Japan at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Japan competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

Japan at the 1964 Winter Olympics
IOC code	JPN
NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
Website	www.joc.or.jp (in Japanese and English)
in Innsbruck
Competitors	47 (41 men, 6 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearer	Sadao Kikuchi
Medals	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 0
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race
		Time	Rank
Yoshihiro Ohira	Downhill	2:40.82	57
Tsuneo Noto		2:34.76	46
Yoshiharu Fukuhara		2:34.55	45
Hajime Tomii		2:30.02	33
Yoshinari Kida	Giant Slalom	2:04.22	39
Tsuneo Noto		2:01.26	35
Yoshiharu Fukuhara		1:58.35	25
Hajime Tomii		1:56.65	22

Men's slalom

Athlete	Qualifying				Final
	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Total	Rank
Hajime Tomii	1:20.85	78	57.44	17 QF	1:18.49	32	1:06.60	27	2:25.09	31
Yoshiharu Fukuharu	1:01.66	49	54.07	2 QF	1:14.35	19	1:06.36	24	2:20.71	23
Yoshinari Kida	57.36	37	58.06	18 QF	1:19.11	35	1:10.00	35	2:29.11	34
Yoshihiro Ohira	56.31	31	59.09	19 QF	1:28.79	41	1:09.08	33	2:37.87	38

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time 1	Rank
20 km	Yoshio Ninomine	1'29:38.6	3	1'35:38.6	26
	Yuji Yamanaka	1'29:51.8	2	1'33:51.8	19

¹ Two minutes added per miss.

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Chogoro Yahata	1'00:46.1	58
	Hidezo Takahashi	57:03.4	42
	Kazuo Sato	56:04.5	35
	Tatsuo Kitamura	55:24.3	26
30 km	Chogoro Yahata	1'51:45.3	62
	Tatsuo Kitamura	1'46:13.4	51
	Hidezo Takahashi	1'43:11.0	47
	Kazuo Sato	1'42:39.2	41
50 km	Chogoro Yahata	DNF	–
	Hidezo Takahashi	3'14:31.4	35
	Kazuo Sato	3'03:57.9	27

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Hidezo Takahashi Kazuo Sato Tatsuo Kitamura Chogoro Yahata	2'32:05.5	10

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Nobuo Sato	8	10	1746.2	88	8

Women

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Junko Ueno	14	26	1685.0	170	22
Kumiko Okawa	15	11	1725.4	136	13
Miwa Fukuhara	4	9	1845.1	50	5

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1964 Winter Olympics

First round

Winners (in bold) qualified for the Group A to play for 1st-8th places. Teams, which lost their qualification matches, played in Group B for 9th-16th places.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Czechoslovakia	17–2	Japan

Consolation round

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
9	Poland	7	6	1	0	40	13	12
10	Norway	7	5	2	0	40	19	10
11	Japan	7	4	2	1	35	31	9
12	Romania	7	3	3	1	31	28	7
13	Austria	7	3	3	1	24	28	7
14	Yugoslavia	7	3	3	1	29	37	7
15	Italy	7	2	5	0	24	42	4
16	Hungary	7	0	7	0	14	39	0

• Japan 4-3 Norway
• Japan 6-4 Romania
• Austria 5-5 Japan
• Yugoslavia 6-4 Japan
• Japan 4-3 Poland
• Japan 6-2 Hungary
• Italy 8-6 Japan

Contestants Shinichi Honma Toshiei Honma Hidenori Inatsu Atsuo Irie Koji Iwamoto Kimio Kazahari Isao Kawabuchi Kimihisa Kudo Hiroyuki Matsuura Katsuji Morishima Minoru Nakano Jiro Ogawa Isao Ono Masahiro Sato Shigeru Shimada Mamoru Takashima Masami Tanabu

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
• 15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
		Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Takashi Fujisawa	Individual	63.5	68.0	208.1	12	56:31.0	167.12	26	375.22	20
Akemi Taniguchi		57.0 (fall)	56.5	121.5	32	56:14.1	170.01	22	291.51	31
Eiichi Tanaka		62.5	62.0	190.2	22	58:23.9	147.30	31	337.50	30

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Athletes performed three jumps, the best two were counted and are shown here.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Naoki Shimura	Normal hill	71.5	95.2	71.0	95.7	190.9	40
Yosuke Eto		72.0	98.4	73.0	100.0	198.4	27
Sadao Kikuchi		74.0	99.7	72.5	98.8	198.5	26
Yukio Kasaya		74.5	101.4	73.5	99.2	200.6	23
Yosuke Eto	Large hill	80.0	91.4	70.0	86.4	177.8	44
Sadao Kikuchi		78.5	87.4	74.5	87.4	174.8	47
Naoki Shimura		82.0	94.1	76.5	90.4	184.5	37
Yukio Kasaya		87.0	101.6	86.0	105.1	206.7	11

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Satoshi Shinpo	44.4	41
	Fumio Nagakubo	41.8	16
	Keiichi Suzuki	40.7	5
1500 m	Toyofumi Aruga	2:20.7	41
	Satoshi Shinpo	2:18.5	34
	Keiichi Suzuki	2:17.5	31
5000 m	Yoshihiro Kawano	8:19.4	26
	Toyofumi Aruga	8:15.9	24
	Satoshi Shinpo	8:12.5	23
10,000 m	Yoshihiro Kawano	17:39.0	32
	Satoshi Shinpo	17:11.3	24
	Toyofumi Aruga	17:09.9	22

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Kaneko Takahashi	50.5	24
	Yasuko Takano	49.3	19
	Hatsue Nagakubo-Takamizawa	47.9	12
1000 m	Hatsue Nagakubo-Takamizawa	DNF	–
	Yasuko Takano	1:41.6	20
	Kaneko Takahashi	1:40.5	18
1500 m	Kaneko Takahashi	2:34.6	18
	Yasuko Takano	2:33.1	14
	Hatsue Nagakubo-Takamizawa	2:30.9	10
3000 m	Kaneko Takahashi	5:39.6	16
	Yasuko Takano	5:30.4	12
	Hatsue Nagakubo-Takamizawa	5:25.4	6

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• Japan Olympic Committee database Archived 2014-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
• Olympic Winter Games 1964, full results by sports-reference.com