Japan at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Archery

Individual, Recurve, Men Ryuichi Moriya =6
Takaharu Furukawa =33
Individual, Recurve, Women Nami Hayakawa 6
Sayoko Kitabatake 29
Yuki Hayashi =45
Team, Recurve, Women Japan 8
Nami Hayakawa • Yuki Hayashi • Sayoko Kitabatake

Artistic Gymnastics

All-Around, Individual, Men Kohei Uchimura 2 Silver
Hiroyuki Tomita 4
Koki Sakamoto 6 r1/2
Takuya Nakase 48 r1/2
Takehiro Kashima 61 r1/2
Makoto Okiguchi 86 r1/2
Team, Men Japan 2 Silver
Hiroyuki Tomita • Takehiro Kashima • Koki Sakamoto • Makoto Okiguchi • Kohei Uchimura • Takuya Nakase
Floor Exercise, Men Kohei Uchimura 5
Takuya Nakase 12 r1/2
Makoto Okiguchi 20 r1/2
Hiroyuki Tomita 23 r1/2
Koki Sakamoto 34 r1/2
Parallel Bars, Men Kohei Uchimura 10 r1/2
Hiroyuki Tomita 15 r1/2
Takuya Nakase 16 r1/2
Koki Sakamoto 18 r1/2
Takehiro Kashima 21 r1/2
Horizontal Bar, Men Takuya Nakase 5
Hiroyuki Tomita 6
Kohei Uchimura 15 r1/2
Takehiro Kashima 17 r1/2
Koki Sakamoto 33 r1/2
Rings, Men Koki Sakamoto 13 r1/2
Takuya Nakase 20 r1/2
Hiroyuki Tomita 32 r1/2
Kohei Uchimura 43 r1/2
Pommel Horse, Men Hiroyuki Tomita 5
Koki Sakamoto 14 r1/2
Takehiro Kashima 33 r1/2
Kohei Uchimura 42 r1/2
Takuya Nakase 43 r1/2
All-Around, Individual, Women Koko Tsurumi 17
Kyoko Oshima 20
Miki Uemura 50 r1/2
Yuko Shintake 67 r1/2
Yu Minobe 76 r1/2
Mayu Kuroda 84 r1/2
Team, Women Japan 5
Koko Tsurumi • Kyoko Oshima • Yu Minobe • Miki Uemura • Mayu Kuroda • Yuko Shintake
Floor Exercise, Women Koko Tsurumi 34 r1/2
Yuko Shintake 41 r1/2
Kyoko Oshima 42 r1/2
Yu Minobe 59 r1/2
Miki Uemura 76 r1/2
Uneven Bars, Women Koko Tsurumi 16 r1/2
Mayu Kuroda 27 r1/2
Yu Minobe 36 r1/2
Kyoko Oshima 41 r1/2
Miki Uemura 75 r1/2
Balance Beam, Women Koko Tsurumi 8
Yuko Shintake 23 r1/2
Mayu Kuroda 28 r1/2
Miki Uemura 38 r1/2
Kyoko Oshima 47 r1/2

Artistic Swimming

Team, Open Japan 6
Ai Aoki • Saho Harada • Naoko Kawashima • Hiromi Kobayashi • Erika Komura • Ayako Matsumura • Emiko Suzuki • Masako Tachibana • Yumiko Ishiguro
Duet, Women Japan 3 Bronze
Saho Harada • Emiko Suzuki

