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Japan at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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IOC code
  
JPN

Flag bearer
  
Shozo Sasahara

Competitors
  
110 in 13 sports

Japan at the 1956 Summer Olympics

NOC
  
Japanese Olympic Committee

Website
  
www.joc.or.jp (Japanese) (English)

Medals Ranked 10th
  
Gold Silver Bronze Total 4 10 5 19

Japan competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and Stockholm, Sweden (equestrian events). 110 competitors, 94 men and 16 women, took part in 71 events in 13 sports.

Contents

Athletics

Men's Marathon

  • Yoshiaki Kawashima — 2:29:19 (→ 5th place)
  • Hideo Hamamura — 2:40:53 (→ 16th place)
  • Kurao Hiroshima — 3:04:17 (→ 33rd place)

    • Cycling

    Time trial
  • Tetsuo Ōsawa — 1:13.3 (→ 12th place)
    • Individual road race
  • Tetsuo Ōsawa — did not finish (→ no ranking)

    • Diving

    Men's 10m Platform

  • Yutaka Baba
  • Preliminary Round — 70.76
  • Final — 123.69 (→ 11th place)
  • Ryō Mabuchi
  • Preliminary Round — 69.76
  • Final — 120.20 (→ 12th place)

    • Women's 10m Platform

  • Kanoko Tsutani
  • Preliminary Round — 48.45
  • Final — 70.95 (→ 10th place)
  • Hatsuko Hirose
  • Preliminary Round — 46.15
  • Final — 69.71 (→ 11th place)

    • Fencing

    One fencer represented Japan in 1956.

    Men's foil
  • Masayuki Sano
    • Men's épée
  • Masayuki Sano
    • Men's sabre
  • Masayuki Sano

    • Shooting

    Six shooters represented Japan in 1956.

    25 m pistol
  • Choji Hosaka
  • Yoshihide Ueda
    • 50 m pistol
  • Choji Hosaka
  • Yoshihide Ueda
    • 50 m rifle, three positions
  • Yukio Inokuma
  • Tomokazu Maruyama
    • 50 m rifle, prone
  • Yukio Inokuma
  • Tomokazu Maruyama
    • Trap
  • Tokusaburo Iwata
  • Ujitoshi Konomi

    • References

    Japan at the 1956 Summer Olympics Wikipedia
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