Japan competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
Medalists
Gold
Silver
- Shinichi Shinohara — Judo, Men's Heavyweight (+100 kg)
- Noriko Narazaki — Judo, Women's Half Lightweight (52 kg)
- Reika Utsugi, Miyo Yamada, Noriko Yamaji, Haruka Saito, Juri Takayama, Hiroko Tamoto, Mariko Masubuchi, Naomi Matsumoto, Emi Naito, Kazue Ito, Yoshimi Kobayashi, Shiori Koseki, Misako Ando, Yumiko Fujii, and Taeko Ishikawa — Softball, Women's Team Competition
- Mai Nakamura — Swimming, Women's 100 m Backstroke
- Yasuko Tajima — Swimming, Women's 400 m Individual Medley
- Miya Tachibana and Miho Takeda — Synchronised Swimming, Women's Duet
- Juri Tatsumi, Yoko Yoneda, Yuko Yoneda, Rei Jinbo, Ayano Egami, Raika Fujii, Miya Tachibana, Yoko Isoda and Miho Takeda — Synchronised Swimming, Women's team competition
- Katsuhiko Nagata — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Lightweight (69 kg)
Bronze
Results by event
Sayoko Kawauchi was the most successful Japanese archer in Sydney, advancing to the quarterfinal before being defeated by eventual
silver medallist Kim Nam-Soon.
Men's team competition:
- Makiyama, Matsushita, Hamano – Round of 16, 14th place (0-1)
Men's competition
Men's 100 m
Men's 200 m
- Shingo Suetsugu
- Round 1 – 20.6
- Round 2 – 20.37
- Semifinal – 20.69 (did not advance)
- Koji Ito
- Round 1 – 20.75
- Round 2 – 20.56
- Semifinal – 20.67 (did not advance)
Men's 400 m
Men's 5,000 m
Men's 10,000 m
Men's 110 m Hurdles
Men's 400 m Hurdles
Men's 4x100 m
Men's 4x400 m
Men's Hammer Throw
Men's Long Jump
Men's Triple Jump
Men's High Jump
Men's Pole Vault
Men's 20 km Walk
Men's 50 km Walk
Men's marathon
Women's competition
Women's 5,000 m
Women's 10,000 m
Women's 100 m Hurdles
- Yvonne Kanazawa
- Round 1 – 13.13
- Round 2 – 13.11
- Semifinal – 13.16 (did not advance)
Women's 800 m Wheelchair
Women's High Jump
- Yoko Ota
- Qualifying – 1.94
- Final – 1.90 (11th place)
- Miki Imai
- Qualifying – 1.92 (did not advance)
Women's Marathon
Men's Singles
Women's Singles
Women's Doubles
Men's Team Competition
Japan, which had won a
bronze medal in the first Olympic baseball tournament and a
silver medal in the second, once again made the semifinals in the third. The Japanese team defeated the
Netherlands,
Italy,
Australia, and
Africa but lost to the three teams that finished at the top of the group: the
United States,
Korea, and
Cuba. In the semifinals, Japan played Cuba for the second time in as many games, losing again to the two-time gold medallists. Playing for the bronze medal against Korea, the Japanese team was again defeated.
- Preliminary Round (4-3)
- Lost to United States 2-4
- Defeated Netherlands 10-2
- Defeated Australia 7-3
- Defeated Italy 6-1
- Defeated South Africa 8-0
- Lost to Korea 6-7
- Lost to Cuba 2-6
- Semifinals
- Lost to Cuba 0-3
- Bronze Medal Match
- Lost to Korea 1-3
- Team Roster
- *So Taguchi
- *Fumihiro Suzuki
- *Nobuhiko Matsunaka
- *Jun Haima
- *Norihiro Nakamura
- *Yukio Tanaka
- *Yoshinori Okihara
- *Osamu Nogami
- *Yoshihiko Kajiyama
- *Yoshikazu Doi
- *Masato Kawano
- *Shunsuke Watanabe
- *Yuji Yoshimi
- *Masanori Ishikawa
- *Akichika Yamada
- *Toshiya Sugiuchi
- *Daisuke Matsuzaka
- *Masanori Sugiura
- *Shinnosuke Abe
- *Kosuke Noda
- *Tomohiro Iizuka
- *Jun Hirose
- *Norihiro Akahoshi
- *Tomohiro Kuroki
- *Manager: Kozo Ohtagaki
- *Coach: Hiroyuki Hayashi
- *Coach: Keiichi Nagasaki
- *Coach: Osamu Nomura
Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)
Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)
Flatwater
Women's competition
Women's Kayak Singles 500 mSlalom
