Japan at the 2000 Summer Olympics Last updated October 12, 2025
Sporting event delegation
Japan competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , Australia. 266 competitors, 156 men and 110 women, took part in 156 events in 28 sports. [ 1]
Archery Sayoko Kawauchi was the most successful Japanese archer in Sydney, advancing to the quarterfinal before being defeated by eventual silver medallist Kim Nam-Soon .
Men's team competition :
Makiyama, Matsushita, Hamano – Round of 16, 14th place (0-1) Athletics Men's competitionMen's 100 m
Round 1 – 10.39 Round 2 – 10.6 (did not advance) Round 1 – 10.45 Round 2 – 10.25 Semifinal – 10.39 (did not advance) Round 1 – 10.59 (did not advance) Men's 200 m
Round 1 – 20.6 Round 2 – 20.37 Semifinal – 20.69 (did not advance) Round 1 – 20.75 Round 2 – 20.56 Semifinal – 20.67 (did not advance) Men's 400 m
Round 1 – 45.88 Round 2 – 46.15 (did not advance) Round 1 – 46.25 (did not advance) Round 1 – 46.59 (did not advance) Men's 5,000 m
Round 1 – 13:29.99 Final – 13:46.90 (15th place) Round 1 – 13:41.31 (did not advance) Men's 10,000 m
Round 1 – 27:59.95 Final – 27:40.44 (7th place) Round 1 – 27:45.13 Final – 28:08.11 (15th place) Men's 110 m Hurdles
Round 1 – 13.74 Round 2 – 13.94 (did not advance) Men's 400 m Hurdles
Round 1 – 50.15 (did not advance) Round 1 – 50.68 (did not advance) Round 1 – 01:01.81 (did not advance) Men's 4 × 100 m
Round 1 – 38.52 Semifinal – 38.31 Final – 38.66 (6th place) Men's 4 × 400 m
Round 1 – 03:05.21 Semifinal – 03:13.63 (did not advance) Men's Hammer Throw
Qualifying – 78.49 Final – 76.60 (9th place) Men's Long Jump
Qualifying – 7.84 (did not advance) Qualifying – NM (did not advance) Men's Triple Jump
Qualifying – 16.67 (did not advance) Men's High Jump
Qualifying – 2.15 (did not advance) Men's Pole Vault
Qualifying – 5.55 (did not advance) Men's 20 km Walk
Final – 1:25:03 (22nd place) Final – 1:25:34 (27th place) Men's 50 km Walk
Final – 4:13:28 (36th place) Men's marathon
Final – 2:17:21 (21st place) Final – 2:20:52 (41st place) Women's competitionWomen's 5,000 m
Round 1 – 15:23.41 (did not advance) Round 1 – 15:39.83 (did not advance) Round 1 – 15:48.20 (did not advance) Women's 10,000 m
Round 1 – 32:07.68 Final – 32:24.17 (20th place) Round 1 – 32:34.70 Final – 31:52.59 (15th place) Round 1 – 32:36.60 Final – 31:27.44 (10th place) Women's 100 m Hurdles
Round 1 – 13.13 Round 2 – 13.11 Semifinal – 13.16 (did not advance) Women's 800 m Wheelchair
Final – 01:56.49 (silver medal) Women's High Jump
Qualifying – 1.94 Final – 1.90 (11th place) Qualifying – 1.92 (did not advance) Women's Marathon
Final – 2:23:14 (gold medal) Final – 2:27:03 (7th place) Final – 2:30:34 (15th place) Badminton Men's singles
Round of 64: Bye Round of 32: Lost to Xia Xuanze of China Women's singles
Women's doubles
Baseball Men's Team CompetitionJapan, which had won a bronze medal in the first Olympic baseball tournament and a silver medal in the second, once again made the semifinals in the third. The Japanese team defeated the Netherlands , Italy , Australia , and Africa but lost to the three teams that finished at the top of the group: the United States , Korea , and Cuba . In the semifinals, Japan played Cuba for the second time in as many games, losing again to the two-time gold medallists. Playing for the bronze medal against Korea, the Japanese team was again defeated.
