Japan at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Japan at the 1976 Summer Olympics
IOC code	JPN
NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
Website	www.joc.or.jp (Japanese) (English)
in Montreal
Competitors	213 (153 men and 60 women) in 20 sports
Flag bearer	Katsutoshi Nekoda
Medals Ranked 5th	Gold Silver Bronze Total 9 6 10 25
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Japan competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. 213 competitors, 153 men and 60 women, took part in 119 events in 20 sports.^[1]

Medalists

Gold

• Mitsuo Tsukahara — Gymnastics, Men's Horizontal Bar
• Sawao Kato — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars
• Shun Fujimoto, Sawao Kato, Hiroshi Kajiyama, Mitsuo Tsukahara, and Eizo Kenmotsu — Gymnastics, Men's Team Combined Exercises Competition
• Isamu Sonoda — Judo, Men's Middleweight (80 kg)
• Kazuhiro Ninomiya — Judo, Men's Half-Heavyweight (93 kg)
• Haruki Uemura — Judo, Men's Open Class
• Yuko Arakida, Takako Iida, Katsuko Kanesaka, Kiyomi Kato, Echiko Maeda, Noriko Matsuda, Mariko Okamoto, Takako Shirai, Shoko Takayanagi, Hiromi Yano, Juri Yokoyama, and Mariko Yoshida — Volleyball, Women's Team Competition
• Yuji Takada — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Flyweight
• Jiichiro Date — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Welterweight

Silver

• Hiroshi Michinaga — Archery, Men's Individual Competition
• Sawao Kato — Gymnastics, Men's All-Around Individual Competition
• Eizo Kenmotsu — Gymnastics, Men's Horizontal Bar
• Mitsuo Tsukahara — Gymnastics, Men's Long Horse Vault
• Eizo Kenmotsu — Gymnastics, Men's Pommeled Horse
• Koji Kuramoto — Judo, Men's Half Middleweight (70 kg)

Bronze

• Mitsuo Tsukahara — Gymnastics, Men's All-Around Individual Competition
• Mitsuo Tsukahara — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars
• Hiroshi Kajiyama — Gymnastics, Men's Long Horse Vault
• Sumio Endo — Judo, Men's Heavyweight
• Kenkichi Ando — Weightlifting, Men's Bantamweight
• Kazumasa Hirai — Weightlifting, Men's Featherweight
• Koichiro Hirayama — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Flyweight
• Akira Kudo — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Light Flyweight
• Masao Arai — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Bantamweight
• Yasaburo Sugawara — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Lightweight

Archery

In their second Olympic archery competition, Japan won a silver medal and placed third on the national leaderboard for the sport. The medal was won by Hiroshi Michinaga. Two men and two women competed for Japan.

Women's Individual Competition:

• Minako Sato — 2308 points (→ 14th place)
• Kyoko Yamazaki — 2094 points (→ 26th place)

Men's Individual Competition:

• Hiroshi Michinaga — 2502 points (→ Silver Medal)
• Takanobu Nishi — 2422 points (→ 8th place)

Athletics

Men's 10.000 metres

• Toshiaki Kamata

• Heat — 28:36.21 (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

• Shigeru So — 2:18:26 (→ 20th place)
• Noriyasu Mizukami — 2:18:44 (→ 21st place)
• Akio Usami — 2:22:29 (→ 32nd place)

Men's High Jump

• Katsumi Fukura

• Qualification — 2.13m (→ did not advance)

• Kazunori Koshikawa

• Qualification — 2.13m (→ did not advance)

Men's 20 km Race Walk

• Yoshio Morikawa — 1:42:20 (→ 34th place)

Basketball

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group A):

• Lost to Canada (76-104)
• Lost to Mexico (90-108)
• Lost to Cuba (56-97)
• Lost to Soviet Union (69-123)
• Lost to Australia (79-117)

• Classification Match:

• 9th/11th place: Lost to Puerto Rico (91-111) → 11th place

• Team Roster

• Shigeaki Abe
• Nobuo Chigusa
• Satoshi Mori
• Shoji Yuki
• Yutaka Fujimoto
• Hirofumi Numata
• Kiyohide Kuwata
• Koji Yamamoto
• Shigeto Shimizu
• Fumio Saito
• Norihiko Kitahara
• Hideki Hamaguchi

• Head Coach: Masahiko Yoshida.

