Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Japan at the
2020 Summer Olympics
Japan at the; 2020 Summer Olympics
IOC code	JPN
NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
Website	www.joc.or.jp (in Japanese)
in Tokyo, Japan; July 23 – August 8, 2021
Competitors	556 (295 men and 261 women) in 37 sports
Flag bearers (opening)	Rui Hachimura; Yui Susaki
Flag bearer (closing)	Ryo Kiyuna
Medals; Ranked 3rd	Gold 27 Silver 14 Bronze 17 Total 58
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Japan was the host nation of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020 but postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1] Since the nation's official debut in 1912, Japanese athletes have appeared at every Summer Olympic Games in the modern era, except for the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, to which they were not invited due to the nation's role in World War II, and the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, as part of the United States-led boycott. The opening ceremony flag-bearers for Japan are basketball player Rui Hachimura and wrestler Yui Susaki.^[2] Karateka Ryo Kiyuna is the flag-bearer for the closing ceremony.^[3]

Japan finished the Games with 58 total medals, 27 being gold, an impressive improvement of the country's previous record performances from the 1964 Olympics (also held in Tokyo) and 2004 Olympics. This placed them third overall by gold first ranking (for the third time after 1964 and 1968) behind the United States and China. By total medals, they also fell behind the Russian Olympic Committee and the United Kingdom. It was the most successful Summer Olympics in Japan's history.

Medalists

The following Japanese competitors won medals at the Games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Naohisa Takato	Judo	Men's 60 kg	24 July
Gold	Yui Ohashi	Swimming	Women's 400 metre individual medley	25 July
Gold	Yuto Horigome	Skateboarding	Men's street	25 July
Gold	Uta Abe	Judo	Women's 52 kg	25 July
Gold	Hifumi Abe	Judo	Men's 66 kg	25 July
Gold	Momiji Nishiya	Skateboarding	Women's street	26 July
Gold	Shohei Ono	Judo	Men's 73 kg	26 July
Gold	Jun Mizutani Mima Ito	Table tennis	Mixed doubles	26 July
Gold	Takanori Nagase	Judo	Men's 81 kg	27 July
Gold	Yamato Fujita Yukiko Ueno Nozomi Goto Yukiyo Mine Nayu Kiyohara Haruka Agatsuma Yuka Ichiguchi Yu Yamamoto Hitomi Kawabata Mana Atsumi Minori Naito Saki Yamazaki Nodoka Harada Sayaka Mori Eri Yamada	Softball	Women's tournament	27 July
Gold	Yui Ohashi	Swimming	Women's 200 metre individual medley	28 July
Gold	Chizuru Arai	Judo	Women's 70 kg	28 July
Gold	Daiki Hashimoto	Gymnastics	Men's artistic individual all-around	28 July
Gold	Shori Hamada	Judo	Women's 78 kg	29 July
Gold	Aaron Wolf	Judo	Men's 100 kg	29 July
Gold	Akira Sone	Judo	Women's +78 kg	30 July
Gold	Koki Kano Kazuyasu Minobe Satoru Uyama Masaru Yamada	Fencing	Men's team épée	30 July
Gold	Sena Irie	Boxing	Women's featherweight	3 August
Gold	Daiki Hashimoto	Gymnastics	Men's horizontal bar	3 August
Gold	Sakura Yosozumi	Skateboarding	Women's park	4 August
Gold	Yukako Kawai	Wrestling	Women's freestyle 62 kg	4 August
Gold	Risako Kawai	Wrestling	Women's freestyle 57 kg	5 August
Gold	Ryo Kiyuna	Karate	Men's kata	6 August
Gold	Mayu Mukaida	Wrestling	Women's freestyle 53 kg	6 August
Gold	Takuto Otoguro	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 65 kg	7 August
Gold	Yui Susaki	Wrestling	Women's freestyle 50 kg	7 August
Gold	Kōyō Aoyagi Suguru Iwazaki Masato Morishita Hiromi Itoh Yoshinobu Yamamoto Masahiro Tanaka Yasuaki Yamasaki Ryoji Kuribayashi Yūdai Ōno Kodai Senga Kaima Taira Ryutaro Umeno Takuya Kai Tetsuto Yamada Sōsuke Genda Hideto Asamura Ryosuke Kikuchi Hayato Sakamoto Munetaka Murakami Kensuke Kondo Yuki Yanagita Ryoya Kurihara Masataka Yoshida Seiya Suzuki Atsunori Inaba Makoto Kaneko Yoshinori Tateyama Yoshinori Murata Hirokazu Ibata Masaji Shimizu	Baseball	Men's tournament	7 August
Silver	Funa Tonaki	Judo	Women's 48 kg	24 July
Silver	Daiki Hashimoto Kazuma Kaya Takeru Kitazono Wataru Tanigawa	Gymnastics	Men's artistic team all-around	26 July
Silver	Kanoa Igarashi	Surfing	Men's shortboard	27 July
Silver	Tomoru Honda	Swimming	Men's 200 metre butterfly	28 July
Silver	Hifumi Abe Uta Abe Chizuru Arai Shori Hamada Hisayoshi Harasawa Shoichiro Mukai Takanori Nagase Shohei Ono Akira Sone Miku Tashiro Aaron Wolf Tsukasa Yoshida	Judo	Mixed team	31 July
Silver	Kenichiro Fumita	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg	2 August
Silver	Kokona Hiraki	Skateboarding	Women's park	4 August
Silver	Koki Ikeda	Athletics	Men's 20 kilometres walk	5 August
Silver	Kiyou Shimizu	Karate	Women's kata	5 August
Silver	Miu Hirano Kasumi Ishikawa Mima Ito	Table tennis	Women's team	5 August
Silver	Miho Nonaka	Sport climbing	Women's combined	6 August
Silver	Mone Inami	Golf	Women's individual	7 August
Silver	Moeko Nagaoka Maki Takada Naho Miyoshi Rui Machida Nako Motohashi Nanaka Todo Saki Hayashi Evelyn Mawuli Saori Miyazaki Yuki Miyazawa Himawari Akaho Monica Okoye	Basketball	Women's tournament	8 August
Silver	Yumi Kajihara	Cycling	Women's omnium	8 August
Bronze	Funa Nakayama	Skateboarding	Women's street	26 July
Bronze	Takaharu Furukawa Hiroki Muto Yuki Kawata	Archery	Men's team	26 July
Bronze	Tsukasa Yoshida	Judo	Women's 57 kg	26 July
Bronze	Amuro Tsuzuki	Surfing	Women's shortboard	27 July
Bronze	Mikiko Andoh	Weightlifting	Women's 59 kg	27 July
Bronze	Mima Ito	Table tennis	Women's singles	29 July
Bronze	Yuta Watanabe Arisa Higashino	Badminton	Mixed doubles	30 July
Bronze	Takaharu Furukawa	Archery	Men's individual	31 July
Bronze	Kazuma Kaya	Gymnastics	Men's pommel horse	1 August
Bronze	Mai Murakami	Gymnastics	Women's floor	2 August
Bronze	Shohei Yabiku	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 77 kg	3 August
Bronze	Tsukimi Namiki	Boxing	Women's flyweight	4 August
Bronze	Ryomei Tanaka	Boxing	Men's flyweight	5 August
Bronze	Toshikazu Yamanishi	Athletics	Men's 20 kilometres walk	5 August
Bronze	Jun Mizutani Koki Niwa Tomokazu Harimoto	Table tennis	Men's team	6 August
Bronze	Akiyo Noguchi	Sport climbing	Women's combined	6 August
Bronze	Ryutaro Araga	Karate	Men's +75 kg	7 August

