Japan at the 1992 Winter Olympics

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Japan at the
1992 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 Albertville, France
8–23 February 1992
Competitors60 in 11 sports
Flag bearer Tsutomu Kawasaki
Medals
Ranked 11th
Gold
1
Silver
2
Bronze
4
Total
7
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)

Japan was represented at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France by the Japanese Olympic Committee.

Contents

In total, 60 athletes including 40 men and 20 women represented Japan in 11 different sports including alpine skiing, biathlon, bobsleigh, cross-country skiing, figure skating, freestyle skiing, luge, Nordic combined, short track speed skating, ski jumping and speed skating.

Japan won seven medals at the games including one gold, two silver and four bronze across four different sports including one in figure skating, one in Nordic combined, four in speed skating and one in short track speed skating.

Competitors

In total, 60 athletes represented Japan at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France across 11 different sports. [1]

SportMenWomenTotal
Alpine skiing 426
Biathlon 213
Bobsleigh 44
Cross-country skiing 246
Figure skating 336
Freestyle skiing 101
Luge 303
Nordic combined 44
Short track speed skating 448
Ski jumping 44
Speed skating 9615
Total402060

Medalists

Japan won a total of seven medals at the games including one gold, two silver and four bronze. [1]

MedalNameSportEventDate
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Reiichi Mikata
Takanori Kono
Kenji Ogiwara
Nordic combined Men's team 17 February
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Toshiyuki Kuroiwa Speed skating Men's 500 metres 15 February
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Midori Ito Figure skating Ladies' singles 21 February
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Seiko Hashimoto Speed skating Women's 1500 metres 12 February
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Junichi Inoue Speed skating Men's 500 metres 15 February
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Yukinori Miyabe Speed skating Men's 1000 metres 18 February
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Yuichi Akasaka
Tatsuyoshi Ishihara
Toshinobu Kawai
Tsutomu Kawasaki
Short track speed skating Men's 5000 metre relay 22 February

Alpine skiing

In total, six Japanese athletes participated in the alpine skiing events – Takuya Ishioka, Emi Kawabata, Kiminobu Kimura, Tetsuya Okabe, Tsuyoshi Tomii and Sachiko Yamamoto. [1]

Men
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2Total
TimeTimeTimeRank
Tsuyoshi Tomii Downhill1:54.2325
Tsuyoshi Tomii Super-GDNF
Takuya Ishioka 1:17.8141
Kiminobu Kimura 1:17.0633
Tsuyoshi Tomii Giant slalom1:13.36DNFDNF
Takuya Ishioka 1:09.281:06.642:15.9229
Kiminobu Kimura 1:07.201:04.902:12.1021
Takuya Ishioka SlalomDNFDNF
Kiminobu Kimura DNFDNF
Tetsuya Okabe 54.9954.491:49.4818

Source: [2]

Men's combined

AthleteDownhillSlalomTotal
TimeTime 1Time 2PointsRank
Kiminobu Kimura 1:50.9849.4752.0864.1415
Takuya Ishioka 1:49.2949.4852.9451.839

Source: [2]

Women
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2Total
TimeTimeTimeRank
Sachiko Yamamoto Downhill1:58.5226
Emi Kawabata 1:54.5211
Sachiko Yamamoto Super-G1:27.5433
Emi Kawabata 1:27.3131
Emi Kawabata Giant slalom1:10.44DSQDSQ
Sachiko Yamamoto SlalomDNFDNF

Source: [2]

Women's combined

AthleteDownhillSlalomTotal
TimeTime 1Time 2PointsRank
Sachiko Yamamoto 1:30.7036.56DNFDNF
Emi Kawabata 1:27.1337.5637.8166.1013

Source: [2]

Biathlon

In total, three Japanese athletes participated in the biathlon events – Yoshiko Honda-Mikami, Atsushi Kazama and Misao Kodate. [1]

Men
EventAthleteMisses 1TimeRank
10 km Sprint Atsushi Kazama 630:34.778
Misao Kodate 328:07.036

Source: [2]

EventAthleteTimeMissesAdjusted time 2Rank
20 km Atsushi Kazama 58:32.861'04:32.863
Misao Kodate 58:53.121'00:53.128

Source: [2]

Women
EventAthleteMisses 1TimeRank
7.5 km Sprint Yoshiko Honda-Mikami 226:57.322

Source: [2]

EventAthleteTimeMissesAdjusted time 2Rank
15 km Yoshiko Honda-Mikami 54:55.8357:55.835
1 A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
2 One minute added per missed target.

