Japan competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.
Japan at the 1968 Winter Olympics | |
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IOC code | JPN |
NOC | Japanese Olympic Committee |
Website | www |
in Grenoble | |
Competitors | 61 (52 men, 9 women) in 8 sports |
Flag bearer | Takaaki Kaneiri |
Medals |
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Winter Olympics appearances (overview) | |
As Sapporo would be the host city for the following Winter Olympics, the flag of Japan was raised at the closing ceremony.
Alpine skiing
edit- Men
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Juichi Maruyama | Downhill | 2:19.33 | 64 | ||||
Hitonari Maruyama | 2:18.04 | 59 | |||||
Yoshiharu Fukuhara | 2:14.09 | 54 | |||||
Tsuneo Noto | 2:10.32 | 45 | |||||
Yoshinari Kida | Giant Slalom | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
Yoshiharu Fukuhara | 1:53.96 | 51 | 1:58.01 | 56 | 3:51.97 | 50 | |
Tomio Sasaki | 1:53.16 | 46 | 1:56.99 | 51 | 3:50.15 | 47 | |
Tsuneo Noto | 1:52.55 | 43 | 1:54.10 | 40 | 3:46.65 | 40 |
- Men's slalom
Athlete | Heat 1 | Heat 2 | Final | |||||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Total | Rank | |
Tsuneo Noto | DNF | – | 56.60 | 2 | did not advance | |||||
Yoshiharu Fukuhara | DSQ | – | 56.82 | 2 | did not advance | |||||
Yoshinari Kida | DSQ | – | 57.87 | 2 | did not advance | |||||
Tomio Sasaki | 55.98 | 4 | 56.62 | 2 | did not advance |
- Women
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Mihoko Otsue | Downhill | 1:51.60 | 34 | ||||
Mihoko Otsue | Giant Slalom | 2:10.56 | 36 | ||||
Mihoko Otsue | Slalom | 46.78 | 26 | 1:04.59 | 31 | 1:51.37 | 31 |
Biathlon
edit- Men
Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time 1 | Rank |
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20 km | Hajime Yoshimura | 1'23:05.5 | 9 | 1'32:05.5 | 43 |
Shozo Okuyama | 1'21:51.0 | 7 | 1'28:51.0 | 34 | |
Isao Ono | 1'20:47.8 | 8 | 1'28:47.8 | 33 | |
Miki Shibuya | 1'21:37.1 | 6 | 1'27:37.1 | 28 |
- 1 One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.
- Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Athletes | Race | ||
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Misses 2 | Time | Rank | |
Isao Ono Miki Shibuya Shozo Okuyama Hajime Yoshimura |
9 | 2'35:21.0 | 13 |
- 2 A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.
Cross-country skiing
edit- Men
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
15 km | Kazuo Sato | DNF | – |
Hiroshi Ogawa | 59:55.4 | 65 | |
Akiyoshi Matsuoka | 54:46.2 | 53 | |
Tokio Sato | 53:41.2 | 50 | |
30 km | Kazuo Sato | 1'46:12.4 | 45 |
Tokio Sato | 1'43:13.8 | 33 | |
50 km | Sotoo Okushiba | 2'45:09.4 | 38 |
Tokio Sato | 2'40:00.5 | 29 |
- Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Athletes | Race | |
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Time | Rank | |
Tokio Sato Sotoo Okushiba Kazuo Sato Akiyoshi Matsuoka |
2'20:54.8 | 10 |
- Women
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
5 km | Fujiko Kato | 18:28.2 | 32 |
10 km | Fujiko Kato | 40:40.0 | 23 |
Figure skating
edit- Men
Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
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Yutaka Higuchi | 23 | 26 | 1529.6 | 218 | 25 |
Tsuguhiko Kozuka | 24 | 19 | 1584.0 | 189 | 21 |
- Women
Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Haruko Ishida | 18 | 25 | 1552.7 | 218 | 26 |
Kazumi Yamashita | 15 | 14 | 1639.0 | 139 | 14 |
Kumiko Okawa | 8 | 5 | 1763.6 | 61 | 8 |
Ice hockey
editConsolation round
editTeams in this group play for 9th-14th places. Japan entered in this round, from the start they did not play for a medal.
Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
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9 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 9 | 10 | |
10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 12 | 8 | |
11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 15 | 6 | |
12 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 23 | 4 | |
13 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 27 | 2 | |
14 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 32 | 0 |
Yugoslavia –
Japan 5:1 (2:0, 0:0, 3:1)
Goalscorers: Tisler 2, Beravs, Felc, Mlakar – Iwamoto.
