Japan at the 1972 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	JPN
Nocname:	Japanese Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1972
Website:
Location:	Munich
Competitors:	184 (148 men and 36 women)
Sports:	21
Flagbearer:	Masatoshi Shinomaki
Rank:	5
Gold:	13
Silver:	8
Bronze:	8
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1912

Japan competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. 184 competitors, 148 men and 36 women, took part in 113 events in 21 sports.^[1]

Medalists

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				August 29
				August 30
				August 30
				August 31
				August 31
				September 1
				September 1
				September 1
				September 1
				September 2
				September 3
				September 4
				September 9
	Eizo Kenmotsu			August 30
	Kikuo Wada			August 31
	Akinori Nakayama			September 1
	Sawao Kato			September 1
	Shigeru Kasamatsu			September 1
	Sawao Kato			September 1
	Katsumi Matsumura Takako Iida Mariko Okamoto Takako Shirai Makiko Furukawa Keiko Hama Toyoko Iwahara Sumie Oinuma Seiko Shimakage Michiko Shiokawa Noriko Yamashita Yaeko Yamazaki			September 7
	Koichiro Hirayama			September 10
	Akinori Nakayama			August 30
	Motoki Nishimura			August 31
	Shigeru Kasamatsu			September 1
	Shigeru Kasamatsu			September 1
	Eizo Kenmotsu			September 1
	Eizo Kenmotsu			September 1
	Mitsuo Tsukahara			September 1
	Nobutaka Taguchi			September 2

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Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=f7f6a8		bgcolor=dce5e5		bgcolor=ffdab9		Total
	5	5	6	16
	3	0	1	4
Wrestling	2	2	0	4
Swimming	2	0	1	3
Volleyball	1	1	0	2
Total	13	8	8	29

Archery

See main article: Archery at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

In the first modern archery competition at the Olympics, Japan entered three men and one woman. Their highest placing competitor was Yoshiko Akayama, at 17th place in the women's competition.

Men's Individual Competition:

• Hiroshi Kajikawa — 2381 points (→ 19th place)
• Masashi Hibino — 2344 points (→ 29th place)
• Shinji Nakamoto — 2287 points (→ 38th place)

Women's Individual Competition:

• Yoshiko Akayama — 2301 points (→ 17th place)

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Men's 5000 metres

• Keisuke Sawaki

• Heat — 13:44.8 (→ did not advance)
• Takaharu Koyama

• Heat — 14:12.6 (→ did not advance)

Men's High Jump

• Hidehiko Tomizawa

• Qualifying Round — 2.15m

• Final — 2.05m (→ 19th place)
• Kuniyoshi Sugioka

• Qualification Round — 2.06m (→ did not advance)

Basketball

See main article: Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

• Yoshimitsu Aragaki

• First Round — Lost to Asen Nikolov (BUL), 0:5

Canoeing

See main article: Canoeing at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Three cyclists represented Japan in 1972.

Sprint

• Yoshikazu Cho
• Yaichi Numata

1000m time trial

• Takafumi Matsuda

• Final — 1:10.00 (→ 20th place)

Tandem

• Yaichi Numata and Yoshikazu Cho → 12th place

Diving

See main article: Diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Men's 3m Springboard

• Junji Yuasa — 316.95 points (→ 24th place)

Men's 10m Platform

• Junji Yuasa — 276.00 points (→ 19th place)

Women's 3m Springboard

• Taeko Kubo — 236.25 points (→ 24th place)

Women's 10m Platform

• Keiko Otsubo — 168.24 points (→ 23rd place)

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Five fencers, all men, represented Japan in 1972.

Men's foil

• Hiroshi Nakajima
• Ichiro Serizawa
• Kiyoshi Uehara

Men's team foil

• Shiro Maruyama, Masaya Fukuda, Hiroshi Nakajima, Kiyoshi Uehara, Ichiro Serizawa

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Handball

See main article: Handball at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round

• Lost to Yugoslavia (14-20)

• Lost to Hungary (12-20)

• Defeated United States (20-16)
• Classification Matches

• 9th/12th place: Lost to Norway (17-19)

• 11th/12th place: Defeated Iceland (19-18) → 11th place

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Modern pentathlon

See main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Three male pentathletes represented Japan in 1972.

