Japan at the 1928 Summer Olympics
IOC code	JPN
NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
Website	www.joc.or.jp (in Japanese and English)
inAmsterdam
Competitors	43
Flag bearer	Yonetaro Nakazawa
Medals Ranked 15th	Gold 2 Silver 2 Bronze 1 Total 5
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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TheEmpire of Japan competed at the1928 Summer Olympics inAmsterdam,Netherlands.

The Japan Amateur Athletic Federation (Nihon Rikujo Kyogi Renmei), founded in 1925, officially took over sponsorship of the Japanese Olympic team from the Japan Amateur Athletic Association in 1928. Japanese government sponsorship of the Olympic effort continued, both financially, and through expansion of the annual Meiji Shrine Games to include a wider variety of sports, including archery, basketball, field hockey, rowing, table tennis, volleyball and equestrian sports.^[1]

The games became the qualifying event for the Japanese Olympic team, which now for the first time included a woman (Kinue Hitomi). For the 1928 Olympics, Japan fielded 43 athletes.

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Mikio Oda Athletics Men's triple jump August 2  Gold Yoshiyuki Tsuruta Swimming Men's 200 m breaststroke August 8  Silver Kinue Hitomi Athletics Women's 800 m August 2  Silver Hiroshi Yoneyama Nobuo Arai Tokuhei Sada Katsuo Takaishi Swimming Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay August 11  Bronze Katsuo Takaishi Swimming Men's 100 m freestyle August 11

Medals by sport Sport Total Swimming 1 1 1 3 Athletics 1 1 0 2 Total 2 2 1 5

Ranks given are within the heat.

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Ichiro Furuyama	Discus throw	37.89	27	Did not advance
Kazuo Kimura	High jump	1.83	1Q	1.88	6
Yonetaro Nakazawa	Pole vault	3.66	1Q	3.90	6
Chūhei Nambu	Long jump	7.25	9	Did not advance
	Triple jump	15.01	2Q	15.01	4
Mikio Oda	Long jump	7.11	11	Did not advance
	Triple jump	15.21	1Q	15.21
	High jump	1.83	1Q	1.88	7
Yoshio Okita	Discus throw	36.38	30	Did not advance
	Hammer throw	44.41	15	Did not advance
Kosaku Sumiyoshi	Javelin throw	59.05	13	Did not advance

Combined events –Decathlon

Women

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Kinue Hitomi	800 m	2:26:04	Q	—				2:17:06

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Fuji Okamoto	Bantamweight	BYE	Traynor (IRL) L	Did not advance
Kintaro Usuda	Welterweight	Fernández (ESP) W	Hall (RHO) W	Smillie (CAN) L	Did not advance

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Nobuo Arai	Men's 400 m freestyle	5:23.4	10QQ	DNS		Did not advance
	Men's 1500 m freestyle	21:35:4	9QQ	DNS		Did not advance
Toshio Irie	Men's 100 m backstroke	1:13.4	3QQ	1:14.0	3QF	1:13.6	4
Shourai Kimura	Men's 100 m backstroke	DNS		Did not advance
Yuki Mawatari	Men's 200 m breaststroke	DNS		Did not advance
Katsuo Takaishi	Men's 100 m freestyle	1:01.2	4QQ	1:00.0	1QF	1:00.0
	Men's 400 m freestyle	5:22.8	9QF	DNS		Did not advance
Takaji Takebayashi	Men's 1500 m freestyle	22:30.4	9QQ	DNF	—	Did not advance
Yoshiyuki Tsuruta	Men's 200 m breaststroke	2:50.0	1OR	2:49.2	1OR	2:48.8	OR
Hiroshi Yoneyama	400 metre freestyle	5:17.8	3QQ	DNS		Did not advance
Nobuo Arai Tokuhei Sada Katsuo Takaishi Hiroshi Yoneyama	4×200 metre freestyle relay	9:42.6	2QF	—		9:41.4

Men's Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Elimination Pool							Final round
		Round 1 Result	Round 2 Result	Round 3 Result	Round 4 Result	Round 5 Result	Round 6 Result	Rank	Final round Result	Rank
Isuke Shinmen	−65 kg	BYE	Hans Mollet (SUI) L F	—				8	Did not advance

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