Lost to United States 2-4 Defeated Netherlands 10-2 Defeated Australia 7-3 Defeated Italy 6-1 Defeated South Africa 8-0 Lost to Korea 6-7 Lost to Cuba 2-6 Boxing Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)
Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)
Canoeing Flatwater Women's competitionWomen's Kayak Singles 500 m
Qualifying Heat – 02:00.833 (did not advance) Slalom Men's competitionMen's Kayak Singles
Qualifying – 442.64 (did not advance) Cycling Cross Country Mountain Bike Men's Cross Country Mountain Bike
Final – Lapped (34th place) Women's Mountain Bike
Final – 2:06:13.88 (26th place) Road Cycling Men's Road Race
Women's Road Race
Final – 3:12:40 (40th place) Track Cycling Men's competitionMen's Sprint
Men's 1 km Time Trial
Men's Point Race
Men's Keirin
Shinichi Ota First round – Heat – 1; Place – 3 Repechage – Heat – 1; Place – 2 Second round – Heat – 2; Place – 6 (did not advance) Yuichiro Kamiyama First round – Heat – 3; Place – 6 Repechage – Heat – 3; DNF (did not advance) Men's Olympic Sprint
Women's competitionWomen's Point Race
Diving Men's 3 Metre Springboard
Preliminary – 389.88 Semi-final – 226.89 – 616.77 Final – 407.58 – 634.47 (8th place) Men's 10 Metre Platform
Preliminary – 457.59 Semi-final – 191.49 – 649.08 Final – 445.41 – 636.90 (5th place) Men's Team CompetitionTeam Roster Group D Quarter-finals Sailing Five men and four women competed in six different Sailing events at the 2000 Olympics, including two top 10 finishes.
Men's Double Handed Dinghy (470)
Race 1 – 19 Race 2 – (22) Race 3 – (26) Race 4 – 13 Race 5 – 4 Race 6 – 16 Race 7 – 17 Race 8 – 18 Race 9 – 10 Race 10 – 16 Race 11 – 20 Final – 133 (18th place) Women's Mistral
Race 1 – 6 Race 2 – 12 Race 3 – 10 Race 4 – 10 Race 5 – (15) Race 6 – 5 Race 7 – 9 Race 8 – 11 Race 9 – (16) Race 10 – 7 Race 11 – 8 Final – 78 (10th place) Women's Single Handed Dinghy (Europe)
Race 1 – 21 Race 2 – 13 Race 3 – 20 Race 4 – 22 Race 5 – 22 Race 6 – 17 Race 7 – 22 Race 8 – (24) Race 9 – 22 Race 10 – (23) Race 11 – 13 Final – 172 (23rd place) Women's Double Handed Dinghy (470)
Race 1 – 9 Race 2 – 5 Race 3 – 10 Race 4 – 7 Race 5 – 1 Race 6 – (14) Race 7 – 8 Race 8 – 3 Race 9 – (12) Race 10 – 12 Race 11 – 11 Final – 66 (8th place) Open Laser
Race 1 – (38) Race 2 – 12 Race 3 – 19 Race 4 – 15 Race 5 – 32 Race 6 – (36) Race 7 – 17 Race 8 – 25 Race 9 – 24 Race 10 – 30 Race 11 – 28 Final – 202 (27th place) Open High Performance Two Handed Dinghy (49er)
Race 1 – 4 Race 2 – 4 Race 3 – 10 Race 4 – 15 Race 5 – 9 Race 6 – 16 Race 7 – (17) Race 8 – 15 Race 9 – 15 Race 10 – 13 Race 11 – 16 Race 12 – (17) Race 13 – 14 Race 14 – 16 Race 15 – 14 Race 16 – 12 Final – 173 (16th place) Softball Women's Team CompetitionDefeated Cuba (4:1) Defeated PR China (3:1) Defeated United States (2:1) Defeated Australia (1:0) Defeated Canada (4:3) Defeated Italy (2:0) Defeated New Zealand (2:1) Lost to United States (1:2) → Silver Medal Swimming Men's 400 m Freestyle
Preliminary Heat – 03:51.41 (did not advance) Men's 1500 m Freestyle