Athletics

100 metres, Men Naoki Tsukahara 7 h2 r3/4
Nobuharu Asahara 8 h3 r2/4
200 metres, Men Shinji Takahira 7 h2 r2/4
Shingo Suetsugu 6 h7 r1/4
400 metres, Men Yuzo Kanemaru 7 h4 r1/3
5,000 metres, Men Kensuke Takezawa 7 h3 r1/2
Takayuki Matsumiya 13 h1 r1/2
10,000 metres, Men Kensuke Takezawa 28
Takayuki Matsumiya 31
Marathon, Men Tsuyoshi Ogata 13
Atsushi Sato 76
Satoshi Osaki DNS
110 metres Hurdles, Men Masato Naito 7 h4 r1/4
400 metres Hurdles, Men Dai Tamesue 4 h4 r1/3
Kenji Narisako 5 h1 r1/3
Steeplechase, Men Yoshitaka Iwamizu 9 h1 r1/2
4 × 100 metres Relay, Men Japan 2 Silver
Naoki Tsukahara • Shingo Suetsugu • Shinji Takahira • Nobuharu Asahara • Hitoshi Saito (DNS)
4 × 400 metres Relay, Men Japan 6 h2 r1/2
Mitsuhiro Abiko • Dai Tamesue • Yoshihiro Horigome • Kenji Narisako • Hitoshi Saito (DNS)
20 kilometres Race Walk, Men Yuki Yamazaki 11
Koichiro Morioka 16
Takayuki Tanii DQ
50 kilometres Race Walk, Men Yuki Yamazaki 7
Takayuki Tanii 29
High Jump, Men Naoyuki Daigo 36 r1/2
Pole Vault, Men Daichi Sawano =15 r1/2
Hammer Throw, Men Koji Murofushi 5
Javelin Throw, Men Yukifumi Murakami 15 QR
100 metres, Women Chisato Fukushima 5 h5 r1/4
400 metres, Women Asami Tanno 4 h5 r1/3
5,000 metres, Women Yuriko Kobayashi 7 h1 r1/2
Kayoko Fukushi 9 h2 r1/2
Yukiko Akaba 11 h2 r1/2
10,000 metres, Women Kayoko Fukushi 9
Yoko Shibui 15
Yukiko Akaba 18
Marathon, Women Yurika Nakamura 13
Reiko Tosa DNF
400 metres Hurdles, Women Satomi Kubokura 7 h1 r2/3
Steeplechase (3,000 metres), Women Minori Hayakari 16 h1 r1/2
4 × 400 metres Relay, Women Japan 7 h1 r1/2
Satomi Kubokura • Asami Tanno • Mayu Kida • Sayaka Aoki
20 kilometres Race Walk, Women Mayumi Kawasaki 13
Sachiko Konishi 25
Long Jump, Women Kumiko Ikeda 17 r1/2

Badminton

Singles, Men Shoji Sato =9
Doubles, Men Japan 1 =5
Keita Masuda • Tadashi Ohtsuka
Japan 2 =9
Shintaro Ikeda • Shuichi Sakamoto
Singles, Women Eriko Hirose =9
Doubles, Women Japan 1 4
Miyuki Maeda • Satoko Suetsuna
Japan 2 =5
Kumiko Ogura • Reiko Shiota

Baseball

Baseball, Men Japan 4
Shinnosuke Abe • Norichika Aoki • Takahiro Arai • Masahiro Araki • Yu Darvish • Kyuji Fujikawa • Atsunori Inaba • Hitoki Iwase • Kenshin Kawakami • Munenori Kawasaki • Shinya Miyamoto • Masahiko Morino • Shuichi Murata • Hiroyuki Nakajima • Yoshihisa Naruse • Tsuyoshi Nishioka • Takahiko Sato • Tomoya Satozaki • Toshiya Sugiuchi • Masahiro Tanaka • Koji Uehara • Tsuyoshi Wada • Hideaki Wakui • Akihiro Yano

Beach Volleyball

Beach Volleyball, Men Japan =9
Kentaro Asahi • Katsuhiro Shiratori
Beach Volleyball, Women Japan =19
Mika Saiki • Chiaki Kusuhara

Boxing

Featherweight, Men Satoshi Shimizu =9
Light-Welterweight, Men Masatsugu Kawachi =9

Canoe Slalom

Kayak Singles (K1), Slalom, Men Kazuki Yazawa 18
Canoe Singles (C1), Slalom, Men Takuya Haneda 14
Canoe Doubles (C2), Slalom, Men Japan 9
Masatoshi Sanma • Hiroyuki Nagao
Kayak Singles (K1), Slalom, Women Yurika Takeshita 4

Canoe Sprint

Kayak Singles (K1), 500 metres, Women Shinobu Kitamoto 9 h2 r2/3
Kayak Doubles (K2), 500 metres, Women Japan 5
Shinobu Kitamoto • Mikiko Takeya
Kayak Fours (K4), 500 metres, Women Japan 6
Shinobu Kitamoto • Ayaka Kuno • Mikiko Takeya • Yumiko Suzuki

