Japan at the 1988 Winter Olympics - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
		Speed skating Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics These are the results of the speed skating competition during the Winter Olympic Games.-500 m:February 14, 1988-1,000 m:February 18, 1988-1,500 m:February 20, 1988-5,000 m:February 17, 1988-10,000 m:February 21, 1988-500 m:...	Men's 500m

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Katsuhito Kumagai	Downhill			2:07.17	34
Shinya Chiba	Downhill			2:03.16	11
Katsuhito Kumagai	Super-G			DNF	–
Shinya chiba	Super-G			1:43.03	14
Katsuhito Kumagai	Giant Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–
Chiaki Ishioka		1:09.11	1:06.29	2:15.40	31
Tetsuya Okabe		1:08.30	1:06.18	2:14.49	28
Chiaki Ishioka	Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–
Tetsuya Okabe	Slalom	53.11	48.82	1:41.93	12

Men's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
Athlete	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Points	Rank
Katsuhito Kumagai	1:52.10	48.85	47.17	144.65	21

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Sachiko Yamamoto	Downhill			1:30.15	23
Emi Kawabata	Downhill			1:27.85	14
Sachiko Yamamoto	Super-G			1:24.32	30
Emi Kawabata	Super-G			1:22.24	24
Sachiko Yamamoto	Giant Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–
Emi Kawabata	Giant Slalom	1:02.10	DNF	DNF	–
Sachiko Yamamoto	Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–
Emi Kawabata	Slalom	54.70	54.65	1:49.35	19

Women's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
Athlete	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Points	Rank
Sachiko Yamamoto	1:20.33	43.66	46.60	139.01	20
Emi Kawabata	1:18.53	DNF	–	DNF	–

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Akihiro Takizawa	5	31:38.7	63
	Koichi Sato	3	29:43.1	59
	Tadashi Nakamura	2	28:11.4	44
	Misao Kodate	2	27:52.6	39

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ²	Rank
20 km	Akihiro Takizawa	1'03:38.0	7	1'10:38.0	61
	Koichi Sato	1'02:18.7	8	1'10:18.7	60
	Tadashi Nakamura	57:01.3	8	1'05:01.3	48
	Misao Kodate	57:51.0	6	1'03:51.0	40

Men's 4 x 7.5km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
Tadashi Nakamura Tadashi Nakamura is the founder of Seidō juku karatedo.-Early years:Tadashi Nakamura was born on the February 22, 1942 in the town of Maoka on the island of Karafuto. Nakamura trained in various martial arts including Goju-Ryu, Kendo, and Kyokushin... Misao Kodate Akihiro Takizawa Koichi Sato Koichi Sato is a Japanese actor.He is the son of veteran Japanese actor Rentarō Mikuni.-Films:The Last Chushingura Nobody to watch over me * Shonen Merikensack * The Magic Hour * Smile Seiya no Kiseki...	6	1'32:52.4	14

¹A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

²One minute added 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	Takao Sakai Naomi Takewaki	Two-man	58.32	15	1:00.39	21	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
JPN-2	Yuji Yaku Toshio Wakita	Two-man	58.57	19	1:00.58	23	1:01.51	25	1:00.38	22	4:01.04	20

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	Takao Sakai Toshio Wakita Yuji Yaku Naomi Takewaki	Four-man	57.36	17	58.15	16	57.68	22	58.16	16	3:51.35	18

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km C	Masaharu Yamazaki	50:06.8	68
	Tanayuki Yuki	47:08.4	52
	Kazunari Sasaki	46:12.6	45
30 km C	Masaharu Yamazaki	1'43:58.3	77
	Tanayuki Yuki	1'37:11.9	57
	Atsushi Egawa	1'32:35.4	37
	Kazunari Sasaki	1'29:59.2	20
50 km F	Atsushi Egawa	2'17:52.8	42
	Tanayuki Yuki	2'16:24.7	39
	Kazunari Sasaki	2'13:09.6	32

