| Japan at the 1996 Summer Olympics | |
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| IOC code | JPN |
| NOC | Japanese Olympic Committee |
| Website | www |
| in Atlanta | |
| Competitors | 306 (157 men and 149 women) in 27 sports |
| Flag bearer | Ryoko Tamura |
| Medals Ranked 23rd |
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| Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Japan competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. 306 competitors, 157 men and 149 women, took part in 168 events in 27 sports.[1]
Medalists
Archery
In the nation's sixth Olympic archery competition, three of Japan's five archers won their first matches. All three lost in the second round, however.
Women's Individual Competition:
- Kinue Kodama → Round of 32, 24th place (1-1)
- Ai Ouchi → Round of 64, 41st place (0-1)
- Misato Koide → Round of 64, 56th place (0-1)
Men's Individual Competition:
- Hiroshi Yamamoto → Round of 32, 19th place (1-1)
- Takayoshi Matsushita → Round of 32, 27th place (1-1)
Women's Team Competition:
- Kodama, Ouchi, and Koide → Round of 16, 14th place (0-1)
Athletics
Men's 100 metres
Men's 200 metres
- Koji Ito
- Takahiro Mazuka
Men's 400 metres
- Shigekazu Omori
Men's 10,000 metres
- Toshinari Takaoka
- Katsuhiko Hanada
Men's 4 × 100 metres Relay
- Nobuharu Asahara
- Hiroyasu Tsuchie
- Koji Ito
- Satoru Inoue
Men's 4 × 400 metres Relay
- Shunji Karube, Koji Ito, Jun Osakada, and Shigekazu Omori
- Heat — 3:02.82
- Semi Final — 3:01.92
- Final — 3:00.76 (→ 5th place)
Men's 400m Hurdles
- Heat — 48.96s (→ did not advance)
- Hideaki Kawamura
- Heat — 49.88s (→ did not advance)
- Kazuhiko Yamazaki
- Heat — 49.07s (→ did not advance)
Men's Marathon
- Hiromi Taniguchi — 2:17.26 (→ 19th place)
- Masaki Oya — 2:22.13 (→ 54th place)
- Kenjiro Jitsui — 2:33.27 (→ 93rd place)
Men's 20 km Walk
- Daisuke Ikeshima — 1:24.54 (→ 22nd place)
Men's 50 km Walk
- Tadahiro Kosaka — 4:05.57 (→ 29th place)
Men's High Jump
- Tomohiro Nomura
Men's Long Jump
- Qualification — 7.46m (→ did not advance)
Men's Pole Vault
- Teruyasu Yonekura
Women's 5,000 metres
- Michiko Shimizu
- Harumi Hiroyama
- Yoshiko Ichikawa
Women's 10,000 metres
- Qualification — 31:37.03
- Final — 31:20.62 (→ 5th place)
- Qualification — 32:31.69
- Final — 31:23.23 (→ 7th place)
- Hiromi Suzuki
- Qualification — 31:54.89
- Final — 32:43.39 (→ 16th place)
Women's Marathon
- Yuko Arimori — 2:28.39 (→ Bronze Medal)
- Izumi Maki — 2:32.35 (→ 12th place)
- Junko Asari — 2:34.31 (→ 17th place)
Women's 100 metres Hurdles
- Yvonne Kanazawa
Women's 10 km Walk
- Yuka Mitsumori — dsq (→ no ranking)
Women's Javelin Throw
- Akiko Miyajima
- Qualification — 53.98m (→ did not advance)
Badminton
Baseball
Defending bronze medalist Japan competed for the second time in the Olympic baseball tournament. They got off to a rough start, losing three of their first four games to Australia, Cuba, and the United States. After winning their next three, however, the Japanese were in a tie with the Nicaraguans for third and fourth places. Since Japan had beaten Nicaragua in head-to-head competition, they won the tie-breaker and faced the United States in the semifinals rather than the Cubans, which had not lost any of their 16 games in the 1992 and 1996 Olympiads. Japan defeated the United States to advance to the final, where they became the Cubans' 18th victim (Nicaragua's loss in the semifinals being the 17th win for Cuba).