Cycling BMX Racing

BMX, Men Akifumi Sakamoto 7 h1 r1/3

Cycling Mountain Bike

Cross-Country, Men Kohei Yamamoto 46
Cross-Country, Women Rie Katayama 20

Cycling Road

Road Race, Men Takashi Miyazawa 85
Fumiyuki Beppu DNF
Time Trial, Individual, Men Fumiyuki Beppu 38
Road Race, Women Miho Oki 31

Cycling Track

Sprint, Men Kazunari Watanabe 12
Tsubasa Kitatsuru 14
Keirin, Men Kiyofumi Nagai 3 Bronze
Toshiaki Fushimi =21
Team Sprint, Men Japan 6
Kiyofumi Nagai • Tomohiro Nagatsuka • Kazunari Watanabe
Points Race, Men Makoto Iijima 8
Sprint, Women Sakie Tsukuda 12
Points Race, Women Satomi Wadami DNF

Diving

Springboard, Men Ken Terauchi 11
Platform, Women Mai Nakagawa 11

Equestrian Dressage

Individual, Open Hiroshi Hoketsu =34
Mieko Yagi 41
Yuko Kitai 44
Team, Open Japan 9
Yuko Kitai • Mieko Yagi • Hiroshi Hoketsu

Equestrian Eventing

Individual, Open Yoshiaki Oiwa 49

Equestrian Jumping

Individual, Open Taizo Sugitani =28
Eiken Sato AC r1/2

Fencing

Foil, Individual, Men Yuki Ota 2 Silver
Kenta Chida 11
Épée, Individual, Men Shogo Nishida 35
Sabre, Individual, Men Satoshi Ogawa 36
Foil, Individual, Women Chieko Sugawara 7
Épée, Individual, Women Megumi Harada 15
Sabre, Individual, Women Madoka Hisagae 27

Football

Football, Men Japan 15
Takuya Honda • Keisuke Honda • Hajime Hosogai • Shinji Kagawa • Yohei Kajiyama • Tadanari Ri • Hiroki Mizumoto • Takayuki Morimoto • Masato Morishige • Yuto Nagatomo • Shusaku Nishikawa • Shinji Okazaki • Hiroyuki Taniguchi • Yohei Toyoda • Atsuto Uchida • Michihiro Yasuda • Maya Yoshida • Kaito Yamamoto (DNS)
Football, Women Japan 4
Kozue Ando • Eriko Arakawa • Miho Fukumoto • Ayumi Hara • Hiromi Ikeda • Azusa Iwashimizu • Tomoe Kato • Yukari Kinga • Karina Maruyama • Aya Miyama • Yuki Nagasato • Shinobu Ohno • Mizuho Sakaguchi • Homare Sawa • Rumi Utsugi • Miyuki Yanagita • Kyoko Yano • Ayumi Kaihori (DNS)

Hockey

Hockey, Women Japan 10
Kaori Chiba • Sachimi Iwao • Akemi Kato • Chie Kimura • Rika Komazawa • Tomomi Komori • Keiko Miura • Sakae Morimoto • Miyuki Nakagawa • Ikuko Okamura • Mayumi Ono • Misaki Ozawa • Toshie Tsukui • Yukari Yamamoto • Chinami Kozakura (DNS) • Yuka Yoshikawa (DNS) • Hikari Suwa (DNS) • Nichika Urata (DNS)

Judo

Extra-Lightweight, Men Hiroaki Hiraoka =21
Half-Lightweight, Men Masato Uchishiba 1 Gold
Lightweight, Men Yusuke Kanamaru =7
Half-Middleweight, Men Takashi Ono =21
Middleweight, Men Hiroshi Izumi =15
Half-Heavyweight, Men Keiji Suzuki =13
Heavyweight, Men Satoshi Ishii 1 Gold
Extra-Lightweight, Women Ryoko Tani =3 Bronze
Half-Lightweight, Women Misato Nakamura =3 Bronze
Lightweight, Women Aiko Sato =7
Half-Middleweight, Women Ayumi Tanimoto 1 Gold
Middleweight, Women Masae Ueno 1 Gold
Half-Heavyweight, Women Sae Nakazawa =16
Heavyweight, Women Maki Tsukada 2 Silver