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Judo	9	2	1	12
Wrestling	5	1	1	7
Skateboarding	3	1	1	5
Gymnastics	2	1	2	5
Swimming	2	1	0	3
Table tennis	1	1	2	4
Karate	1	1	1	3
Boxing	1	0	2	3
Baseball	1	0	0	1
Fencing	1	0	0	1
Softball	1	0	0	1
Athletics	0	1	1	2
Sport climbing	0	1	1	2
Surfing	0	1	1	2
Basketball	0	1	0	1
Cycling	0	1	0	1
Golf	0	1	0	1
Archery	0	0	2	2
Badminton	0	0	1	1
Weightlifting	0	0	1	1
Total	27	14	17	58

Medals by day
Day				Total
July 24	1	1	0	2
July 25	4	0	0	4
July 26	3	1	3	7
July 27	2	1	2	5
July 28	3	1	0	4
July 29	2	0	1	3
July 30	2	0	1	3
July 31	0	1	1	2
August 1	0	0	1	1
August 2	0	1	1	2
August 3	2	0	1	3
August 4	2	1	1	4
August 5	1	3	2	6
August 6	2	1	2	5
August 7	3	1	1	5
August 8	0	2	0	2
Total	27	14	17	58

Medals by gender
Gender				Total
Female	14	8	8	30
Male	12	5	8	25
Mixed	1	1	1	3
Total	27	14	17	58

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Note that reserves in field hockey, football, and handball are not counted:

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Archery	3	3	6
Artistic swimming	—	9	9
Athletics	41	9	50
Badminton	6	7	13
Baseball	24	—	24
Basketball	12	16	28
Boxing	4	2	6
Canoeing	7	5	12
Cycling	6	7	13
Diving	4	4	8
Equestrian	9	0	9
Fencing	12	9	21
Field hockey	16	16	32
Football	18	18	36
Golf	2	2	4
Gymnastics	5	12	17
Handball	14	14	28
Judo	7	7	14
Karate	4	4	8
Modern pentathlon	1	2	3
Rugby sevens	12	12	24
Sailing	8	7	15
Shooting	6	6	12
Skateboarding	4	6	10
Softball	—	15	15
Sport climbing	2	2	4
Surfing	2	2	4
Swimming	18	17	35
Table tennis	3	3	6
Taekwondo	2	2	4
Tennis	4	5	9
Triathlon	2	2	4
Volleyball	14	14	28
Water polo	13	13	26
Weightlifting	4	3	7
Wrestling	6	6	12
Total	295	261	556

Archery

Japan fielded six archers (three men and three women) at the Games, as the host nation is automatically entitled to use the men's and women's team quota places.^[4]

The host nation's archery team was officially announced on March 21, 2021, with London 2012 silver medalist Takaharu Furukawa slated to shoot at his fifth consecutive Olympics.^[5]^[6]

Men

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Takaharu Furukawa	Individual	649	46	Álvarez (MEX) W 7–3	Broeksma (NED) W 6–5	Das (IND) W 3–1	Lia Jl (CHN) W 4–0	Gazoz (TUR) L 1–4	Tang C-c (TPE) W 4–1
Yuki Kawata		661	22	de Smedt (BEL) L 2–6	Did not advance
Hiroki Muto		678	5	Shanny (ISR) L 3–7	Did not advance
Takaharu Furukawa Yuki Kawata Hiroki Muto	Team	1988	4	—		Bye	United States (USA) W 5–1	South Korea (KOR) L 4–5	Netherlands (NED) W 5–4

Women

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ren Hayakawa	Individual	653	16	Đỗ (VIE) W 6–5	Kaufhold (USA) W 6–2	An S (KOR) L 4–6	Did not advance
Miki Nakamura		639	31	Horáčková (CZE) W 6–2	Jang M-h (KOR) W 6–2	Wu Jx (CHN) L 1–7	Did not advance
Azusa Yamauchi		665	7	Bishindeeg (MGL) W 6–2	Marusava (BLR) L 0–6	Did not advance
Ren Hayakawa Miki Nakamura Azusa Yamauchi	Team	1957	4	—		Bye	Belarus (BLR) L 3–5	Did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Hiroki Muto Azusa Yamauchi	Team	1343	3	France (FRA) L 3–5	Did not advance

Artistic swimming

Japan as the host nation, entered a squad of eight artistic swimmers to compete in the women's duet and team event.

Athlete	Event	Technical routine		Free routine (preliminary)			Free routine (final)
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Total (technical + free)	Rank	Points	Total (technical + free)	Rank
Yukiko Inui Megumu Yoshida	Duet	93.3499	4	93.9333	187.2832	4 Q	94.4667	187.8166	4
Juka Fukumura Yukiko Inui Moeka Kijima Okina Kyogoku Mayu Tsukamoto Mashiro Yasunaga Akane Yanagisawa Megumu Yoshida	Team	93.3773	4	—			94.9333	188.3106	4

Athletics (track and field)

Japanese athletes further achieved the entry standards, either by qualifying time or by world ranking, in the following track and field events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):^[7]^[8] The team will be selected based on the results of the 2020 Japan Championships and once an athlete wins a medal in race walking and marathon, or attains the top eight position in track and field at the 2019 IAAF World Championships in Doha, Qatar.

Four marathon runners (two per gender) were the first set of Japanese track and field athletes being selected for the Games, with a top-two finish of their respective races at the Grand Championship in Tokyo on September 15, 2019.^[9]^[10] By winning the gold medals at the World Championships, race walkers Toshikazu Yamanishi and London 2012 Olympian Yusuke Suzuki were officially added to the track and field roster.^[11]^[12] Suguru Osako and Mao Ichiyama completed the nation's marathon team lineup at the Nagoya and Lake Biwa Marathon on March 8, 2020.^[13]