Japan –
Norway 4:0 (2:0, 2:0, 0:0)
Goalscorers: Okajima 2, Ebina, Araki.
Japan –
Romania 5:4 (3:0, 1:3, 1:1)
Goalscorers: Hikigi 2, Araki, Itoh, Kudo – Florescu, Pana, Mois, Ionescu.
Japan –
Austria 11:1 (1:0, 6:0, 4:1)
Goalscorers: Itoh 2, Okajima 2, Hikigi 2, Araki, Kudo, Takashima, Toriyabe, Iwamoto – Puschnig.
France –
Japan 2:6 (0:0, 0:4, 2:2)
Goalscorers: Mazza, Faucomprez – Ebina 2, Hikigi, Itoh, Okajima, Araki.
Contestants
edit10. JAPAN
Goaltenders: Kazudži Morišima, Tošimitsu Ótsubo
Defence: Isao Asai, Mičihiro Sató, Hisaši Kasai, Toru Itabaši, Takaaki Kaneiri, Kendži Toriyanbe.
Forwards: Mamoru Takašima, Kimihisa Kudó, Kodži Iwamoto, Takao Hikigi, Toru Okadžima, Minoru Itó, Takeši Akiba, Yutaka Ebina, Kazuo Matsuda, Nobuhiro Araki.
Nordic combined
editEvents:
- normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
- 15 km cross-country skiing
Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Total | ||||||
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Distance 1 | Distance 2 | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
Masatoshi Suto | Individual | 62.0 | 66.0 | 183.0 | 30 | 53:32.6 | 176.03 | 31 | 359.03 | 31 |
Katsutoshi Okubo | 66.0 | 69.5 | 194.8 | 23 | 52:33.1 | 187.43 | 26 | 382.23 | 24 | |
Akemi Taniguchi | 73.0 | 72.5 | 224.4 | 4 | 55:04.5 | 158.74 | 39 | 383.14 | 23 | |
Hiroshi Itagaki | 73.5 | 76.0 | 237.4 | 2 | 53:26.2 | 177.25 | 29 | 414.65 | 10 |
Ski jumping
editAthlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | |||
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Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank | ||
Yukio Kasaya | Normal hill | 71.0 | 95.4 | 72.0 | 101.0 | 196.4 | 23 |
Takashi Fujisawa | 73.0 | 100.6 | 71.0 | 93.9 | 194.5 | 26 | |
Masakatsu Asari | 72.5 | 100.8 | 59.5 | 69.0 | 169.8 | 47 | |
Akitsugu Konno | 72.5 | 101.3 | 69.5 | 95.0 | 196.3 | 24 | |
Seiji Aochi | Large hill | 90.5 | 94.6 | 87.5 | 90.4 | 185.0 | 26 |
Akitsugu Konno | 91.5 | 95.5 | 90.5 | 95.6 | 191.1 | 20 | |
Yukio Kasaya | 91.0 | 97.3 | 88.5 | 93.8 | 191.1 | 20 | |
Takashi Fujisawa | 101.0 | 116.8 | 82.5 | 75.9 | 192.7 | 18 |
Speed skating
edit- Men
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Takayuki Hida | 42.9 | 37 |
Tamio Dejima | 42.6 | 33 | |
Masaki Suzuki | 41.2 | 15 | |
Keiichi Suzuki | 40.8 | 8 | |
1500 m | Masaki Suzuki | 2:14.8 | 40 |
Mutsuhiko Maeda | 2:14.8 | 40 | |
Keiichi Suzuki | 2:13.1 | 31 | |
Tadao Ishihata | 2:12.7 | 30 | |
5000 m | Mutsuhiko Maeda | 8:08.3 | 33 |
Tadao Ishihata | 7:55.8 | 22 | |
Yoshiaki Demachi | 7:55.6 | 21 | |
10,000 m | Hirofumi Otsuka | 17:38.8 | 28 |
Yoshiaki Demachi | 16:54.6 | 22 |
- Women
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Sachiko Saito | DNF | – |
Kaname Ide | 50.0 | 27 | |
Misae Takeda | 49.4 | 25 | |
1000 m | Sachiko Saito | 1:41.0 | 26 |
Misae Takeda | 1:40.4 | 25 | |
1500 m | Jitsuko Saito | 2:36.6 | 26 |
Kaname Ide | 2:34.2 | 23 | |
Sachiko Saito | 2:31.4 | 18 | |
3000 m | Kaname Ide | 5:27.9 | 21 |
Jitsuko Saito | 5:27.8 | 20 |