Japan at the 2000 Summer Olympics
IOC code	JPN
NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
Website	www.joc.or.jp (in Japanese and English)
in Sydney
Competitors	266 (156 men and 110 women) in 28 sports
Flag bearer	Kosei Inoue
Medals Ranked 15th	Gold 5 Silver 8 Bronze 5 Total 18
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Japan competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. 266 competitors, 156 men and 110 women, took part in 156 events in 28 sports.^[1]

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Tadahiro Nomura Judo Men's extra lightweight 16 September  Gold Ryoko Tamura Judo Women's extra lightweight 16 September  Gold Makoto Takimoto Judo Men's half middleweight 19 September  Gold Kosei Inoue Judo Men's half heavyweight 21 September  Gold Naoko Takahashi Athletics Women's marathon 24 September  Silver Yasuko Tajima Swimming Women's 400 m individual medley 16 September  Silver Noriko Narazaki Judo Women's half lightweight 17 September  Silver Mai Nakamura Swimming Women's 100 m backstroke 18 September  Silver Shinichi Shinohara Judo Men's heavyweight 22 September  Silver 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 Taeko Ishikawa Softball Women's competition 25 September  Silver Miya Tachibana Miho Takeda Synchronized swimming Women's duet 26 September  Silver Katsuhiko Nagata Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 69 kg 27 September  Silver Juri Tatsumi Yoko Yoneda Yuko Yoneda Rei Jimbo Ayano Egami Raika Fujii Miya Tachibana Yoko Isoda Miho Takeda Synchronized swimming Women's team 29 September  Bronze Kie Kusakabe Judo Women's lightweight 18 September  Bronze Mayumi Yamashita Judo Women's heavyweight 22 September  Bronze Miki Nakao Swimming Women's 200 m backstroke 22 September  Bronze Junko Onishi Masami Tanaka Sumika Minamoto Mai Nakamura Swimming Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay 23 September  Bronze Yoriko Okamoto Taekwondo Women's 67 kg 29 September

Medals by sport Sport Total Judo 4 2 2 8 Athletics 1 0 0 1 Swimming 0 2 2 4 Synchronized swimming 0 2 0 2 Softball 0 1 0 1 Wrestling 0 1 0 1 Taekwondo 0 0 1 1 Total 5 8 5 18

Archery

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)

Athletics

Men's competition

Men's 100 m

• Shingo Kawabata

• Round 1 – 10.39
• Round 2 – 10.6 (did not advance)

• Koji Ito

• Round 1 – 10.45
• Round 2 – 10.25
• Semifinal – 10.39 (did not advance)

• Shigeyuki Kojima

• Round 1 – 10.59 (did not advance)

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

• Jun Osakada

• Round 1 – 45.88
• Round 2 – 46.15 (did not advance)

• Takahiko Yamamura

• Round 1 – 46.25 (did not advance)

• Kenji Tabata

• Round 1 – 46.59 (did not advance)

Men's 5,000 m

• Toshinari Takaoka

• Round 1 – 13:29.99
• Final – 13:46.90 (15th place)

• Katsuhiko Hanada

• Round 1 – 13:41.31 (did not advance)

Men's 10,000 m

• Toshinari Takaoka

• Round 1 – 27:59.95
• Final – 27:40.44 (7th place)

• Katsuhiko Hanada

• Round 1 – 27:45.13
• Final – 28:08.11 (15th place)

Men's 110 m Hurdles

• Satoru Tanigawa

• Round 1 – 13.74
• Round 2 – 13.94 (did not advance)

Men's 400 m Hurdles

• Kazuhiko Yamazaki

• Round 1 – 50.15 (did not advance)

• Hideaki Kawamura

• Round 1 – 50.68 (did not advance)

• Dai Tamesue

• Round 1 – 01:01.81 (did not advance)

Men's 4 × 100 m

• Nobuharu Asahara, Koji Ito, Shingo Kawabata, Shigeyuki Kojima, Shingo Suetsugu

• Round 1 – 38.52
• Semifinal – 38.31
• Final – 38.66 (6th place)

Men's 4 × 400 m

• Shunji Karube, Jun Osakada, Kenji Tabata, Takahiko Tamamura

• Round 1 – 03:05.21
• Semifinal – 03:13.63 (did not advance)

Men's Hammer Throw

• Koji Murofushi

• Qualifying – 78.49
• Final – 76.60 (9th place)