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Men's 4 x 10km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Atsushi Egawa Kazunari Sasaki Tanayuki Yuki Masaharu Yamazaki	1'51:10.7	14

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Makoto Kano	19	19	19	38.0	17

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Junko Yaginuma	16	15	14	29.6	14
Midori Ito Midori Ito is a former Japanese figure skater. She is the 1989 World Champion and the 1992 Olympic silver medalist. She is the first woman to land a triple/triple jump combination and a triple axel in competition. She is also the first woman to land seven triple jumps in a free program, which she did at the...	10	4	3	10.6	5

Ice Dancing

Athletes	CD	OD	FD	TFP	Rank
Tomoko Tanaka Tomoko Tanaka is a Japanese ice dancer. Competing with Hiroyuki Suzuki, she placed 18th in the 1988 Winter Olympic Games. She was a three-time Japanese National Champion.-Competitive highlights:-References:... Hiroyuki Suzuki Hiroyuki Suzuki is a Japanese figure skater who is now a coach. He competed in ice dancing with Tomoko Tanaka. They placed 18th in the 1988 Winter Olympic Games. They are three-time Japanese National Champions.-Competitive highlights:- External links :*...	18	18	18	36.0	18

Luge

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Toru Ito	47.753	27	47.880	27	46.601	28	48.439	29	3:12.673	26
Kazuhiko Takamatsu	47.278	19	47.235	19	47.326	18	47.176	13	3:09.015	18

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kazuhiko Takamatsu Tsukasa Hirakawa	47.129	16	47.324	14	1:34.453	14

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Mina Tanaka	47.770	20	47.945	18	47.928	19	47.599	18	3:11.242	18
Hitomi Koshimizu	47.682	19	49.276	24	49.160	23	48.008	21	3:14.126	21

Nordic combined

Men'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
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Start at	Time	Points	Rank
Hideki Miyazaki	Individual	175.8	41	5:51.4	45:40.8	376.240	37
Masashi Abe Masashi Abe is a Japanese nordic combined skier who competed during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won the 3 x 10 km team event at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer...		182.5	36	5:06.7	44:31.1	386.690	31
Kazuoki Kodama Kazuoki Kodama is a Japanese nordic combined skier who competed from 1989 to 1991. He won a bronze medal in the 3 x 10 km team event at the 1991 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme.- External links :...		187.7	32	4:32.0	45:40.2	376.320	36

Men's Team

Three participants per team.

Events:

normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps per team member per round, best two rounds counted.)
10 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)

Athletes	Ski jumping		Cross-country		Total
Athletes	Points	Rank	Start at	Time	Rank
Hideki Miyazaki Masashi Abe Masashi Abe is a Japanese nordic combined skier who competed during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won the 3 x 10 km team event at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer... Kazuoki Kodama Kazuoki Kodama is a Japanese nordic combined skier who competed from 1989 to 1991. He won a bronze medal in the 3 x 10 km team event at the 1991 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme.- External links :...	515.3	10	9:32.5	1'29:26.3	9

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Shinichi Tanaka	Normal hill	74.0	79.0	75.0	81.1	160.1	52
Katsushi Tao		75.0	81.6	80.5	97.4	161.6	51
Masaru Nagaoka		78.5	89.2	80.0	92.1	181.3	25
Akira Sato Akira Sato was a Japanese photographer noted for his photographs of girls and of Europe.Satō was born on 30 July 1930 in Tokyo. While a student of economics at Yokohama National University he was an avid reader of Life and other photographic and fashion magazines at the American CIE library in Hibiya. He...		80.0	96.6	80.0	97.1	194.0	11
Katsushi Tao	Large hill	96.0	78.8	85.0	59.4	138.2	52
Masaru Nagaoka		99.0	82.5	89.0	63.5	146.0	48
Shinichi Tanaka		99.0	83.0	88.5	64.3	147.3	47
Akira Sato Akira Sato was a Japanese photographer noted for his photographs of girls and of Europe.Satō was born on 30 July 1930 in Tokyo. While a student of economics at Yokohama National University he was an avid reader of Life and other photographic and fashion magazines at the American CIE library in Hibiya. He...		100.0	88.4	96.0	81.8	170.2	33

