Japan at the 2004 Summer Olympics

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Japan at the 2004 Summer Olympics is represented by the Japanese Olympic Committee and abbreviated JPN. Japan's anthem, Kimi Ga Yo ("May 1000 Years of Happy Reign Be Yours") is played when Japan wins a gold medal. The flag bearer in the opening ceremony was Kyoko Hamaguchi, a wrestler.

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Medals

Image:Olympic-rings.png	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Image:Japan flag large.png Japan	16	9	12	37

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Gold

Gymnastics, artistic - Men's team all-around: Japan

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Silver

Gymnastics, artistic - Men's individual parallel bars: Hiroyuki Tomita

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Bronze

Gymnastics, artistic - Men's individual horizontal bar: Isao Yoneda
Gymnastics, artistic - Men's individual pommel horse: Takehiro Kashima

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Results by event

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Archery

Men's individual:

Women's individual:

Sayoko Kawauchi - 26th place
Sayami Matsushita - 28th place
Yukari Kawasaki - 63rd place

Men's team:

Takaharu Furukawa, Yuji Hamano, and Hiroshi Yamamoto - 8th place

Women's team:

Yukari Kawasaki, Sayoko Kawauchi, and Sayami Matsushita - 14th place

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Athletics

Men's 100 metres:

Shingo Suetsugu - Round 1: 10.27 s, Round 2: 10.19 s
Nobuharu Asahara - Round 1: 10.33 s, Round 2: 10.24 s
Hiroyasu Tsuchie - Round 1: 10.37 s

Men's 110 metre hurdles:

Masato Naito - Round 1: 13.56 s, Round 2: 13.54 s
Satoru Tanigawa - Round 1: 13.39 s (NR), Round 2: 13.70s

Men's 200 metres:

Shinji Takahira - Round 1: 21.05 s
Ryo Matsuda - Round 1: 24.59 s

Men's 400 metres:

Yuki Yamaguchi - Round 1: 46.16
Jun Osakada - Round 1: 46.39 s
Mitsuhiro Sato - Round 1: 46.70 s

Men's 400 metre hurdles:

Dai Tamesue - Round 1: 48.80 s, Semifinal: 48.46 s
Ken Yoshizawa - Round 1: 50.95 s

Men's 3000 metre steeplechase:

Yoshitaka Iwamizu - Round 1, 8:29.07 (did not advance)

Men's 10000 metres:

Ryuji Ono - Final, 29:06.50 (19th place)

Men's 4x100 metre relay:

Hiroyasu Tsuchie, Shingo Suetsugu, Shinji Takahira, and Nobuharu Asahara - Final, 0:38.49 (4th place)

Men's 4x400 metre relay:

Yuki Yamaguchi, Jun Osakada, Tomohiro Itoh, and Mitsuhiro Sato - Final, 3:00.99 (4th place)

Men's marathon:

Shigeru Aburaya – 2:13:11 (5th place)
Toshinari Suwa – 2:13:24 (6th place)
Tomoaki Kunichika – 2:21:13 (42nd place)

Men's 20 km walk:

Takayuki Tanii – 1:23:38 (15th place)
Yuki Yamazaki - DNF

Men's 50 km walk:

Yuki Yamazaki – 3:57:00 (16th place)
Takayuki Tanii - DQ

Men's long jump:

Shinichi Terano - Round 1, 7.70 metres (did not advance)

Men's triple jump:

Takanori Sugibayashi - Round 1, 16.00 metres (did not advance)

Men's pole vault:

Daichi Sawano - Final, 5.55 metres (13th place)

Men's javelin:

Yukifumi Murakami - Round 1, 78.59 metres (did not advance)

Men's hammer:

Koji Murofushi - Final, 82.91 metres (gold medal)

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Women

Women's 800 metres:

Miho Sugimori - Round 1: 2:02.82

Women's 10000 metres:

Megumi Tanaka - 31:42.18 (13th place)
Harumi Hiroyama - 32:15.12 (18th place)
Kayoko Fukushi - 33:48.66 (26th place)

Women's heptathlon:

Yuki Nakata - 4871 points (28th place)

Women's marathon:

Mizuki Noguchi - 2:26:20, gold medal
Reiko Tosa - 2:28:44, 5th place
Naoko Sakamoto - 2:31:43, 7th place

