Japan at the 1936 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	JPN
Nocname:	Japanese Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1936
Website:
Location:	Berlin
Competitors:	179
Flagbearer:	Kenkichi Oshima
Rank:	8
Gold:	6
Silver:	4
Bronze:	8
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1912

The Empire of Japan competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. 179 athletes competed in 13 sports and also participated in art competitions. In art competitions, Japan won 2 bronze medals by Ryuji Fujita in paintings and also Sujaku Suzuki in drawing and water colours. As the country hosted the next Olympics that was supposed to be held Tokyo before cancellation, a Japanese segment was performed at the closing ceremony.

Medalists

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				August 6
			Men's marathon^[1] ^[2]	August 9
				August 11
				August 11
				August 15
				August 15
				August 5
				August 6
				August 9
				August 12
				August 4
				August 5
				August 9
				August 9
				August 12
				August 14
				August 15
				August 15

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Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=f7f6a8		bgcolor=dce5e5		bgcolor=ffdab9		Total
	4	2	5	11
	2	2	3	7
Total	6	4	8	18

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Aquatics

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Diving

See main article: Diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Water polo

See main article: Water polo at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Elimination rounds

In the first round each team in a group played each other team in the same group. The placings were determined on points. If the points were equal, then the better goal average decided. The first two teams of each group were qualified for the semi-finals, while the third and fourth placed team was eliminated.

Group 3

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.		3	3	0	0	27	3	6		X	8:1	6:1	13:1
2.		3	2	0	1	12	10	4		1:8	X	3:2	8:0
3.		3	1	0	2	7	12	2		1:6	2:3	X	4:3
4.		3	0	0	3	4	25	0		1:13	0:8	3:4	X

Place:14th

Basketball

First RoundSecond RoundThird Round

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Football

See main article: Football at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Field hockey

See main article: Field hockey at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Group A

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Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Japan had 16 rowers participate in three out of seven rowing events in 1936.^[3]

Men's coxed pair

• Tsutomu Mitsudome
• Osamu Abe
• Taro Teshima (cox)

Men's coxed four

• Chikara Shirasaka
• Taichi Yamada
• Takashi Hatakeyama
• Yoichi Endo
• Taro Teshima (cox)

Men's eight

• Tadashi Negishi
• Masaru Kashiwahara
• Shusui Sekigawa
• Isamu Mita
• Osamu Kitamura
• Haruyoshi Nakagawa
• Takeo Hori
• Yoshiteru Suzuki
• Tadashi Shimijima (cox)

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Japan had 3 rowers participate in 2 out of four Sailing events in 1936.

O-Jolle

• Norio Fujimura

Star

• Minoru Takarabe
• Takuo Mitsui

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Art competitions

See main article: Art competitions at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

External links

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database

Notes and References

1. Both Sohn Kee-chung (Kitei Son) and Nam Sung-yong (Shōryu Nan) were Koreans, but since Korea was a Japanese colony at the time, they were required to use their legal and official names in Japanese pronunciations and are recorded under the Japanese spellings in the Olympic records
2. http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/profiles/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=88103 IOC biography of Son Kitei
3. Japan Rowing at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417073134/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/JPN/summer/1936/ROW/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 9 May 2018.