Japan at the 2006 Winter Olympics

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Japan at the
2006 Winter Olympics
IOC codeJPN
NOCJapanese Olympic Committee
Websitewww.joc.or.jp (in Japanese and English)
in Turin
Competitors110 (58 men, 52 women) in 14 sports
Flag bearers Joji Kato (opening and closing)[1][2]
Medals
Ranked 18th
Gold
1
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
1
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)

Japan competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. Shizuka Arakawa won the country's only medal, a gold, in women's figure skating. She was the first person born and raised in Asia to become an Olympic champion in that event. Athletes representing Japan participated in all but one of the 2006 Olympics' 15 sports, with Ice hockey the only exception.

Medalists[edit]

Alpine skiing[edit]

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Athlete Event Final
Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Total Rank
Noriyo Hiroi Women's giant slalom 1:04.63 1:12.03 n/a 2:16.66 26
Women's slalom 44.74 48.85 n/a 1:33.59 29
Mizue Hoshi Women's slalom 45.35 48.03 n/a 1:33.38 27
Yasuhiro Ikuta Men's slalom 1:15.19 1:08.09 n/a 2:23.28 47
Kentaro Minagawa Men's slalom 53.44 50.74 n/a 1:44.18 4
Akira Sasaki Men's giant slalom did not finish
Men's slalom 54.37 did not finish
Mami Sekizuka Women's slalom 47.22 50.50 n/a 1:37.72 38
Daisuke Yoshioka Men's giant slalom 1:23.78 1:21.25 n/a 2:45.03 24
Naoki Yuasa Men's slalom 54.76 49.81 n/a 1:44.57 7

Biathlon[edit]

Main article: Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Final
Time Misses Rank
Daisuke Ebisawa Sprint 29:49.7 3 63
Hidenori Isa Sprint 28:37.1 1 39
Pursuit 39:11.25 5 35
Individual 52:27.2 6 10
Tatsumi Kasahara Sprint 29:07.0 1 48
Pursuit 41:42.07 7 50
Individual 1:02:44.6 5 68
Shinya Saito Individual 1:05:29.4 8 79
Kyoji Suga Sprint 30:10.6 2 71
Mass start 52:01.6 5 30
Individual 56:57.7 1 14
Tatsumi Kasahara
Hidenori Isa
Kyoji Suga
Shinya Saito 		Relay 1:25:15.6 13 12
Women
Athlete Event Final
Time Misses Rank
Kanae Meguro Sprint 26:19.9 4 64
Individual 55:28.4 5 37
Tomomi Otaka Sprint 26:28.7 3 69
Individual 1:00:22.2 6 69
Tamami Tanaka Sprint 26:20.6 5 65
Individual 55:10.5 4 32
Ikuyo Tsukidate Sprint 25"17.0 1 51
Pursuit Lapped
Individual 57:20.4 4 55
Tomomi Otaka
Kanae Meguro
Tamami Tanaka
Ikuyo Tsukidate 		Relay 1:26:09.0 18 16

Bobsleigh[edit]

Manami Hino and Chisato Nagaoka
Main article: Bobsleigh at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Athlete Event Final
Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total Rank
Suguru Kiyokawa
Ryuichi Kobayashi 		Two-man 57.27 57.02 57.90 did not advance 27
Manami Hino
Chisato Nagaoka 		Two-woman 59.41 58.80 59.51 59.77 3:57.49 15

Cross-country skiing[edit]

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Distance
Athlete Event Final
Total Rank
Katsuhito Ebisawa Men's 15 km classical 41:25.8 42
Men's 30 km pursuit 1:21:16.2 42
Men's 50 km freestyle 2:10:39.6 49
Masako Ishida Women's 10 km classical 30:24.0 31
Women's 15 km pursuit 46:37.7 35
Shunsuke Komamura Men's 30 km pursuit Did not finish
Men's 50 km freestyle 2:14:08.8 59
Nobu Naruse Men's 15 km classical 41:22.0 41
Men's 30 km pursuit 1:25:21.3 59
Men's 50 km freestyle Did not finish
Chizuru Soneta Women's 15 km pursuit 46:45.5 38
Women's 30 km freestyle 1:27:25.8 25
Sumiko Yokoyama Women's 15 km pursuit 45:58.6 30
Women's 30 km freestyle 1:29:41.3 37
Nobuko Fukuda
Masako Ishida
Sumiko Yokoyama
Madoka Natsumi 		Women's 4 x 5 km relay 56:57.8 12
Sprint
Athlete Event Qualifying Quarterfinal Semifinal Final
Total Rank Total Rank Total Rank Total Rank
Nobuko Fukuda Women's sprint 2:17.82 28 Q 2:18.2 5 Did not advance 24
Shunsuke Komamura Men's sprint 2:22.38 43 Did not advance 43
Madoka Natsumi Women's sprint 2:16.30 15 Q 2:19.9 4 Did not advance 17
Yuichi Onda Men's sprint 2:17.53 13 Q 2:22.3 6 Did not advance 26
Katsuhito Ebisawa
Yuichi Onda 		Men's team sprint n/a 17:46.6 6 Did not advance
Nobuko Fukuda
Madoka Natsumi 		Women's team sprint n/a 17:33.1 4 Q 17:27.6 8

