Japan at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Japan at the
1988 Winter Olympics
IOC codeJPN
NOCJapanese Olympic Committee
Websitewww.joc.or.jp (in Japanese and English)
in Calgary
Competitors48 in 9 sports
Flag bearer Seiko Hashimoto (speed skating)
Medals
Ranked 16th
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
1
Total
1
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)

Japan competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Competitors

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

Sport Men Women Total
Alpine skiing 4 2 6
Biathlon 4 – 4
Bobsleigh 4 – 4
Cross-country skiing 4 0 4
Figure skating 2 3 5
Luge 3 2 5
Nordic combined 3 – 3
Ski jumping 4 – 4
Speed skating 9 4 13
Total 37 11 48

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date
 Bronze Akira Kuroiwa Speed skating Men's 500 metres 14 February

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Time Time Rank
Katsuhito Kumagai Downhill 2:07.17 34
Shinya Chiba 2:03.16 11
Katsuhito Kumagai Super-G DNF –
Shinya Chiba 1:43.03 14
Katsuhito Kumagai Giant Slalom DNF – DNF –
Chiaki Ishioka 1:09.11 1:06.29 2:15.40 31
Tetsuya Okabe 1:08.30 1:06.18 2:14.49 28
Chiaki Ishioka Slalom DNF – DNF –
Tetsuya Okabe 53.11 48.82 1:41.93 12

Men's combined

Athlete Downhill Slalom Total
Time Time 1 Time 2 Points Rank
Katsuhito Kumagai 1:52.10 48.85 47.17 144.65 21
Women
Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Time Time Rank
Sachiko Yamamoto Downhill 1:30.15 23
Emi Kawabata 1:27.85 14
Sachiko Yamamoto Super-G 1:24.32 30
Emi Kawabata 1:22.24 24
Sachiko Yamamoto Giant Slalom DNF – DNF –
Emi Kawabata 1:02.10 DNF DNF –
Sachiko Yamamoto Slalom DNF – DNF –
Emi Kawabata 54.70 54.65 1:49.35 19

Women's combined

Athlete Downhill Slalom Total
Time Time 1 Time 2 Points Rank
Sachiko Yamamoto 1:20.33 43.66 46.60 139.01 20
Emi Kawabata 1:18.53 DNF – DNF –

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Men
Event Athlete Misses 1 Time Rank
10 km Sprint Akihiro Takizawa 5 31:38.7 63
Koichi Sato 3 29:43.1 59
Tadashi Nakamura 2 28:11.4 44
Misao Kodate 2 27:52.6 39
Event Athlete Time Misses Adjusted time 2 Rank
20 km Akihiro Takizawa 1'03:38.0 7 1'10:38.0 61
Koichi Sato 1'02:18.7 8 1'10:18.7 60
Tadashi Nakamura 57:01.3 8 1'05:01.3 48
Misao Kodate 57:51.0 6 1'03:51.0 40
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Athletes Race
Misses 1 Time Rank
Tadashi Nakamura
Misao Kodate
Akihiro Takizawa
Koichi Sato 		6 1'32:52.4 14
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 1988 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 Takao Sakai
Naomi Takewaki 		Two-man 58.32 15 1:00.39 21 DNF – – – DNF –
JPN-2 Yuji Yaku
Toshio Wakita 		Two-man 58.57 19 1:00.58 23 1:01.51 25 1:00.38 22 4:01.04 20
Sled Athletes Event Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
JPN-1 Takao Sakai
Toshio Wakita
Yuji Yaku
Naomi Takewaki 		Four-man 57.36 17 58.15 16 57.68 22 58.16 16 3:51.35 18

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
15 km
C 		Masaharu Yamazaki 50:06.8 68
Tanayuki Yuki 47:08.4 52
Kazunari Sasaki 46:12.6 45
30 km
C 		Masaharu Yamazaki 1'43:58.3 77
Tanayuki Yuki 1'37:11.9 57
Atsushi Egawa 1'32:35.4 37
Kazunari Sasaki 1'29:59.2 20
50 km
F 		Atsushi Egawa 2'17:52.8 42
Tanayuki Yuki 2'16:24.7 39
Kazunari Sasaki 2'13:09.6 32
C = Classical style, F = Freestyle
Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Atsushi Egawa
Kazunari Sasaki
Tanayuki Yuki
Masaharu Yamazaki 		1'51:10.7 14

