Japan at the 1976 Summer Olympics

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silver=6
bronze=10
total=25

Japan competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.

Medalists

Gold

* Mitsuo Tsukahara — Gymnastics, Men's Horizontal Bar

* Sawao Kato — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars

* Shun Fujimoto, Sawao Kato, Hiroshi Kajiyama, Mitsuo Tsukahara, and Eizo Kenmotsu — Gymnastics, Men's Team Combined Exercises Competition

* Isamu Sonoda — Judo, Men's Middleweight (80 kg)

* Kazuhiro Ninomiya — Judo, Men's Half-Heavyweight (93 kg)

* Haruki Uemura — Judo, Men's Open Class

* Yuko Arakida, Takako Iida, Katsuko Kanesaka, Kiyomi Kato, Echiko Maeda, Noriko Matsuda, Mariko Okamoto, Takako Shirai, Shoko Takayanagi, Hiromi Yano, Juri Yokoyama, and Mariko Yoshida — Volleyball, Women's Team Competition

* Yuji Takada — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Flyweight

* Jiichiro Date — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Welterweight

Silver

* Hiroshi Michinaga — Archery, Men's Individual Competition

* Sawao Kato — Gymnastics, Men's All-Around Individual Competition

* Eizo Kenmotsu — Gymnastics, Men's Horizontal Bar

* Mitsuo Tsukahara — Gymnastics, Men's Long Horse Vault

* Eizo Kenmotsu — Gymnastics, Men's Pommeled Horse

* Koji Kuramoto — Judo, Men's Half Middleweight (70 kg)

Bronze

* Mitsuo Tsukahara — Gymnastics, Men's All-Around Individual Competition

* Mitsuo Tsukahara — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars

* Hiroshi Kajiyama — Gymnastics, Men's Long Horse Vault

* Sumio Endo — Judo, Men's Heavyweight

* Kenkichi Ando — Weightlifting, Men's Bantamweight

* Kazumasa Hirai — Weightlifting, Men's Featherweight

* Koichiro Hirayama — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Flyweight

* Akira Kudo — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Light Flyweight

* Masao Arai — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Bantamweight

* Yasaburo Sugawara — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Lightweight

Results by event

=Archery=

In their second Olympic archery competition, Japan won a silver medal and placed third on the national leaderboard for the sport. The medal was won by Hiroshi Michinaga. Two men and two women competed for Japan.

Women's Individual Competition:
* Minako Sato — 2308 points (→ 14th place)
* Kyoko Yamazaki — 2094 points (→ 26th place)

Men's Individual Competition:
* Hiroshi Michinaga — 2502 points (→ Silver Medal)
* Takanobu Nishi — 2422 points (→ 8th place)

=Athletics=

Men's 10.000 metres
* Toshiaki Kamata:* Heat — 28:36.21 (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon
* Shigeru So — 2:18:26 (→ 20th place)
* Noriyasu Mizukami — 2:18:44 (→ 21st place)
* Akio Usami — 2:22:29 (→ 32nd place)

Men's High Jump
* Katsumi Fukura:* Qualification — 2.13m (→ did not advance)

* Kazunori Koshikawa:* Qualification — 2.13m (→ did not advance)

Men's 20km Race Walk
* Yoshio Morikawa — 1:42:20 (→ 34th place)

=Basketball=

Men's Team Competition

*Preliminary Round (Group A)::* Lost to Canada (76-104):* Lost to Mexico (90-108) :* Lost to Cuba (56-97) :* Lost to Soviet Union (69-123) :* Lost to Australia (79-117)
*Classification Match::* 9th/11th place: Lost to Puerto Rico (91-111) → 11th place
*Team Roster:*Shigeaki Abe:*Nobuo Chigusa:*Satoshi Mori:*Shoji Yuki:*Yutaka Fujimoto:*Hirofumi Numata:*Kiyohide Kuwata:*Koji Yamamoto:*Shigeto Shimizu:*Fumio Saito:*Norihiko Kitahara:*Hideki Hamaguchi
*Head Coach: Masahiko Yoshida.

Women's Team Competition

*Team Roster:*Kimiko Hashimoto:*Kazuko Kadoya:*Kimi Wakitashiro:*Mieko Fukui:*Miyako Otsuka:*Miho Matsuoka:*Kazuyo Hayashida:*Teruko Miyamoto:*Keiko Namai:*Reiko Aonuma:*Sachiyo Yamamoto:*Misako Satake
*Head Coach: Masatoshi Ozaki

=Boxing=

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)
* Noboru Uchizama
*# First Round — Lost to Brendan Dunne (IRL), RSC-2

Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)
* Toshinori Koga
*# First Round — Bye
*# Second Round — Defeated Virgilio Palomo (COL), 5:0
*# Third Round — Lost to Ramón Duvalón (CUB), 0:5

=Cycling=

Men's 1.000m Time Trial
*Yoshikazu Cho — 1:09.664 (→ 17th place)

Men's 1.000m Sprint (Scratch)
*Yoshikazu Cho — 5th place

Men's 4.000m Individual Pursuit
*Yoichi Machishima — 15th place

=Modern pentathlon=

Men's Individual Competition:
* Shoji Uchida — 4850 points (→ 31st place)
* Akira Kubo — 4700 points (→ 37th place)
* Hiroyuki Kawazoe — 4591 points (→ 40th place)

Men's Team Competition:
* Uchida, Kubo, and Kawazoe — 14234 points (→ 12th place)

=Volleyball=

Men's Team Competition

*Preliminary Round (Group B):* Defeated Italy (3-0):* Defeated Brazil (3-0):* Lost to Soviet Union (0-3)
*Semi Finals:* Lost to Poland (2-3)
*Bronze Medal Match:* Lost to Cuba (0-3) → Fourth place
*Team Roster:*Taka Maruiyama:*Katsutoshi Nekoda:*Katsumi Oda:*Tetsuo Nishimoto:*Yassunori Yassuda:*Yoshi Fukao:*Shoichi Yanagimoto:*Mikiyasu Tanaka:*Tadayoshi Yokota:*Seiji Ohko:*Kinji Shimaoka:*Tetsuo Sato
*Head Coach: Tsutomu Koyama

Women's Team Competition

*Preliminary Round (Group A):* Defeated Hungary (3-0):* Defeated Peru (3-0):* Defeated Canada (3-0)
*Semi Finals:* Defeated South Korea (3-0)
*Final:* Defeated Soviet Union (3-0) → Gold Medal
*Team Roster:*Takako Iida :*Mariko Okamoto :*Echiko Maeda :*Noriko Matsuda :*Takako Shirai :*Kiyomi Kato :*Yuko Arakida :*Katsuko Kanesaka :*Mariko Yoshida :*Shoko Takayanagi :*Hiromi Yano :*Juri Yokoyama
*Head Coach: Shigeo Yamada