Japan at the 1980 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	JPN
Nocname:	Japanese Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1980
Website:
Location:	Lake Placid
Competitors:	50 (46 men, 4 women)
Sports:	10
Flagbearer:	Osamu Wakabayashi
Rank:	15
Gold:	0
Silver:	1
Bronze:	0
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1928

Japan competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States. The Team Consists of 50 athletes 46 were men and 4 were women.

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Mikio Katagiri	Downhill					1:49.77	21
Osamu Kodama	Giant Slalom	DNF	-	-	-	DNF	-
Atsushi Sawada		1:25.23	36	1:28.82	37	2:54.05	36
Toshihiro Kaiwa		1:24.29	35	1:24.49	28	2:48.78	29
Osamu Kodama	Slalom	DNF	-	-	-	DNF	-
Atsushi Sawada		56.80	21	53.14	14	1:49.94	15
Toshihiro Kaiwa		55.78	17	DNF	-	DNF	-

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Masaichi Kinoshita	4	38:50.19	43
	Takashi Shibata	6	37:26.91	37
	Hiroyuki Deguchi	2	36:14.61	26

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ²	Rank
20 km	Tsusumisa Kikuchi	1'13:44.30	11	1'24:44.30	41
	Hiroyuki Deguchi	1'14:53.16	7	1'21:53.16	39
	Masaichi Kinoshita	1'14:21.46	2	1'16:21.46	28

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Shiro Sato	46:15.29	43
30 km	Shiro Sato	1'35:52.77	39
50 km	Shiro Sato	2'48:33.02	37

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Fumio Igarashi	13	8	6	172.04	77	9
Mitsuru Matsumura	11	7	7	172.28	75	8

Women

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

First Round - Red Division

	Team advanced to the Final Round
	Team advanced to Consolation round

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	5	5	0	0	51	11	10
	5	3	2	0	26	18	6
	5	3	2	0	28	12	6
	5	2	3	0	15	23	4
	5	1	3	1	16	43	3
	5	0	4	1	7	36	1

	Contestants Minoru Misawa Takeshi Iwamoto Hiroshi Hori Iwao Nakayama Norio Ito Hitoshi Nakamura Tadamitsu Fujii Koji Wakasa Yoshiaki Kyoya Katsutoshi Kawamura Takeshi Azuma Satoru Misawa Mikio Matsuda Sadaki Honma Hideo Sakurai Tsutomu Hanzawa Hideo Urabe Osamu Wakabayashi Mikio Hosoi Yoshio Hoshino

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Koji Kuriyama	45.820	26	45.872	17	45.852	18	45.538	18	3:03.082	19
Takashi Takagi	45.294	20	51.003	24	45.575	17	47.962	21	3:09.564	23

(Men's) Doubles

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1980 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
Toshihiro Hanada	Individual	73.0	78.0	192.1	15	54:44.2	157.045	28	349.145	27
Michio Kubota	Individual	78.5	72.5	187.9	16	52:34.4	176.515	26	364.415	25

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Hiroyasu Aizawa	Normal hill	69.5	88.4	68.0	88.5	176.9	42
Takafumi Kawabata		79.0	111.1	71.5	96.1	207.2	29
Masahiro Akimoto		83.5	120.8	87.5	127.7	248.5	4
Hirokazu Yagi		87.0	128.9	83.5	120.3	249.2
Hiroyasu Aizawa	Large hill	95.0	99.2	93.5	96.1	195.3	35
Hirokazu Yagi		96.5	103.3	105.5	116.9	220.2	19
Takafumi Kawabata		102.5	111.2	90.0	90.2	201.4	32
Masahiro Akimoto		104.0	113.8	108.0	120.9	234.7	10

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Kazuaki Ichimura	39.44	20
500 m	Kaoru Fukuda	39.24	14
1000 m	Kazuaki Ichimura	1:21.05	25
	Masayuki Kawahara	1:20.88	23
	Kaoru Fukuda	1:19.66	19
1500 m	Yasuhiro Shimizu	2:04.54	24
	Masayuki Kawahara	2:01.28	20
	Masahiko Yamamoto	2:01.25	19
5000 m	Masayuki Kawahara	7:42.18	25
	Masahiko Yamamoto	7:33.02	21
	Yasuhiro Shimizu	7:21.50	16
10,000 m	Masahiko Yamamoto	15:26.92	17
10,000 m	Yasuhiro Shimizu	14:57.48	9

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Makiko Nagaya	42.70	5
1000 m	Yuko Yaegashi-Ota	1:30.72	25
	Makiko Nagaya	1:30.27	22
	Miyoshi Kato	1:28.97	17
1500 m	Miyoshi Kato	2:19.80	24
1500 m	Yuko Yaegashi-Ota	2:19.41	23
3000 m	Yuko Yaegashi-Ota	5:00.40	25
3000 m	Miyoshi Kato	4:57.39	21