Curling[edit]

Main article: Curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Women's[edit]

Main article: Curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics § Women's

Team: Ayumi Onodera (skip), Yumie Hayashi, Mari Motohashi, Moe Meguro, Sakurako Terada (alternate)

Round Robin
Draw 2
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
 Russia (Privivkova) (has hammer) 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 7
 Japan (Onodera) 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 5

;Draw 3

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Final
 United States (Johnson) (has hammer) 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 5
 Japan (Onodera) 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 6

;Draw 4

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
 Japan (Onodera) (has hammer) 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 X 4
 Norway (Nordby) 1 0 0 3 1 0 2 0 2 X 9

;Draw 5

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
 Japan (Onodera) 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 5
 Denmark (Holm) (has hammer) 1 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 2 1 9

;Draw 8

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
 Japan (Onodera) (has hammer) 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 5
 Canada (Kleibrink) 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2

;Draw 9

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Final
 Japan (Onodera) (has hammer) 1 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 7
 Sweden (Norberg) 0 0 0 2 0 2 1 0 2 0 1 8

;Draw 10

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
 Great Britain (Martin) 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 X 5
 Japan (Onodera) (has hammer) 0 2 1 0 3 0 1 0 3 X 10

;Draw 11

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
 Italy (Gaspari) (has hammer) 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 4
 Japan (Onodera) 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 6

;Draw 12

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
 Switzerland (Ott) (has hammer) 1 2 0 4 0 0 0 4 X X 11
 Japan (Onodera) 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 X X 5
Standings
Rank Team Skip Won Lost
1  Sweden Anette Norberg 7 2
2  Switzerland Mirjam Ott 7 2
3  Canada Shannon Kleibrink 6 3
4  Norway Dordi Nordby 6 3
5  Great Britain Rhona Martin 5 4
6  Russia Ludmila Privivkova 5 4
7  Japan Ayumi Onodera 4 5
8  Denmark Dorthe Holm 2 7
9  United States Cassandra Johnson 2 7
10  Italy Diana Gaspari 1 8

Key: The hammer indicates which team had the last stone in the first end.

Figure skating[edit]

Main article: Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Athlete Event CD SP/OD FS/FD Total
Points Rank Points Rank Points Rank Points Rank
Miki Ando Ladies' n/a 56.00 8 Q 84.20 16 140.20 15
Shizuka Arakawa Ladies' n/a 66.02 3 Q 125.32 1 191.34
Fumie Suguri Ladies' n/a 61.75 4 Q 113.48 4 175.23 4
Daisuke Takahashi Men n/a 73.77 5 Q 131.12 9 204.89 8
Nozomi Watanabe
Akiyuki Kido 		Ice dance 27.95 17 46.59 15 78.87 15 153.41 15

Key: CD = Compulsory Dance, FD = Free Dance, FS = Free Skate, OD = Original Dance, SP = Short Program

Freestyle skiing[edit]

Main article: Freestyle skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Qualifying Final
Points Rank Points Rank
Ken Mizuno Aerials 157.67 25 did not advance 25
Kai Ozaki Moguls 19.70 30 did not advance 30
Yugo Tsukita Moguls 19.13 32 did not advance 32
Osamu Ueno Moguls 23.03 15 Q 19.54 20
Women
Athlete Event Qualifying Final
Points Rank Points Rank
Miyuki Hatanaka Moguls 18.61 27 did not advance 27
Kayo Henmi Aerials 129.40 21 did not advance 21
Miki Ito Moguls 22.34 15 Q 17.78 20
Tae Satoya Moguls 23.63 9 Q 22.12 15
Aiko Uemura Moguls 24.20 5 Q 24.01 5

Luge[edit]

Main article: Luge at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Athlete Event Final
Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total Rank
Madoka Harada Women's singles 48.042 47.852 47.989 47.767 3:11.650 13
Takahisa Oguchi Men's singles 52.795 52.449 52.498 52.366 3:30.108 20
Shigeaki Ushijima Men's singles 53.306 1:29.310 52.414 52.318 4:07.348 34
Goro Hayashibe
Masaki Toshiro 		Doubles 48.067 47.793 n/a 1:35.860 12