Men's competition
Men's Kayak Singles- Taro Ando
- Qualifying – 442.64 (did not advance)
Cross Country Mountain Bike
Men's Cross Country Mountain Bike
Women's Mountain Bike
Road Cycling
Men's Road Race
Women's Road Race
Track Cycling
Men's competition
Men's Sprint
Men's 1 km Time Trial
Men's Point Race
Men's Keirin
- Shinichi Ota
- First Round – Heat – 1; Place – 3
- Repechage – Heat – 1; Place – 2
- Second Round – Heat – 2; Place – 6 (did not advance)
- Yuichiro Kamiyama
- First Round – Heat – 3; Place – 6
- Repechage – Heat – 3; DNF (did not advance)
Men's Olympic Sprint
Women's competition
Women's Point Race
Men's 3 Metre Springboard- Ken Terauchi
- Preliminary – 389.88
- Semi-final – 226.89 – 616.77
- Final – 407.58 – 634.47 (8th place)
Men's 10 Metre Platform
- Ken Terauchi
- Preliminary – 457.59
- Semi-final – 191.49 – 649.08
- Final – 445.41 – 636.90 (5th place)
Men's Team Competition
- * Japan – South Africa 2-1
- * Japan – Slovakia 2-1
- * Japan – Brazil 0-1
- * Japan – United States 2-2 (USA wins after penalties)
- * (1.) Seigo Narazaki
- * (2.) Yuji Nakazawa
- * (3.) Naoki Matsuda
- * (4.) Ryuzo Morioka
- * (5.) Tsuneyasu Miyamoto
- * (6.) Junichi Inamoto
- * (7.) Hidetoshi Nakata
- * (8.) Tomakazu Myojin
- * (9.) Tomoyuki Hirase
- * (10.) Shunsuke Nakamura
- * (11.) Atsuhiro Miura
- * (12.) Tomoyuki Sakai
- * (13.) Atsushi Yanagisawa
- * (14.) Masashi Motoyama
- * (15.) Norihiro Nishi
- * (16.) Koji Nakata
- * (17.) Naohiro Takahara
- * (18.) Ryota Tsuzuki
- * (19.) Kota Yoshihara
- * (20.) Satoshi Yamaguchi
- * (21.) Yasuhito Endo
- * (22.) Hitoshi Sogahata
Five men and four women competed in six different Sailing events at the 2000 Olympics, including two top 10 finishes.
Men's Double Handed Dinghy (470)
- Eiichiro Hamazaki and Yuji Miyai
- Race 1 – 19
- Race 2 – (22)
- Race 3 – (26)
- Race 4 – 13
- Race 5 – 4
- Race 6 – 16
- Race 7 – 17
- Race 8 – 18
- Race 9 – 10
- Race 10 – 16
- Race 11 – 20
- Final – 133 (18th place)
Women's Mistral
- Masako Imai
- Race 1 – 6
- Race 2 – 12
- Race 3 – 10
- Race 4 – 10
- Race 5 – (15)
- Race 6 – 5
- Race 7 – 9
- Race 8 – 11
- Race 9 – (16)
- Race 10 – 7
- Race 11 – 8
- Final – 78 (10th place)
Women's Single Handed Dinghy (Europe)
- Maiko Sato
- Race 1 – 21
- Race 2 – 13
- Race 3 – 20
- Race 4 – 22
- Race 5 – 22
- Race 6 – 17
- Race 7 – 22
- Race 8 – (24)
- Race 9 – 22
- Race 10 – (23)
- Race 11 – 13
- Final – 172 (23rd place)
Women's Double Handed Dinghy (470)
- Yumiko Shige and Yurie Alicia Kinoshita
- Race 1 – 9
- Race 2 – 5
- Race 3 – 10
- Race 4 – 7
- Race 5 – 1
- Race 6 – (14)
- Race 7 – 8
- Race 8 – 3
- Race 9 – (12)
- Race 10 – 12
- Race 11 – 11
- Final – 66 (8th place)
Open Laser
- Kunio Suzuki
- Race 1 – (38)
- Race 2 – 12
- Race 3 – 19
- Race 4 – 15
- Race 5 – 32
- Race 6 – (36)
- Race 7 – 17
- Race 8 – 25
- Race 9 – 24
- Race 10 – 30
- Race 11 – 28
- Final – 202 (27th place)
Open High Performance Two Handed Dinghy (49er)
- Kenji Nakamura and Tomoyuki Sasaki
- Race 1 – 4
- Race 2 – 4
- Race 3 – 10
- Race 4 – 15
- Race 5 – 9
- Race 6 – 16
- Race 7 – (17)
- Race 8 – 15
- Race 9 – 15
- Race 10 – 13
- Race 11 – 16
- Race 12 – (17)
- Race 13 – 14
- Race 14 – 16
- Race 15 – 14
- Race 16 – 12
- Final – 173 (16th place)
Women's Team Competition
- *Defeated Cuba (4:1)
- *Defeated PR China (3:1)
- *Defeated United States (2:1)
- *Defeated Australia (1:0)
- *Defeated Canada (4:3)
- *Defeated Italy (2:0)
- *Defeated New Zealand (2:1)
- *Defeated Australia (1:0)
- *Lost to United States (1:2) → Silver Medal
- *Misako Ando
- *Yumiko Fujii
- *Taeko Ishikawa
