Japan at the 1992 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	JPN
Nocname:	Japanese Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Games Link:	1992 Winter Olympics
Year:	1992
Website:
Date:	8–23 February 1992
Location:	Albertville, France
Competitors:	60
Sports:	11
Flagbearer:	Tsutomu Kawasaki
Rank:	11
Gold:	1
Silver:	2
Bronze:	4
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1928

Japan competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, from February 8 to February 23, 1992. As many as 63 athletes competed accompanied by 42 officers. Japanese athletes compete in all disciplines except ice hockey.

The flag bearer is short track speed skater Tsutomu Kawasaki at the opening and closing ceremony, while the captain of the delegation is cross-country skier Kazunari Sasaki.

The Nordic combined team consisting of Kenji Ogiwara, Takanori Kono and Reiichi Mikata won gold which became Japan's first medal in Nordic combined and also the first gold after four previous Winter Olympics editions without gold. The last gold which was also Japan's first gold at the Winter Olympics was won by Yukio Kasaya at their home, Sapporo 1972. Midori Ito also won Japan's first medal in figure skating.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				17 February
				15 February
				21 February
				12 February
				15 February
				18 February
				22 February

Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9	Total
	1	0	0	1
	0	1	3	4
	0	1	0	1
	0	0	1	1
Total	1	2	4	7

Medals by gender
Gender				Total
Male	1	1	3	5
Female	0	1	1	2
Total	style=background:gold	1	style=background:silver	2	style=background:#c96	4	7

Competitors

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

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Alpine skiing	4	2	6
Biathlon	2	1	3
Bobsleigh	4	–	4
Cross-country skiing	2	4	6
Figure skating	3	3	6
Freestyle skiing	1	0	1
Luge	3	0	3
Nordic combined	4	–	4
Short track speed skating	4	4	8
Ski jumping	4	–	4
Speed skating	9	6	15
Total	40	20	60

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Tsuyoshi Tomii	Downhill			1:54.23	25
Tsuyoshi Tomii	Super-G			DNF	-
Takuya Ishioka				1:17.81	41
Kiminobu Kimura				1:17.06	33
Tsuyoshi Tomii	Giant slalom	1:13.36	DNF	DNF	-
Takuya Ishioka		1:09.28	1:06.64	2:15.92	29
Kiminobu Kimura		1:07.20	1:04.90	2:12.10	21
Takuya Ishioka	Slalom	DNF	-	DNF	-
Kiminobu Kimura		DNF	-	DNF	-
Tetsuya Okabe		54.99	54.49	1:49.48	18

Men's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
Athlete	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Points	Rank
Kiminobu Kimura	1:50.98	49.47	52.08	64.14	15
Takuya Ishioka	1:49.29	49.48	52.94	51.83	9

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Sachiko Yamamoto	Downhill			1:58.52	26
Emi Kawabata	Downhill			1:54.52	11
Sachiko Yamamoto	Super-G			1:27.54	33
Emi Kawabata	Super-G			1:27.31	31
Emi Kawabata	Giant slalom	1:10.44	DSQ	DSQ	-
Sachiko Yamamoto	Slalom	DNF	-	DNF	-

Women's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
Athlete	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Points	Rank
Sachiko Yamamoto	1:30.70	36.56	DNF	DNF	-
Emi Kawabata	1:27.13	37.56	37.81	66.10	13

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Atsushi Kazama	6	30:34.7	78
10 km Sprint	Misao Kodate	3	28:07.0	36

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ²	Rank
20 km	Atsushi Kazama	58:32.8	6	1'04:32.8	63
20 km	Misao Kodate	58:53.1	2	1'00:53.1	28

Women

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

² One minute added per missed target.

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

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	Naomi Takewaki Fuminori Tsushima	Two-man	1:01.74	26	1:01.99	22	1:01.77	16	1:01.95	19	4:07.45	21
JPN-2	Toshio Wakita Ryoji Yamazaki	Two-man	1:01.22	19	1:01.65	18	1:02.03	19	1:01.96	20	4:06.86	19

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
10 km C	Kazunari Sasaki	31:31.4	46
10 km C	Hiroyuki Imai	30:17.3	27
15 km pursuit¹ F	Kazunari Sasaki	43:08.6	35
15 km pursuit¹ F	Hiroyuki Imai	42:32.8	29
30 km C	Kazunari Sasaki	1'30:35.9	40
30 km C	Hiroyuki Imai	1'29:35.6	32
50 km F	Kazunari Sasaki	2'17:20.1	40
50 km F	Hiroyuki Imai	2'13:33.0	25

