls

Squad list	Event	Group stage		Placement stage			Rank
		Group D	Rank	1st–8th	5th–8th	5th–6th
Misato Kuma Hikari Itaya Maria Imanaka Moeko Nagaoka (C)	Girls' basketball	Italy L 17–26	2	China L 23–26	Germany W 28–18	Brazil W 32–29	5
		Australia W 17–10
		Chile W 24–17
		France W 34–20

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics

Cross country

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Points
Idomu Yamamoto	Boys' cross country	1:05:14	19	72
Manami Iwade	Girls' cross country	54:19	11	32

Time trial

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Points
Koji Nagase	Boys' time trial	4:14.07	15	28
Manami Iwade	Girls' time trial	3:42.29	20	40

BMX

Athlete	Event	Seeding round		Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Final
				Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Rank	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Rank
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank		Time	Rank	Points
Yoshitaku Nagasako	Boys' BMX	32.353	7	36.726	2	33.045	2	32.581	2	2 Q	32.907	5	32.839	2	55.485	6	4 Q	31.938	5	30
Manami Iwade	Girls' BMX	43.321	10	43.573	3	42.648	3	42.540	3	3 Q	44.103	6	43.318	5	43.916	6	5	Did not advance		30

Road race

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Points
Koji Nagase	Boys' Road race	1:05:44	21	72
Idomu Yamamoto	Boys' Road race	1:05:44	26
Yoshitaku Nagasako	Boys' Road race	DNF

Overall

Team	Event	Cross Country Pts		Time Trial Pts		BMX Pts		Road race Pts	Total	Rank
		Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls
Manami Iwade Idomu Yamamoto Koji Nagase Yoshitaku Nagasako	Mixed Team	72	32	28	40	30	30	72	304	16

Gymnastics

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Artistic gymnastics

Boys

Athlete	Event	Floor		Pommel horse		Rings		Vault		Parallel bars		Horizontal bar		Total
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Yuya Kamoto	Boys' qualification	14.500	2 Q	13.650	5 Q	14.500	2 Q	15.750	5	14.850	1 Q	13.950	5 Q	87.200	1 Q
	Boys' individual all-around	14.250	2	13.350	6	14.400	2	15.700	3	14.600	1	14.050	2	86.350

Athlete	Event	Score	Rank
Yuya Kamoto	Boys' floor	13.050	8
	Boys' pommel horse	13.325	6
	Boys' rings	14.200
	Boys' parallel bars	13.750	6
	Boys' horizontal bar	14.075	4

Girls

Athlete	Event	Vault		Uneven bars		Beam		Floor		Total
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Natsumi Sasada	Girls' qualification	14.000	4 Q	13.200	9	13.550	9	12.800	13	53.550	10 Q
	Girls' individual all-around	13.800	6	14.050	3	14.100	5	13.150	8	55.100	4

Athlete	Event	Score	Rank
Natsumi Sasada	Girls' vault	13.662	4

Rhythmic gymnastics

Team

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		Hoops	Ribbons	Total	Rank	Hoops	Ribbons	Total	Rank
Midori Kahata Momoka Nagai Sara Ogiso Shiho Suzuki	Girls' group all-around	23.000	22.900	45.900	2 Q	21.100	21.375	42.475	4

Trampoline

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		Routine 1	Routine 2	Total	Rank	Routine 1	Rank
Ginga Munetomo	Boys' trampoline	27.500	38.700	66.200	3 Q	40.000
Chisato Doihata	Girls' trampoline	26.600	35.800	62.400	4 Q	36.700

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics

Individual

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Ryosuke Igarashi	Boys' −100 kg	BYE	Pineda (VEN) W 021–000		Mendoza (CUB) W 100–000	Nikiforov (BEL) W 002–000
Miku Tashiro	Girls' −63 kg	BYE	Rak (EST) W 100–000	Shor (ISR) W 101–000	Matic (CRO) W 100–001	Gomes (BRA) W 100–000

Team

Team	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Chiba  Dieulourdes Joseph (HAI)  Diau Bauro (FIJ)  Alexandra Pop (ROU)  Phuc Cai (DEN)  Sophio Beridze (GEO)  Rijad Dedeic (MNE)  Ryosuke Igarashi (JPN)	Mixed Team	BYE	Essen L 2–5	Did not advance		5
Essen  Lesly Cano (PER)  Pedro Rivadulla (ESP)  Andrea Krisandova (SVK)  Kairat Agibayev (KAZ)  [Daryl Lokuku Ngambomo (COD)  Miku Tashiro (JPN)  Alex Maxell Garcia Mendoza (CUB)	Mixed Team	Munich W 4–3	Chiba W 5–2	Cairo W 5–2	Belgrade W 6–1

Rowing

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Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final		Overall Rank
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sae Kitayama	Girls' single sculls	4:03.14	6 QR	4:09.90	4 QC/D	4:16.02	3 QC	4:16.43	5	16