- *Kazue Ito
- *Yoshimi Kobayashi
- *Shiori Koseki
- *Mariko Masubuchi
- *Naomi Matsumoto
- *Emi Naito
- *Haruka Saito
- *Juri Takayama
- *Hiroko Tamoto
- *Reika Utsugi
- *Miyo Yamada
- *Noriko Yamaji
Men's 400 m Freestyle
Men's 1500 m Freestyle
- Masato Hirano
- Preliminary Heat – 15:14.43 (did not advance)
- Yota Arase
- Preliminary Heat – 15:18.20 (did not advance)
Men's 100 m Butterfly
- Takashi Yamamoto
- Preliminary Heat – 52.91
- Semi-final – 53.01
- Final – 52.58 (5th place)
Men's 200 m Butterfly
- Takashi Yamamoto
- Preliminary Heat – 01:58.07
- Semi-final – 01:57.66 (did not advance)
- Hisayoshi Tanaka
- Preliminary Heat – 01:59.00
- Semi-final – 01:58.06 (did not advance)
Men's 100 m Breaststroke
- Kosuke Kitajima
- Preliminary Heat – 01:01.68
- Semi-final – 01:01.31
- Final – 01:01.00 (4th place)
- Akira Hayashi
- Preliminary Heat – 01:02.86 (did not advance)
Men's 200 m Breaststroke
- Akira Hayashi
- Preliminary Heat – 02:15.54
- Semi-final – 02:15.16 (did not advance)
- Kosuke Kitajima
- Preliminary Heat – 02:15.71 (did not advance)
Men's 200 m Individual Medley
Men's 400 m Individual Medley
- Shinya Taniguchi
- Preliminary Heat – 04:17.36 (did not advance)
- Final – 04:20.93 (8th place)
- Susumu Tabuchi
- Preliminary Heat – 04:20.76 (did not advance)
Women's 50 m Freestyle
- Sumika Minamoto
- Preliminary Heat – 25.52
- Semi-final – 25.43
- Final – 25.65 (8th place)
Women's 100 m Freestyle
- Sumika Minamoto
- Preliminary Heat – 55.8
- Semi-final – 55.62
- Final – 55.53 (7th place)
Women's 400 m Freestyle
Women's 800 m Freestyle
- Sachiko Yamada
- Preliminary Heat – 08:33.06
- Final – 08:37.39 (8th place)
Women's 100 m Butterfly
- Junko Onishi
- Preliminary Heat – 59.11
- Semi-final – 59.04
- Final – 59.13 (6th place)
- Maki Mita
- Preliminary Heat – 01:00.97 (did not advance)
Women's 200 m Butterfly
- Maki Mita
- Preliminary Heat – 02:09.85
- Semi-final – 02:09.88
- Final – 02:09.66 (7th place)
- Yuko Nakanishi
- Preliminary Heat – 02:10.22
- Semi-final – 02:09.89
- Final – 02:10.72 (8th place)
Women's 100 m Breaststroke
- Masami Tanaka
- Preliminary Heat – 01:09.12
- Semi-final – 01:09.04
- Final – 01:08.37 (6th place)
- Junko Isoda
- Preliminary Heat – DNS (did not advance)
Women's 200 m Breaststroke
- Masami Tanaka
- Preliminary Heat – 02:27.39
- Semi-final – 02:26.24
- Final – 02:26.98 (8th place)
- Junko Isoda
- Preliminary Heat – 02:29.60
- Semi-final – 02:31.71 (did not advance)
Women's 100 m Backstroke
- Mai Nakamura
- Preliminary Heat – 01:00.88
- Semi-final – 01:01.07
- Final – 01:00.55 (Silver medal)
- Noriko Inada
- Preliminary Heat – 01:02.19
- Semi-final – 01:01.25
- Final – 01:01.14 (5th place)
Women's 200 m Backstroke
- Miki Nakao
- Preliminary Heat – 02:11.69
- Semi-final – 02:12.49
- Final – 02:11.05 (Bronze medal)
- Tomoko Hagiwara
- Preliminary Heat – 02:12.15
- Semi-final – 02:11.02
- Final – 02:11.21 (4th place)
Women's 200 m Individual Medley
- Tomoko Hagiwara
- Preliminary Heat – 02:15.16
- Semi-final – 02:15.09
- Final – 02:15.64 (8th place)
- Yasuko Tajima
- Preliminary Heat – 02:21.65 (did not advance)
Women's 400 m Individual Medley
- Yasuko Tajima
- Preliminary Heat – 04:40.35 (did not advance)
- Final – 04:35.96 (Silver medal)
Women's 4x100 m Medley
Japan won two silver medals in the synchronized swimming competition at the 2000 Olympics.
Team
Duet
At the inaugural Olympic triathlon competition, Japan was represented by three men and three women. Five of the six triathletes finished the race.
Women's Individual Competition:
Men's Individual Competition:
References