Japan at the 1972 Winter Olympics
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At the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 85 (65 men, 20 women) in 10 sports | |||||||||||
Flag bearer | Mineyuki Mashiko | |||||||||||
Medals Rank: 11 |
Gold 1 |
Silver 1 |
Bronze 1 |
Total 3 |
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Olympic history (summary) | ||||||||||||
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Winter Games | ||||||||||||
Japan was the host nation for the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. It was the first time that Japan had hosted the Winter Olympic Games, but second time overall after the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Three Japanese ski jumpers swept the medals in the normal hill event, becoming national heroes.
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Medalists
Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
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Gold | Yukio Kasaya | Ski jumping | Men's normal hill (K70) |
Silver | Akitsugu Konno | Ski jumping | Men's normal hill (K70) |
Bronze | Seiji Aochi | Ski jumping | Men's normal hill (K70) |
Alpine skiing
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- Men
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Masahiko Otsue | Downhill | 1:59.55 | 35 | ||||
Sumihiro Tomii | 1:55.34 | 22 | |||||
Masayoshi Kashiwagi | Giant Slalom | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
Masahiko Otsue | 1:38.71 | 34 | DSQ | – | DSQ | – | |
Haruhisa Chiba | 1:36.36 | 26 | 1:40.87 | 20 | 3:17.23 | 19 | |
Masami Ichimura | 1:35.77 | 22 | 1:39.57 | 12 | 3:15.34 | 15 |
- Men's slalom
Athlete | Classification | Final | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Time | Rank | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Total | Rank | |
Haruhisa Chiba | 1:43.17 | 1 | 1:01.25 | 29 | DNF | – | DNF | – |
Toshimasa Furukawa | 1:46.33 | 3 | ? | 25 | DSQ | – | DSQ | – |
Masayoshi Kashiwagi | DNF | – | 1:00.19 | 24 | 56.42 | 17 | 1:56.61 | 18 |
Masami Ichimura | 1:42.90 | 1 | 57.58 | 13 | 57.25 | 18 | 1:54.83 | 17 |
- Women
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Emiko Okazaki | Downhill | 1:48.85 | 41 | ||||
Harue Okitsu | 1:45.37 | 40 | |||||
Miyuki Katagiri | 1:44.10 | 35 | |||||
Mitsuyo Nagumo | 1:43.07 | 32 | |||||
MItsuyo Nagumo | Giant Slalom | DSQ | – | ||||
Emiko Okazaki | 1:40.37 | 32 | |||||
Miyuki Katagiri | 1:39.11 | 30 | |||||
Harue Okitsu | 1:35.33 | 22 | |||||
Miyuki Katagiri | Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
Mitsuyo Nagumo | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – | |
Harue Okitsu | 50.55 | 19 | 50.12 | 16 | 1:40.67 | 16 | |
Emiko Okazaki | 50.06 | 18 | 49.47 | 14 | 1:39.53 | 13 |
Biathlon
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- Men
Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time 1 | Rank |
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20 km | Kazuo Sasakubo | 1'19:07.43 | 9 | 1'28:07.43 | 38 |
Isao Ono | 1'16:26.83 | 7 | 1'23:26.83 | 25 | |
Shozo Sasaki | 1'18:05.54 | 5 | 1'23:05.54 | 23 | |
Miki Shibuya | 1'16:57.27 | 5 | 1'21:57.27 | 17 |
- 1 One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.
- Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Athletes | Race | ||
---|---|---|---|
Misses 2 | Time | Rank | |
Isao Ono Shozo Sasaki Miki Shibuya Kazuo Sasakubo |
5 | 1'59:09.48 | 8 |
- 2 A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.
