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Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Mikio Katagiri	Downhill					1:50.03	27
Sumihiro Tomii	Downhill					1:48.88	20
Haruhisa Chiba	Giant Slalom	DSQ	–	–	–	DSQ	–
Masami Ichimura		DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Mikio Katagiri		1:54.68	45	1:58.05	38	3:52.73	37
Sumihiro Tomii		1:53.92	40	1:55.81	34	3:49.73	34
Haruhisa Chiba	Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Mikio Katagiri		DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Sumihiro Tomii		1:07.69	34	1:10.98	28	2:18.67	29
Masami Ichimura		1:02.35	10	DNF	–	DNF	–

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ¹	Rank
20 km	Kazuo Sasakubo	1'21:35.31	6	1'27:35.31	41
	Manabu Suzuki	1'19:35.79	7	1'26:35.79	38
	Hiroyuki Deguchi	1'20:53.84	4	1'24:53.84	30

¹One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ²	Time	Rank
Isao Ono Hiroyuki Deguchi Manabu Suzuki Yoshiyuki Shirate	10	2'17:09.04	14

²A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.

Bobsleigh

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
JPN-1	Susumu Esashika Kazumi Abe	Two-man	58.69	24	59.07	24	59.12	24	59.18	24	3:56.06	24
JPN-2	Rikio Sato Kimihiro Shinada	Two-man	58.52	22	58.30	21	58.55	23	58.35	21	3:53.72	22

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
JPN-1	Susumu Esashika Kazumi Abe Rikio Sato Kimihiro Shinada	Four-man	56.47	18	56.97	21	57.78	19	58.19	19	3:49.41	18

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Ryoji Fujiki	49:40.48	58
15 km	Kiyoshi Hayasaka	48:46.93	50
30 km	Ryoji Fujiki	1'42:59.25	57
30 km	Kiyoshi Hayasaka	1'41:33.76	55

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km	Mikiko Terui	17:29.65	26
10 km	Mikiko Terui	33:25.81	30

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Mitsuru Matsumura Mitsuru Matsumura is a Japanese figure skater who is now a coach. He won the Japan Figure Skating Championships in 1978. He placed 18th in the 1976 Winter Olympic Games, and 8th in the 1980 Winter Olympic Games.-Competitive highlights:- See also :...	16	12	11	172.48	99	11
Minoru Sano Minoru Sano is a former Japanese figure skater. He won the Japan Figure Skating Championships from 1972 to 1976 and represented Japan in the World Figure Skating Championships from 1973 to 1977....	9	7	10	178.72	79	9

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Emi Watanabe Emi Watanabe is a Japanese figure skater of Filipino ancestry. Her father is Japanese, and mother is Filipino. She won eight consecutive Japanese championships and earned the first World Championship medal in ladies' singles for Japan in 1979...	11	12	15	171.72	118.5	13

Ice hockey

First Round

Winners (in bold) entered the Medal Round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th-12th places.
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Consolation Round

Rank	W	L	T	GA	Pts
7	5	4	1	23	15	8
8	5	3	2	18	14	6
9	5	3	2	20	18	6
10	5	3	2	22	19	6
11	5	2	3	24	22	4
12	5	0	5	19	38	0

Romania 3-1 Japan
Austria 3-2 Japan
Japan 6-4 Switzerland
Japan 4-3 Yugoslavia
Japan 7-5 Bulgaria

	Contestants Toshimitsu Otsubo Minoru Misawa Hiroshi Hori Iwao Nakayama Hitoshi Nakamura Kiyoshi Esashika Takeshi Akiba Koji Wakasa Hideo Urabe Yoshiaki Kyoya Minoru Ito Takeshi Azuma Sadaki Honma Hideo Sakurai Tsutomu Hanzawa Osamu Wakabayashi Yasushio Tanaka Yoshio Hoshino

Luge

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kazuaki Ichikawa	56.252	29	55.502	30	55.400	33	55.288	29	3:42.442	27
Hidetoshi Sato	55.699	27	55.142	26	54.906	27	55.184	27	3:40.931	24