Women's 20 km walk:

Mayumi Kawasaki - 1:37:56 (40th place)

Women's long jump:

Maho Hanaoka - Round 1: 6.31 metres

Women's pole vault:

Takayo Kondo - Round 1: 4.15 metres

Women's shot put:

Chinatsu Mori - Round 1: 15.86 metres

Women's hammer:

Yuka Murofushi - Round 1: 65.33 metres

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Badminton

Men's singles:

Shoji Sato - defeated in round of 32
Hidetaka Yamada - defeated in round of 32

Women's singles:

Kaori Mori - defeated in round of 16
Miho Tanaka - defeated in round of 32
Kanako Yonekura - defeated in round of 32

Men's doubles:

Keita Masuda and Tadashi Ohtsuka - defeated in round of 16

Women's doubles:

Chikako Nakayama and Keiko Yoshimoti - defeated in round of 16
Shizuka Yamamoto and Seiko Yamada - defeated in round of 32

Mixed doubles:

Tadashi Ohtsuka and Shizuka Yamamoto - defeated in round of 32

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Baseball

The Japanese baseball team won the bronze medal.

Players: Ryoji Aikawa, Yuya Ando, Atsushi Fujimoto, Kosuke Fukudome, Hirotoshi Ishii, Hisashi Iwakuma, Hitoki Iwase, Kenji Jojima, Takuya Kimura, Masahide Kobayashi, Hiroki Kuroda, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Daisuke Miura, Shinya Miyamoto, Arihito Muramatsu, Norihiro Nakamuru, Michihiro Ogasawara, Naoyuki Shimizu, Yoshinobu Takahashi, Yoshitomo Tani, Tomochika Tsuboi, Koji Uehara, Kazuhiro Wada, Tsuyoshi Wada
Manager: Kiyoshi Nakahata
Coaches: Yutaka Ono, Yutaka Takagi

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Basketball

Women's: 10th place

Preliminary round: 1-4
Classification (9/10): lost to China, 83-62

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Boxing

Japan sent one boxer to the 2004 Olympics. He was defeated in his first match.

Light Flyweight (48kg)

Toshiyuki Igarashi
1. Round of 32 - Lost to Endalkachew Kebede of Ethiopia, 26-21

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Canoeing

Women's K1 500 metres:

Miyuki Shirata - semifinal, 19th place

Women's K2 500 metres:

Shinobu Kitamoto and Yumiko Suzuki - semifinal, 14th place

Women's K4 500 metres:

Shinobu Kitamoto, Yumiko Suzuki, Mikiko Takeya, and Miho Adachi - final, 9th place

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Cycling

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Road cycling

Men's road race:

Yasutaka Tashiro - 57th place, 5:50:35
Shinri Suzuki - did not finish

Women's road race:

Miho Oki - 20th place, 3:25:42
Miyoko Karami - 41st place, 3:30:30

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Track cycling

Nagatsuka withdrew from the individual sprint after placing 14th in the qualifying round, which had qualified him for further competition.

Men's individual sprint:

Tomohiro Nagatsuka - withdrew, no rank

Men's team sprint:

Toshiaki Fushimi, Masaki Inoue, and Tomohiro Nagatsuka - final, silver medal

Women's time trial:

Sayuri Osuga - 10th place, 35.045 seconds

Men's points race:

Makoto Iijima - 16th place, 13 points

Men's Keirin:

Toshiaki Fushimi - first repechage, no rank

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Mountain biking

Men's cross country:

Kenji Takeya - 38th place, -1 lap

Women's cross country:

Yukari Nakagome - 22nd place, -1 lap

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Diving

Men's 3 metre springboard:

Ken Terauchi - Prelim: 456.15, Semifinal: 245.64, Final: 444.36 (8th place)

Women's 10 metre platform:

Takiri Miyazaki - final, 11th place

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Equestrian

Individual jumping:

Taizo Sugitani riding Lamalushi - final round B, 16th place
Yuka Watanabe riding Nike - final round A, 39th place
Tadayoshi Hayashi riding Swanky - qualifier, 64th place
Ryuichi Obata riding Oliver Q - qualifier, 74th place

Team jumping:

Hayashi, Obata, Sugitani, and Watanabe - first round, 13th place

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Football (Soccer)