Men's Long Jump

• Masaki Morinaga

• Qualifying – 7.84 (did not advance)

• Daisuke Watanabe

• Qualifying – NM (did not advance)

Men's Triple Jump

• Takamori Sugibayashi

• Qualifying – 16.67 (did not advance)

Men's High Jump

• Takahisa Yoshida

• Qualifying – 2.15 (did not advance)

Men's Pole Vault

• Manabu Yokoyama

• Qualifying – 5.55 (did not advance)

Men's 20 km Walk

• Satoshi Yanagisawa

• Final – 1:25:03 (22nd place)

• Daisuke Ikeshima

• Final – 1:25:34 (27th place)

Men's 50 km Walk

• Fumio Imamura

• Final – 4:13:28 (36th place)

• Akihiko Koike

• Final – DQ

Men's marathon

• Shinji Kawashima

• Final – 2:17:21 (21st place)

• Nobuyuki Sato

• Final – 2:20:52 (41st place)

• Takayuki Inubushi

• Final – DNF

Women's competition

Women's 5,000 m

• Yoshiko Ichikawa

• Round 1 – 15:23.41 (did not advance)

• Megumi Tanaka

• Round 1 – 15:39.83 (did not advance)

• Michiko Shimizu

• Round 1 – 15:48.20 (did not advance)

Women's 10,000 m

• Harumi Hiroyama

• Round 1 – 32:07.68
• Final – 32:24.17 (20th place)

• Chiemi Takahashi

• Round 1 – 32:34.70
• Final – 31:52.59 (15th place)

• Yuko Kawakami

• Round 1 – 32:36.60
• Final – 31:27.44 (10th place)

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

• Wakako Tsuchida

• Final – 01:56.49 (silver medal)

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

• Naoko Takahashi

• Final – 2:23:14 (gold medal)

• Eri Yamaguchi

• Final – 2:27:03 (7th place)

• Ari Ichihashi

• Final – 2:30:34 (15th place)

Badminton

Men's singles

• Hidetaka Yamada

• Round of 64: Bye
• Round of 32: Lost to Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia

• Keita Masuda

• Round of 64: Bye
• Round of 32: Lost to Xia Xuanze of China

Women's singles

• Kanako Yonekura

• Round of 64: Defeated Tatiana Vattier of France
• Round of 32: Defeated Anu Weckstrom of Finland
• Round of 16: Lost to Dai Yun of China

• Yasuko Mizui

• Round of 64: Bye
• Round of 32: Defeated Marina Yakusheva of Russia
• Round of 16: Defeated Julia Mann of Great Britain
• Quarterfinal: Lost to Gong Zhichao of China

• Takako Ida

• Round of 64: Bye
• Round of 32: Lost to Mette Sorensen of Denmark

Women's doubles

• Haruko Matsuda, Yoshiko Iwata

• Round of 32: Defeated Amrita Sawaram, Marie-Helene Valerie Pierre of Mauritius
• Round of 16: Lost to Qin Yiyuan, Gao Ling of China

• Satomi Igawa, Hiroko Nagamine

• Round of 32: Lost to Irina Rousliakova, Marina Yakusheva of Russia

Baseball

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

Beach volleyball

Boxing

Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)

• Kazumasa Tsujimoto
  • Round 1 – Defeated Hassan Oucheikh of Morocco
  • Round 2 – Lost to Guillermo Rigondeaux of Cuba (did not advance)

Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)

• Hidehiko Tsukamoto
  • Round 1 – Lost to Yosvani Aguilera of Cuba (did not advance)

Canoeing

Flatwater

Women's competition

Women's Kayak Singles 500 m

• Sayuri Maruyama

• Qualifying Heat – 02:00.833 (did not advance)

Slalom

Men's competition

Men's Kayak Singles

• Taro Ando

• Qualifying – 442.64 (did not advance)

Cycling

Cross Country Mountain Bike

Men's Cross Country Mountain Bike

• Raita Suzuki

• Final – Lapped (34th place)

Women's Mountain Bike

• Hiroko Nambu

• Final – 2:06:13.88 (26th place)

Road Cycling

Men's Road Race

• Yoshiyuki Abe

• Final – DNF

Women's Road Race

• Miho Oki

• Final – 3:12:40 (40th place)

