Japan at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Japan at the
1988 Winter Olympics
Japan at the; 1988 Winter Olympics
IOC code	JPN
NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
Website	www.joc.or.jp (in Japanese and English)
in Calgary
Competitors	48 in 9 sports
Flag bearer	Seiko Hashimoto (speed skating)
Medals ; Ranked 16th	Gold0Silver0Bronze1Total1
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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Last updated November 18, 2024

Japan competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[1]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
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

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Bronze	Akira Kuroiwa	Speed skating	Men's 500 metres	14 February

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Katsuhito Kumagai	Downhill			2:07.17	34
Shinya Chiba	Downhill			2:03.16	11
Katsuhito Kumagai	Super-G			DNF	–
Shinya Chiba	Super-G			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	Slalom	53.11	48.82	1:41.93	12

Men's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
Athlete	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Points	Rank
Katsuhito Kumagai	1:52.10	48.85	47.17	144.65	21

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Sachiko Yamamoto	Downhill			1:30.15	23
Emi Kawabata	Downhill			1:27.85	14
Sachiko Yamamoto	Super-G			1:24.32	30
Emi Kawabata	Super-G			1:22.24	24
Sachiko Yamamoto	Giant Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–
Emi Kawabata	Giant Slalom	1:02.10	DNF	DNF	–
Sachiko Yamamoto	Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–
Emi Kawabata	Slalom	54.70	54.65	1:49.35	19

Women's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
Athlete	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	–

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
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
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

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
Tadashi Nakamura Misao Kodate Akihiro Takizawa Koichi Sato	6	1'32:52.4	14

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	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
Sled	Athletes	Event	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

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	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

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Atsushi Egawa Kazunari Sasaki Tanayuki Yuki Masaharu Yamazaki	1'51:10.7	14

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Makoto Kano	19	19	19	38.0	17

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Junko Yaginuma	16	15	14	29.6	14
Midori Ito	10	4	3	10.6	5

Ice Dancing

Athletes	CD	OD	FD	TFP	Rank
Tomoko Tanaka Hiroyuki Suzuki	18	18	18	36.0	18

Luge

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	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
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kazuhiko Takamatsu Tsukasa Hirakawa	47.129	16	47.324	14	1:34.453	14

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	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

Nordic combined

Men's individual

Events:

normal hill ski jumping (Best two out of three jumps.)
15 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping		Cross-country		Total
Athlete	Event	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:

normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps per team member per round, best two rounds counted.)
10 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)

Athletes	Ski jumping		Cross-country		Total
Athletes	Points	Rank	Start at	Time	Rank
Hideki Miyazaki Masashi Abe Kazuoki Kodama	515.3	10	9:32.5	1'29:26.3	9

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	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

Men's team large hill

Athletes	Result
Athletes	Points ¹	Rank
Katsushi Tao Shinichi Tanaka Masaru Nagaoka Akira Sato	468.0	11

¹ Four teams members performed two jumps each. The best three were counted.

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	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
10,000 m	Toru Aoyanagi	14:34.87	24

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	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
1500 m	Seiko Hashimoto	2:04.38	6
3000 m	Natsue Seki	4:29.77	18
3000 m	Seiko Hashimoto	4:23.29	7
5000 m	Natsue Seki	7:47.43	19
5000 m	Seiko Hashimoto	7:34.43	6

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