- Japan at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Infobox Olympics Japan
games=1972 Summer
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gold=13
silver=8
bronze=8
total=29Japan competed at the1972 Summer Olympics inMunich ,West Germany .Medalists
Gold
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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
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Hideaki Yanagida — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Bantamweight*
Sawao Kato — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars*
Sawao Kato — Gymnastics, Men's All-Around Individual*
Mitsuo Tsukahara — Gymnastics, Men's Horizontal Bar*
Akinori Nakayama — Gymnastics, Men's Rings*
Sawao Kato ,Akinori Nakayama ,Eizo Kenmotsu ,Mitsuo Tsukahara ,Shigeru Kasamatsu , andTeruichi 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 , andTadayoshi Yokota — Volleyball, Men's Team CompetitionSilver
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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 , andYaeko Yamazaki — Volleyball, Women's Team CompetitionBronze
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Motoki Nishimura — Judo, Men's Heavyweight*
Nobutaka Taguchi — Swimming, Men's 200 metres BreaststrokeResults by event
=Archery=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)Men's 5000 metres
*Keisuke Sawaki :* Heat — 13:44.8 (→ did not advance)*
Takaharu Koyama :* Heat — 14:12.6 (→ did not advance)Men's High Jump
*Hidehiko Tomizawa :* Qualifying Round — 2.15m:* Final — 2.05m (→ 19th place)*
Kuniyoshi Sugioka :* Qualification Round — 2.06m (→ did not advance)
=Boxing=Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)
*Yoshimitsu Aragaki :* First Round — Lost to Asen Nikolov (BUL), 0:5
=Badminton (demonstration sports)=Men's Doubles:
*Ippei Kojima andSuresh Goel of India:# 1st round - Lost toNg. Boon Bee andP. Gunalan of Malaysia (8 - 15, 1 - 15)Women's Singles:
*Noriko Nakayama → Gold Medal:# 1st round - defeatedUlla Strand of Denmark (11 - 5, 11 - 9):# Semi–Final - defeatedGillian Gilks of Great Britain (11 - 3, 8 - 11, 11 - 9):# Final - defeatedUtami Dewi of Indonesia (11 - 5, 11 - 3)
*Hiroe Yuki - bronze medal:# 1st round - defeatedJoke van Beusekom of Netherlands (11 - 3, 11 - 2):# Semi-Final - lost to Utami Dewi of Indonesia (5 - 11, 9 - 11)Mixed Doubles:
* Kojima and Nakayama:# 1st round - lost to Talbot and Gilks of Great Britain (9 - 15, 4 - 15)
=Cycling=Track Competition
Men's 1.000m Time Trial
*Takafumi Matsuda :* Final — 1:10.00 (→ 20th place)Men's Tandem
*Yaichi Numata andYoshikazu Cho → 12th place
=Diving=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)
=Handball=Men's Team Competition
*Preliminary Round:* Lost to Yugoslavia (14-20):* Lost to Hungary (12-20):* Defeated United States (20-16)
*Classification Matches:* 9th/12th place: Lost to Norway (17-19):* 11th/12th place: Defeated Iceland (19-18) → 11th placeMen'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)
=Rowing=Men's Single Sculls
*Hideo Okamoto :*Heat — 8:20.82:*Repechage — 8:27.36 (→ did not advance)
=Sailing=Men's Finn:
*Kazuoki Matsuyama — 176.0 (→ 27th place)Men's Flying Dutchman:
*Akira Yamamura andTakashi Yamamura — 128.0 (→ 19th place)Men's Team Competition
*Preliminary Round (Group B):* Defeated Romania (3-1):* Defeated Cuba (3-0):* Defeated East Germany (3-0):* Defeated Brazil (3-0):* Defeated West Germany (3-0)
*Semifinals:* Defeated Bulgaria (3-2)
*Final:* Defeated East Germany (3-1) → Gold Medal
*Team Roster:*Kenji Kimura :*Yoshinide Fukao :*Junko Morita :*Seiji Ohko :*Tadayoshi Yokota :*Katsutoshi Nekoda :*Yasuhiro Noguchi :*Kenji Shimaoka :*Yuzo Nakamura :*Tetsuo Nishimoto :*Massao Minami :*Tetsuo Sato 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
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