Men's: 13th place

Preliminary round: 1-0-2
Quarterfinal: did not qualify

Women's: 7th place

Preliminary round: 1-0-1
Quarterfinal: lost to United States, 2-1

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Gymnastics

Men's artistic: gold medal team

Hiroyuki Tomita - advanced in four exercises
- Parallel bars - silver medal
- Rings - 4th place
- All-around - 6th place
- Pommel horse - 8th place
Isao Yoneda - advanced in three exercises
- Horizontal bar - bronze medal
- Floor - 7th place
- All-around - 11th place
Takehiro Kashima - advanced in one exercise
- Pommel horse - bronze medal
Daisuke Nakano - advanced in three exercises
- Parallel bars - 5th place
- Floor - 6th place
- Horizontal bar - 9th place
Hisashi Mizutori - did not advance in any exercise
Naoya Tsukahara - did not advance in any exercise

Women's artistic:

Manami Ishizaka - did not advance in any exercise
Kyoko Oshima - did not advance in any exercise

Women's rhythmic:

Individual
- Yukari Murata - 18th place

Women's trampoline:

Haruka Hirota - 7th place

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Hockey

Women's: 8th place

Preliminary round: 2-0-2
Classification (5-8): lost to Australia, 3-1
Classification (7/8): lost to Korea, 3-1

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Judo

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Men

Tadahiro Nomura - Men's -60 kg, gold medal
Masato Uchishiba - Men's 60-66 kg, gold medal
Masahiro Takamatsu - Men's 66-73 kg, defeated in 2nd round
Masahiko Tomouchi - Men's 73-81 kg, defeated in 1st round
Hiroshi Izumi - Men's 81-90 kg, silver medal
Kosei Inoue - Men's 90-100 kg, defeated in 4th round
Keiji Suzuki - Men's +100 kg, gold medal

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Women

Ryoko Tani - Women's -48 kg, gold medal
Yuki Yokosawa - Women's 48-52 kg, silver medal
Kie Kusakabe - Women's 52-57 kg, defeated in 3rd round
Ayumi Tanimoto - Women's 57-63 kg, gold medal
Masae Ueno - Women's 63-70 kg, gold medal
Noriko Anno - Women's 70-78 kg, gold medal
Maki Tsukada - Women's +78 kg, gold medal

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Sailing

Men's mistral:

Motokazu Kenjo - 170.0 pts, 19th place

Women's mistral:

Masako Imai - 135.0 pts, 17th place

Men's 470:

Kazuto Seki & Kenjiro Todoroki - 90 pts, bronze medal

Women's 470:

Yuka Yoshisako & Mitsuko Satake - 101 pts, 11th place

Women's Europe:

Maiko Sato - 192pts, 24th place

Laser mixed:

Kunio Suzuki - 281pts, 35th place

49er mixed:

Kenji Nakamura & Masato Takaki - 146pts, 15th place

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Softball

Women's: bronze medal

Preliminary round: 4-3 (3rd place)
Semifinal: defeated China, 1-0
Bronze medal game: lost to Australia, 3-0

In the final game of the preliminary round, Yukiko Ueno of Japan pitched the first perfect game in Olympic softball history as Japan defeated China 2-0. Two days later, Japan again defeated China in the 3rd/4th semifinal to guarantee a medal. Their loss in the bronze medal game left them with the bronze.

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Swimming

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Men

Kosuke Kitajima
- 100 m Breaststroke, gold medal
- 200 m Breaststroke, gold medal
Takashi Yamamoto - 200 m Butterfly, silver medal
Tomomi Morita - 100 m Backstroke, bronze medal
Japanese men's swimming team won the bronze medal in 4 x 100 m medley relay
- Swimmers: Tomomi Morita (Backstroke), Kosuke Kitajima (Breaststroke), Takashi Yamamoto (Butterfly), Yukihiro Okumura (Freestyle)

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Women

Ai Shibata - 800 m Freestyle, gold medal
Reiko Nakamura - 200 m Backstroke, bronze medal
Yuko Nakanishi - 200 m Butterfly, bronze medal

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Triathlon

Japan's triathletes at the second Olympic triathlon included veterans Kiyomi Niwata and Hiroyuki Nishiuchi. The best result, a record high for the Japanese team, came from Akiko Sekine at twelfth place in the women's competition.

Women's: