Japan competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, from February 8 to February 23, 1992. As many as 63 athletes competed accompanied by 42 officers. Japanese athletes compete in all disciplines except ice hockey.
Japan at the 1992 Winter Olympics | |
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IOC code | JPN |
NOC | Japanese Olympic Committee |
Website | www |
in Albertville, France 8–23 February 1992 | |
Competitors | 60 in 11 sports |
Flag bearer | Tsutomu Kawasaki |
Medals Ranked 11th |
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Winter Olympics appearances (overview) | |
The flag bearer is short track speed skater Tsutomu Kawasaki at the opening and closing ceremony, while the captain of the delegation is cross-country skier Kazunari Sasaki.
The Nordic combined team consisting of Kenji Ogiwara, Takanori Kono and Reiichi Mikata won gold which became Japan's first medal in Nordic combined and also the first gold after four previous Winter Olympics editions without gold. The last gold which was also Japan's first gold at the Winter Olympics was won by Yukio Kasaya at their home, Sapporo 1972. Midori Ito also won Japan's first medal in figure skating.
Medalists
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Competitors
editThe following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.[1]
Sport | Men | Women | Total |
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Alpine skiing | 4 | 2 | 6 |
Biathlon | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Bobsleigh | 4 | – | 4 |
Cross-country skiing | 2 | 4 | 6 |
Figure skating | 3 | 3 | 6 |
Freestyle skiing | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Luge | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Nordic combined | 4 | – | 4 |
Short track speed skating | 4 | 4 | 8 |
Ski jumping | 4 | – | 4 |
Speed skating | 9 | 6 | 15 |
Total | 40 | 20 | 60 |
Alpine skiing
edit- Men
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |
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Time | Time | Time | Rank | ||
Tsuyoshi Tomii | Downhill | 1:54.23 | 25 | ||
Tsuyoshi Tomii | Super-G | DNF | – | ||
Takuya Ishioka | 1:17.81 | 41 | |||
Kiminobu Kimura | 1:17.06 | 33 | |||
Tsuyoshi Tomii | Giant slalom | 1:13.36 | DNF | DNF | – |
Takuya Ishioka | 1:09.28 | 1:06.64 | 2:15.92 | 29 | |
Kiminobu Kimura | 1:07.20 | 1:04.90 | 2:12.10 | 21 | |
Takuya Ishioka | Slalom | DNF | – | DNF | – |
Kiminobu Kimura | DNF | – | DNF | – | |
Tetsuya Okabe | 54.99 | 54.49 | 1:49.48 | 18 |
Men's combined
Athlete | Downhill | Slalom | Total | ||
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Time | Time 1 | Time 2 | Points | Rank | |
Kiminobu Kimura | 1:50.98 | 49.47 | 52.08 | 64.14 | 15 |
Takuya Ishioka | 1:49.29 | 49.48 | 52.94 | 51.83 | 9 |
- Women
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |
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Time | Time | Time | Rank | ||
Sachiko Yamamoto | Downhill | 1:58.52 | 26 | ||
Emi Kawabata | 1:54.52 | 11 | |||
Sachiko Yamamoto | Super-G | 1:27.54 | 33 | ||
Emi Kawabata | 1:27.31 | 31 | |||
Emi Kawabata | Giant slalom | 1:10.44 | DSQ | DSQ | – |
Sachiko Yamamoto | Slalom | DNF | – | DNF | – |
Women's combined
Athlete | Downhill | Slalom | Total | ||
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Time | Time 1 | Time 2 | Points | Rank | |
Sachiko Yamamoto | 1:30.70 | 36.56 | DNF | DNF | – |
Emi Kawabata | 1:27.13 | 37.56 | 37.81 | 66.10 | 13 |
Biathlon
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Event | Athlete | Misses 1 | Time | Rank |
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10 km Sprint | Atsushi Kazama | 6 | 30:34.7 | 78 |
Misao Kodate | 3 | 28:07.0 | 36 |
Event | Athlete | Time | Misses | Adjusted time 2 | Rank |
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20 km | Atsushi Kazama | 58:32.8 | 6 | 1'04:32.8 | 63 |
Misao Kodate | 58:53.1 | 2 | 1'00:53.1 | 28 |
- Women
Event | Athlete | Misses 1 | Time | Rank |
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7.5 km Sprint | Yoshiko Honda-Mikami | 2 | 26:57.3 | 22 |
Event | Athlete | Time | Misses | Adjusted time 2 | Rank |
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15 km | Yoshiko Honda-Mikami | 54:55.8 | 3 | 57:55.8 | 35 |
- 1 A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
- 2 One minute added per missed target.
