Japan at the 1976 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	JPN
Nocname:	Japanese Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1976
Website:
Location:	Montreal
Competitors:	213 (153 men and 60 women)
Sports:	20
Flagbearer:	Katsutoshi Nekoda
Rank:	5
Gold:	9
Silver:	6
Bronze:	10
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1912

Japan competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 213 competitors, 153 men and 60 women, took part in 119 events in 20 sports.^[1]

Medalists

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				July 20
				July 23
				July 23
				July 27
				July 28
				July 30
				July 31
				July 31
				July 31
				July 21
				July 23
				July 23
				July 23
				July 29
				July 30
				July 19
				July 20
				July 21
				July 23
				July 23
				July 24
				July 26
				July 31
				July 31
				July 31

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Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=f7f6a8		bgcolor=dce5e5		bgcolor=ffdab9		Total
	3	4	3	10
	3	1	1	5
Wrestling	2	0	4	6
Volleyball	1	0	0	1
Archery	0	1	0	1
Weightlifting	0	0	2	2
Total	9	6	10	25

Archery

See main article: Archery at the 1976 Summer Olympics. In their second Olympic archery competition, Japan won a silver medal and placed third on the national leaderboard for the sport. The medal was won by Hiroshi Michinaga. Two men and two women competed for Japan.

Women's Individual Competition:

• Minako Sato — 2308 points (→ 14th place)
• Kyoko Yamazaki — 2094 points (→ 26th place)

Men's Individual Competition:

• Hiroshi Michinaga — 2502 points (→ Silver Medal)
• Takanobu Nishi — 2422 points (→ 8th place)

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Men's 10.000 metres

• Toshiaki Kamata

• Heat — 28:36.21 (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

• Shigeru So — 2:18:26 (→ 20th place)
• Noriyasu Mizukami — 2:18:44 (→ 21st place)
• Akio Usami — 2:22:29 (→ 32nd place)

Men's High Jump

• Katsumi Fukura

• Qualification — 2.13m (→ did not advance)
• Kazunori Koshikawa

• Qualification — 2.13m (→ did not advance)

Men's 20 km Race Walk

• Yoshio Morikawa — 1:42:20 (→ 34th place)

Basketball

See main article: Basketball at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Men's team competition

• Preliminary round (group A):

• Lost to Canada (76-104)

• Lost to Mexico (90-108)

• Lost to Cuba (56-97)

• Lost to Soviet Union (69-123)

• Lost to Australia (79-117)
• Classification Match:

• 9th/11th place: Lost to Puerto Rico (91-111) → 11th place
• Team roster

• Shigeaki Abe

• Nobuo Chigusa

• Satoshi Mori

• Shoji Yuki

• Yutaka Fujimoto

• Hirofumi Numata

• Kiyohide Kuwata

• Koji Yamamoto

• Shigeto Shimizu

• Fumio Saito

• Norihiko Kitahara

• Hideki Hamaguchi
• Head coach: Masahiko Yoshida.

Women's team competition

• Team roster

• Kimiko Hashimoto

• Kazuko Kadoya

• Kimi Wakitashiro

• Mieko Fukui

• Miyako Otsuka

• Miho Matsuoka

• Kazuyo Hayashida

• Teruko Miyamoto

• Keiko Namai

• Reiko Aonuma

• Sachiyo Yamamoto

• Misako Satake
• Head coach: Masatoshi Ozaki

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

• Noboru Uchizama
  1. First Round — Lost to Brendan Dunne (IRL), RSC-2

Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)

• • 1. Toshinori Koga First Round — Bye
  1. Second Round — Defeated Virgilio Palomo (COL), 5:0
  2. Third Round — Lost to Ramón Duvalón (CUB), 0:5

Canoeing

See main article: Canoeing at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Five cyclists represented Japan in 1976.

Sprint

• Yoshikazu Cho — 5th place

1000m time trial

• Yoshikazu Cho — 1:09.664 (→ 17th place)

Individual pursuit

• Yoichi Machishima — 15th place

Team pursuit

• Yoichi Machishima
• Tadashi Ogasawara
• Yoshiaki Ogasawara
• Tsutomu Okabori

Diving

See main article: Diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Eight fencers, four men and four women, represented Japan in 1976.

Men's foil

• Masanori Kawatsu
• Noriyuki Sato
• Toshio Jingo

Men's team foil

• Masanori Kawatsu, Hideaki Kamei, Toshio Jingo, Noriyuki Sato

Women's foil

• Hideko Oka
• Yukari Kajihara
• Mariko Yoshikawa

Women's team foil

• Hideko Oka, Mariko Yoshikawa, Hiroko Kamada, Yukari Kajihara

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Handball

See main article: Handball at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Modern pentathlon

See main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Three male pentathletes represented Japan in 1976.

Men's Individual Competition:

• Shoji Uchida — 4850 points (→ 31st place)
• Akira Kubo — 4700 points (→ 37th place)
• Hiroyuki Kawazoe — 4591 points (→ 40th place)

Men's Team Competition:

• Uchida, Kubo, and Kawazoe — 14234 points (→ 12th place)

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Open

Athlete	Event	Final
		Points	Rank
Taro Aso	align=left rowspan=1	Skeet	187	41
Saijo Hosokawa	50 m rifle, prone	588	31
Toshiyasu Ishige	align=left rowspan=1	Trap	177	18
Takeo Kamachi	align=left rowspan=1	25 m rapid fire pistol	591	12
Kazuyo Kato	align=left rowspan=1	Skeet	188	35
Kanji Kubo	align=left rowspan=1	25 m rapid fire pistol	586	20
align=left rowspan=2	Kaoru Matsuo	align=left	50 m rifle, three positions	1119	41
50 m rifle, prone	580	68
Jitsuka Matsuoka	align=left rowspan=1	Trap	178	16
Masanobu Ohata	align=left rowspan=1	50 m pistol	545	28
align=left rowspan=1	Michiha Ozaki	align=left	50 m rifle, three positions	1115	44
Shigetoshi Tashiro	align=left rowspan=1	50 m pistol	549	21

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Volleyball

See main article: Volleyball at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Men's team competition

• Preliminary round (group B)

• Defeated Italy (3-0)

• Defeated Brazil (3-0)

• Lost to Soviet Union (0-3)
• Semi Finals

• Lost to Poland (2-3)
• Bronze Medal Match

• Lost to Cuba (0-3) → Fourth place
• Team roster

• Taka Maruiyama

• Katsutoshi Nekoda

• Katsumi Oda

• Tetsuo Nishimoto

• Yassunori Yassuda

• Yoshi Fukao

• Shoichi Yanagimoto

• Mikiyasu Tanaka

• Tadayoshi Yokota

• Seiji Ohko

• Kinji Shimaoka

• Tetsuo Satō
• Head coach: Tsutomu Koyama

Women's team competition

• Preliminary round (group A)

• Defeated Hungary (3-0)

• Defeated Peru (3-0)

• Defeated Canada (3-0)
• Semi Finals

• Defeated South Korea (3-0)
• Final

• Defeated Soviet Union (3-0) → Gold Medal
• Team roster

• • Juri Yokoyama Head coach: Shigeo Yamada

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Japan at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games . 2011-04-09 . sports-reference.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110830162937/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/JPN/summer/1976/ . 2011-08-30 .