- Japan at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Infobox Olympics Japan
games=1998 Winter
competitors=156
sports=14
flagbearer=Hiroyasu Shimizu
gold=5
silver=1
bronze=4
total=10
rank=7Japan was the host nation for the1998 Winter Olympics inNagano . It was the second time that Japan has hosted the Winter Games, after the1972 Winter Olympics inSapporo , and the third time overall, after the1964 Summer Olympics inTokyo .Medalists
Gold
*Freestyle Skiing
**Women's Moguls:Tae Satoya
*Short track speed skating
**Men's 500m:Takafumi Nishitani
*Ski Jumping
**Men's Individual K120 (90m):Kazuyoshi Funaki
**Men's Team K120 (90m):Takanobu Okabe ,Hiroya Saito ,Masahiko Harada , Kazuyoshi Funaki
*Speedskating
**Men's 500m:Hiroyasu Shimizu Silver
*Ski Jumping
**Men's Individual K90 (70m): Kazuyoshi FunakiBronze
*Short track speed skating
**Men's 500m:Hitoshi Uematsu
*Ski Jumping
**Men's Individual K120 (90m): Masahiko Harada
*Speedskating
**Men's 1000m: Hiroyasu Shimizu
**Women's 500m:Tomomi Okazaki Results and competitors by event
Men's Team Competition
*Team Roster:*
Akihito Sugisawa :*Shin Yahata :*Tsutsumi Otomo :*Matt Kabayama :*Ryan Kuwabara :*Ryan Fujita :*Atsuo Kudo :*Toshiyuki Sakai :*Takeshi Yamanaka :*Hiroyuki Miura :*Yuji Iga :*Dusty Imoo :*Shinichi Iwasaki :*Tatsuki Katayama :*Makato Kawahira :*Takayuki Kobori :*Kunihiko Sakurai :*Takayuki Miura :*Steve Tsujiura *
Toru Aoyanagi
*Manabu Horii
*Yusuke Imai
*Toshiyuki Kuroiwa
*Shiho Kusunose
*Noriko Munekata
*Nami Nemoto
*Hiroyuki Noake
*Chiharu Nozaki
*Takahiro Nozaki
*Tomomi Okazaki
*Eriko Sanmiya
*Kyoko Shimazaki
*Hiroyasu Shimizu
*Keiji Shirahata
*Aki Tonoike
*Mie Uehara
*Hiroaki Yamakage Figure skating Ice dancing
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Aya Kawai &Hiroshi Tanaka Pairs competition
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Marie Arai &Shin Amano Ladie's competition
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Shizuka Arakawa Men's competition
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Takeshi Honda
*Yamato Tamura References
* [http://www.joc.or.jp/database/index.html Japan Olympic Committee database]
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