Japan at the 2024 Summer Paralympics explained

Npc:	JPN
Npcname:	Japan Paralympic Committee
Games:	Summer Paralympics
Year:	2024
Flagcaption:	Flag of Japan
Location:	Paris, France
Competitors:	176
Sports:	21
Flagbearer Open:	Daiki Ishiyama An Nishida
Rank:	10
Gold:	14
Silver:	10
Bronze:	17
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1964

Japan competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France, from 28 August to 8 September.

Medalists

See main article: 2024 Summer Paralympics medal table.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				29 August
				31 August
				2 September
					2 September
				2 September
				5 September
				5 September
				5 September
				6 September
				6 September
				6 September
				6 September
				7 September
				7 September
				30 August
				30 August
				30 August
				31 August
				1 September
				2 September
				5 September
				5 September
				6 September
				6 September
				30 August
				30 August
				1 September
				1 September
				1 September
				1 September
				2 September
				3 September
				4 September
				4 September
				5 September
				5 September
				6 September
				6 September
				6 September
				8 September
				8 September

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Archery	2	0	2
Athletics	22	18	40
Badminton	6	6	12
Boccia	4	3	7
Cycling	2	1	3
Equestrian	2	0	2
Football 5-a-side	10	0	10
Goalball	6	6	12
Judo	2	4	6
Paracanoeing	1	3	4
Paratriathlon	3	1	4
Powerlifting	1	0	1
Rowing	1	0	1
Shooting	1	2	3
Swimming	12	10	22
Table tennis	6	3	9
Taekwondo	2	0	2
Wheelchair basketball	0	12	12
Wheelchair fencing	3	1	4
Wheelchair rugby	11	1	12
Wheelchair tennis	4	4	8
Total	101	75	176

Archery

See main article: Archery at the 2024 Summer Paralympics and Archery at the 2024 Summer Paralympics – Qualification. Japan secured a quota places in mixed recurve and men's compound event by virtue of their result at the 2023 World Para Archery Championships in Plzeň, Czech Republic and 2023 Asian Championships in Bangkok, Thailand.^[1]

Athlete	Event	Ranking Round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Oe Yuya	Men's individual compound	682	23	L 142–147	=17
Tomohiro Ueyama	Men's individual recurve	599	22	W 6–2	L 3–7	=9

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 2024 Summer Paralympics and Athletics at the 2024 Summer Paralympics – Qualification. Japanese track and field athletes achieved quota places for the following events based on their results at the 2023 World Championships, 2024 World Championships, or through high performance allocation, as long as they meet the minimum entry standard (MES).

Track & road events

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Shuta Kawakami	100 m T13	10.80	2 Q	10.80
align=left rowspan=2	Tatsuya Ito	100 m T52	17.76	4 q	17.91	8
400 m T52	1:09.55	5	colspan=2
align=left rowspan=2	Tomoya Ito	100 m T52	17.58	4 q	17.67	7
400 m T52	1:00.42	2 Q	1:01.08
align=left rowspan=2	Tomoki Sato	100 m T52	17.20	1 Q	17.44
400 m T52	58.04	1 Q	56.26
Tomoki Ikoma	100 m T54	14.73	5	colspan=2
align=left rowspan=2	Kengo Oshima	100 m T64	11.24 NR	5	colspan=2
200 m T64		–	colspan=2
Shunsuke Itani	200 m T64	23.67	4 q	23.50	7
Ryota Fukunaga	400 m T13	48.07
Takeru Matsumoto	400 m T36	53.63 NR	4
align=left rowspan=2	Kenya Karasawa	1500 m T11	4:06.86	3 q	4:04.40 NR	4
5000 m T11	14:51.48 NR
Daiki Akai	1500 m T20	3:57.58	5
Yuji Togawa	1500 m T20	4:02.68	6
align=left rowspan=2	Tomoki Suzuki	1500 m T54	3:05.31	5 Q	2:53.99	7
Marathon T54
align=left rowspan=2	Shinya Wada	5000 m T11	15:16.41	4
Marathon T12
Tadashi Horikoshi	Marathon T12
Yutaka Kumagai	Marathon T12
Ryota Yoshida	Marathon T54