¹ Starting delay based on 10 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km C	Yumi Inomata	16:49.4	54
	Naomi Hoshikawa	16:13.2	48
	Miwa Ota	16:03.1	43
	Fumiko Aoki	15:33.0	30
10 km pursuit² F	Yumi Inomata	31:58.6	47
	Miwa Ota	31:17.3	43
	Naomi Hoshikawa	30:10.8	34
	Fumiko Aoki	28:44.4	19
15 km C	Miwa Ota	DNF	-
	Naomi Hoshikawa	49:46.2	42
	Fumiko Aoki	48:30.2	37
30 km F	Fumiko Aoki	1'36:21.9	44
	Naomi Hoshikawa	1'35:29.4	42
	Miwa Ota	1'35:19.4	41

² Starting delay based on 5 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Mitsuhiro Murata	22	23	34.0	23
Masakazu Kagiyama	11	15	20.5	13

Women

Athlete	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Yuka Sato	7	7	10.5	7
Midori Ito	4	2	4.0

Pairs

Freestyle skiing

See main article: Freestyle skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Men

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Men

(Men's) Doubles

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Men's individual

Events:

normal hill ski jumping
15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping		Cross-country		Total
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Start at	Time	Rank
Takanori Kono	Individual	197.4	25	+3:27.4	48:46.3	19
Masashi Abe		197.9	24	+3:24.0	51:08.5	30
Kenji Ogiwara		215.3	6	+1:28.0	46:25.5	7
Reiichi Mikata		226.1	2	+16.0	52:09.1	34

Men's team

Three participants per team.

Events:

normal hill ski jumping
10 km cross-country skiing

Short track speed skating

See main article: Short track speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Finals
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Tsutomu Kawasaki	1000 m	1:38.75	2 Q	1:35.66	4	did not advance
Toshinobu Kawai		1:42.28	3	did not advance
Tatsuyoshi Ishihara		1:34.11	2 Q	1:34.86	4	did not advance
Yuichi Akasaka Tatsuyoshi Ishihara Toshinobu Kawai Tsutomu Kawasaki	5000 m relay		7:22.43	2 Q	7:22.84	1 QA	7:18.18

Women

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Finals
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Nobuko Yamada	500 m	48.79	1 Q	57.69	3	did not advance
Mie Naito Rie Sato Hiromi Takeuchi Nobuko Yamada	3000 m relay		4:37.08	1 Q	4:44.50	4

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Noriaki Kasai	Normal hill	77.5	89.0	83.5	98.1	187.1	31
Kenji Suda		80.0	93.5	79.5	91.2	184.7	39
Jiro Kamiharako		80.0	94.0	80.5	94.8	188.8	28
Masahiko Harada		83.5	98.6	84.0	102.4	201.0	14
Jiro Kamiharako	Large hill	100.0	79.5	97.5	76.0	155.5	25
Noriaki Kasai		101.5	82.1	84.5	72.3	154.4	26
Kenji Suda		106.5	91.1	97.5	77.0	168.1	17
Masahiko Harada		113.5	102.4	116.0	108.9	211.3	4

Men's team large hill

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

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Yukinori Miyabe	38.12	18
	Yasunori Miyabe	37.49	5
	Junichi Inoue	37.26
	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa	37.18
1000 m	Yasunori Miyabe	1:16.52	19
	Yuji Fujimoto	1:15.78	11
	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa	1:15.56	9
	Yukinori Miyabe	1:14.92
1500 m	Keiji Shirahata	2:05.47	44
	Kazuhiro Sato	2:00.51	28
	Toru Aoyanagi	1:57.36	12
	Yukinori Miyabe	1:56.99	9
5000 m	Keiji Shirahata	7:24.95	22
	Toshihiko Itokawa	7:20.50	18
	Kazuhiro Sato	7:19.69	17
10,000 m	Keiji Shirahata	14:47.56	18
	Toshihiko Itokawa	14:42.35	13
	Kazuhiro Sato	14:28.30	5

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Yoko Fukazawa	42.18	24
	Noriko Toda	41.97	23
	Seiko Hashimoto	41.32	12
	Kyoko Shimazaki	40.98	7
1000 m	Yoko Fukazawa	1:25.00	24
	Noriko Toda	1:24.96	23
	Kyoko Shimazaki	1:24.28	18
	Seiko Hashimoto	1:22.63	5
1500 m	Yumi Kaeriyama	2:10.75	19
	Mie Uehara	2:09.33	11
	Seiko Hashimoto	2:06.88
3000 m	Mie Uehara	4:37.54	17
	Yumi Kaeriyama	4:33.53	13
	Seiko Krohn	4:32.12	12
5000 m	Mie Uehara	7:54.15	14
	Yumi Kaeriyama	7:50.77	12
	Seiko Hashimoto	7:47.65	9

References

Notes and References

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