Men's Team Competition:
- Japan - Silver Medal (5-4)
Basketball
Beach volleyball
- Shoji Setoyama and Kazuyuki Takao — 17th place overall
Boxing
Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)
- Kazumasa Tsujimoto
- First Round — Lost to Lernik Papyan (Armenia), 5-10
Men's Light Welterweight (– 63,5 kg)
- Fumitaka Nitami
- First Round — Lost to Eduard Zakharov (Russia), 6-21
Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg)
- Hirokuni Moto
- First Round — Defeated Tao Chen (China), 15-10
- First Round — Lost to Tomasz Borowski (Poland), 6-11
Canoeing
Cycling
Track Competition
Men's Points Race
- Masahiro Yasuhara
- Final — 2 points (→ 15th place)
Mountain Bike
Men's Cross Country
- Kyoshi Miura
- Final — 2:45:03 (→ 26th place)
Women's Cross Country
- Kanako Tanikawa
- Final — 2:05.44 (→ 23rd place)
Diving
Women's 3m Springboard
- Yuki Motobuchi
- Preliminary Heat — 262.71
- Semi Final — 210.00
- Final — 296.04 (→ 6th place)
Equestrianism
Fencing
Four fencers, one man and three women, represented Japan in 1996.
- Men's foil
- Hiroki Ichigatani
- Women's épée
- Noriko Kubo
- Yuko Arai
- Nanae Tanaka
- Women's team épée
- Nanae Tanaka, Noriko Kubo, Yuko Arai
Football
- Men's competition
| 21 July 1996 Match 1 | Japan  | 1–0 |  Brazil | Miami |
| 18:30 UTC−4 | Ito  72' | Report | Stadium: Orange Bowl Attendance: 46,724 Referee: Benito Archundia (Mexico) |
| 23 July 1996 Match 2 | Nigeria  | 2–0 | Japan | Orlando |
| 20:30 UTC−4 | Akiba 83' (o.g.) Okocha 90' (pen.) | Report | Stadium: Citrus Bowl Attendance: 28,000 Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Italy) |
| 25 July 1996 Match 3 | Japan | 3–2 |  Hungary | Orlando |
| 21:00 UTC−4 | Maezono 39' (pen.), 90+1' Uemura 90' | Report | Sándor 2' Madar 48' | Stadium: Citrus Bowl Attendance: 17,224 Referee: Lucien Bouchardeau (Niger) |
- Women's competition
| 21 July 1996 Match 1 | Germany  | 3–2 | Japan | Birmingham |
| 13:30 UTC−4 | Wiegmann 5' Tomei 29' (o.g.)Mohr 52' | Report | Kioka 18' Noda 33' | Stadium: Legion Field Attendance: 44,211 Referee: Ingrid Jonsson (Sweden) |
| 23 July 1996 Match 2 | Brazil | 2–0 | Japan | Birmingham |
| 16:30 UTC−4 | Kátia 68' Pretinha 78' | Report | Stadium: Legion Field Attendance: 26,111 Referee: Ingrid Jonsson (Sweden) |
| 25 July 1996 Match 3 | Norway  | 4–0 | Japan | Washington, D.C. |
| 18:30 UTC−4 | Pettersen 25', 86' Medalen 60'Tangeraas 74' | Report | Stadium: Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium Attendance: 30,237 Referee: Omer Al Mehannah (Saudi Arabia) |
Gymnastics
Judo
Rhythmic gymnastics
Rowing
Sailing
Shooting
Softball
Women's Team Competition
- Preliminary Round Robin
- Defeated Netherlands (3:0)
- Defeated PR China (3:0)
- Lost to United States (1:6)
- Defeated Canada (4:0)
- Lost to Australia (0:10)
- Defeated Puerto Rico (8:1)
- Defeated Chinese Taipei (5:1)
- Semifinals
- Lost to Australia (0:3)
- Bronze Medal Match
- Did not advance → 4th place
- Team Roster
- Juri Takayama
- Noriko Yamaji
- Haruka Saito
- Misako Ando
- Naomi Matsumoto
