Naoko Takahashi — Athletics, Women's Marathon
Tadahiro Nomura — Judo, Men's Extra Lightweight (60 kg)
Makoto Takimoto — Judo, Men's Half Middleweight (81 kg)
Kosei Inoue — Judo, Men's Half-Heavyweight (100 kg)
Ryoko Tamura — Judo, Women's Extra Lightweight (48 kg)
Shinichi Shinohara — Judo, Men's Heavyweight (+100 kg)
Noriko Narazaki — Judo, Women's Half Lightweight (52 kg)
Reika Utsugi, Miho 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)
Kie Kusakabe — Judo, Women's Lightweight (57 kg)
Mayumi Yamashita — Judo, Women's Heavyweight (+78 kg)
Miki Nakao — Swimming, Women's 200 m Backstroke
Junko Onishi, Masami Tanaka, Sumika Minamoto, and Mai Nakamura — Swimming, Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay
Yoriko Okamoto — Taekwondo, Women's 67 kg
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 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 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)
Men's Singles
Hidetaka Yamada
Round of 64: Bye
Round of 32: Lost to Tautik 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
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
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)
Women's Kayak Singles 500 m
Sayuri Maruyama
Qualifying Heat — 02:00.833 (did not advance)
Men's Kayak Singles
Taro Ando
Qualifying — 442.64 (did not advance)
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)
Men's Road Race
Yoshiyuki Abe
Final — DNF
Women's Road Race
Miho Oki
Final — 3:12:40 (40th place)
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 Buran 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 Point Race
Akemi Morimoto
Points — 0 (16th place)
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)
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
Group D
Japan — South Africa 2-1
Japan — Slovakia 2-1
Japan — Brazil 0-1
Quarter Finals
Japan — United States 2-2 (USA wins after penalties)
Team Roster
( 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)
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
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 (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 4 × 100 m Medley
Sumika Minamoto, Mai Nakamura, Junko Onishi, Masami Tanaka
Preliminary Heat — 04:05.76
Final — 04:04.16 (Bronze medal)
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)
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)
Men
