Japan at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Japan at the
1952 Summer Olympics
Japan at the; 1952 Summer Olympics
IOC code	JPN
NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
Website	www.joc.or.jp (in Japanese and English)
in Helsinki
Competitors	69 in 11 sports
Flag bearer	Bunkichi Sawada
Medals; Ranked 17th	Gold 1 Silver 6 Bronze 2 Total 9
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
	1912; 1920; 1924; 1928; 1932; 1936; 1948; 1952; 1956; 1960; 1964; 1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988; 1992; 1996; 2000; 2004; 2008; 2012; 2016; 2020; 2024;

Japan competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. Japan returned to the Olympic Games after not being invited to the 1948 Summer Olympics because of the nations's role in World War II. 69 competitors, 58 men and 11 women, took part in 60 events in 13 sports.^[1]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Shohachi Ishii	Wrestling	Men's freestyle bantamweight	July 23
Silver	Tadao Uesako	Gymnastics	Men's floor	July 21
Silver	Masao Takemoto	Gymnastics	Men's vault	July 21
Silver	Yushu Kitano	Wrestling	Men's freestyle flyweight	July 23
Silver	Hiroshi Suzuki	Swimming	Men's 100 m freestyle	July 27
Silver	Toru Goto Yoshihiro Hamaguchi Hiroshi Suzuki Teijiro Tanikawa	Swimming	Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay	July 29
Silver	Shiro Hashizume	Swimming	Men's 1500 m freestyle	August 2
Bronze	Takashi Ono	Gymnastics	Men's vault	July 21
Bronze	Tadao Uesako	Gymnastics	Men's vault	July 21

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Wrestling	1	1	0	2
Swimming	0	3	0	3
Gymnastics	0	2	2	4
Total	1	6	2	9

Athletics

Boxing

Cycling

Road Competition

Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)

Kihei Tomioka — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Masazumi Tajima — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Tadashi Kato — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Tamotsu Chikanari — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Track Competition

Men's 1.000m Time Trial

Tadashi Kato

Final — 1:23.2 (→ 26th place)

Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race

Kihei Tomioka — 23rd place

Diving

Men's 3m Springboard

Katsuichi Mori

Preliminary Round — 65.23 points (→ 15th place)

Women's 10m Platform

Masami Miyamoto

Preliminary Round — 36.24 points (→ 11th place)

Equestrian

Fencing

One fencer, Shinichi Maki, represented Japan in 1952.

Men's foil

Shinichi Maki

Men's épée

Shinichi Maki

Men's sabre

Shinichi Maki

Gymnastics

Rowing

Japan had five male rowers participate in one out of seven rowing events in 1952.^[2]

Men's coxed four

Sailing

Shooting

One shooter represented Japan in 1952.

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank
Yukio Inokuma	Men's 50 metre rifle prone	396	17

Swimming

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References

^ "Japan at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 22 May 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Japan Rowing at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2018.

External links

[sports-reference-1] "Japan at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 22 May 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2015.

[2] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Japan Rowing at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2018.

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