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kazuaki Ichikawa Masaaki Oyagi	45.176	18	45.407	19	1:30.583	18

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Teruko Yamada	45.482	20	45.155	19	44.943	21	45.228	20	3:00.808	20
Mieko Ogawa	45.341	18	45.263	20	44.907	20	45.219	19	3:00.730	19

Nordic combined

Events:

normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
Athlete	Event	Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Michio Kubota	Individual	74.0	74.5	196.3	15	56:39.45	142.31	32	338.61	30
Yuji Katsuro Yuji Katsuro Yuji Katsuro was a Japanese nordic combined skier who competed in the 1970s. His best finish at the Winter Olympics was fifth in the Nordic combined event at Sapporo in 1972.-External links:...	Individual	75.0	76.0	209.8	5	54:15.75	163.87	29	373.67	21

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Koji Kakuta	Normal hill	74.5	104.5	76.0	105.9	210.4	29
Takao Ito		75.0	106.8	75.5	107.1	213.9	24
Hiroshi Itagaki		76.0	109.4	76.5	111.7	221.1	20
Yukio Kasaya Yukio Kasaya Yukio Kasaya is a former Japanese ski jumper. He was one of the most successful ski jumpers of the late 1960s and the early 1970s. At the 1970 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships at Vysoké Tatry, Czechoslovakia, he finished 2nd in the individual normal hill behind Gariy Napalkov...		78.0	114.1	76.0	109.9	224.0	16
Minoru Wakasa	Large hill	86.0	90.4	84.0	87.1	177.5	29
Hiroshi Itagaki		86.0	95.4	77.0	79.8	175.2	33
Takao Ito		85.0	95.5	80.5	87.7	183.2	22
Yukio Kasaya Yukio Kasaya Yukio Kasaya is a former Japanese ski jumper. He was one of the most successful ski jumpers of the late 1960s and the early 1970s. At the 1970 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships at Vysoké Tatry, Czechoslovakia, he finished 2nd in the individual normal hill behind Gariy Napalkov...		86.0	95.9	86.0	96.4	192.3	17

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Mikio Oyama	40.90	18
	Norio Hirate	40.85	16
	Masaki Suzuki	40.22	11
1000 m	Norio Hirate	1:29.42	30
	Mikio Oyama	1:25.91	24
	Masaki Suzuki	1:23.40	19
1500 m	Masahiko Yamamoto	2:06.67	21
5000 m	Masayuki Kawahara	8:10.08	24
5000 m	Masahiko Yamamoto	8:06.97	22
10,000 m	Masahiko Yamamoto	16:20.83	16

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Keiko Hasegawa	45.09	17
500 m	Makiko Nagaya	43.88	7
1000 m	Keiko Hasegawa	1:35.42	24
	Yuko Yaegashi-Ota	1:33.99	20
	Makiko Nagaya	1:31.23	9
1500 m	Yuko Yaegashi-Ota	2:25.74	24
1500 m	Chieko Ito	2:25.27	22
3000 m	Chieko Ito	5:02.57	21
3000 m	Yuko Yaegashi-Ota	4:58.92	19

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Rank	W	L	T	GA	Pts
7	5	4	1	23	15	8
8	5	3	2	18	14	6
9	5	3	2	20	18	6
10	5	3	2	22	19	6
11	5	2	3	24	22	4
12	5	0	5	19	38	0

Rank	W	L	T	GA	Pts
7	5	4	1	23	15	8
8	5	3	2	18	14	6
9	5	3	2	20	18	6
10	5	3	2	22	19	6
11	5	2	3	24	22	4
12	5	0	5	19	38	0

Rank	W	L	T	GA	Pts
7	5	4	1	23	15	8
8	5	3	2	18	14	6
9	5	3	2	20	18	6
10	5	3	2	22	19	6
11	5	2	3	24	22	4
12	5	0	5	19	38	0