Japan at the 1984 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	JPN
Nocname:	Japanese Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1984
Website:
Location:	Sarajevo
Competitors:	39 (32 men, 7 women)
Sports:	9
Flagbearer:	Tadayuki Takahashi (figure skating)
Rank:	14
Gold:	0
Silver:	1
Bronze:	0
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1928

Japan competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Shinya Chiba	Downhill					1:49.02	28
Shinya Chiba	Giant Slalom	1:25.67	29	1:27.51	31	2:53.18	30
Naomine Iwaya		1:25.02	28	1:24.67	24	2:49.69	25
Toshihiro Kaiwa		1:24.92	27	1:25.05	26	2:49.97	26
Osamu Kodama		1:24.81	25	1:25.40	27	2:50.21	27
Naomine Iwaya	Slalom	DNF	-	-	-	DNF	-
Toshihiro Kaiwa		53.61	20	50.26	12	1:43.87	12
Osamu Kodama		53.42	16	DSQ	-	DSQ	-

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1984 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Isao Yamase	4	35:57.0	47
	Yoshinobu Murase	3	35:35.9	43
	Shoichi Kinoshita	1	34:12.2	30

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ^2	Rank
20 km	Isao Yamase	1'18:09.6	7	1'25:09.6	42
	Shoichi Kinoshita	1'16:49.8	7	1'23:49.8	39
	Yoshinobu Murase	1'17:39.1	6	1'23:39.1	38

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 missed target.

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 1984 Winter Olympics.

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
JPN-1	Hiroshi Okachi Yuji Yaku	Two-man	53.29	20	53.37	19	53.15	23	53.15	20	3:32.96	20
JPN-2	Yuji Funayama Satoshi Sugawara	Two-man	54.52	26	54.23	27	53.50	26	53.88	27	3:36.13	27

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Yusei Nakazawa	46:38.6	56
	Satoshi Sato	46:25.5	50
	Kazunari Sasaki	46:04.8	47
	Hideaki Yamada	45:42.3	43
50 km	Kazunari Sasaki	DNF	-
	Satoshi Sato	2'39:43.1	47

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics.

Men

Women

Ice Dancing

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 1984 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Takashi Takagi	48.402	25	47.527	18	47.877	26	47.329	17	3:11.135	20
Tsukasa Hirakawa	47.732	22	48.015	24	47.776	21	48.241	26	3:11.764	24

(Men's) Doubles

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Yumiko Kato	43.752	20	43.556	20	53.210	26	DSQ	-	DSQ	-
Hitomi Koshimizu	43.696	19	43.929	23	43.508	18	43.243	20	2:54.376	18

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1984 Winter Olympics.

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping
• 15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
		Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Takahiro Tanaka	Individual	79.5	87.0	198.6	14	51:01.5	179.575	21	378.175	20
Toshiaki Maruyama		77.0	81.5	179.4	25	49:24.9	194.065	11	373.465	21

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1984 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Satoru Matsuhashi	Normal hill	72.0	75.2	85.0	102.0	177.2	34
Hiroo Shima		74.0	78.4	76.0	82.6	161.0	45
Hirokazu Yagi		75.0	81.5	62.0	51.7	133.2	55
Masaru Nagaoka		85.0	101.0	78.0	86.8	187.8	22
Hiroo shima	Large hill	78.0	44.4	77.0	51.5	95.9	51
Masaru Nagaoka		92.0	75.5	84.0	63.3	138.8	43
Hirokazu Yagi		96.5	86.8	99.5	93.0	179.8	19
Satoru Matsuhashi		103.5	98.6	92.0	79.0	177.6	20

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Yasushi Suzuki	38.92	12
	Akira Kuroiwa	38.70	10
	Yoshihiro Kitazawa	38.30
1000 m	Yoshihiro Kitazawa	1:19.95	31
	Kimihiro Hamaya	1:18.74	17
	Akira Kuroiwa	1:17.49	9
1500 m	Kimihiro Hamaya	2:03.72	29
5000 m	Toshiaki Imamura	7:38.16	26
	Masahito Shinohara	7:37.94	24
10,000 m	Masahito Shinohara	15:31.70	26
	Toshiaki Imamura	15:23.37	23

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Shoko Fusano	43.75	22
	Hiromi Ozawa	46.46	16
	Seiko Hashimoto	42.99	11
1000 m	Hiromi Ozawa	1:29.20	27
	Shoko Fusano	1:28.19	22
	Seiko Hashimoto	1:26.69	12
1500 m	Seiko Hashimoto	2:12.56	15
3000 m	Seiko Hashimoto	4:53.38	19

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Japan Olympic Committee database
• Olympic Winter Games 1984, full results by sports-reference.com