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Uran Sawada	100 m T12	12.90	4	colspan=2
Haruka Kitaura	100 m T34	19.68	4 q	19.81	7
align=left rowspan=2	Moe Onodera	100 m T34	19.08	3 Q	18.94	6
800 m T34	2:15.85	6
Ayano Yoshida	100 m T34	20.43	5 q	20.07	8
Yuka Takamatsu	100 m T38	14.86	9	colspan=2
align=left rowspan=2	Sae Tsuji	100 m T47	12.94	7	colspan=2
400 m T47	1:00.19	4 q	59.13	7
Kaede Maegawa	100 m T63	16.34	5	colspan=2
Tomomi Tozawa	100 m T63	15.85	5	colspan=2
Saki Takakuwa	100 m T64	13.85	6	colspan=2
Mana Sasaki	400 m T13	58.77	3 Q	58.35	7
Moeko Yamamoto	1500 m T20	5:16.70	9
Misato Michishita	Marathon T12	3:04:23
Tsubasa Kina	Marathon T54	2:04:53	12
Wakako Tsuchida	Marathon T54	1:52:39	6

Mixed

Field events

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
		Distance	Position
Daiki Ishiyama	Long jump T12	6.75	5
Ryota Fukunaga	Long jump T13	6.55	7
Yamato Shimbo	Discus throw F37	51.37	4
Yuta Wakoh	Javelin throw F13	58.49	7
Shunya Takahashi	Javelin throw F46	59.76	6
Akihiro Yamazaki	Javelin throw F46	57.67	7

Women

Athlete	Event	Final
		Distance	Position
Uran Sawada	Long jump T12	4.90	6
Sonomi Sakai	Long jump T20	4.87	13
Kaede Maegawa	Long jump T63	4.50	6
Tomomi Tozawa	Long jump T63	4.58	5
Maya Nakanishi	Long jump T64	4.91	7
Saki Takakuwa	Long jump T64	5.04	5
Yukiko Saito	Shot put F46	11.61	4
Keiko Onidani	Discus throw F53	15.78 NR

Badminton

See main article: Badminton at the 2024 Summer Paralympics and Badminton at the 2024 Summer Paralympics – Qualification. Japan has qualified eleven para badminton players for the following events, through the release of BWF para-badminton Race to Paris Paralympic Ranking.

Men

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Hiroshi Murayama	align=left rowspan=2	Singles WH1	W 2-0	L 0-2		2
Osamu Nagashima	L 0-2	L 0-2		3	Did not advance
Daiki Kajiwara	align=left rowspan=2	Singles WH2							W (21-10, 21-10)
Takumi Matsumoto
Daisuke Fujihara	Singles SL3	W (19–21, 21–16, 21–17)	L 0-2
Taiyo Imai	Singles SU5	L (18–21, 14–21)
Daiki Kajiwara Hiroshi Murayama	Doubles WH1–2	W (17–21, 21–13, 21–16)
Takumi Matsumoto Osamu Nagashima	Doubles WH1–2	W 2-1

Women

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Sarina Satomi	Singles WH1
Yuma Yamazaki	Singles WH2
Noriko Ito	Singles SL3	L 0-2
Fujino Haruka	Singles SL4
Mamiko Toyoda	align=left rowspan=2	Singles SU5	W 2-0
Kaede Kameyama	L 0-2
Sarina Satomi Yuma Yamazaki	Doubles WH1–2	W 2-0

Mixed

Boccia

See main article: Boccia at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. Japan entered six athletes into the Paralympics games, after nominated top two individual athletes in men's individual BC4 events; top four in BC1/BC2 team events, through the final world ranking; and through winning the bronze medal in the mixed pairs event for BC3, at the 2024 Paralympic Qualification Tournament in Coimbra, Portugal.

Athlete	Event	Pool matches				Playoffs	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Takayuki Hirose	align=left rowspan=2	Men's individual BC2	W 6–2	L 0–17	L 2–5	3	18
Hidetaka Sugimura	W 5–0	W 6–5	L 2–3	2 Q	W 5–2	L 3–5	8
Masayuki Arita	Men's individual BC3	W 5–4	L 0–9	L 2–4	3		12
Shunsuke Uchida	Men's individual BC4	L 1–10	W 8–2	L 2–8	3		11
Yukiro Fujii	align=left rowspan=2	Women's individual BC1	W 4–2	W 6–1		1 Q		L 3–4	5
Hiromi Endo	W 5–4	W 5–1		1 Q		W 7–0	L 1–5	W 7–0
Ayane Ichinoe	Women's individual BC3	W 5-1	W 8–0	L 3–6	2 Q		L 2–3	7
Masayuki Arita Ayane Ichinoe	Mixed pairs BC3	L 3–3*	L 2–5		3		9
Takayuki Hirose Hidetaka Sugimura Hiromi Endo	Mixed team BC1/BC2	W 11–1	W 5–3		1 Q		W 4*–4	L 0–9	W 8–3

Blind football

See main article: Football 5-a-side at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.