Sailing

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Windsurfing

Athlete	Event	Race											Points	Rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*
Dauya Kuramochi	Boys' Techno 293	4	7	10	8	7	11	7	OCS	9	4	10	77	8
Shiori Yuri	Girls' Techno 293	12	11	12	14	12	OCS	12	18	12	12	11	126	13

Swimming

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Boys

Athletes	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Position	Time	Position	Time	Position
Yusuke Yamagishi	Boys' 100m backstroke	58.97	19	Did not advance
	Boys' 200m backstroke	2:05.32	7 Q			2:04.67	5
Tatsunari Shoda	Boys' 200m breaststroke	2:21.54	15			Did not advance
	Boys' 200m individual medley	2:08.29	18			Did not advance
Jun Isaji	Boys' 100m butterfly	55.88	19	Did not advance
	Boys' 200m butterfly	2:04.13	10			Did not advance
Takahiro Tsutsumi	Boys' 200m individual medley	2:03.73	5 Q			2:06.18	8
Jun Isaji Tatsunari Shoda Takahiro Tsutsumi Yusuke Yamagishi	Boys' 4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:32.20	10			Did not advance
Jun Isaji Tatsunari Shoda Takahiro Tsutsumi Yusuke Yamagishi	Boys' 4 × 100 m medley relay	3:52.55	9			Did not advance

Girls

Athletes	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Position	Time	Position	Time	Position
Yukiko Watanabe	Girls' 100m backstroke	1:04.23	6 Q	1:04.24	9	Did not advance
	Girls' 200m backstroke	2:16.82	8 Q			2:18.36	8
Mina Ochi	Girls' 100m backstroke	1:05.52	18	Did not advance
	Girls' 200m backstroke	2:18.26	12			Did not advance
Maya Hamano	Girls' 100m breaststroke	1:11.32	5 Q	1:10.91	5 Q	1:10.18	4
	Girls' 200m breaststroke	2:31.67	3 Q			2:29.75
Mayuko Okada	Girls' 100m butterfly	1:03.75	21	Did not advance
	Girls' 200m butterfly	2:18.72	15			Did not advance
Yukiko Watanabe Mina Ochi Maya Hamano Mayuko Okada	Girls' 4 × 100 m freestyle relay	4:02.29	10			Did not advance
Yukiko Watanabe Mina Ochi Maya Hamano Mayuko Okada	Girls' 4 × 100 m medley relay	4:19.00	6 Q			4:16.80	5

Mixed

Athletes	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Position	Time	Position	Time	Position
Jun Isaji Yusuke Yamagishi Mina Ochi Maya Hamano	Mixed 4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:49.23	14			Did not advance
Yukiko Watanabe Tatsinari Shoda Mayuko Okada Takahiro Tsutsumi	Mixed 4 × 100 m medley relay	4:06.13	8 Q			4:06.18	7

Table tennis

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Individual

Athlete	Event	Round 1		Round 2		Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Group Matches	Rank	Group Matches	Rank
Koki Niwa	Boys' singles	Kulpa (POL) W 3–0 (11–6, 11–4, 11–7)	1 Q	Hageraats (NED) W 3–0 (11–3, 11–6, 11–2)	1 Q	Onaolapo (NGR) W 4–2 (8–11, 8–11, 11–8, 11–9, 11–9, 13–11)	Gauzy (FRA) W 4–0 (11–7, 14–12, 11–4, 11–8)	Hung (TPE) W 4–2 (9–11, 11–8, 13–11, 13–15, 11–7, 15–13)
		Wagner (GER) W 3–0 (11–7, 11–5, 11–7)		Lakatos (HUN) W 3–0 (11–5, 11–7, 11–2)
		Mejía (ESA) W 3–0 (11–4, 11–5, 11–4)		Kim (KOR) W 3–0 (11–7, 11–4, 7–11 11–3)
Ayuka Tanioka	Girls' singles	Wu (NZL) W 3–0 (11–7, 11–3, 11–4)	1 Q	Meshref (EGY) W 3–1 (12–10, 10–12, 11–7, 11–4)	2 Q	Sawettabut (THA) L 0–4 (7–11, 4–11, 10–12, 8–11)	Did not advance		5
		Li (SIN) W 3–2 (11–9, 11–5, 9–11, 16–18, 11–6)		Noskova (RUS) W 3–1 (11–7, 7–11, 12–10, 11–7)
		Loveridge (GBR) W 3–1 (9–11, 11–6, 11–4, 11–2)		Gu (CHN) L 0–3 (2–11, 2–11, 10–12)

