Japan at the 1928 Summer Olympics

Japan at the Olympic Games
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At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam
Competitors	43
Flag bearer	Yonetaro Nakazawa
Medals Rank: 15	Gold 2	Silver 2	Bronze 1	Total 5
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Kinue Hitomi:Silver Medalist of Woman's 800m Athletics at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games

Tsuruta:Gold Medalist of Man's 200m Breaststroke at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games

Japan competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Background

The Japan Amateur Athletic Federation (Nihon Rikujo Kyogi Renmei), founded in 1925, officially took over sponsorship of the Japanese Olympic team from the Japan Amateur Athletic Association in 1928. Japanese government sponsorship of the Olympic effort continued, both financially, and through expansion of the annual Meiji Shrine Games to include a wider variety of sports, including archery, basketball, field hockey, rowing, table tennis, volleyball and equestrian sports.^[1]

The games became the qualifying event for the Japanese Olympic team, which now for the first time included a woman (Kinue Hitomi). For the 1928 Olympics, Japan fielded 43 athletes.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Oda, MikioMikio Oda	Athletics	Men's triple jump
Gold	Tsuruta, YoshiyukiYoshiyuki Tsuruta	Swimming	Men's 200 m breaststroke
Silver	Hitomi, KinueKinue Hitomi	Athletics	Women's 800 m
Silver	Yoneyama, HiroshiHiroshi Yoneyama, Nobuo Arai, Tokuhei Sada and Katsuo Takaishi	Swimming	Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay
Bronze	Takaishi, KatsuoKatsuo Takaishi	Swimming	Men's 100 m freestyle

Aquatics

Swimming

Swimmer	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Toshio Irie	Men's 100 m backstroke	1:13.4	3 QQ	1:14.0	3 QF	1:13.6	4
Takaji Takabayashi	Men's 1500 m freestyle	22:30.4	9 QQ	DNF	—	Did not advance
Shourai Kimura	Men's 100 m backstroke	DNS	x	Did not advance
Yuki Matawari	Men's 200 m breaststroke	DNS	x	Did not advance
Yoshiyuki Tsuruta	Men's 200 m breaststroke	2:50.0	1 OR	2:49.2	1 OR	2:48.8	OR
Nobuo Arai	Men's 400 m freestyle	5:23.4	10 QQ	DNS	x	Did not advance
	Men's 1500 m freestyle	21:35:4	9 QQ	DNS	x	Did not advance
Hiroshi Yoneyama	Men's 400 m freestyle	5:17.8	3 QQ	DNS	x	Did not advance
Katsuo Takaishi	Men's 100 m freestyle	1:01.2	4 QQ	1:00.0	1 QF	1:00.0
	Men's 400 m freestyle	5:22.8	9 QF	DNS	x	Did not advance
Nobuo Arai Tokuhei Sada Katsuo Takaishi Hiroshi Yoneyama	Men's 4×200 m freestyle relay	9:42.6	2 QF	x	x	9:41.4

Diving

Swimmer	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Fumio Takashina	Men’s 3 m springboard	139.82	8 QF	x	x	139.78	9

Athletics

Ranks given are within the heat.

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Iwao Aizawa	Men's 100 m	?	x	Did not advance
	Men's 200 m	22.6	x	Did not advance
Juichi Nagatani	Men's 10000 m	?	19	Did not advance
	Men’s Marathon	x	x	x	x	3:03.34	48
Yoshio Miki	Men's 110 m hurdles	?	x	Did not advance
Kanematsu Yamada	Men’s Marathon	x	x	x	x	2:35.29	4
Seiichiro Tsuda	Men’s Marathon	x	x	x	x	2:36.20	6
Mikio Oda	Men’s Long Jump	7.11	11	Did not advance
	Men’s Triple Jump	15.21	1	x	x	15.21
	Men’s High Jump	1.83	1	x	x	1.88	7
Chūhei Nambu	Men’s Long Jump	7.25	9	Did not advance
	Men’s Triple Jump	15.01	2	x	x	15.01	4
Kazuo Kimura	Men’s High Jump	1.83	1	x	x	1.88	6
Yonetaro Nakazawa	Men’s Pole Vault	3.66	1	x	x	3.90	6
	Men’s decathlon	x	x	x	x	4795	22
Yoshio Okita	Men’s Discus Throw	x	x	36.38	30	Did not advance
	Men’s Hammer Throw	x	x	44.41	15	Did not advance
Ichiro Furuyama	Men’s Discus Throw	x	x	37.89	27	Did not advance
Kosaku Sumiyoshi	Men’s Javelin Throw	x	x	59.05	13	Did not advance
Tatsuo Toki	Men’s decathlon	x	x	x	x	5794	12
Kinue Hitomi	Women’s 800 metres	2:26:04	QF	x	x	2:17:06

Boxing

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Fuji Okamoto	bantamweight	Bye	Traynor (IRL) L	Did not advance
Kintaro Usuda	welterweight	Fernández (ESP) W	Hall (RHO) W	Smillie (CAN) L	Did not advance

Equestrian

Rowing

Wrestling

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database

1. Guttman, Allen. Japanese Sports: A History (University of Hawaii Press, 2001), p. 119-120.