Source: [2]

Bobsleigh

In total, four Japanese athletes participated in the bobsleigh events – Naomi Takewaki, Fuminori Tsushima, Toshio Wakita and Ryoji Yamazaki. [1]

SledAthletesEventRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
JPN-1 Naomi Takewaki
Fuminori Tsushima
Two-man1:01.74261:01.99221:01.77161:01.95194:07.4521
JPN-2 Toshio Wakita
Ryoji Yamazaki
Two-man1:01.22191:01.65181:02.03191:01.96204:06.8619

Source: [2]

SledAthletesEventRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
JPN-1 Toshio Wakita
Ryoji Yamazaki
Fuminori Tsushima
Naomi Takewaki
Four-man59.232159.301859.331759.38173:57.2417

Source: [2]

Cross-country skiing

In total, six Japanese athletes participated in the cross-country skiing events – Fumiko Aoki, Naomi Hoshikawa, Hiroyuki Imai, Yumi Inomata, Miwa Ota and Kazunari Sasaki. [1]

Men
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
10 km
C
Kazunari Sasaki 31:31.446
Hiroyuki Imai 30:17.327
15 km
pursuit1
F
Kazunari Sasaki 43:08.635
Hiroyuki Imai 42:32.829
30 km
C
Kazunari Sasaki 1'30:35.940
Hiroyuki Imai 1'29:35.632
50 km
F
Kazunari Sasaki 2'17:20.140
Hiroyuki Imai 2'13:33.025
1 Starting delay based on 10 km results.
C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Source: [2]

Women
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
5 km
C
Yumi Inomata 16:49.454
Naomi Hoshikawa 16:13.248
Miwa Ota 16:03.143
Fumiko Aoki 15:33.030
10 km
pursuit2
F
Yumi Inomata 31:58.647
Miwa Ota 31:17.343
Naomi Hoshikawa 30:10.834
Fumiko Aoki 28:44.419
15 km
C
Miwa Ota DNF
Naomi Hoshikawa 49:46.242
Fumiko Aoki 48:30.237
30 km
F
Fumiko Aoki 1'36:21.944
Naomi Hoshikawa 1'35:29.442
Miwa Ota 1'35:19.441
2 Starting delay based on 5 km results.
C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Source: [2]

Women's 4 × 5 km relay
AthletesRace
TimeRank
Miwa Ota
Fumiko Aoki
Naomi Hoshikawa
Yumi Inomata
1'04:09.312

Source: [2]

Figure skating

In total, six Japanese athletes participated in the Yfigure skating events – Rena Inoue, Midori Ito, Masakazu Kagiyama, Tomoaki Koyama, Mitsuhiro Murata and Yuka Sato. [1]

Men
AthleteSPFSTFPRank
Mitsuhiro Murata 222334.023
Masakazu Kagiyama 111520.513

Source: [2]

Women
AthleteSPFSTFPRank
Yuka Sato 7710.57
Midori Ito 424.0Silver medal icon.svg

Source: [2]

Pairs
AthletesSPFSTFPRank
Rena Inoue
Tomoaki Koyama
141421.014

Source: [2]

Freestyle skiing

In total, one Japanese athlete participated in the freestyle skiing events – Osamu Yamazaki. [1]

Men
AthleteEventQualificationFinal
TimePointsRankTimePointsRank
Osamu Yamazaki Moguls35.3114.4940did not advance

Source: [2]

Luge

In total, three Japanese athletes participated in the luge events – Atsushi Sasaki, Yuji Sasaki and Kazuhiko Takamatsu. [1]

Men
AthleteRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Kazuhiko Takamatsu 46.2832046.0651746.8381846.614173:05.80017

Source: [2]

(Men's) Doubles

AthletesRun 1Run 2Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Atsushi Sasaki
Yuji Sasaki
47.7761947.566181:35.34218

Source: [2]

Nordic combined

In total, four Japanese athletes participated in the Nordic combined events – Masashi Abe, Takanori Kono, Reiichi Mikata and Kenji Ogiwara. [1]

Men's individual

Events:

AthleteEventSki jumpingCross-countryTotal
PointsRankStart atTimeRank
Takanori Kono Individual197.425+3:27.448:46.319
Masashi Abe 197.924+3:24.051:08.530
Kenji Ogiwara 215.36+1:28.046:25.57
Reiichi Mikata 226.12+16.052:09.134

Source: [2]

Men's team

Events:

AthletesSki jumpingCross-countryTotal
PointsRankStart atTimeRank
Reiichi Mikata
Takanori Kono
Kenji Ogiwara
645.11+0.01'23:36.5Gold medal icon.svg

Source: [2]