Bobsleigh
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Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
JPN-1 | Susumu Esashika Kazumi Abe |
Two-man | 1:18.13 | 16 | 1:16.43 | 6 | 1:15.17 | 14 | 1:16.86 | 18 | 5:06.59 | 15 |
JPN-2 | Akihiko Suzuki Rikio Sato |
Two-man | 1:18.98 | 21 | 1:18.46 | 21 | 1:15.63 | 16 | 1:18.84 | 21 | 5:11.91 | 21 |
Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
JPN-1 | Susumu Esashika Kazumi Abe Rikio Sato Yoshiyuki Ichihashi |
Four-man | 1:11.51 | 6 | 1:12.99 | 15 | 1:11.42 | 12 | 1:12.00 | 13 | 4:47.92 | 12 |
JPN-2 | Toshihisa Nagata Hiroshi Inaba Koichi Sugawara Akihiko Suzuki |
Four-man | 1:11.51 | 6 | 1:12.99 | 15 | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
Cross-country skiing
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- Men
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
15 km | Motoharu Matsumura | 50:43.76 | 51 |
Akiyoshi Matsuoka | 49:50.72 | 43 | |
Kunio Shibata | 49:38.95 | 41 | |
Hideo Tanifuji | 49:06.97 | 37 | |
30 km | Tomio Okamura | 1'47:50.22 | 47 |
Seiji Kudo | 1'47:00.40 | 44 | |
Hideo Tanifuji | 1'45:37.13 | 37 | |
Kunio Shibata | 1'42:30.83 | 23 | |
50 km | Motoharu Matsumura | DNF | – |
Seiji Kudo | 2'57:42.62 | 29 |
- Men's 4 x 10 km relay
Athletes | Race | |
---|---|---|
Time | Rank | |
Hideo Tanifuji Kunio Shibata Akiyoshi Matsuoka Tomio Okamura |
2'13:59.14 | 10 |
- Women
Event | Athlete | Race | |
---|---|---|---|
Time | Rank | ||
5 km | Akiko Akasaka | 19:49.74 | 43 |
Harumi Imai | 19:05.73 | 38 | |
Tokiko Ozeki | 19:00.82 | 37 | |
Hiroko Takahashi | 18:32.75 | 34 | |
10 km | Hideko Saito | 39:51.61 | 38 |
Harumi Imai | 39:33.13 | 37 | |
Tokiko Ozeki | 38:07.24 | 33 | |
Hiroko Takahashi | 36:53.84 | 25 |
- Women's 3 x 5 km relay
Athletes | Race | |
---|---|---|
Time | Rank | |
Tokiko Ozeki Hiroko Takahashi Hideko Saito |
53:20.75 | 9 |
Figure skating
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- Men
Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
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Yutaka Higuchi | 16 | 15 | 2309.7 | 140 | 16 |
- Women
Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
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Kazumi Yamashita | 10 | 10 | 2449.9 | 93 | 10 |
- Pairs
Athletes | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kotoe Nagasawa Hiroshi Nagakubo |
16 | 16 | 345.5 | 144 | 16 |
Ice hockey
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First Round
Winners (in bold) entered the Medal Round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th-11th places.