Preliminary Heat – 15:14.43 (did not advance) Preliminary Heat – 15:18.20 (did not advance) Men's 100 m Butterfly
Preliminary Heat – 52.91 Semi-final – 53.01 Final – 52.58 (5th place) Men's 200 m Butterfly
Preliminary Heat – 01:58.07 Semi-final – 01:57.66 (did not advance) Preliminary Heat – 01:59.00 Semi-final – 01:58.06 (did not advance) Men's 100 m Breaststroke
Preliminary Heat – 01:01.68 Semi-final – 01:01.31 Final – 01:01.00 (4th place) Preliminary Heat – 01:02.86 (did not advance) Men's 200 m Breaststroke
Preliminary Heat – 02:15.54 Semi-final – 02:15.16 (did not advance) Preliminary Heat – 02:15.71 (did not advance) Men's 200 m Individual Medley
Preliminary Heat – 02:05.68 (did not advance) Men's 400 m Individual Medley
Preliminary Heat – 04:17.36 (did not advance) Final – 04:20.93 (8th place) Preliminary Heat – 04:20.76 (did not advance) Women's 50 m Freestyle
Preliminary Heat – 25.52 Semi-final – 25.43 Final – 25.65 (8th place) Women's 100 m Freestyle
Preliminary Heat – 55.8 Semi-final – 55.62 Final – 55.53 (7th place) Women's 400 m Freestyle
Preliminary Heat – 04:12.45 (did not advance) Preliminary Heat – 04:14.23 (did not advance) Women's 800 m Freestyle
Preliminary Heat – 08:33.06 Final – 08:37.39 (8th place) Women's 100 m Butterfly
Preliminary Heat – 59.11 Semi-final – 59.04 Final – 59.13 (6th place) Preliminary Heat – 01:00.97 (did not advance) Women's 200 m Butterfly
Preliminary Heat – 02:09.85 Semi-final – 02:09.88 Final – 02:09.66 (7th place) Preliminary Heat – 02:10.22 Semi-final – 02:09.89 Final – 02:10.72 (8th place) Women's 100 m Breaststroke
Preliminary Heat – 01:09.12 Semi-final – 01:09.04 Final – 01:08.37 (6th place) Preliminary Heat – DNS (did not advance) Women's 200 m Breaststroke
Preliminary Heat – 02:27.39 Semi-final – 02:26.24 Final – 02:26.98 (7th place) Preliminary Heat – 02:29.60 Semi-final – 02:31.71 (did not advance) Women's 100 m Backstroke
Preliminary Heat – 01:00.88 Semi-final – 01:01.07 Final – 01:00.55 (silver medal) Preliminary Heat – 01:02.19 Semi-final – 01:01.25 Final – 01:01.14 (5th place) Women's 200 m Backstroke
Preliminary Heat – 02:11.69 Semi-final – 02:12.49 Final – 02:11.05 (bronze medal) Preliminary Heat – 02:12.15 Semi-final – 02:11.02 Final – 02:11.21 (4th place) Women's 200 m Individual Medley
Preliminary Heat – 02:15.16 Semi-final – 02:15.09 Final – 02:15.64 (8th place) Preliminary Heat – 02:21.65 (did not advance) Women's 400 m Individual Medley
Preliminary Heat – 04:40.35 (did not advance) Final – 04:35.96 (silver medal) Women's 4 × 100 m Medley
Preliminary Heat – 04:05.76 Final – 04:04.16 (bronze medal) Synchronized swimming Japan won two silver medals in the synchronized swimming competition at the 2000 Olympics.
Team
Technical Routine – 34.51 Free Routine – 64.35 Final – 98.86 (silver medal) Duet
Technical Routine – 34.3 Free Routine – 64.35 Final – 98.65 (silver medal) Triathlon Women's Individual Competition :
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