Japan at the 1988 Winter Olympics | |
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IOC code | JPN |
NOC | Japanese Olympic Committee |
Website | www |
in Calgary | |
Competitors | 48 in 9 sports |
Flag bearer | Seiko Hashimoto (speed skating) |
Medals Ranked 16th |
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Winter Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Japan competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. [1]
Sport | Men | Women | Total |
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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 |
Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
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![]() | Akira Kuroiwa | Speed skating | Men's 500 metres | 14 February |
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |
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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 | ||
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Time | Time 1 | Time 2 | Points | Rank | |
Katsuhito Kumagai | 1:52.10 | 48.85 | 47.17 | 144.65 | 21 |
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |
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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 | ||
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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 | – |
Event | Athlete | Misses 1 | Time | Rank |
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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 |
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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 |
Athletes | Race | ||
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Misses 1 | Time | Rank | |
Tadashi Nakamura Misao Kodate Akihiro Takizawa Koichi Sato | 6 | 1'32:52.4 | 14 |
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 | 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 | |||||
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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 |
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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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 |
Athletes | Race | |
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Time | Rank | |
Atsushi Egawa Kazunari Sasaki Tanayuki Yuki Masaharu Yamazaki | 1'51:10.7 | 14 |
Athlete | CF | SP | FS | TFP | Rank |
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Makoto Kano | 19 | 19 | 19 | 38.0 | 17 |
Athlete | CF | SP | FS | TFP | Rank |
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Junko Yaginuma | 16 | 15 | 14 | 29.6 | 14 |
Midori Ito | 10 | 4 | 3 | 10.6 | 5 |
Athletes | CD | OD | FD | TFP | Rank |
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Tomoko Tanaka Hiroyuki Suzuki | 18 | 18 | 18 | 36.0 | 18 |
Athlete | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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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 | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Kazuhiko Takamatsu Tsukasa Hirakawa | 47.129 | 16 | 47.324 | 14 | 1:34.453 | 14 |
Athlete | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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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 |
Men's individual
Events:
Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Total | |||
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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:
Athletes | Ski jumping | Cross-country | Total | ||
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Points | Rank | Start at | Time | Rank | |
Hideki Miyazaki Masashi Abe Kazuoki Kodama | 515.3 | 10 | 9:32.5 | 1'29:26.3 | 9 |
Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | |||
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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 |
Athletes | Result | |
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Points 1 | Rank | |
Katsushi Tao Shinichi Tanaka Masaru Nagaoka Akira Sato | 468.0 | 11 |
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Kimihiro Hamaya | 37.38 | 13 |
Yasushi Kuroiwa | 37.34 | 11 | |
Yasumitsu Kanehama | 37.25 | 9 | |
Akira Kuroiwa | 36.77 | ![]() | |
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 |
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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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 |
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