Japan at the 1952 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	JPN
Nocname:	Japanese Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1952
Website:
Location:	Helsinki
Competitors:	69
Sports:	11
Flagbearer:	Bunkichi Sawada
Rank:	17
Gold:	1
Silver:	6
Bronze:	2
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1912

Japan competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. Japan returned to the Olympic Games after not being invited to the 1948 Summer Olympics because of the nations's role in World War II. 69 competitors, 58 men and 11 women, took part in 60 events in 13 sports.^[1]

Medalists

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				July 23
				July 21
				July 21
				July 23
				July 27
				July 29
				August 2
				July 21
				July 21

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Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=f7f6a8		bgcolor=dce5e5		bgcolor=ffdab9		Total
	1	1	0	2
	0	3	0	3
Gymnastics	0	2	2	4
Total	1	6	2	9

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Road CompetitionMen's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)

• Kihei Tomioka - did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Masazumi Tajima - did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Tadashi Kato - did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Tamotsu Chikanari - did not finish (→ no ranking)

Track CompetitionMen's 1.000m Time Trial

• Tadashi Kato

• Final - 1:23.2 (→ 26th place)

Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race

• Kihei Tomioka - 23rd place

Diving

See main article: Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Men's 3m Springboard

• Katsuichi Mori

• Preliminary Round - 65.23 points (→ 15th place)

Women's 10m Platform

• Masami Miyamoto

• Preliminary Round - 36.24 points (→ 11th place)

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 1952 Summer Olympics. One fencer, Shinichi Maki, represented Japan in 1952.

Men's foil

• Shinichi Maki

Men's épée

• Shinichi Maki

Men's sabre

• Shinichi Maki

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Rowing

See main article: article and Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Japan had five male rowers participate in one out of seven rowing events in 1952.^[2]

Men's coxed four

• Kosuke Matsuo
• Ryuji Goto
• Kazuo Kanda
• Toshiya Takeuchi
• Tamatsu Kogure (cox)

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics. One shooter represented Japan in 1952.

Men

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

See also

• Japan at the 1951 Asian Games

External links

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database

Notes and References

1. Web site: Japan at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games . 1 March 2015 . sports-reference.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150522210030/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/JPN/summer/1952/ . 22 May 2015 .
2. Japan Rowing at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417072153/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/JPN/summer/1952/ROW/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 10 March 2018.