Bobsleigh
editSled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
JPN-1 | Naomi Takewaki Fuminori Tsushima |
Two-man | 1:01.74 | 26 | 1:01.99 | 22 | 1:01.77 | 16 | 1:01.95 | 19 | 4:07.45 | 21 |
JPN-2 | Toshio Wakita Ryoji Yamazaki |
Two-man | 1:01.22 | 19 | 1:01.65 | 18 | 1:02.03 | 19 | 1:01.96 | 20 | 4:06.86 | 19 |
Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
JPN-1 | Toshio Wakita Ryoji Yamazaki Fuminori Tsushima Naomi Takewaki |
Four-man | 59.23 | 21 | 59.30 | 18 | 59.33 | 17 | 59.38 | 17 | 3:57.24 | 17 |
Cross-country skiing
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Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
10 km C |
Kazunari Sasaki | 31:31.4 | 46 |
Hiroyuki Imai | 30:17.3 | 27 | |
15 km pursuit1 F |
Kazunari Sasaki | 43:08.6 | 35 |
Hiroyuki Imai | 42:32.8 | 29 | |
30 km C |
Kazunari Sasaki | 1'30:35.9 | 40 |
Hiroyuki Imai | 1'29:35.6 | 32 | |
50 km F |
Kazunari Sasaki | 2'17:20.1 | 40 |
Hiroyuki Imai | 2'13:33.0 | 25 |
- 1 Starting delay based on 10 km results.
- C = Classical style, F = Freestyle
- Women
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
5 km C |
Yumi Inomata | 16:49.4 | 54 |
Naomi Hoshikawa | 16:13.2 | 48 | |
Miwa Ota | 16:03.1 | 43 | |
Fumiko Aoki | 15:33.0 | 30 | |
10 km pursuit2 F |
Yumi Inomata | 31:58.6 | 47 |
Miwa Ota | 31:17.3 | 43 | |
Naomi Hoshikawa | 30:10.8 | 34 | |
Fumiko Aoki | 28:44.4 | 19 | |
15 km C |
Miwa Ota | DNF | – |
Naomi Hoshikawa | 49:46.2 | 42 | |
Fumiko Aoki | 48:30.2 | 37 | |
30 km F |
Fumiko Aoki | 1'36:21.9 | 44 |
Naomi Hoshikawa | 1'35:29.4 | 42 | |
Miwa Ota | 1'35:19.4 | 41 |
- 2 Starting delay based on 5 km results.
- C = Classical style, F = Freestyle
- Women's 4 × 5 km relay
Athletes | Race | |
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Time | Rank | |
Miwa Ota Fumiko Aoki Naomi Hoshikawa Yumi Inomata |
1'04:09.3 | 12 |
Figure skating
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Athlete | SP | FS | TFP | Rank |
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Mitsuhiro Murata | 22 | 23 | 34.0 | 23 |
Masakazu Kagiyama | 11 | 15 | 20.5 | 13 |
- Women
Athlete | SP | FS | TFP | Rank |
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Yuka Sato | 7 | 7 | 10.5 | 7 |
Midori Ito | 4 | 2 | 4.0 |
- Pairs
Athletes | SP | FS | TFP | Rank |
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Rena Inoue Tomoaki Koyama |
14 | 14 | 21.0 | 14 |
Freestyle skiing
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Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||||
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Time | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | ||
Osamu Yamazaki | Moguls | 35.31 | 14.49 | 40 | did not advance |
Luge
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Athlete | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Kazuhiko Takamatsu | 46.283 | 20 | 46.065 | 17 | 46.838 | 18 | 46.614 | 17 | 3:05.800 | 17 |
(Men's) Doubles
Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Atsushi Sasaki Yuji Sasaki |
47.776 | 19 | 47.566 | 18 | 1:35.342 | 18 |
Nordic combined
editMen's individual
Events:
- normal hill ski jumping (Best two out of three jumps)
- 15 km cross-country skiing (start delay, based on ski jumping results)
Athlete | Event | Ski jumping | Cross-country | Total | |||
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Points | Rank | Start at | Time | Rank | |||
Takanori Kono | Individual | 197.4 | 25 | +3:27.4 | 48:46.3 | 19 | |
Masashi Abe | 197.9 | 24 | +3:24.0 | 51:08.5 | 30 | ||
Kenji Ogiwara | 215.3 | 6 | +1:28.0 | 46:25.5 | 7 | ||
Reiichi Mikata | 226.1 | 2 | +16.0 | 52:09.1 | 34 |
Men's team
Three participants per team.
Events:
- normal hill ski jumping (Best two out of three jumps per team member were counted.)