Women's Team Competition

• Team Roster

• Kimiko Hashimoto
• Kazuko Kadoya
• Kimi Wakitashiro
• Mieko Fukui
• Miyako Otsuka
• Miho Matsuoka
• Kazuyo Hayashida
• Teruko Miyamoto
• Keiko Namai
• Reiko Aonuma
• Sachiyo Yamamoto
• Misako Satake

• Head Coach: Masatoshi Ozaki

Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

• Noboru Uchizama
  1. First Round — Lost to Brendan Dunne (IRL), RSC-2

Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)

• Toshinori Koga
  1. First Round — Bye
  2. Second Round — Defeated Virgilio Palomo (COL), 5:0
  3. Third Round — Lost to Ramón Duvalón (CUB), 0:5

Canoeing

Cycling

Five cyclists represented Japan in 1976.

Sprint

• Yoshikazu Cho — 5th place

1000m time trial

• Yoshikazu Cho — 1:09.664 (→ 17th place)

Individual pursuit

• Yoichi Machishima — 15th place

Team pursuit

• Yoichi Machishima
• Tadashi Ogasawara
• Yoshiaki Ogasawara
• Tsutomu Okabori

Diving

Equestrianism

Fencing

Eight fencers, four men and four women, represented Japan in 1976.

Men's foil

• Masanori Kawatsu
• Noriyuki Sato
• Toshio Jingo

Men's team foil

• Masanori Kawatsu, Hideaki Kamei, Toshio Jingo, Noriyuki Sato

Women's foil

• Hideko Oka
• Yukari Kajihara
• Mariko Yoshikawa

Women's team foil

• Hideko Oka, Mariko Yoshikawa, Hiroko Kamada, Yukari Kajihara

Gymnastics

Handball

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented Japan in 1976.

Men's Individual Competition:

• Shoji Uchida — 4850 points (→ 31st place)
• Akira Kubo — 4700 points (→ 37th place)
• Hiroyuki Kawazoe — 4591 points (→ 40th place)

Men's Team Competition:

• Uchida, Kubo, and Kawazoe — 14234 points (→ 12th place)

Rowing

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Volleyball

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group B)

• Defeated Italy (3-0)
• Defeated Brazil (3-0)
• Lost to Soviet Union (0-3)

• Semi Finals

• Lost to Poland (2-3)

• Bronze Medal Match

• Lost to Cuba (0-3) → Fourth place

• Team Roster

• Taka Maruiyama
• Katsutoshi Nekoda
• Katsumi Oda
• Tetsuo Nishimoto
• Yassunori Yassuda
• Yoshi Fukao
• Shoichi Yanagimoto
• Mikiyasu Tanaka
• Tadayoshi Yokota
• Seiji Ohko
• Kinji Shimaoka
• Tetsuo Satō

• Head Coach: Tsutomu Koyama

Women's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group A)

• Defeated Hungary (3-0)
• Defeated Peru (3-0)
• Defeated Canada (3-0)

• Semi Finals

• Defeated South Korea (3-0)

• Final

• Defeated Soviet Union (3-0) → Gold Medal

• Team Roster

• Takako Iida
• Mariko Okamoto
• Echiko Maeda
• Noriko Matsuda
• Takako Shirai
• Kiyomi Kato
• Yuko Arakida
• Katsuko Kanesaka
• Mariko Yoshida
• Shoko Takayanagi
• Hiromi Yano
• Juri Yokoyama

• Head Coach: Shigeo Yamada

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References