Summary

Team roster

Group stage--------

Seventh place match

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. Japan entered two para-cyclists (one in each gender) after finished the top eligible nation's at the 2022 UCI Nation's ranking allocation ranking.^[2]

Road

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Kazuhei Kimura Pilot: Kiaki Miura	Men's road race B
Men's road time trial B
align=left rowspan=2	Shota Kawamoto	Men's road race C1–3
Men's road time trial C2

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Keiko Sugiura	Women's road time trial C1-3
Women's road race C1-3

Track

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Kazuhei Kimura Pilot: Kiaki Miura	Men's time trial B
Men's pursuit B	4:28.676	10	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Shota Kawamoto	Men's time trial C1-3	1:07.375	6 Q	1:07.659	6
Men's pursuit C2	3:29.875	4 QB	Bronze medal contest L3:33.488-3:30.497	4

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Keiko Sugiura	Women's time trial C1-3	39.449	7	Did not advance
Women's pursuit C1-3	3:53.549	5	Did not advance

Qualification Legend: QB=Final Bronze medal; QG=Final Gold medal; QF=Final

Equestrian

Japan entered two para-equestrianist into the Paralympic equestrian competition, by virtue of the nations individual final world para dressage rankings.

Individual

Athlete	Horse	Event	Total
			Score	Rank
Sho Inaba	Huzette BH	Individual championship test grade II
		Individual freestyle test grade II
Soshi Yoshigoe	Javyro	Individual championship test grade II
		Individual freestyle test grade II

Goalball

See main article: Goalball at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. The Japanese men's and women's goalball teams qualified for the paralympic games.

Summary

Team	Event	Group Stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Japan men's	Men's tournament	L 6–7	L 8–9	W 11–1	3 Q	W 6–4	W 13–5	W 4–3
Japan women's	Women's tournament	W 3–1	W 2–1	W 6–0	1 Q	L 0–2		L 0–1	6

Men's tournament

See main article: Goalball at the 2024 Summer Paralympics – Men's tournament. The Japanese men's goalball team qualified for the paralympic games by virtue of the results at the 2023 World Games in Birmingham, Great Britain.^[3]

Team roster

Group stage--------

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Gold medal match

Women's tournament

See main article: Goalball at the 2024 Summer Paralympics – Women's tournament. The Japanese women's goalball team qualified for the paralympic games by virtue of the results at the 2023 Asia-Pacific Championships in Hangzhou, China.

Team roster

Group stage--------

Quarter-finals

Fifth place match

Paracanoeing

See main article: Paracanoeing at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. Japan earned quota places for the following events through the 2024 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged, Hungary.

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Yuta Takagi	Men's KL1
Monika Seryu	Women's KL1
Saki Komatsu	Women's VL2
align=left rowspan=2	Shiho Miyajima	Women's VL2
Women's VL3

Paratriathlon

See main article: Paratriathlon at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.

Men

Athlete	Class	Swim	T1	Bike				T2	Run				Time	Rank
				L1	L2	L3	L4		L1	L2	L3	L4
Jumpei Kimura	Men's PTWC
Giuseppe Romele	Men's PTVI
Hideki Uda	align=left rowspan=2	Men's PTS4

Women

Powerlifting

See main article: Powerlifting at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.

Shooting

See main article: article, Shooting at the 2024 Summer Paralympics and Shooting at the 2024 Summer Paralympics – Qualification. Japan entered three para-shooter's after achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2022, 2023 and 2024 world cup, 2022 World Championships, 2023 World Championships and 2022 Asian Para Games, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by May 31, 2020.^[4]

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Kazuya Okada	R3 – 10 m air rifle prone SH1
R6 – 50 m rifle prone SH1
Mika Mizuta	align=left rowspan=2	R5 – 10 m air rifle prone SH2
Akiko Sega

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 2024 Summer Paralympics and Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japan secured five quotas at the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships after finishing in the top two places in Paralympic class disciplines.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
	50 m freestyle S11
align=left rowspan=2	Taiyo Kawabuchi	400 m freestyle S9	4:26.51	7 Q
200 m individual medley SM9
	100 m backstroke S8
	100 m breaststroke SB14
Naohide Yamaguchi	100 m butterfly S14	57.74	5 Q
Shunya Murakami	100 m butterfly S14	1:00.15	12

Women

Table tennis

See main article: Table tennis at the 2024 Summer Paralympics and Table tennis at the 2024 Summer Paralympics – Qualification. Japan entered seven athletes for the Paralympic games. Katsuyoshi Yagi and Natsuki Wada qualified for Paris 2024 by virtue of their gold medal results, in their respective class, at the 2022 Asian Para Games in Hangzhou;^[5] meanwhile the other athletes qualified for the games through the allocations of ITTF final world ranking.

