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Japan at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Japan competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. 255 competitors, 186 men and 69 women, took part in 166 events in 23 sports.

Medalists

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Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Archery

In their fourth Olympic archery competition, Japan was unable to win any medals. Defending bronze medallist Hiroshi Yamamoto placed eighth, the only individual archer to make the finals. The men's team placed sixth overall, while the women's team was last place.

Women's Individual Competition:

  • Toyoka Oki — Preliminary round (→ 31st place)
  • Keiko Nakagomi — Preliminary round (→ 52nd place)
  • Kyoko Kitahara — Preliminary round (→ 53rd place)

Men's Individual Competition:

Women's Team Competition:

  • Oki, Nakagomi, and Kitahara — Preliminary round (→ 15th place)

Men's Team Competition:

  • Yamamoto, Matsushita, and Furuhashi — Final (→ 6th place)

Athletics

Men's 100 metres

Men's 200 metres

Men's 400 metres

Men's 5,000 metres

Men's 10,000 metres

* Heat — 28:16.43
* Final — 28:09.70 (→ 14th place)
* Heat — 28:26.04
* Final — 29:04.44 (→ 17th place)
* Heat — did not finish (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

* Final — 2:11:05 (→ 4th place)
* Final — 2:13:41 (→ 9th place)
* Final — 2:15:42 (→ 17th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Relay

* Heat — 39.70
* Semi Final — 38.90 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4 × 400 m Relay

* Heat — 3:05.63
* Semi Final — 3:03.80 (→ did not advance)

Men's Long Jump

* Qualification — 7.48m (→ did not advance)
* Qualification — NM (→ did not advance)

Men's Triple Jump

Men's Javelin Throw

* Qualification — 77.46m (→ did not advance)
* Qualification — 76.90m (→ did not advance)

Men's 20 km Walk

* Final — 1:24:08 (→ 26th place)
* Final — 1:32:46 (→ 47th place)

Men's 50 km Walk

* Final — 4'03:12 (→ 31st place)

<br> Women's 10,000 metres

Women's Marathon

* Final &mdash; 2:34:41 (→ 25th place)
* Final &mdash; 2:35:15 (→ 28th place)
* Final &mdash; 2:35:26 (→ 29th place)

Women's High Jump

Women's Javelin Throw

* Qualification &mdash; 56.26m (→ did not advance)

Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (&ndash; 48&nbsp;kg)

* First Round &mdash; Lost to Ochiryn Demberel (MGL), KO-3

Canoeing

Cycling

Twelve cyclists, nine men and three women, represented Japan in 1988.

Men's road race
Men's sprint
Men's 1 km time trial
Men's team pursuit
Men's points race
Women's road race
Women's sprint

Diving

Men
Women

Equestrianism

Fencing

Ten fencers, five men and five women, represented Japan in 1988.

Men's foil
Men's team foil
Women's foil
Women's team foil

Gymnastics

Handball

Men's team competition

  • Preliminary round (group B)
* vs East Germany (18 &mdash; 25)
* vs Spain (19 &mdash; 25)
* vs Hungary (19 &mdash; 22)
* vs South Korea (24 &mdash; 33)
* vs Czechoslovakia (17 &mdash; 21)
  • Classification Match
*11th/12th place: vs United States 24 &mdash; 21 (→ 11th place)
  • Team roster
*Hidetada Ito
*Hiroshi Yanai
*Izumi Fujii
*Kazuhiro Miyashita
*Kenji Tamamura
*Kiyoshi Nishiyama
*Kodo Yamamoto
*Koji Tachiki
*Seiichi Takamura
*Shinichi Shudo
*Shinji Okuda
*Takashi Taguchi
*Toshiyuki Yamamura
*Yoshihiro Nikawadori
*Yukihiro Hashimoto

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented Japan in 1988.

Men's Individual Competition:

Men's Team Competition:

  • Saito, Miwa, and Izumikawa &mdash; 13120pts (→ 17th place)

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rowing

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Men's 100 m Freestyle

* Heat &mdash; 52.08 (→ did not advance, 32nd place)

Men's 200 m Freestyle

* Heat &mdash; 1:51.14
* B-Final &mdash; 1:51.89 (→ 15th place)

Men's 400 m Freestyle

* Heat &mdash; 4:02.02 (→ did not advance, 32nd place)
* Heat &mdash; 4:05.68 (→ did not advance, 38th place)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle

* Heat &mdash; 15:47.35 (→ did not advance, 25th place)
* Heat &mdash; 15:52.06 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

* Heat &mdash; 55.90
* Final &mdash; 55.05 (→ Gold Medal)
* Heat &mdash; 57.54
* B-Final &mdash; 57.13 (→ 12th place)

Men's 200 m Backstroke

* Heat &mdash; 2:03.36
* B-Final &mdash; 2:04.67 (→ 15th place)
* Heat &mdash; 2:09.16 (→ did not advance, 32nd place)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

* Heat &mdash; 1:04.02
* B-Final &mdash; 1:03.89 (→ 13th place)
* Heat &mdash; 1:04.35 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Men's 200 m Breaststroke

* Heat &mdash; 2:17.69
* B-Final &mdash; 2:18.03 (→ 10th place)
* Heat &mdash; 2:22.23 (→ did not advance, 30th place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

* Heat &mdash; 54.82
* B-Final &mdash; 54.98 (→ 14th place)
* Heat &mdash; 56.19 (→ did not advance, 24th place)

Men's 200 m Butterfly

* Heat &mdash; 2:01.42
* B-Final &mdash; 2:02.18 (→ 15th place)
* Heat &mdash; 2:02.30 (→ did not advance, 19th place)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

* Heat &mdash; 2:07.23 (→ did not advance, 19th place)
* Heat &mdash; 2:08.11 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's 400 m Individual Medley

* Heat &mdash; 4:28.11 (→ did not advance, 17th place)
* Heat &mdash; 4:33.03 (→ did not advance, 25th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

* Heat &mdash; 3:46.88
* Final &mdash; 3:44.36 (→ 5th place)

Women's 50 m Freestyle

* Heat &mdash; 26.44
* B-Final &mdash; 26.45 (→ 12th place)
* Heat &mdash; 26.61 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Women's 100 m Freestyle

* Heat &mdash; 57.29
* B-Final &mdash; 56.72 (→ 10th place)
* Heat &mdash; 58.40 (→ did not advance, 32nd place)

Women's 200 m Freestyle

* Heat &mdash; 2:01.76
* B-Final &mdash; 2:02.31 (→ 14th place)
* Heat &mdash; 2:06.18 (→ did not advance, 29th place)

Women's 400 m Freestyle

* Heat &mdash; 4:15.51
* B-Final &mdash; 4:15.59 (→ 15th place)
* Heat &mdash; 4:17.30 (→ did not advance, 19th place)

Women's 800 m Freestyle

* Heat &mdash; 8:39.55 (→ did not advance, 11th place)

Women's 100 m Backstroke

* Heat &mdash; 1:05.38 (→ did not advance, 24th place)
* Heat &mdash; 1:06.14 (→ did not advance, 26th place)

Women's 200 m Backstroke

* Heat &mdash; 2:18.74
* B-Final &mdash; 2:18.78 (→ 14th place)
* Heat &mdash; 2:21.46 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

* Heat &mdash; 1:13.36 (→ did not advance, 25th place)
* Heat &mdash; 1:16.63 (→ did not advance, 34th place)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

* Heat &mdash; 2:35.81 (→ did not advance, 19th place)
* Heat &mdash; 2:37.44 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

* Heat &mdash; 1:02.04
* B-Final &mdash; 1:01.80 (→ 10th place)
* Heat &mdash; 1:02.35
* B-Final &mdash; 1:02.53 (→ 14th place)

Women's 200 m Butterfly

* Heat &mdash; 2:12.68
* Final &mdash; 2:11.62 (→ 6th place)
* Heat &mdash; 2:15.41
* B-Final &mdash; 2:15.61 (→ 14th place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley

* Heat &mdash; 2:20.20
* B-Final &mdash; 2:20.43 (→ 16th place)
* Heat &mdash; 2:22.59 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Women's 400 m Individual Medley

* Heat &mdash; 4:55.31 (→ did not advance, 19th place)
* Heat &mdash; 5:00.92 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

* Heat &mdash; 4:18.88 (→ did not advance, 12th place)

Synchronized swimming

Three synchronized swimmers represented Japan in 1988.

Women's solo
Women's duet

Table tennis

Tennis

Women's Singles Competition

* First Round &mdash; Lost to Catarina Lindqvist (Sweden) 6-7, 5-7
* First Round &mdash; Lost to Il-Soon Kim (South Korea) 3-6, 6-3, 5-7

Volleyball

Men's team competition

  • Preliminary round (group B)
* Lost to United States (0-3)
* Lost to Argentina (1-3)
* Lost to France (1-3)
* Defeated Tunisia (3-0)
* Lost to the Netherlands (0-3)
  • Classification Matches
* 9th/12th place: Defeated South Korea (3-2)
* 9th/10th place: Lost to Italy (2-3) → Tenth place
  • Team roster
*Akihiro Iwashima
*Yasunori Kumada
*Eizaburo Mitsuhashi
*Masayoshi Manabe
*Yuji Kasama
*Kazutomo Yoneyama
*Hiromichi Kageyama
*Hideharu Hara
*Kimio Sugimoto
*Yuzuru Inoue
*Masaki Kaito
*Shunichi Kawai

Women's Team Competition

  • Preliminary round (group A)
* Defeated Soviet Union (3-2)
* Lost to East Germany (2-3)
* Defeated South Korea (3-1)
  • Semi Finals
* Lost to Peru (2-3)
  • Final
* Lost to PR China (0-3) → Fourth place
  • Team roster
*Yumi Maruyama
*Kayoko Sugiyama
*Reiko Takizawa
*Miyako Yamashita
*Akemi Sugiyama
*Ichiko Sato
*Norie Hiro
*Kumi Nakada
*Yukari Kawase
*Motoko Obayashi
*Yukiko Takahashi
*Sachiko Fujita

Weightlifting

Wrestling

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