Team

Athlete	Event	Round 1		Round 2	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Group matches	Rank
Japan  Ayuka Tanioka (JPN)  Koki Niwa (JPN)	Mixed team	Brazil  Kumahara (BRA)  Jouti (BRA) W 3–0 (3–0, 3–0, 3–0)	1 Q	Hong Kong  Ng (HKG)  Chiu (HKG) W 2–0 (3–2, 3–2)	Singapore  Li (SIN)  Chew (SIN) W 2–1 (0–3, 3–1, 3–2)	Intercontinental 1  Gu (CHN)  Hmam (TUN) W 2–1 (0–3, 3–0, 3–1)	Korea  Yang (KOR)  Kim (KOR) W 2–1 (2–3, 3–2, 3–2)
		Pan America 1  Hsing (USA)  Gavilan (PAR) W 3–0 (3–2, 3–0, 3–0)
		BYE

Tennis

Main article: Tennis at the 2010 Youth Summer Olympics

Singles

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Yasutaka Uchiyama	Boys' singles	Džumhur (BIH) L 0–2 (5–7, 2–6)	Consolation  Acosta (ECU) L 1–2 (3–6, 6–4, [4–10])	Did not advance
Sachie Ishizu	Girls' singles	Kremen (BLR) L 0–2 (3–6, 3–6)	Consolation  Ysidora (INA) W 2–0 (w/o)	Consolation  Pérez (VEN) W 2–0 (6–1, 6–3)	Consolation  Jodoin (CAN) W 2–0 (6–1, 7–6)	Consolation  Friedsam (GER) W 2–0 (6–2, 7–5)
Emi Mutaguchi	Girls' singles	Putintseva (RUS) L 0–2 (3–6, 4–6)	Consolation  Royg (PAR) W 2–0 (6–1, 6–4)	Consolation  Paliivets (CAN) W 2–0 (3–0RET)	Consolation  Friedsam (GER) L 0–2 (0–6, 3–6)	Did not advance

Doubles

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Liang-Chi Huang (TPE)  Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN)	Boys' doubles	Galeano (PAR)  Rodriguez (VEN) L 0–2 (4–6, 4–6)	Did not advance
Sachie Ishizu (JPN)  Emi Mutaguchi (JPN)	Girls' doubles	Kumkhum (THA)  Ysidora (INA) W 2–0 (6–1, 6–4)	Babos (HUN)  Mestach (BEL) L 1–2 (6–4, 3–6, [12–14])	Did not advance

Triathlon

Main article: Triathlon at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics

Yuka Sato won the first gold medal of the Youth Olympic Games.^[2]

Girls

Triathlete	Event	Swimming	Transit 1	Cycling	Transit 2	Running	Total time	Rank
Yuka Sato	individual	9:32	0:35	32:10	0:27	18:05	1:00:49.69

Men's

Athlete	Event	Swim (1.5 km)	Trans 1	Bike (40 km)	Trans 2	Run (10 km)	Total	Rank
Yuki Kubono	individual	9:21	0:35	30:26	0:25	18:39	59:26.04	26

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Total times per athlete (swim 250 m, bike 7 km, run 1.7 km)	Total group time	Rank
Mingxiu Ma (CHN)  Leong Tim Law (HKG)  Karolina Solovyova (KAZ)  Yuki Kubono (JPN)	Mixed team relay Asia 2	22:55 20:43 23:54 20:08	1:27:40.62	13
Sato Yuka (JPN)  Ji Hong Lee (KOR)  Wai Sum Vincci Hui (HKG)  Ru Cheng (CHN)	Mixed team relay Asia 1	20:16 20:06 22:19 20:39	1:23:20.88	8

Volleyball

Main article: Volleyball at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics

Squad List	Event	Group Stage		Semifinal	Bronze Medal Match	Rank
		Group A	Rank
Yoko Onuma Nozomi Inoue Chizu Ichikawa Anna Fukami (C) Yui Kageyama Yukiko Akashi Saaya Karaki Ayaka Mori Mami Ogonuki Sayaka Tokiwa Akari Imakado Mayu Koizumi	Girls' Volleyball	Singapore W 3–0 (25–9, 25–16, 25–9)	2 Q	United States L 0–3 (20–25, 23–25, 22–25)	Peru L 1–3 (25–22, 28–30, 11–25, 17–25)	4
		Peru L 0–3 (22–25, 19–25, 18–25)

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics

Athlete	Event	Snatch	Clean & jerk	Total	Rank
Miku Shichinohe	Girls' +63kg	80	93	173	12

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics

freestyle

Athlete	Event	Pools		Final	Rank
		Groups	Rank
Yuki Takahashi	Boys' 54 kg	Ghanmi (TUN) W T. Fall (6–0, 7–0)	1	Guluyev (AZE) W 2–0 (4–0, 4–0)
		Daylak (TUR) W 2–0 (3–0, 3–0)
		Serrata (DOM) W Fall (6–0)
		Mbambi (CGO) W T. Fall (7–0, 7–0)
Yu Miyahara	Girls' 46kg	Olli (FIN) W 2–0 (1+–1, 5–0)	1	Leorda (MDA) W 2–0 (4–2, 6–0)
		Segura (VEN) W 2–0 (4–1, 2–0)