Modern Pentathlon

Individual, Men Yoshihiro Murakami 31

Rhythmic Gymnastics

Group, Women Japan 10 r1/2
Yuko Endo • Chihana Hara • Saori Inagaki • Nachi Misawa • Kotono Tanaka • Honami Tsuboi

Rowing

Lightweight Double Sculls, Men Japan 13
Kazushige Ura • Daisaku Takeda
Lightweight Double Sculls, Women Japan 9
Misaki Kumakura • Akiko Iwamoto

Sailing

Windsurfer, Men Makoto Tomizawa 10
One-Person Dinghy, Men Yoichi Iijima 35
Skiff, Men Japan 12
Akira Ishibashi • Yukio Makino
Two-Person Dinghy, Open Japan 7
Tetsuya Matsunaga • Taro Ueno
Windsurfer, Women Yasuko Kosuge 13
Two-Person Dinghy, Women Japan 14
Ai Kondo • Naoko Kamata

Shooting

Air Pistol, Men Tomoyuki Matsuda 18
Susumu Kobayashi 22
Free Pistol, Men Tomoyuki Matsuda 8
Susumu Kobayashi 9
Air Rifle, Men Toshikazu Yamashita 28
Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, Men Toshikazu Yamashita 16
Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, Men Toshikazu Yamashita 18
Air Pistol, Women Michiko Fukushima 38
Sporting Pistol, Women Michiko Fukushima 10
Trap, Women Yukie Nakayama 4

Softball

Softball, Women Japan 1 Gold
Naho Emoto • Motoko Fujimoto • Megu Hirose • Emi Inui • Sachiko Ito • Ayumi Karino • Satoko Mabuchi • Yukiyo Mine • Masumi Mishina • Rei Nishiyama • Hiroko Sakai • Rie Sato • Mika Someya • Yukiko Ueno • Eri Yamada

Swimming

100 metres Freestyle, Men Hisayoshi Sato 40
200 metres Freestyle, Men Yoshihiro Okumura 7
Sho Uchida 24
400 metres Freestyle, Men Takeshi Matsuda 10
1,500 metres Freestyle, Men Takeshi Matsuda 18
4 × 100 metres Freestyle Relay, Men Japan 14
Takuro Fujii • Hisayoshi Sato • Masayuki Kishida • Yoshihiro Okumura
4 × 200 metres Freestyle Relay, Men Japan 7
Yoshihiro Okumura • Sho Uchida • Yasunori Mononobe • Hisato Matsumoto
100 metres Backstroke, Men Junichi Miyashita 8
Tomomi Morita 10
200 metres Backstroke, Men Ryosuke Irie 5
Takashi Nakano 21
100 metres Breaststroke, Men Kosuke Kitajima 1 Gold
Yuta Suenaga 13
200 metres Breaststroke, Men Kosuke Kitajima 1 Gold
Yuta Suenaga =17
100 metres Butterfly, Men Takuro Fujii 6
Masayuki Kishida 26
200 metres Butterfly, Men Takeshi Matsuda 3 Bronze
Ryuichi Shibata 13
200 metres Individual Medley, Men Ken Takakuwa 5
Takuro Fujii 10
4 × 100 metres Medley Relay, Men Japan 3 Bronze
Junichi Miyashita • Kosuke Kitajima • Takuro Fujii • Hisayoshi Sato
200 metres Freestyle, Women Haruka Ueda 13
Maki Mita 21
400 metres Freestyle, Women Ai Shibata 31
800 metres Freestyle, Women Maiko Fujino 21
Ai Shibata 27
4 × 100 metres Freestyle Relay, Women Japan 9
Haruka Ueda • Misaki Yamaguchi • Asami Kitagawa • Maki Mita
100 metres Backstroke, Women Reiko Nakamura 6
Hanae Ito 8
4 × 200 metres Freestyle Relay, Women Japan 7
Haruka Ueda • Misaki Yamaguchi • Maki Mita • Emi Takanabe
200 metres Backstroke, Women Reiko Nakamura 3 Bronze
Hanae Ito 12
100 metres Breaststroke, Women Asami Kitagawa 8
Megumi Taneda 17
200 metres Breaststroke, Women Rie Kaneto 7
Megumi Taneda 8
100 metres Butterfly, Women Yuko Nakanishi =18
Yuka Kato 23
200 metres Butterfly, Women Yuko Nakanishi 5
Natsumi Hoshi 10
200 metres Individual Medley, Women Asami Kitagawa 6
400 metres Individual Medley, Women Maiko Fujino 11
Saori Haruguchi 27
4 × 100 metres Medley Relay, Women Japan 6
Reiko Nakamura • Asami Kitagawa • Yuka Kato • Haruka Ueda • Hanae Ito

