Japan at the 1964 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	JPN
Nocname:	Japanese Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1964
Website:
Location:	Innsbruck
Competitors:	47 (41 men, 6 women)
Sports:	8
Flagbearer:	Sadao Kikuchi
Gold:	0
Silver:	0
Bronze:	0
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1928

Japan competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Yoshihiro Ohira	Downhill	2:40.82	57
Tsuneo Noto		2:34.76	46
Yoshiharu Fukuhara		2:34.55	45
Hajime Tomii		2:30.02	33
Yoshinari Kida	Giant Slalom	2:04.22	39
Tsuneo Noto		2:01.26	35
Yoshiharu Fukuhara		1:58.35	25
Hajime Tomii		1:56.65	22

Men's slalom

Athlete	Qualifying				Final
Athlete	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Total	Rank
Hajime Tomii	1:20.85	78	57.44	17 QF	1:18.49	32	1:06.60	27	2:25.09	31
Yoshiharu Fukuharu	1:01.66	49	54.07	2 QF	1:14.35	19	1:06.36	24	2:20.71	23
Yoshinari Kida	57.36	37	58.06	18 QF	1:19.11	35	1:10.00	35	2:29.11	34
Yoshihiro Ohira	56.31	31	59.09	19 QF	1:28.79	41	1:09.08	33	2:37.87	38

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1964 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ¹	Rank
20 km	Yoshio Ninomine	1'29:38.6	3	1'35:38.6	26
20 km	Yuji Yamanaka	1'29:51.8	2	1'33:51.8	19

¹ Two minutes added per miss.

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Chogoro Yahata	1'00:46.1	58
	Hidezo Takahashi	57:03.4	42
	Kazuo Sato	56:04.5	35
	Tatsuo Kitamura	55:24.3	26
30 km	Chogoro Yahata	1'51:45.3	62
	Tatsuo Kitamura	1'46:13.4	51
	Hidezo Takahashi	1'43:11.0	47
	Kazuo Sato	1'42:39.2	41
50 km	Chogoro Yahata	DNF	-
	Hidezo Takahashi	3'14:31.4	35
	Kazuo Sato	3'03:57.9	27

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics.

Men

Women

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Junko Ueno	14	26	1685.0	170	22
Kumiko Okawa	15	11	1725.4	136	13
Miwa Fukuhara	4	9	1845.1	50	5

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 1964 Winter Olympics.

First round

Winners (in bold) qualified for the Group A to play for 1st-8th places. Teams, which lost their qualification matches, played in Group B for 9th-16th places.

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Consolation round

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
9		7	6	1	0	40	13	12
10		7	5	2	0	40	19	10
11		7	4	2	1	35	31	9
12		7	3	3	1	31	28	7
13		7	3	3	1	24	28	7
14		7	3	3	1	29	37	7
15		7	2	5	0	24	42	4
16		7	0	7	0	14	39	0

Japan 4-3 Norway
Japan 6-4 Romania
Austria 5-5 Japan
Yugoslavia 6-4 Japan
Japan 4-3 Poland
Japan 6-2 Hungary
Italy 8-6 Japan

	Contestants Shinichi Honma Toshiei Honma Hidenori Inatsu Atsuo Irie Koji Iwamoto Kimio Kazahari Isao Kawabuchi Kimihisa Kudo Hiroyuki Matsuura Katsuji Morishima Minoru Nakano Jiro Ogawa Isao Ono Masahiro Sato Shigeru Shimada Mamoru Takashima Masami Tanabu

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1964 Winter Olympics.

Events:

normal hill ski jumping
15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
Athlete	Event	Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Takashi Fujisawa	Individual	63.5	68.0	208.1	12	56:31.0	167.12	26	375.22	20
Akemi Taniguchi		57.0 (fall)	56.5	121.5	32	56:14.1	170.01	22	291.51	31
Eiichi Tanaka		62.5	62.0	190.2	22	58:23.9	147.30	31	337.50	30

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1964 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Naoki Shimura	Normal hill	71.5	95.2	71.0	95.7	190.9	40
Yosuke Eto		72.0	98.4	73.0	100.0	198.4	27
Sadao Kikuchi		74.0	99.7	72.5	98.8	198.5	26
Yukio Kasaya		74.5	101.4	73.5	99.2	200.6	23
Yosuke Eto	Large hill	80.0	91.4	70.0	86.4	177.8	44
Sadao Kikuchi		78.5	87.4	74.5	87.4	174.8	47
Naoki Shimura		82.0	94.1	76.5	90.4	184.5	37
Yukio Kasaya		87.0	101.6	86.0	105.1	206.7	11

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Satoshi Shinpo	44.4	41
	Fumio Nagakubo	41.8	16
	Keiichi Suzuki	40.7	5
1500 m	Toyofumi Aruga	2:20.7	41
	Satoshi Shinpo	2:18.5	34
	Keiichi Suzuki	2:17.5	31
5000 m	Yoshihiro Kawano	8:19.4	26
	Toyofumi Aruga	8:15.9	24
	Satoshi Shinpo	8:12.5	23
10,000 m	Yoshihiro Kawano	17:39.0	32
	Satoshi Shinpo	17:11.3	24
	Toyofumi Aruga	17:09.9	22

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Kaneko Takahashi	50.5	24
	Yasuko Takano	49.3	19
	Hatsue Nagakubo-Takamizawa	47.9	12
1000 m	Hatsue Nagakubo-Takamizawa	DNF	-
	Yasuko Takano	1:41.6	20
	Kaneko Takahashi	1:40.5	18
1500 m	Kaneko Takahashi	2:34.6	18
	Yasuko Takano	2:33.1	14
	Hatsue Nagakubo-Takamizawa	2:30.9	10
3000 m	Kaneko Takahashi	5:39.6	16
	Yasuko Takano	5:30.4	12
	Hatsue Nagakubo-Takamizawa	5:25.4	6

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