Japan at the 1980 Winter Olympics

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Japan at the
1980 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 Lake Placid
Competitors50 (46 men, 4 women) in 10 sports
Flag bearer Osamu Wakabayashi
Medals
Ranked 15th
Gold
0
Silver
1
Bronze
0
Total
1
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)

Japan competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States. The Team Consists of 50 athletes 46 were men and 4 were women.

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Medalists

MedalNameSportEvent
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Hirokazu Yagi Ski jumping Men's normal hill (K90)

Alpine skiing

Men
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Mikio Katagiri Downhill1:49.7721
Osamu Kodama Giant SlalomDNF–––DNF–
Atsushi Sawada 1:25.23361:28.82372:54.0536
Toshihiro Kaiwa 1:24.29351:24.49282:48.7829
Osamu Kodama SlalomDNF–––DNF–
Atsushi Sawada 56.802153.14141:49.9415
Toshihiro Kaiwa 55.7817DNF–DNF–

Biathlon

Men
EventAthleteMisses 1TimeRank
10 km Sprint Masaichi Kinoshita 438:50.1943
Takashi Shibata 637:26.9137
Hiroyuki Deguchi 236:14.6126
EventAthleteTimePenaltiesAdjusted time 2Rank
20 km Tsusumisa Kikuchi 1'13:44.30111'24:44.3041
Hiroyuki Deguchi 1'14:53.1671'21:53.1639
Masaichi Kinoshita 1'14:21.4621'16:21.4628
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
AthletesRace
Misses 1TimeRank
Hiroyuki Deguchi
Masaichi Kinoshita
Takashi Shibata
Tsusumisa Kikuchi 		71'45:53.9813
1 A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
2 One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Bobsleigh

SledAthletesEventRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
JPN-1 Yoshimitsu Kadowaki
Yuji Funayama 		Two-man1:04.62171:04.92191:04.82201:04.30144:18.6619

Cross-country skiing

Men
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
15 km Shiro Sato 46:15.2943
30 km Shiro Sato 1'35:52.7739
50 km Shiro Sato 2'48:33.0237

Figure skating

Men
AthleteCFSPFSPointsPlacesRank
Fumio Igarashi 1386172.04779
Mitsuru Matsumura 1177172.28758
Women
AthleteCFSPFSPointsPlacesRank
Emi Watanabe 485179.04486

Ice hockey

First Round - Red Division

    Team advanced to the Final Round
    Team advanced to Consolation round
TeamGP W L T GF GA Pts
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 5500511110
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 532026186
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 532028126
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 523015234
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 513116433
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 50417361

All times are local (UTC-5).

