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=7

Japan was the host nation for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. It was the second time that Japan has hosted the Winter Games, after the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, and the third time overall, after the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

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 Funaki

Bronze

*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

=Ice hockey=

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

=Speed skating=

* 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

* Aya Kawai & Hiroshi Tanaka

Pairs competition

* Marie Arai & Shin Amano

Ladie's competition

* Shizuka Arakawa

Men's competition

* Takeshi Honda
* Yamato Tamura

References

* [http://www.joc.or.jp/database/index.html Japan Olympic Committee database]