- 10 km cross-country skiing (start delay, based on ski jumping results)
Athletes | Ski jumping | Cross-country | Total | ||
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Points | Rank | Start at | Time | Rank | |
Reiichi Mikata Takanori Kono Kenji Ogiwara |
645.1 | 1 | +0.0 | 1'23:36.5 |
Short track speed skating
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Athlete | Event | Round one | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Final rank | ||
Tsutomu Kawasaki | 1000 m | 1:38.75 | 2 Q | 1:35.66 | 4 | did not advance | |||
Toshinobu Kawai | 1:42.28 | 3 | did not advance | ||||||
Tatsuyoshi Ishihara | 1:34.11 | 2 Q | 1:34.86 | 4 | did not advance | ||||
Yuichi Akasaka Tatsuyoshi Ishihara Toshinobu Kawai Tsutomu Kawasaki |
5000 m relay | 7:22.43 | 2 Q | 7:22.84 | 1 QA | 7:18.18 |
- Women
Athlete | Event | Round one | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Final rank | ||
Nobuko Yamada | 500 m | 48.79 | 1 Q | 57.69 | 3 | did not advance | |||
Mie Naito Rie Sato Hiromi Takeuchi Nobuko Yamada |
3000 m relay | 4:37.08 | 1 Q | 4:44.50 | 4 |
Ski jumping
editAthlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | |||
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Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank | ||
Noriaki Kasai | Normal hill | 77.5 | 89.0 | 83.5 | 98.1 | 187.1 | 31 |
Kenji Suda | 80.0 | 93.5 | 79.5 | 91.2 | 184.7 | 39 | |
Jiro Kamiharako | 80.0 | 94.0 | 80.5 | 94.8 | 188.8 | 28 | |
Masahiko Harada | 83.5 | 98.6 | 84.0 | 102.4 | 201.0 | 14 | |
Jiro Kamiharako | Large hill | 100.0 | 79.5 | 97.5 | 76.0 | 155.5 | 25 |
Noriaki Kasai | 101.5 | 82.1 | 84.5 | 72.3 | 154.4 | 26 | |
Kenji Suda | 106.5 | 91.1 | 97.5 | 77.0 | 168.1 | 17 | |
Masahiko Harada | 113.5 | 102.4 | 116.0 | 108.9 | 211.3 | 4 |
- Men's team large hill
Athletes | Result | |
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Points 1 | Rank | |
Masahiko Harada Kenji Suda Jiro Kamiharako Noriaki Kasai |
571.0 | 4 |
- 1 Four teams members performed two jumps each. The best three were counted.
Speed skating
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Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Yukinori Miyabe | 38.12 | 18 |
Yasunori Miyabe | 37.49 | 5 | |
Junichi Inoue | 37.26 | ||
Toshiyuki Kuroiwa | 37.18 | ||
1000 m | Yasunori Miyabe | 1:16.52 | 19 |
Yuji Fujimoto | 1:15.78 | 11 | |
Toshiyuki Kuroiwa | 1:15.56 | 9 | |
Yukinori Miyabe | 1:14.92 | ||
1500 m | Keiji Shirahata | 2:05.47 | 44 |
Kazuhiro Sato | 2:00.51 | 28 | |
Toru Aoyanagi | 1:57.36 | 12 | |
Yukinori Miyabe | 1:56.99 | 9 | |
5000 m | Keiji Shirahata | 7:24.95 | 22 |
Toshihiko Itokawa | 7:20.50 | 18 | |
Kazuhiro Sato | 7:19.69 | 17 | |
10,000 m | Keiji Shirahata | 14:47.56 | 18 |
Toshihiko Itokawa | 14:42.35 | 13 | |
Kazuhiro Sato | 14:28.30 | 5 |
- Women
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Yoko Fukazawa | 42.18 | 24 |
Noriko Toda | 41.97 | 23 | |
Seiko Hashimoto | 41.32 | 12 | |
Kyoko Shimazaki | 40.98 | 7 | |
1000 m | Yoko Fukazawa | 1:25.00 | 24 |
Noriko Toda | 1:24.96 | 23 | |
Kyoko Shimazaki | 1:24.28 | 18 | |
Seiko Hashimoto | 1:22.63 | 5 | |
1500 m | Yumi Kaeriyama | 2:10.75 | 19 |
Mie Uehara | 2:09.33 | 11 | |
Seiko Hashimoto | 2:06.88 | ||
3000 m | Mie Uehara | 4:37.54 | 17 |
Yumi Kaeriyama | 4:33.53 | 13 | |
Seiko Krohn | 4:32.12 | 12 | |
5000 m | Mie Uehara | 7:54.15 | 14 |
Yumi Kaeriyama | 7:50.77 | 12 | |
Seiko Hashimoto | 7:47.65 | 9 |