12 February 1980
20:40		 Japan  Flag of Japan.svg0 – 16
(0–8, 0–5, 0–3)		Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid
Referee:
Kompalla
0 – 103:42 - Starikov (Petrov, Mikhailov)
0 – 207:55 - Kharlamov (Mikhailov)
0 – 309:47 - A. Golikov (Makarov, Starikov)
0 – 412:19 - Fetisov (Petrov, Kharlamov)
0 – 514:59 - A. Golikov (Makarov)
0 – 617:30 - Balderis (Starikov, Zhluktov)
0 – 719:00 - V. Golikov (Makarov)
0 – 819:27 - V. Golikov (Fetisov, A. Golikov)
0 – 920:06 - Petrov (Kasatonov)
0 – 1021:20 - Kasatonov (Mikhailov, Balderis)
0 – 1124:20 - Makarov (V. Golikov, Vasiliev)
0 – 1226:33 - Mikhailov (Starikov, Kharlamov)
0 – 1338:06 - Fetisov (Mikhailov, Kharlamov)
0 – 1446:26 - Zhluktov (Balderis, Skvortsov)
0 – 1551:21 - Petrov (Pervukhin, Kharlamov)
0 – 1654:49 - A. Golikov (Makarov, V. Golikov)
0 minPenalties2 min
17Shots67
14 February 1980
20:00		 Japan  Flag of Japan.svg3 – 6
(0–2, 2–2, 1–2)		Flag of Finland.svg  Finland Olympic Arena, Lake Placid
Referee:
Haley
0 – 102:02 - Hakulinen (Peltonen) (PP)
0 – 205:43 - Leinonen (Kiimalainen)
0 – 322:47 - Leppänen (Hakulinen, Levo)
0 – 433:36 - Leinonen (Leinonen, Porvari)
S. Misawa (Hori, Hanzawa) - 37:571 – 4
Honma (Hori, S. Misawa) (PP) - 39:592 – 4
2 – 543:34 - Kiimalainen
Azuma (Matsuda) - 47:383 – 5
3 – 651:11 - Leppänen (Levo, Peltonen)
6 minPenalties8 min
29Shots51
16 February 1980
16:30		 Japan  Flag of Japan.svg3 – 3
(3–1, 0–1, 0–1)		Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Olympic Arena, Lake Placid
Referee:
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Vladimir Šubrt
Sakurai - 14:221 – 0
Urabe - 14:412 – 0
Urabe (Honma) - 14:413 – 0
3 – 118:43 - van Gog (deGraauw)
3 – 233:39 - de Cloe (deGraauw, Peternousek)
3 – 357:15 - de Cloe (deGraauw, van Gog)
6 minPenalties8 min
23Shots27
18 February 1980
13:00		 Canada  Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg6 – 0
(2–0, 2–0, 2–0)		Flag of Japan.svg  Japan Olympic Arena, Lake Placid
Referee:
Neagles
Devaney (Zupancich, d'Alvise) (PP) - 09:361 – 0
Primeau - 14:352 – 0
MacLean (Maxwell) - 23:173 – 0
Davidson - 26:194 – 0
W. Anderson - 41:275 – 0
Hindmarch - 50:226 – 0
14 minPenalties22 min
48Shots13
20 February 1980
16:30		 Poland  Flag of Poland.svg5 – 1
(3–0, 1–0, 1–1)		Flag of Japan.svg  Japan Olympic Arena, Lake Placid
Referee:
Lindgren
Zabawa (Małysiak, Janiszewski) - 03:031 – 0
Dziubiński (Kokoszka, Chowaniec) - 04:202 – 0
Małysiak (Jobczyk, Zabawa) - 11:373 – 0
Jobczyk (Małysiak, Zabawa) - 26:054 – 0
Pytel (Marcinczak, Ujwary) (PP) - 43:575 – 0
5 – 154:50 - Fujii (Misawa, Hanzawa)
8 minPenalties12 min
53Shots12
Contestants
Minoru Misawa
Takeshi Iwamoto
Hiroshi Hori
Iwao Nakayama
Norio Ito
Hitoshi Nakamura
Tadamitsu Fujii
Koji Wakasa
Yoshiaki Kyoya
Katsutoshi Kawamura
Takeshi Azuma
Satoru Misawa
Mikio Matsuda
Sadaki Honma
Hideo Sakurai
Tsutomu Hanzawa
Hideo Urabe
Osamu Wakabayashi
Mikio Hosoi
Yoshio Hoshino

Luge

Men
AthleteRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Koji Kuriyama 45.8202645.8721745.8521845.538183:03.08219
Takashi Takagi 45.2942051.0032445.5751747.962213:09.56423

(Men's) Doubles

AthletesRun 1Run 2Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Koji Kuriyama
Takashi Takagi 		41.0351741.499141:22.53413

Nordic combined

Events:

AthleteEventSki JumpingCross-countryTotal
Distance 1Distance 2PointsRankTimePointsRankPointsRank
Toshihiro Hanada Individual73.078.0192.11554:44.2157.04528349.14527
Michio Kubota 78.572.5187.91652:34.4176.51526364.41525

Ski jumping

AthleteEventJump 1Jump 2Total
DistancePointsDistancePointsPointsRank
Hiroyasu Aizawa Normal hill69.588.468.088.5176.942
Takafumi Kawabata 79.0111.171.596.1207.229
Masahiro Akimoto 83.5120.887.5127.7248.54
Hirokazu Yagi 87.0128.983.5120.3249.2Silver medal icon.svg
Hiroyasu Aizawa Large hill95.099.293.596.1195.335
Hirokazu Yagi 96.5103.3105.5116.9220.219
Takafumi Kawabata 102.5111.290.090.2201.432
Masahiro Akimoto 104.0113.8108.0120.9234.710

Speed skating

Men
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
500 m Kazuaki Ichimura 39.4420
Kaoru Fukuda 39.2414
1000 m Kazuaki Ichimura 1:21.0525
Masayuki Kawahara 1:20.8823
Kaoru Fukuda 1:19.6619
1500 m Yasuhiro Shimizu 2:04.5424
Masayuki Kawahara 2:01.2820
Masahiko Yamamoto 2:01.2519
5000 m Masayuki Kawahara 7:42.1825
Masahiko Yamamoto 7:33.0221
Yasuhiro Shimizu 7:21.5016
10,000 m Masahiko Yamamoto 15:26.9217
Yasuhiro Shimizu 14:57.489
Women
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
500 m Makiko Nagaya 42.705
1000 m Yuko Yaegashi-Ota 1:30.7225
Makiko Nagaya 1:30.2722
Miyoshi Kato 1:28.9717
1500 m Miyoshi Kato 2:19.8024
Yuko Yaegashi-Ota 2:19.4123
3000 m Yuko Yaegashi-Ota 5:00.4025
Miyoshi Kato 4:57.3921

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