- Yoshiko Fujimoto
- Ikuko Fukita
- Noriko Harada
- Mayumi Inoue
- Chika Kodama
- Kyoko Kobayashi
- Kyoko Mochida
- Emi Tsukada
- Masako Watanabe
- Tomoko Watanabe
- Head Coach: Mitsutoshi Suzumura
Swimming
Men's 50 metres Freestyle:
- Yukihiro Matsushita
- Heat — 23.60 (→ did not advance, 35th place)
Men's 100 metres Freestyle:
- Shunsuke Ito
- Heat — 51.29 (→ did not advance, 37th place)
Men's 200 metres Freestyle:
- Shunsuke Ito
- Heat — 1:51.97 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)
Men's 400 metres Freestyle:
- Hisato Yasui
- Heat — 4:00.19 (→ did not advance, 24th place)
Men's 1500 m Freestyle
- Masato Hirano
- Heat — 15:19.48
- B-Final — 15:17.28 (→ 6th place)
- Hisato Yasui
- Heat — 15:43.66 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)
Men's 100 m Backstroke
- Keitaro Konnai
- Heat — 56.35
- B-Final — 55.74 (→ 9th place)
- Hajime Itoi
- Heat — 56.22
- B-Final — 56.23 (→ 11th place)
Men's 200 m Backstroke
- Hajime Itoi
- Heat — 2:00.43
- Final — 2:00.10 (→ 5th place)
- Ryuji Horii
- Heat — 2:02.33
- B-Final — 2:01.54 (→ 9th place)
Men's 100 m Breaststroke
- Akira Hayashi
- Heat — 1:02.63
- B-Final — 1:02.75 (→ 12th place)
- Yoshinobu Miyazaki
- Heat — 1:03.13 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)
Men's 200 m Breaststroke
- Akira Hayashi
- Heat — 2:15.37
- B-Final — 2:16.69 (→ 16th place)
Men's 100 m Butterfly
- Takashi Yamamoto
- Heat — 53.95
- B-Final — 53.98 (→ 13th place)
- Yukihiro Matsushita
- Heat — 54.50 (→ did not advance, 20th place)
Men's 200 m Butterfly
- Takashi Yamamoto
- Heat — 2:00.87 (→ did not advance, 20th place)
Men's 200 m Individual Medley
- Tatsuya Kinugasa
- Heat — 2:03.42
- B-Final — 2:04.59 (→ 14th place)
- Jo Yoshimi
- Heat — 2:04.49
- B-Final — 2:05.42 (→ 16th place)
Men's 400 m Individual Medley
- Toshiaki Kurasawa
- Heat — 4:24.83
- B-Final — 4:23.36 (→ 10th place)
- Tatsuya Kinugasa
- Heat — 4:26.73
- B-Final — 4:24.25 (→ 11th place)
Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay
- Keitaro Konnai, Akira Hayashi, Takashi Yamamoto and Shunsuke Ito
- Heat — 3:41.78
- Final — 3:40.51 (→ 5th place)
Women's 50 m Freestyle
- Heat — 25.89
- B-Final — 26.05 (→ 12th place)
Women's 100 m Freestyle
- Heat — 57.25 (→ did not advance, 25th place)
Women's 200 m Freestyle
- Heat — 2:01.11
- B-Final — 2:01.00 (→ 10th place)
- Heat — 2:03.78 (→ did not advance, 20th place)
Women's 400 m Freestyle
- Heat — 4:13.40
- Final — 4:11.68 (→ 7th place)
- Heat — 4:16.07
- B-Final — 4:16.60 (→ 13th place)
Women's 800 m Freestyle
- Heat — 8:40.47 (→ did not advance, 10th place)
- Heat — 8:55.77 (→ did not advance, 21st place)
Women's 100 m Backstroke
- Mai Nakamura
- Heat — 1:02.35
- Final — 1:02.33 (→ 4th place)
- Heat — 1:02.90
- Final — 1:02.78 (→ 8th place)
Women's 200 m Backstroke
- Mai Nakamura
- Heat — 2:15.05
- B-Final — 2:13.40 (→ 9th place)
- Heat — 2:12.92
- Final — 2:13.57 (→ 5th place)
Women's 100 m Breaststroke
- Heat — 1:09.89
- B-Final — 1:10.43 (→ 13th place)
- Heat — 1:11.33 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)
