Japan at the 1952 Winter Olympics

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Japan at the
1952 Winter Olympics
Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg
IOC code JPN
NOC Japanese Olympic Committee
Website www.joc.or.jp  (in Japanese and English)
in Oslo
Competitors13 (men) in 5 sports
Medals
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
0
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)

Japan competed at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway. Japan returned to the Winter Games after not being invited to the 1948 Winter Olympics because of the nation's role in World War II.

Contents

Alpine skiing

Men
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Hisashi Mizugami DownhillDSQ
Chiharu Igaya 2:45.024
Hisashi Mizugami Giant Slalom2:40.926
Chiharu Igaya 2:36.120
Hishashi Mizugami Slalom1:12.852Did not advance
Chiharu Igaya 1:02.614 Q1:03.1102:05.711

Cross-country skiing

Men
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
18 km Ryoichi Fujisawa 1'14:4161
Kenichi Yamamoto 1'08:4922

Nordic combined

Events:

The cross-country skiing part of this event was combined with the main medal event, meaning that athletes competing here were skiing for two disciplines at the same time. Details can be found above in this article, in the cross-country skiing section.

The ski jumping (normal hill) event was held separate from the main medal event of ski jumping, results can be found in the table below (athletes were allowed to perform three jumps, the best two jumps were counted and are shown here).

AthleteEventCross-countrySki JumpingTotal
PointsRankDistance 1Distance 2PointsRankPointsRank
Ryoichi Fujisawa Individual195.3331861.563.0201.010396.33314

Ski jumping

AthleteEventJump 1Jump 2Total
DistancePointsRankDistancePointsRankPointsRank
Kozo Kawashima Normal hill59.5 (fall)59.04356.089.040148.042
Ryoichi Fujisawa 57.593.53455.590.038183.534
Tatsuo Watanabe 59.095.03059.094.027189.027
Hiroshi Yoshizawa 59.595.03056.587.542182.536

Speed skating

Men
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
500 m Tsuneo Sato 45.218
Sukenobu Kudo 44.915
Masanori Aoki 44.812
Kiyotaka Takabayashi 44.16
1500 m Kiyotaka Takabayashi 2:32.034
Sukenobu Kudo 2:31.633
Masanori Aoki 2:26.923
Tsuneo Sato 2:23.911
5000 m Kazuhiko Sugawara 8:44.415
Yoshiyasu Gomi 8:38.610
10,000 m Yoshiyasu Gomi 17:53.014
Kazuhiko Sugawara 17:34.07

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