Japan at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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Japan competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich under the IOC country code JPN. It was the twelfth appearance of the Asian nation.

Contents

1.1 Gold
1.2 Silver
1.3 Bronze

2 Results by event

2.1
2.2 Badminton (demostration sports)
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6 Yachting
2.7

2.7.1 Men's Team Competition

				Total
Japan	13	8	8	29

Gold

Takao Kawaguchi — Judo, Men's Lightweight (63 kg)

Toyokazu Nomura — Judo, Men's Half Middleweight (70 kg)

Shinobu Sekine — Judo, Men's Middleweight (80 kg)

Mayumi Aoki — Swimming, Women's 100 metres Butterfly

Nobutaka Taguchi — Swimming, Men's 100 metres Breaststroke

Kiyomi Kato — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Flyweight

Hideaki Yanagida — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Bantamweight

Sawao Kato — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars

Sawao Kato — Gymnastics, Men's All-Around Individual

Misuo Tsukahara — Gymnastics, Men's Horizontal Bar

Akinori Nakayama — Gymnastics, Men's Rings

Sawao Kato, Akinori Nakayama, Eizo Kenmotsu, Misuo Tsukahara, Shigeru Kasamatsu, and Teruichi Okamura — Gymnastics, Men's Team Combined Exercises

Yoshihide Fukao, Kenji Kimura, Masayuki Minami, Jungo Morita, Yuzo Nakamura, Katsutoshi Nekoda, Tetsuo Nishimoto, Yasuhiro Noguchi, Seiji Oko, Tetsuo Sato, Kenji Shimaoka, and Tadayoshi Yokota — Volleyball, Men's Team Competition

Silver

Kikuo Wada — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Lightweight

Koichiro Hirayama — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Flyweight

Katsumi Matsumura, Takako Iida, Mariko Okamoto, Takako Shirai, Makiko Furukawa, Keiko Hama, Toyoko Iwahara, Sumie Oinuma, Seiko Shimakage, Michiko Shiokawa, Noriko Yamashita, and Yaeko Yamazaki — Volleyball, Women's Team Competition

Bronze

Motoki Nishimura — Judo, Men's Heavyweight

Nobutaka Taguchi — Swimming, Men's 200 metres Breaststroke

Results by event

In the first modern archery competition at the Olympics, Japan entered three men and one woman. Their highest placing competitor was Yoshiko Akayama, at 17th place in the women's competition.
Men's Individual Competition:
Hiroshi Kajikawa - 2381 points (19th place)
Masashi Hibino - 2344 points (29th place)
Shinji Nakamoto - 2287 points (38th place)
Women's Individual Competition:
Yoshiko Akayama - 2301 points (17th place)

Badminton (demostration sports)

Men's Doubles:

Ippei Kojima and Suresh Goel of India

# 1st round - Lost to Ng. Boon Bee and P. Gunalan of Malaysia (8 - 15, 1 - 15)

Women's Singles:

Noriko Nakajama → Gold Medal

# 1st round - defeated Ulla Strand of Denmark (11 - 5, 11 - 9)

# Semi–Final - defeated Gillian Gilks of Great Britain (11 - 3, 8 - 11, 11 - 9)

# Final - defeated Utami Dewi of Indonesia (11 - 5, 11 - 3)

Hiroe Yuki - bronze medal

# 1st round - defeated Joke van Beusekom of Netherlands (11 - 3, 11 - 2)

# Semi-Final - lost to Utami Dewi of Indonesia (5 - 11, 9 - 11)

Mixed Doubles:

Kojima and Nakajama

# 1st round - lost to Talbot and Gilks of Great Britain (9 - 15, 4 - 15)

Men's 3m Springboard:
Junji Yuasa - 316.95 points (24th place)
Men's 10m Platform:
Junji Yuasa - 276.00 points (19th place)
Women's 3m Springboard:
Taeko Kubo - 236.25 points (24th place)
Women's 10m Platform:
Keiko Otsubo - 168.24 points (23rd place)

Japan began the first round with two losses, to Yugoslavia and Hungary before defeating the United States to finish in third place in the division and earn a spot in the ninth- to twelfth-place consolation round. The team lost their first game there, against Norway, and played for eleventh and twelfth places. Japan defeated Iceland in that game.
Men's Team Competition:
Japan - 11th place (2-3-0)

Men's Individual Competition:
Masaru Sakano - 4627 points (31st place)
Yuso Makihira - 4583 points (33rd place)
Akira Kubo - 4371 points (49th place)
Men's Team Competition:
Sakano, Makihara, and Kubo - 13569 points (13th place)

Yachting

Men's Finn:

Kazuoki Matsuyama - 176.0 (27th place)

Men's Flying Dutchman:

Akira Yamamura and Takashi Yamamura - 128.0 (19th place)

Men's Team Competition

Preliminary Round (Group C)

* Lost to Spain (4-6)

* Lost to Soviet Union (1-11)

* Lost to Bulgaria (4-7)

* Lost to Italy (5-12) → Did not advance

Team Roster

* Yukiharu Oshita

* Hirokatsu Kuwayama

* Toshio Takahashi

* Shuzo Yajima

* Hiroshi Hashimoto

* Koji Nakano

* Naoto Minegishi

* Tatsuo Jihira

* Takashi Kimura

* Yoshihiro Yasumi

* Toru Arase

National Olympic Committees at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany

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