Women's 200 m Breaststroke
- Heat — 2:29.36
- Final — 2:28.05 (→ 5th place)
- Heat — 2:30.84
- B-Final — 2:29.32 (→ 10th place)
Women's 100 m Butterfly
- Hitomi Kashima
- Heat — 1:00.85
- Final — 1:00.11 (→ 4th place)
- Ayari Aoyama
- Heat — 1:00.20
- Final — 1:00.18 (→ 6th place)
Women's 200 m Butterfly
- Hitomi Kashima
- Heat — 2:16.04
- B-Final — 2:13.97 (→ 14th place)
- Mika Haruna
- Heat — 2:12.59
- Final — 2:11.93 (→ 7th place)
Women's 200 m Individual Medley
- Fumie Kurotori
- Heat — 2:20.58 (→ did not advance, 28th place)
Women's 400 m Individual Medley
- Fumie Kurotori
- Heat — 4:48.51
- B-Final — 4:47.98 (→ 12th place)
- Hideko Hiranaka
- Heat — 4:49.32
- B-Final — 4:48.72 (→ 13th place)
Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay
- Heat — 3:48.77 (→ did not advance, 12th place)
Women's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay
- Heat — 8:09.46
- Final — 8:07.46 (→ 4th place)
Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay
- Mai Nakamura, Masami Tanaka, Ayari Aoyama and Suzu Chiba
- Heat — 4:10.71 (→ did not advance, 9th place)
Synchronized swimming
Table tennis
Tennis
Men's Singles Competition
- First round — Lost to Tim Henman (Great Britain) 6-7 3-6
Men's Doubles Competition
- Satoshi Iwabuchi and Takao Suzuki
- First round — Defeated Juan-Carlos Bianchi and Nicolas Pereira (Venezuela) 6-4, 6-7, 8-6
- Second round — Lost to Sergi Bruguera and Tomás Carbonell (Spain) 7-6, 2-6, 5-7
Women's Singles Competition
- First round — Defeated Katarina Studenikova (Slovakia) 6-2 6-3
- Second round — Defeated Martina Hingis (Switzerland) 6-4 6-4
- Third round — Lost to Jana Novotná (Czech Republic) 3-6 4-6
- First round — Defeated Dally Randriantefy (Madagascar) 6-0 6-1
- Second round — Defeated Virag Csurgo (Hungary) 6-2 6-3
- Third round — Defeated Magdalena Maleeva (Bulgaria) 6-4 6-4
- Quarter Finals — Lost to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (Spain) 6-4 3-6 8-10
- First round — Defeated Sung-Hee Park (South Korea) 6-3 4-6 6-3
- Second round — Lost to Lindsay Davenport (United States) 2-6 2-6
Volleyball
Women's Indoor Team Competition
- Preliminary Round (Group A)
- Lost to South Korea (0-3)
- Defeated Ukraine (3-0)
- Lost to Netherlands (0-3)
- Lost to United States (0-3)
- Lost to China (0-3)
- Quarterfinals
- did not advance (→ Ninth place)
- Team Roster
- Kaiyo Hoshini
- Aki Nagatomi
- Kazumi Nakamura
- Chieko Nakanishi
- Motoko Ohbayashi
- Ikumi Ogake
- Mika Saiki
- Kiyomi Sakamoto
- Asako Tajimi
- Chiho Torii
- Mika Yamauchi
- Tomoko Yoshihara
- Head Coach: Kuniaki Yoshida
Weightlifting
Wrestling
Notes
- (ed.) Watkins, Ginger T. (1997). The Official Report of the Centennial Olympic Games, Volume III The Competition Results (PDF). Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers. ISBN 1-56145-150-9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2008-02-05.
References
- ^ "Japan at the 1996 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2011-09-14. Retrieved 2012-02-16.