Japan at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Japan at the
1984 Winter Olympics
Japan at the; 1984 Winter Olympics
IOC code	JPN
NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
Website	www.joc.or.jp (in Japanese and English)
in Sarajevo
Competitors	39 (32 men, 7 women) in 9 sports
Flag bearer	Tadayuki Takahashi (figure skating)
Medals ; Ranked 14th	Gold0Silver1Bronze0Total1
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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Last updated November 18, 2024

Japan competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Silver	Yoshihiro Kitazawa	Speed skating	Men's 500 metres	10 February

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Shinya Chiba	Downhill					1:49.02	28
Shinya Chiba	Giant Slalom	1:25.67	29	1:27.51	31	2:53.18	30
Naomine Iwaya		1:25.02	28	1:24.67	24	2:49.69	25
Toshihiro Kaiwa		1:24.92	27	1:25.05	26	2:49.97	26
Osamu Kodama		1:24.81	25	1:25.40	27	2:50.21	27
Naomine Iwaya	Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Toshihiro Kaiwa		53.61	20	50.26	12	1:43.87	12
Osamu Kodama		53.42	16	DSQ	–	DSQ	–

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Isao Yamase	4	35:57.0	47
	Yoshinobu Murase	3	35:35.9	43
	Shoichi Kinoshita	1	34:12.2	30

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ²	Rank
20 km	Isao Yamase	1'18:09.6	7	1'25:09.6	42
	Shoichi Kinoshita	1'16:49.8	7	1'23:49.8	39
	Yoshinobu Murase	1'17:39.1	6	1'23:39.1	38

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
Isao Yamase Shoichi Kinoshita Yoshinobu Murase Hiroyuki Deguchi	1	1'51:43.1	15

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² One minute added per missed target.

Bobsleigh

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
JPN-1	Hiroshi Okachi Yuji Yaku	Two-man	53.29	20	53.37	19	53.15	23	53.15	20	3:32.96	20
JPN-2	Yuji Funayama Satoshi Sugawara	Two-man	54.52	26	54.23	27	53.50	26	53.88	27	3:36.13	27

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
JPN-1	Hiroshi Okachi Yuji Yaku Yuji Funayama Satoshi Sugawara	Four-man	51.97	24	52.01	23	52.40	24	52.37	23	3:28.75	24

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Yusei Nakazawa	46:38.6	56
	Satoshi Sato	46:25.5	50
	Kazunari Sasaki	46:04.8	47
	Hideaki Yamada	45:42.3	43
50 km	Kazunari Sasaki	DNF	–
50 km	Satoshi Sato	2'39:43.1	47

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Kazunari Sasaki Hideaki Yamada Satoshi Sato Yusei Nakazawa	2'06:42.5	13

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Masaru Ogawa	16	14	14	29.2	14

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Masako Kato	21	18	19	38.8	19

Ice Dancing

Athletes	CD	OD	FD	TFP	Rank
Noriko Sato Tadayuki Takahashi	16	16	17	33.0	17

Luge

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Takashi Takagi	48.402	25	47.527	18	47.877	26	47.329	17	3:11.135	20
Tsukasa Hirakawa	47.732	22	48.015	24	47.776	21	48.241	26	3:11.764	24

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Takashi Takagi Tsukasa Hirakawa	43.047	12	42.980	12	1:26.027	12

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Yumiko Kato	43.752	20	43.556	20	53.210	26	DSQ	–	DSQ	–
Hitomi Koshimizu	43.696	19	43.929	23	43.508	18	43.243	20	2:54.376	18

Nordic combined

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
Athlete	Event	Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Takahiro Tanaka	Individual	79.5	87.0	198.6	14	51:01.5	179.575	21	378.175	20
Toshiaki Maruyama	Individual	77.0	81.5	179.4	25	49:24.9	194.065	11	373.465	21

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Satoru Matsuhashi	Normal hill	72.0	75.2	85.0	102.0	177.2	34
Hiroo Shima		74.0	78.4	76.0	82.6	161.0	45
Hirokazu Yagi		75.0	81.5	62.0	51.7	133.2	55
Masaru Nagaoka		85.0	101.0	78.0	86.8	187.8	22
Hiroo shima	Large hill	78.0	44.4	77.0	51.5	95.9	51
Masaru Nagaoka		92.0	75.5	84.0	63.3	138.8	43
Hirokazu Yagi		96.5	86.8	99.5	93.0	179.8	19
Satoru Matsuhashi		103.5	98.6	92.0	79.0	177.6	20

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Yasushi Suzuki	38.92	12
	Akira Kuroiwa	38.70	10
	Yoshihiro Kitazawa	38.30
1000 m	Yoshihiro Kitazawa	1:19.95	31
	Kimihiro Hamaya	1:18.74	17
	Akira Kuroiwa	1:17.49	9
1500 m	Kimihiro Hamaya	2:03.72	29
5000 m	Toshiaki Imamura	7:38.16	26
5000 m	Masahito Shinohara	7:37.94	24
10,000 m	Masahito Shinohara	15:31.70	26
10,000 m	Toshiaki Imamura	15:23.37	23

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Shoko Fusano	43.75	22
	Hiromi Ozawa	46.46	16
	Seiko Hashimoto	42.99	11
1000 m	Hiromi Ozawa	1:29.20	27
	Shoko Fusano	1:28.19	22
	Seiko Hashimoto	1:26.69	12
1500 m	Seiko Hashimoto	2:12.56	15
3000 m	Seiko Hashimoto	4:53.38	19

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