Japan at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Japan at the
1968 Summer Olympics

IOC code

JPN

NOC

Japanese Olympic Committee

Website

www.joc.or.jp (Japanese) (English)

in Mexico City

Competitors

171 (146 men and 25 women) in 18 sports

Flag bearer

Yukio Endo

Medals
Ranked 3rd

Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
11	7	7	25

Summer Olympics appearances (overview)

Japan competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. 171 competitors, 146 men and 25 women, took part in 97 events in 18 sports.^[1]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
01 ! Gold	Nakayama, AkinoriAkinori Nakayama	Gymnastics	Men's parallel bars
01 ! Gold	Nakayama, AkinoriAkinori Nakayama	Gymnastics	Men's horizontal bar
01 ! Gold	Nakayama, AkinoriAkinori Nakayama	Gymnastics	Men's rings
01 ! Gold	Kato, SawaoSawao Kato	Gymnastics	Men's artistic individual all-around
01 ! Gold	Kato, SawaoSawao Kato	Gymnastics	Men's floor
01 ! Gold	Endo, YukioYukio Endo Kato, SawaoSawao Kato Katō (gymnast), TakeshiTakeshi Katō (gymnast) Kenmotsu, EizoEizo Kenmotsu Nakayama, AkinoriAkinori Nakayama Tsukahara, MitsuoMitsuo Tsukahara	Gymnastics	Men's artistic team all-around
01 ! Gold	Munemura, MunejiMuneji Munemura	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 70 kg
01 ! Gold	Nakata, ShigeoShigeo Nakata	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 52 kg
01 ! Gold	Uetake, YojiroYojiro Uetake	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 57 kg
01 ! Gold	Kaneko, MasaakiMasaaki Kaneko	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 63 kg
01 ! Gold	Miyake, YoshinobuYoshinobu Miyake	Weightlifting	Men's 60 kg
02 ! Silver	Nakayama, AkinoriAkinori Nakayama	Gymnastics	Men's floor
02 ! Silver	Endo, YukioYukio Endo	Gymnastics	Men's vault
02 ! Silver	Ouchi, MasushiMasushi Ouchi	Weightlifting	Men's 75 kg
02 ! Silver	Fujimoto (wrestler), HideoHideo Fujimoto (wrestler)	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 57 kg
02 ! Silver	Kimihara, KenjiKenji Kimihara	Athletics	Men's marathon
02 ! Silver	Setsuko Yosjida Suzue Takayama Toyoko Iwahara Youko Kasahara Aiko Onozawa Yukiyo Kojima Sachiko Fukanaka Kunie Shishikura Setsuko Inoue Sumie Oinuma Makiko Furakawa Keiko Hama	Volleyball	Women's tournament
02 ! Silver	Masayuki Minami Katsutoshi Nekoda Mamoru Shiragami Isao Koizumi Kenji Kimura Yasuaki Mitsumori Naohiro Ikeda Jungo Morita Tadayoshi Yokota Seiji Oko Tetsuo Satō Kenji Shimaoka	Volleyball	Men's tournament
03 ! Bronze	Nakayama, AkinoriAkinori Nakayama	Gymnastics	Men's artistic individual all-around
03 ! Bronze	Katō (gymnast), TakeshiTakeshi Katō (gymnast)	Gymnastics	Men's floor
03 ! Bronze	Kenmotsu, EizoEizo Kenmotsu	Gymnastics	Men's horizontal bar
03 ! Bronze	Kato, SawaoSawao Kato	Gymnastics	Men's rings
03 ! Bronze	Miyake, YoshiyukiYoshiyuki Miyake	Weightlifting	Men's 60 kg
03 ! Bronze	Morioka, EijiEiji Morioka	Boxing	Men's Bantamweight
03 ! Bronze	Kenzo Yokoyama Hiroshi Katayama Masakatsu Miyamoto Yoshitada Yamaguchi Mitsuo Kamata Ryozo Suzuki Kiyoshi Tomizawa Takaji Mori Aritatsu Ogi Eizo Yuguchi Shigeo Yaegashi Teruki Miyamoto Masashi Watanabe Yasuyuki Kuwahara Kunishige Kamamoto Ikuo Matsumoto Ryuichi Sugiyama Masahiro Hamazaki	Football	Men's football

Medals by sport
Sport	01 !	02 !	03 !	Total
Athletics	0	1	0	1
Boxing	0	0	1	1
Football	0	0	1	1
Gymnastics	6	2	4	12
Volleyball	0	2	0	2
Weightlifting	1	1	1	3
Wrestling	4	1	0	5
Total	11	7	7	25

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Men
Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Hiroomi Yamada	Long jump	7.67	17	N/A				7.93w	10
Naoki Abe		7.58	22	N/A				Did not advance
Shinji Ogura		7.57	24	N/A				Did not advance
Tsugumichi Suzuki	10,000 metres	N/A						30:52.0	19
Keisuke Sawaki	10,000 metres	N/A						31:25.2	27
Kenji Kimihara	Marathon	N/A						2:23:31	02 !

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Watanabe	Light Flyweight	Zaporozhets (URS) L 0–3	Did not advance
Nakamura	Flyweight	Bye		Delgado (MEX) L 0–5	Did not advance
Morioka'	Flyweight	Bye		Dowling (IRL) W 4–1	Sokolov (URS) L 5–0

Canoeing

Main article: Canoeing at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Sprint

men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Tetsumasa Yamaguchi	C-1 1000 metres	4:33.3	Qs	4:54.61	5	Did not advance
Tetsumasa Yamaguchi Nobuatsu Yoshino	C-2 1000 m	3:58.44	5 QS	4:29.54	5	Did not advance

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics

One cyclist represented Japan in 1968.