Nordic combined[edit]

Main article: Nordic combined at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Athlete Event Ski Jumping Cross-Country
Points Rank Deficit Time Rank
Yosuke Hatakeyama Sprint 116.1 7 0:38 19:43.0
+1:14.0 		22
Individual Gundersen 235.0 10 1:50 44:29.8
+4:45.2 		32
Takashi Kitamura Individual Gundersen 192.5 40 4:40 47:17.3
+7:32.7 		43
Norihito Kobayashi Sprint 103.9 28 1:27 19:36.0
+1:07.0 		18
Individual Gundersen 217.0 23 3:02 42:23.1
+2:38.5 		16
Daito Takahashi Sprint 107.7 18 1:12 19:31.4
+1:02.4 		15
Individual Gundersen 233.5 12 1:56 did not start
Akito Watabe Sprint 115.4 9 0:41 19:37.3
+1:08.3 		19
Yosuke Hatakeyama
Norihito Kobayashi
Takashi Kitamura
Daito Takahashi 		Team 864.2 5 0:49 51:36.0
+1:43.4 		6

Note: 'Deficit' refers to the amount of time behind the leader a competitor began the cross-country portion of the event. Italicized numbers show the final deficit from the winner's finishing time.

Short track speed skating[edit]

Main article: Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Athlete Event Heat Quarterfinal Semifinal Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Yuka Kamino Women's 500 m 45.848 2 Q 47.356 4 did not advance 14
Women's 1000 m 1:33.959 3 did not advance 14
Women's 1500 m 2:37.865 3 Q n/a 2:44.057 4 Final B
2:29.540 		7
Takafumi Nishitani Men's 500 m 43.212 3 did not advance 15
Mika Ozawa Women's 1000 m 1:34.715 2 Q 1:33.337 5 1:33.337 5 did not advance 9
Hayato Sueyoshi Men's 1500 m 2:25.280 4 did not advance 19
Chikage Tanaka Women's 500 m 46.387 3 did not advance 17
Satoru Terao Men's 500 m 42.607 1 Q 42.471 2 Q 42.120 3 Final B
42.377 		6
Men's 1000 m 1:29.090 2 Q 1:28.499 3 did not advance 9
Men's 1500 m 2:37.865 3 Q n/a 2:44.057 4 Final B
2:24.875 		9
Ikue Teshigawara Women's 1500 m 2:30.977 4 did not advance 17
Yoshiharu Arino
Takahiro Fijimoto
Takfumi Nishitani
Satoru Terao 		Men's 5000 m relay disqualified
Yuka Kamino
Mika Ozawa
Chikage Tanaka
Nobuko Yamada 		Women's 3000 m relay did not advance 4:21.413 4 Final B
4:35.096 		7

Skeleton[edit]

Main article: Skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Athlete Event Final
Run 1 Run 2 Total Rank
Masaru Inada Men's 59.63 59.74 1:59.37 18
Kazuhiro Koshi Men's 58.65 59.40 1:58.05 11
Eiko Nakayama Women's 1:01.82 1:02.10 2:03.92 14

Ski jumping[edit]

Main article: Ski jumping at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Athlete Event Qualifying First Round Final
Points Rank Points Rank Points Total Rank
Masahiko Harada Normal hill disqualified
Tsuyoshi Ichinohe Large hill 89.9 18 Q 108.5 16 Q 93.9 202.4 25
Daiki Ito Normal hill 123.0 9 Q 126.0 13 Q 117.5 243.5 18
Large hill 110.9 6 Q 82.5 42 did not advance 42
Noriaki Kasai Normal hill 132.5 1 Q 126.0 13 Q 115.0 241.0 20
Large hill 117.3 1 Q 104.0 21 Q 123.3 227.3 12
Takanobu Okabe Normal hill 127.5 7 PQ 118.0 24 Q 111.5 229.5 23
Large hill 122.1 7 PQ 115.0 8 Q 121.8 236.8 8
Tsuyoshi Ichinohe
Daiki Ito
Noriaki Kasai
Takanobu Okabe 		Team n/a 426.8 6 Q 466.3 893.1 6

Note: PQ indicates a skier was pre-qualified for the final, based on entry rankings.