Men's Individual Competition:

• Masaru Sakano — 4627 points (→ 31st place)
• Yuso Makihira — 4583 points (→ 33rd place)
• Akira Kubo — 4371 points (→ 49th place)

Men's Team Competition:

• Sakano, Makihara, and Kubo — 13569 points (13th place)

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Men's Single Sculls

• Hideo Okamoto

• Heat — 8:20.82

• Repechage — 8:27.36 (→ did not advance)

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Men's Finn:

• Kazuoki Matsuyama — 176.0 (→ 27th place)

Men's Flying Dutchman:

• Akira Yamamura and Takashi Yamamura — 128.0 (→ 19th place)

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Six male shooters represented Japan in 1972.

Open

Athlete	Event	Final
		Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Minoru Ito	align=left	50 m rifle, three positions	1124	41
50 m rifle, prone	589	59
Takeo Kamachi	align=left rowspan=2	25 m rapid fire pistol	580	33
Kanji Kubo	582	30
Takeshi Sugita	50 m rifle, prone	583	82
Shigetoshi Tashiro	align=left rowspan=2	50 m pistol	546	22
Yoshihisa Yoshikawa	545	25

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Volleyball

See main article: Volleyball at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group B)

• Defeated Romania (3-1)

• Defeated Cuba (3-0)

• Defeated East Germany (3-0)

• Defeated Brazil (3-0)

• Defeated West Germany (3-0)
• Semifinals

• Defeated Bulgaria (3-2)
• Final

• Defeated East Germany (3-1) → Gold Medal
• Team Roster

• Kenji Kimura

• Yoshinide Fukao

• Junko Morita

• Seiji Ohko

• Tadayoshi Yokota

• Katsutoshi Nekoda

• Yasuhiro Noguchi

• Kenji Shimaoka

• Yūzo Nakamura

• Tetsuo Nishimoto

• Massao Minami

• Tetsuo Satō

Water polo

See main article: Water polo at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group C)

• Lost to Spain (4-6)

• Lost to Soviet Union (1-11)

• Lost to Bulgaria (4-7)

• Lost to Italy (5-12) → Did not advance
• Team Roster

• Yukiharu Oshita

• Hirokatsu Kuwayama

• Toshio Takahashi

• Shuzo Yajima

• Hiroshi Hashimoto

• Koji Nakano

• Naoto Minegishi

• Tatsuo Jihira

• Takashi Kimura

• Yoshihiro Yasumi

• Toru Arase

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Badminton (demonstration sports)

Men's Doubles:

• Ippei Kojima and Suresh Goel of India

1. 1st round - Lost to Ng. Boon Bee and Punch Gunalan of Malaysia (8 - 15, 1 - 15)

Women's Singles:

• Noriko Nakayama → Gold Medal

1. 1st round - defeated Ulla Strand of Denmark (11 - 5, 11 - 9)

1. Semi–Final - defeated Gillian Gilks of Great Britain (11 - 3, 8 - 11, 11 - 9)

1. Final - defeated Utami Dewi of Indonesia (11 - 5, 11 - 3)

• Hiroe Yuki → bronze medal

1. 1st round - defeated Joke van Beusekom of Netherlands (11 - 3, 11 - 2)

1. Semi-Final - lost to Utami Dewi of Indonesia (5 - 11, 9 - 11)

Mixed Doubles:

• Kojima and Nakayama

1. 1st round - lost to Talbot and Gilks of Great Britain (9 - 15, 4 - 15)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Japan at the 1972 Munich Summer Games . 2011-02-17 . sports-reference.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120418072757/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/JPN/summer/1972/ . 2012-04-18 .