Track

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round 1	Repechage 1	Round 2	Repechage 2	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Time Speed (km/h)	Rank	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Rank
Sanji Inoue	Men's Sprint						Kravtsov (URS) L	Did not advance

Road

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Sanji Inoue	time trial	1:07.54	19

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Junji Yuasa	3 m springboard	86.80	18	Did not advance
Junji Yuasa	10 m springboard	84.10	23	Did not advance
Toshio Otsubo		83.18	24	Did not advance
Yosuke Arimitsu		81.72	26	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Keiko Osaki	3 m springboard	DNS
Keiko Osaki	10 m platform

Equestrianism

Main article: Equestrianism at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Five fencers, all men, represented Japan in 1968.

Men's foil

Men's team foil

Masaya Fukuda, Heizaburo Okawa, Fujio Shimizu, Kazuhiko Wakasugi, Kazuo Mano

Football

Main article: Football at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Groupplay

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Spain	3	2	1	0	4	0	+4	5
Japan	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	4
Brazil	3	0	2	1	4	5	−1	2
Nigeria	3	0	1	2	4	9	−5	1

Japan v Nigeria

1968-10-14
12:00

Japan	3 – 1	Nigeria
Kamamoto 24' 72' 89'	Report	Okoye 33'

Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla
Referee: Ramon Sagastume Marmol

Brazil v Japan

1968-10-16
12:00

Brazil	1 – 1	Japan
Ferretti 9'	Report	Watanabe 83'

Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla
Referee: George Lamptey

Spain v Japan

1968-10-18
12:00

Spain	0 – 0	Japan
	Report

Azteca Stadium, Mexico City
Referee: Erwin Hieger

Quarterfinals

Japan v France

1968-10-20
12:00

Japan	3 – 1	France
Kamamoto 27' 59' Watanabe 70'	Report	Teamboueon 32'

Azteca Stadium, Mexico City
Referee: Seyoum Tarekegn

Semi final

Hungary v Japan

1968-10-22
12:00

Hungary	5 – 0	Japan
Szűcs 30' 60' 75' Novák 53' 65'	Report

Azteca Stadium, Mexico City
Referee: Romualdo Arppi Filho

Bronze Medal Match

Japan v Mexico

1968-10-24
12:00

Japan	2 – 0	Mexico
Kamamoto 20' 40'	Report

Azteca Stadium, Mexico City
Attendance: 105,000
Referee: Abraham Klein

Gymnastics

Main article: Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Hockey

Main article: Field hockey at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Three male pentathletes represented Japan in 1968.

Individual

Team

Yuso Makihira
Katsuaki Tashiro
Toshio Fukui

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Tsugio Ito	Single sculls	8:10.00	6 R	7:58.08	4	Did not advance
Masatoshi Shimizu Tomio Murai Tadamasa Kato Shigeru Miyagawa Fumio Nakata Jujiro Tanaka Toshi Fukumasu Yoshinori Arai Katsumi Yamamoto (cox)	Coxed eight	6:34.79	6 R	6:44.37	5 FB	N/A		6:52.02	6

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Six shooters, all men, represented Japan in 1968.

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
Takeo Kamachi	25 m rapid fire pistol	586	12
Makoto Shiraishi	25 m rapid fire pistol	582	23
Yoshihisa Yoshikawa	50 m pistol	548	17
Hiromu Sekine	50 m pistol	528	50
Hiromu Sekine	50 m rifle, prone	585	60
Shigemi Saito	50 m rifle, prone	576	84

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Volleyball

Main article: Volleyball at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Men's Tournament

Main article: Volleyball at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

groupplay

		Pts	Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team	Pts	W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Soviet Union	17	8	1	26	8	3.250	464	326	1.423
2	Japan	16	7	2	24	6	4.000	430	258	1.667
3	Czechoslovakia	16	7	2	22	15	1.467	454	417	1.089
4	East Germany	15	6	3	22	12	1.833	449	374	1.201
5	Poland	15	6	3	18	11	1.636	371	281	1.320
6	Bulgaria	13	4	5	16	17	0.941	379	385	0.984
7	United States	13	4	5	15	18	0.833	383	414	0.925
8	Belgium	11	2	7	6	24	0.250	239	417	0.573
9	Brazil	10	1	8	8	25	0.320	357	469	0.761
10	Mexico	9	0	9	6	27	0.222	289	474	0.610

Women's Tournament

Main article: Volleyball at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Women's Team Competition

Round Robin

Defeated United States (3-0)
Defeated Mexico (3-0)
Defeated Peru (3-0)
Defeated Czechoslovakia (3-0)
Defeated Poland (3-0)
Defeated South Korea (3-0)
Lost to Soviet Union (1-3) → Silver Medal

Team Roster

Water polo

Main article: Water polo at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Team Roster

Grouplay

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	Italy	13	7	6	1	0	48	21	+27
2.	Yugoslavia	11	7	5	1	1	65	18	+47
3.	East Germany	11	7	5	1	1	66	22	+44
4.	Netherlands	9	7	4	1	2	42	28	+14
5.	Japan	6	7	3	0	4	26	57	–31
6.	Mexico	3	7	1	1	5	27	56	–29
7.	Greece	2	7	1	0	6	34	62	–28
8.	Egypt	1	7	0	1	6	21	65	–44

Italy

9–2

Japan

Japan

8–7

Greece

Netherlands

9–1

Japan

Egypt

7–4

Japan

East Germany

8–0

Japan

Mexico

3–6

Japan

Yugoslavia

17'–0

Japan

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics

References

↑ "Japan at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 21 September 2014.

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