Short track speed skating

In total, eight Japanese athletes participated in the short track speed skating events – Yuichi Akasaka, Tatsuyoshi Ishihara, Toshinobu Kawai, Tsutomu Kawasaki, Mie Naito, Rie Sato, Hiromi Takeuchi and Nobuko Yamada. [1]

Men
AthleteEventRound oneQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinals
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeFinal rank
Tsutomu Kawasaki 1000 m1:38.752 Q1:35.664did not advance
Toshinobu Kawai 1:42.283did not advance
Tatsuyoshi Ishihara 1:34.112 Q1:34.864did not advance
Yuichi Akasaka
Tatsuyoshi Ishihara
Toshinobu Kawai
Tsutomu Kawasaki
5000 m relay7:22.432 Q7:22.841 QA7:18.18Bronze medal icon.svg

Source: [2]

Women
AthleteEventRound oneQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinals
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeFinal rank
Nobuko Yamada 500 m48.791 Q57.693did not advance
Mie Naito
Rie Sato
Hiromi Takeuchi
Nobuko Yamada
3000 m relay4:37.081 Q4:44.504

Source: [2]

Ski jumping

In total, four Japanese athletes participated in the ski jumping events – Masahiko Harada, Jiro Kamiharako, Noriaki Kasai and Kenji Suda. [1]

AthleteEventJump 1Jump 2Total
DistancePointsDistancePointsPointsRank
Noriaki Kasai Normal hill77.589.083.598.1187.131
Kenji Suda 80.093.579.591.2184.739
Jiro Kamiharako 80.094.080.594.8188.828
Masahiko Harada 83.598.684.0102.4201.014
Jiro Kamiharako Large hill100.079.597.576.0155.525
Noriaki Kasai 101.582.184.572.3154.426
Kenji Suda 106.591.197.577.0168.117
Masahiko Harada 113.5102.4116.0108.9211.34

Source: [2]

Men's team large hill
AthletesResult
Points 1Rank
Masahiko Harada
Kenji Suda
Jiro Kamiharako
Noriaki Kasai
571.04
1 Four teams members performed two jumps each. The best three were counted.

Source: [2]

Speed skating

In total, 15 Japanese athletes participated in the speed skating events – Toru Aoyanagi, Yuji Fujimoto, Yoko Fukazawa, Seiko Hashimoto, Junichi Inoue, Toshihiko Itokawa, Yumi Kaeriyama, Seiko Krohn, Toshiyuki Kuroiwa, Yasunori Miyabe, Yukinori Miyabe, Kazuhiro Sato, Kyoko Shimazaki, Keiji Shirahata, Noriko Toda and Mie Uehara. [1]

Men
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
500 m Yukinori Miyabe 38.1218
Yasunori Miyabe 37.495
Junichi Inoue 37.26Bronze medal icon.svg
Toshiyuki Kuroiwa 37.18Silver medal icon.svg
1000 m Yasunori Miyabe 1:16.5219
Yuji Fujimoto 1:15.7811
Toshiyuki Kuroiwa 1:15.569
Yukinori Miyabe 1:14.92Bronze medal icon.svg
1500 m Keiji Shirahata 2:05.4744
Kazuhiro Sato 2:00.5128
Toru Aoyanagi 1:57.3612
Yukinori Miyabe 1:56.999
5000 m Keiji Shirahata 7:24.9522
Toshihiko Itokawa 7:20.5018
Kazuhiro Sato 7:19.6917
10,000 m Keiji Shirahata 14:47.5618
Toshihiko Itokawa 14:42.3513
Kazuhiro Sato 14:28.305

Source: [2]

Women
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
500 m Yoko Fukazawa 42.1824
Noriko Toda 41.9723
Seiko Hashimoto 41.3212
Kyoko Shimazaki 40.987
1000 m Yoko Fukazawa 1:25.0024
Noriko Toda 1:24.9623
Kyoko Shimazaki 1:24.2818
Seiko Hashimoto 1:22.635
1500 m Yumi Kaeriyama 2:10.7519
Mie Uehara 2:09.3311
Seiko Hashimoto 2:06.88Bronze medal icon.svg
3000 m Mie Uehara 4:37.5417
Yumi Kaeriyama 4:33.5313
Seiko Krohn 4:32.1212
5000 m Mie Uehara 7:54.1514
Yumi Kaeriyama 7:50.7712
Seiko Hashimoto 7:47.659

Source: [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Japan at the 1992 Winter Olympics". Olympedia. Retrieved 23 June 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 "Albertville 1992 Official Report" (PDF). Le Comite d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques Albertville. 1992. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 January 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2025 via LA84 Foundation.