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete CF SP FS TFP Rank
Makoto Kano 19 19 19 38.0 17
Women
Athlete CF SP FS TFP Rank
Junko Yaginuma 16 15 14 29.6 14
Midori Ito 10 4 3 10.6 5
Ice Dancing
Athletes CD OD FD TFP Rank
Tomoko Tanaka
Hiroyuki Suzuki 		18 18 18 36.0 18

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Toru Ito 47.753 27 47.880 27 46.601 28 48.439 29 3:12.673 26
Kazuhiko Takamatsu 47.278 19 47.235 19 47.326 18 47.176 13 3:09.015 18

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Kazuhiko Takamatsu
Tsukasa Hirakawa 		47.129 16 47.324 14 1:34.453 14
Women
Athlete Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Mina Tanaka 47.770 20 47.945 18 47.928 19 47.599 18 3:11.242 18
Hitomi Koshimizu 47.682 19 49.276 24 49.160 23 48.008 21 3:14.126 21

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1988 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 Points Rank
Hideki Miyazaki Individual 175.8 41 5:51.4 45:40.8 376.240 37
Masashi Abe 182.5 36 5:06.7 44:31.1 386.690 31
Kazuoki Kodama 187.7 32 4:32.0 45:40.2 376.320 36

Men's Team

Three participants per team.

Events:

  • normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps per team member per round, best two rounds 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
Hideki Miyazaki
Masashi Abe
Kazuoki Kodama 		515.3 10 9:32.5 1'29:26.3 9

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Athlete Event Jump 1 Jump 2 Total
Distance Points Distance Points Points Rank
Shinichi Tanaka Normal hill 74.0 79.0 75.0 81.1 160.1 52
Katsushi Tao 75.0 81.6 80.5 97.4 161.6 51
Masaru Nagaoka 78.5 89.2 80.0 92.1 181.3 25
Akira Sato 80.0 96.6 80.0 97.1 194.0 11
Katsushi Tao Large hill 96.0 78.8 85.0 59.4 138.2 52
Masaru Nagaoka 99.0 82.5 89.0 63.5 146.0 48
Shinichi Tanaka 99.0 83.0 88.5 64.3 147.3 47
Akira Sato 100.0 88.4 96.0 81.8 170.2 33
Men's team large hill
Athletes Result
Points 1 Rank
Katsushi Tao
Shinichi Tanaka
Masaru Nagaoka
Akira Sato 		468.0 11
1 Four teams members performed two jumps each. The best three were counted.

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
500 m Kimihiro Hamaya 37.38 13
Yasushi Kuroiwa 37.34 11
Yasumitsu Kanehama 37.25 9
Akira Kuroiwa 36.77 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
1000 m Yukihiro Mitani 1:15.28 23
Akira Kuroiwa 1:15.05 20
Kimihiro Hamaya 1:14.43 13
Yasumitsu Kanehama 1:14.36 9
1500 m Hozumi Noriyama 1:56.84 28
Yoshiyuki Shimizu 1:55.98 22
Munehisa Kuroiwa 1:55.42 16
Toru Aoyanagi 1:52.85 5
5000 m Yoshiyuki Shimizu 7:05.35 32
Munehisa Kuroiwa 7:01.55 27
Toru Aoyanagi 6:54.70 14
10,000 m Yoshiyuki Shimizu 14:47.21 28
Toru Aoyanagi 14:34.87 24
Women
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
500 m Noriko Toda 41.44 21
Shoko Fusano 40.61 8
Seiko Hashimoto 39.74 5
1000 m Noriko Toda 1:23.49 22
Shoko Fusano 1:21.47 11
Seiko Hashimoto 1:19.75 5
1500 m Natsue Seki 2:08.89 19
Seiko Hashimoto 2:04.38 6
3000 m Natsue Seki 4:29.77 18
Seiko Hashimoto 4:23.29 7
5000 m Natsue Seki 7:47.43 19
Seiko Hashimoto 7:34.43 6

References

  1. ^ Japan at the 1988 Winter Olympics