Men's team large hill

Athletes	Result
Athletes	Points ¹	Rank
Katsushi Tao Shinichi Tanaka Masaru Nagaoka Akira Sato Akira Sato was a Japanese photographer noted for his photographs of girls and of Europe.Satō was born on 30 July 1930 in Tokyo. While a student of economics at Yokohama National University he was an avid reader of Life and other photographic and fashion magazines at the American CIE library in Hibiya. He...	468.0	11

¹Four teams members performed two jumps each. The best three were counted.

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Kimihiro Hamaya	37.38	13
	Yasushi Kuroiwa	37.34	11
	Yasumitsu Kanehama	37.25	9
	Akira Kuroiwa Akira Kuroiwa is a former ice speed skater from Japan, who represented his native country at two consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. In 1988, he won the bronze medal in the men's 500 metres, after having captured two world titles at the Sprints Championships...	36.77
1000 m	Yukihiro Mitani	1:15.28	23
	Akira Kuroiwa Akira Kuroiwa is a former ice speed skater from Japan, who represented his native country at two consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. In 1988, he won the bronze medal in the men's 500 metres, after having captured two world titles at the Sprints Championships...	1:15.05	20
	Kimihiro Hamaya	1:14.43	13
	Yasumitsu Kanehama	1:14.36	9
1500 m	Hozumi Noriyama	1:56.84	28
	Yoshiyuki Shimizu	1:55.98	22
	Munehisa Kuroiwa	1:55.42	16
	Toru Aoyanagi Toru Aoyanagi is a former ice speed skater from Japan, who represented his native country in four consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1988 in Calgary, Canada.-References:*...	1:52.85	5
5000 m	Yoshiyuki Shimizu	7:05.35	32
	Munehisa Kuroiwa	7:01.55	27
	Toru Aoyanagi Toru Aoyanagi is a former ice speed skater from Japan, who represented his native country in four consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1988 in Calgary, Canada.-References:*...	6:54.70	14
10,000 m	Yoshiyuki Shimizu	14:47.21	28
10,000 m	Toru Aoyanagi Toru Aoyanagi is a former ice speed skater from Japan, who represented his native country in four consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1988 in Calgary, Canada.-References:*...	14:34.87	24

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Noriko Toda	41.44	21
	Shoko Fusano	40.61	8
	Seiko Hashimoto Seiko Hashimoto Seiko Hashimoto is a former ice speed skater and track cycling sprinter from Japan, who represented her native country in four consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea...	39.74	5
1000 m	Noriko Toda	1:23.49	22
	Shoko Fusano	1:21.47	11
	Seiko Hashimoto Seiko Hashimoto Seiko Hashimoto is a former ice speed skater and track cycling sprinter from Japan, who represented her native country in four consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea...	1:19.75	5
1500 m	Natsue Seki	2:08.89	19
1500 m	Seiko Hashimoto Seiko Hashimoto Seiko Hashimoto is a former ice speed skater and track cycling sprinter from Japan, who represented her native country in four consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea...	2:04.38	6
3000 m	Natsue Seki	4:29.77	18
3000 m	Seiko Hashimoto Seiko Hashimoto Seiko Hashimoto is a former ice speed skater and track cycling sprinter from Japan, who represented her native country in four consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea...	4:23.29	6
5000 m	Natsue Seki	7:47.43	19
5000 m	Seiko Hashimoto Seiko Hashimoto Seiko Hashimoto is a former ice speed skater and track cycling sprinter from Japan, who represented her native country in four consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea...	7:34.43	6

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