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Japan | 2–8 | Czechoslovakia |
Consolation Round
Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
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7 | West Germany | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 10 | 6 |
8 | Norway | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 14 | 6 |
9 | Japan | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 16 | 5 |
10 | Switzerland | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 2 |
11 | Yugoslavia | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 17 | 1 |
- Japan 3-3 Switzerland
- Japan 3-2 Yugoslavia
- Japan 4-5 Norway
- Japan 7-6 West Germany
Luge
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- Men
Athlete | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Masatoshi Kobayashi | 55.30 | 32 | 54.43 | 25 | 53.00 | 19 | 53.66 | 27 | 3:36.39 | 24 |
Satoru Arai | 54.76 | 26 | 55.07 | 30 | 53.75 | 25 | 53.73 | 29 | 3:37.31 | 26 |
Masako Eguchi | 54.09 | 15 | 53.37 | 12 | 52.78 | 18 | 53.57 | 25 | 3:33.81 | 18 |
Kazuaki Ichikawa | 54.09 | 15 | 54.21 | 22 | 53.29 | 22 | 53.40 | 22 | 3:34.99 | 20 |
(Men's) Doubles
Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Satoru Arai Masatoshi Kobayashi |
44.73 | 4 | 44.90 | 7 | 1:29.63 | 4 |
Masako Eguchi Kazuaki Ichikawa |
46.93 | 19 | 46.63 | 18 | 1:33.56 | 18 |
- Women
Athlete | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Miyako Kawase | 47.93 | 20 | 47.31 | 19 | 46.72 | 18 | 46.14 | 18 | 3:08.10 | 19 |
Hiroko Shibuya | 46.66 | 14 | 46.41 | 13 | 45.89 | 8 | 45.49 | 12 | 3:04.45 | 13 |
Yuko Otaka | 45.21 | 4 | 45.65 | 5 | 45.39 | 5 | 44.73 | 5 | 3:00.98 | 5 |
Nordic combined
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Events:
- normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
- 15 km cross-country skiing
Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Total | ||||||
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Distance 1 | Distance 2 | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
Nobutaka Sasaki | Individual | 72.5 | 76.0 | 190.3 | 8 | 54:00.6 | 169.645 | 37 | 359.945 | 24 |
Hideki Nakano | 82.0 | 81.0 | 220.5 | 1 | 55:41.2 | 154.555 | 39 | 375.055 | 13 | |
Yuji Katsuro | 74.5 | 78.0 | 195.1 | 6 | 51:10.9 | 195.100 | 18 | 390.200 | 5 | |
Kazuo Araya | 76.5 | 77.0 | 199.7 | 5 | 53:29.3 | 174.340 | 34 | 374.040 | 15 |
Ski jumping
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Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | |||
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Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank | ||
Takashi Fujisawa | Normal hill | 81.0 | 117.8 | 68.0 | 90.0 | 207.8 | 23 |
Akitsugu Konno | 82.5 | 120.2 | 79.0 | 114.6 | 234.8 | ||
Seiji Aochi | 83.5 | 123.3 | 77.5 | 106.2 | 229.5 | ||
Yukio Kasaya | 84.0 | 126.6 | 79.0 | 117.6 | 244.2 | ||
Hiroshi Itagaki | Large hill | 90.0 | 96.0 | 84.0 | 87.1 | 183.1 | 19 |
Takashi Fujisawa | 95.5 | 107.2 | 86.0 | 89.9 | 197.1 | 14 | |
Akitsugu Konno | 98.0 | 109.7 | 88.5 | 89.4 | 199.1 | 12 | |
Yukio Kasaya | 106.0 | 124.9 | 85.0 | 84.5 | 209.4 | 7 |
Speed skating
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- Men
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Keiichi Suzuki | 41.28 | 19 |
Norio Hirate | 41.08 | 17 | |
Takayuki Hida | 40.62 | 13 | |
Masaki Suzuki | 40.35 | 8 | |
1500 m | Kiyomi Ito | 2:11.96 | 22 |
Mutsuhiko Maeda | 2:11.09 | 20 | |
5000 m | Osamu Naito | 7:56.97 | 16 |
Kiyomi Ito | 7:45.96 | 13 | |
10,000 m | Osamu Naito | 15:52.93 | 12 |
Kiyomi Ito | 15:48.17 | 10 |
- Women
Event | Athlete | Race | |
---|---|---|---|
Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Ryoko Onozawa | 46.70 | 21 |
Sachiko Saito | 45.35 | 9 | |
1000 m | Ryoko Onozawa | 1:36.99 | 28 |
Sachiko Saito | 1:35.12 | 18 | |
Emiko Taguchi | 1:34.40 | 15 | |
1500 m | Kaname Ide | 2:28.34 | 18 |
Emiko Taguchi | 2:28.19 | 17 | |
Satomi Koike | 2:25.16 | 11 | |
3000 m | Akiko Aruga | 5:22.60 | 18 |
Kaname Ide | 5:17.30 | 16 | |
Satomi Koike | 5:09.21 | 12 |