Track Cycling

Men's competition

Men's Sprint

• Shinichi Ota
  • Qualifying – 10.603
  • Repechage – 2nd place – Heat 2
  • First round – Lost to Viesturs Berzins of Latvia
• Tomohiro Nagatsuka
  • Qualifying – 10.595
  • Repechage – 3rd place – Heat 1
  • First round – Lost to Pavel Buráň of Czech Republic

Men's 1 km Time Trial

• Narihiro Inamura
  • Final – 01:05.085 (9th place)

Men's Point Race

• Makoto Iljima
  • Points – 6
  • Laps Down – 2 (16th place)

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

• Narihiro Inamura, Yuichiro Kamiyama, Tomohiro Nagatsuka
  • Qualifying – 45.406
  • Second round – 45.264 (did not advance)

Women's competition

Women's Point Race

• Akemi Morimoto
  • Points – 0 (16th place)

Diving

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)

Equestrianism

Fencing

Four fencers, two men and two women, represented Japan in 2000.

Men's foil

• Naoto Okazaki

Men's sabre

• Masashi Nagara

Women's foil

• Yuko Arai
• Miwako Shimada

Football

Men's Team Competition

Team Roster

Group D

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	3	2	0	1	5	4	+1	6
Japan	3	2	0	1	4	3	+1	6
South Africa	3	1	0	2	5	5	0	3
Slovakia	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	3

14 September 2000

20:00

South Africa	1–2	Japan
Nomvethe 31'	Report	Takahara 45+1', 79'

Bruce Stadium, Canberra

Attendance: 17,500

Referee: Stéphane Bré (France)

17 September 2000

20:00

Slovakia	1–2	Japan
Porázik 83'	Report	Nakata 67' Inamoto 74'

Bruce Stadium, Canberra

Attendance: 15,289

Referee: Falla N'Doye (Senegal)

20 September 2000

19:00

Brazil	1–0	Japan
Alex 5'	Report

Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane

Attendance: 36,608

Referee: Stéphane Bré (France)

Quarter-finals

23 September 2000

18:30

United States	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Japan
Wolff 68' Vagenas 90' (pen.)	Report	Yanagisawa 30' Takahara 72'
Penalties
Vagenas Agoos Donovan Wolff Victorine	5–4	Nakamura Inamoto Morioka Nakata Myojin

Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide

Attendance: 18,345

Referee: Felix Tangawarima (Zimbabwe)

Gymnastics

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rowing

Sailing

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)

Shooting

Softball

Women's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round Robin

• 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)

• Semifinals

• Defeated Australia (1:0)

• Final

• Lost to United States (1:2) → Silver Medal

• Team Roster

• 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

Swimming

Men's 400 m Freestyle

• Masato Hirano

• Preliminary Heat – 03:51.41 (did not advance)

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

• Susumu Tabuchi

• Preliminary Heat – 02:05.68 (did not advance)

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

• Sachiko Yamada

• Preliminary Heat – 04:12.45 (did not advance)

• Yasuko Tajima

• Preliminary Heat – 04:14.23 (did not advance)

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 (7th 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 4 × 100 m Medley

• Sumika Minamoto, Mai Nakamura, Junko Onishi, Masami Tanaka

• Preliminary Heat – 04:05.76
• Final – 04:04.16 (bronze medal)

Synchronized swimming

Japan won two silver medals in the synchronized swimming competition at the 2000 Olympics.

Team

• Ayano Egami, Raika Fujii, Yoko Isoda, Rei Jimbo, Miya Tachibana, Miho Takeda, Yuko Yoneda, Yoko Yoneda, Juri Tatsumi

• Technical Routine – 34.51
• Free Routine – 64.35
• Final – 98.86 (silver medal)

Duet

• Miya Tachibana, Miho Takeda

• Technical Routine – 34.3
• Free Routine – 64.35
• Final – 98.65 (silver medal)

Table tennis

Taekwondo

Tennis

Trampolining

Triathlon

Women's Individual Competition:

• Kiyomi Niwata – 2:03:53.01 (14th place)
• Akiko Hirao – 2:04:18.70 (17th place)
• Haruna Hosoya – DNF

Men's Individual Competition:

• Takumi Obara – 1:50:29.95 (21st place)
• Hideo Fukui – 1:52:04.79 (36th place)
• Hiroyuki Nishiuchi – 1:56:59.76 (46th place)

Weightlifting

Men

Wrestling