Table Tennis

Singles, Men Yo Kan =9
Jun Mizutani =17
Seiya Kishikawa =33
Team, Men Japan =5
Yo Kan • Seiya Kishikawa • Jun Mizutani
Singles, Women Ai Fukuhara =9
Haruna Fukuoka =17
Sayaka Hirano =17
Team, Women Japan 4
Ai Fukuhara • Haruna Fukuoka • Sayaka Hirano

Taekwondo

Welterweight, Women Yoriko Okamoto =11

Tennis

Singles, Men Kei Nishikori =33
Doubles, Women Japan =9
Ayumi Morita • Ai Sugiyama
Singles, Women Ayumi Morita =17
Ai Sugiyama =33

Trampolining

Individual, Men Tetsuya Sotomura 4
Yasuhiro Ueyama 9 r1/2
Individual, Women Haruka Hirota 12 r1/2

Triathlon

Olympic Distance, Men Ryosuke Yamamoto 30
Hirokatsu Tayama 48
Olympic Distance, Women Juri Ide 5
Kiyomi Niwata 9
Ai Ueda 17

Volleyball

Volleyball, Men Japan =11
Kota Yamamura • Takahiro Yamamoto • Daisuke Usami • Katsutoshi Tsumagari • Kosuke Tomonaga • Kunihiro Shimizu • Nobuharu Saito • Masaji Ogino • Yoshihiko Matsumoto • Yu Koshikawa • Yusuke Ishijima • Tatsuya Fukuzawa
Volleyball, Women Japan =5
Yoshie Takeshita • Miyuki Takahashi • Asako Tajimi • Sachiko Sugiyama • Yuko Sano • Yuka Sakurai • Kanako Omura • Megumi Kurihara • Saori Kimura • Yuki Kawai • Miyuki Kano • Erika Araki

Weightlifting

Bantamweight, Men Masaharu Yamada 9
Yasunobi Sekikawa 11
Lightweight, Men Yoshito Shintani 8
Flyweight, Women Hiromi Miyake 4
Misaki Oshiro 6
Light-Heavyweight, Women Rika Saito 6

Wrestling

Lightweight, Greco-Roman, Men Makoto Sasamoto 9
Light-Heavyweight, Greco-Roman, Men Shingo Matsumoto 15
Heavyweight, Greco-Roman, Men Kenzo Kato =18
Featherweight, Freestyle, Men Tomohiro Matsunaga 2 Silver
Lightweight, Freestyle, Men Kenichi Yumoto 2 Silver
Welterweight, Freestyle, Men Kazuhiko Ikematsu 13
Flyweight, Freestyle, Women Chiharu Icho 2 Silver
Lightweight, Freestyle, Women Saori Yoshida 1 Gold
Middleweight, Freestyle, Women Kaori Icho 1 Gold
Heavyweight, Freestyle, Women Kyoko Hamaguchi =3 Bronze

Wushu

Changquan, Men Daisuke Ichikizaki 4
Nanquan & Nangun, Men Koki Nakata 4
Taijiquan & Taijijian, Men Yoshihiro Shimoda 3
Sanshou (≤70 kilograms), Men Kazuari Sasazawa =5
Nanquan & Nandao, Women Erika Kojima 2
Taijiquan & Taijijian, Women Ai Miyaoka 3