Snowboarding[edit]

Main article: Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Halfpipe
Men
Athlete Event Qualifying Run 1 Qualifying Run 2 Final
Points Rank Points Rank Run 1 Run 2 Rank
Kazuhiro Kokubo Halfpipe 26.9 23 31.0 17 did not advance 23
Fumiyuki Murakami Halfpipe 27.9 20 31.1 16 did not advance 22
Takaharu Nakai Halfpipe 36.0 9 36.8 8 did not advance 14
Domu Narita Halfpipe 31.5 15 14.7 29 did not advance 35
Women
Athlete Event Qualifying Run 1 Qualifying Run 2 Final
Points Rank Points Rank Run 1 Run 2 Rank
Chikako Fushimi Halfpipe 13.0 26 34.8 6 Q (9.5) 15.6 12
Melo Imai Halfpipe 7.2 31 1.4 28 did not advance 34
Shiho Nakashima Halfpipe 35.5 5 Q n/a 33.1 (30.6) 9
Soko Yamaoka Halfpipe 28.5 14 35.6 5 Q (22.4) 32.7 10

Note: In the final, the single best score from two runs is used to determine the ranking. A bracketed score indicates a run that wasn't counted.

Parallel GS
Athlete Event Qualification Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
Time Rank Opposition
Time 		Opposition
Time 		Opposition
Time 		Opposition
Time 		Rank
Tomoka Takeuchi Women's parallel giant slalom 1:21.67 9 Q  Guenther (AUT) (8)
L +0.24 (+0.10 +0.14) 		did not advance 9
Kentaro Tsuruoka Men's parallel giant slalom 1:18.14 28 did not advance 28
Eri Yanetani Women's parallel giant slalom 1:23.21 18 did not advance 18

Key: '+ Time' represents a deficit; the brackets indicate the results of each run.

Snowboard Cross
Athlete Event Qualifying 1/8 Finals Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
Time Rank Position Position Position Position Rank
Itaru Chimura Men's snowboard cross 1:22.83 27 Q 2 Q 4 did not advance Classification 13-16
4 		16
Yuka Fujimori Women's snowboard cross 1:32.46 15 Q n/a 2 Q 4 Classification 5-8
3 		7

Speed skating[edit]

Main article: Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Race 1 Final
Time Rank Time Rank
Yusuke Imai 1000 m n/a 1:10.48 20
1500 m n/a 1:50.56 34
Joji Kato 500 m 35.59 35.19 1:10.78 6
Kesato Miyazaki 5000 m n/a 6:40.03 21
Keiichiro Nagashima 500 m 35.67 35.47 1:11.14 13
1000 m n/a 1:11.78 32
Takaharu Nakajima 1000 m n/a 1:11.10 27
1500 m n/a 1:51.61 38
Yuya Oikawa 500 m 35.35 35.21 1:10.56 4
Hiroyasu Shimizu 500 m 35.66 35.78 1:11.44 18
Teruhiro Sugimori 1500 m n/a 1:49.51 24
Takahiro Ushiyama 1000 m n/a 1:11.21 28
1500 m n/a 1:50.59 35
5000 m n/a 6:51.53 27
Women
Athlete Event Race 1 Final
Time Rank Time Rank
Eriko Ishino 1500 m n/a 2:01.85 22
3000 m n/a 4:11.21 13
5000 m n/a 7:12.48 11
Nami Nemoto 1500 m n/a 2:02.34 29
Tomomi Okazaki 500 m 38.46 38.46 1:16.92 4
1000 m n/a 1:17.63 16
Sayuri Osuga 500 m 38.65 38.74 1:17.39 8
Hiromi Otsu 1500 m n/a 2:04.77 33
Eriko Seo 3000 m n/a 4:16.27 20
Maki Tabata 1000 m n/a 1:17.64 17
1500 m n/a 2:00.77 15
3000 m n/a 4:12.38 14
5000 m n/a 7:18.05 13
Aki Tonoike 1000 m n/a 1:17.64 17
Yukari Watanabe 500 m 39.46 39.19 1:18.65 15
Sayuri Yoshii 500 m 38.68 38.75 1:17.43 9
1000 m n/a 1:17.58 15
Team Pursuit
Athlete Event Seeding Quarterfinal Semifinal Final
Time Rank Opposition
Time 		Opposition
Time 		Opposition
Time 		Rank
From:
Teruhiro Sugimori
Kesato Miyazaki
Takahiro Ushiyama 		Men's team pursuit 4:03.83 8  Canada (1)
L 3:53.88 		did not advance 7th place Final
 Germany (5)
L 3:50.37 		8
From:
Eriko Ishino
Nami Nemoto
Hiromi Otsu
Maki Tabata 		Women's team pursuit 3:08.34 7  Norway (2)
W Overtook 		 Canada (3)
L 3:05.95 		Bronze Final
 Russia (1)
L Overtaken 		4

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Flagbearers for the Opening Ceremony". Retrieved Feb 22, 2009.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Flagbearers for the Closing Ceremony". Retrieved Feb 22, 2009.[permanent dead link]
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