Men

Athlete	Event			Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Kazuki Shichino	Individual C4
Katsuyoshi Yagi	Individual C7
Koyo Iwabuchi	Individual C9
Mahiro Funayama	Individual C10
Mahiro Funayama Katsuyoshi Yagi	Men's doubles MD18		L 1–3	Did not advance
Genki Saito Kazuki Shichino	Doubles MD8	W 3–0	L 0–3	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event			Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Yuri Tomono	Individual C8
Natsuki Wada	align=left rowspan=2	Individual C11
Kanami Furukawa

Mixed

Taekwondo

See main article: Taekwondo at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. Japan entered two athletes to compete at the Paralympics competition. Mitsuya Tanaka and Shunsuke Kudo, qualified for Paris 2024, by virtue of finishing within the top six in the Paralympic rankings in their respective class.

Athlete	Event	First round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Mitsuya Tanaka	Men's –58 kg	W 19–3	L 5-6		L 7-8	Did not advance
Shunsuke Kudo	Men's –70 kg		W 4-5	L 10-15		L 5-3	5

Wheelchair basketball

See main article: Wheelchair basketball at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. Japan women has qualified to compete by virtue of their top four results at the 2024 IWBF Women's Repechage in Osaka.

Women's tournament

Wheelchair fencing

See main article: Wheelchair fencing at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
align=left rowspan=3	Shintaro Kano	Men's épée A
Men's foil A
Men's sabre A
align=left rowspan=2	Naoki Yasu	Men's foil A
Men's épée A
align=left rowspan=2	Michinobu Fujita	Men's épée B
Men's foil B
align=left rowspan=2	Anri Sakurai	Women's épée B
Women's foil B

Wheelchair rugby

See main article: Wheelchair rugby at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. Japan has qualified to compete at the Paralympic games, by virtue of their gold medal results, at the 2023 Asian-Oceanian Wheelchair Rugby Championships in Tokyo.

Standings

Wheelchair tennis

See main article: Wheelchair tennis at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. Japan entered two players into the Paralympics by virtue of the gold medal results in the respective gender single events at the 2022 Asian Para Games in Hangzhou, China.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Daisuke Arai	align=left rowspan=4	Men's singles		W 6–1, 6–0	L 5–7, 2–6	colspan="4"
Takuya Miki		W 6–2, 6–1	L 1–6, 1–6	colspan="4"
Tokito Oda		W 6–2, 7–6	W 6–0, 6–1	W 6–4, 6–1
Takashi Sanada		W 6–1, 6–2	L 2–6, 5–7	colspan="4"
Daisuke Arai Takashi Sanada	align=left rowspan=2	Men's doubles
Takuya Miki Tokito Oda
Yui Kamiji	align=left rowspan=4	Women's singles
Momoko Ohtani
Saki Takamuro
Manami Tanaka
Yui Kamiji Manami Tanaka	align=left rowspan=2	Women's doubles
Momoko Ohtani Saki Takamuro

See also

• Japan at the 2024 Summer Olympics
• Japan at the Paralympics

Notes and References

1. News: Olszewska serves two thrillers to grab Paris 2024 quota and reach final. World Archery. 21 July 2023.
2. Web site: 31 December 2022. Paris 2024 Paralympic Games Qualification - 2022 UCI Nations Ranking Allocation. UCI.
3. News: Blind football and goalball teams book tickets to Paris 2024 at IBSA World Games. 31 August 2023. International Paralympic Committee. 9 September 2023.
4. Web site: Lima 2023 Quota Allocation to Paris 2024 Day 7 28.09.2023. 29 September 2023. Paralympics. 13 October 2023.
5. News: Mixed Fortunes for Asian stars as Paralympic Games Gold Medallists Set Sights on Paris. 28 October 2023. International Table Tennis Federation. 3 December 2023.