Key

Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
NR = National record
N/A = Round not applicable for the event
Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Track & road events
Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Yuki Koike	100 m	Bye		10.22	4	Did not advance
Shuhei Tada		Bye		10.22	6	Did not advance
Ryota Yamagata		Bye		10.15	4	Did not advance
Abdul Hakim Sani Brown	200 m	21.41	6	—		Did not advance
Shota Iizuka		21.02	6			Did not advance
Jun Yamashita		20.78	5			Did not advance
Julian Walsh	400 m	46.57	6	—		Did not advance
Yuta Bando	5000 m	14:05.80	17	—				Did not advance
Hiroki Matsueda	5000 m	14:15.54	18	—				Did not advance
Akira Aizawa	10000 m	—						28:18.37	17
Tatsuhiko Ito	10000 m	—						29:01.31	22
Shunsuke Izumiya	110 m hurdles	13.28	2 Q	—		13.35	3	Did not advance
Taio Kanai		13.41	3 Q			26.11	8	Did not advance
Shunya Takayama		13.98	6			Did not advance
Takatoshi Abe	400 m hurdles	49.98	6	—		Did not advance
Kazuki Kurokawa		50.30	6			Did not advance
Hiromu Yamauchi		49.21	3 Q			49.35	6	Did not advance
Ryoma Aoki	3000 m steeplechase	8:24.82	9	—				Did not advance
Ryuji Miura		8:09.92	2 Q					8:16.90	7
Kosei Yamaguchi		8:31.27	12					Did not advance
Bruno Dede* Yoshihide Kiryu Yuki Koike Shuhei Tada Ryota Yamagata	4 × 100 m relay	38.16	3 Q	—				DNF
Rikuya Itō Kaito Kawabata Kentarō Satō Aoto Suzuki Julian Walsh*	4 × 400 m relay	3:00.76	5	—				Did not advance
Yuma Hattori	Marathon	—						2:30:08	73
Shogo Nakamura								2:22:23	62
Suguru Osako								2:10:41	6
Koki Ikeda	20 km walk	—						1:12:14
Eiki Takahashi								1:27:29	32
Toshikazu Yamanishi								1:12:28
Hayato Katsuki	50 km walk	—						4:06:32	30
Masatora Kawano								3:51:56	6
Satoshi Maruo								4:06:44	32

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Ran Urabe	1500 m	4:07.90	9	Did not advance
Nozomi Tanaka	1500 m	4:02.33 NR	4 Q	3:59.19 NR	5 Q	3:59.95	8
Kaede Hagitani	5000 m	15:04.95	12	—		Did not advance
Ririka Hironaka		14:55.87	9 q			14:52.84 NR	9
Nozomi Tanaka		14:59.93	=6			Did not advance
Yuka Ando	10000 m	—				32:40.77	23
Ririka Hironaka						31:00.71 PB	7
Hitomi Niiya						32:23.87 SB	22
Masumi Aoki	100 m hurdles	13.59	7	Did not advance
Ayako Kimura		13.25	7	Did not advance
Asuka Terada		12.95	5 q	13.06	6	Did not advance
Yuno Yamanaka	3000 m steeplechase	9:43.83	10	—		Did not advance
Hanae Aoyama Yu Ishikawa* Mei Kodama Remi Tsuruta Ami Saitō	4 × 100 m relay	43.44	7	—		Did not advance
Mao Ichiyama	Marathon	—				2:30:13	8
Honami Maeda						2:35:28	33
Ayuko Suzuki						2:33:14	19
Nanako Fujii	20 km walk	—				1:31:55	13
Kumiko Okada	20 km walk	—				1:31:57	15

Field events
Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Yuki Hashioka	Long jump	8.17	3 Q	8.10	6
Shotaro Shiroyama		7.70	23	Did not advance
Hibiki Tsuha		7.61	26	Did not advance
Takashi Eto	High jump	2.21	=17	Did not advance
Naoto Tobe	High jump	2.28	=4 q	2.24	13
Masaki Ejima	Pole vault	5.30	=25	Did not advance
Seito Yamamoto	Pole vault	5.30	=25	Did not advance
Takuto Kominami	Javelin throw	78.39	19	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Haruka Kitaguchi	Javelin throw	62.06	6 q	55.42	12

Badminton

Japan as the host nation, entered thirteen badminton players for each of the following events into the Olympic tournament based on the BWF Race to Tokyo Rankings. The team was announced by the Nippon Badminton Association on 18 June 2021.^[14]

Men

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Elimination	Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Kento Momota	Singles	Lam (USA) W (21–12, 21–9)	Heo K-h (KOR) L (15–21, 19–21)	—	2	Did not advance
Kanta Tsuneyama	Singles	Paul (MRI) W (21–8, 21–6)	Coelho (BRA) W (21–14, 21–8)	—	1 Q	Ginting (INA) L (18–21, 14–21)	Did not advance
Hiroyuki Endo Yuta Watanabe	Doubles	Olofua / Opeyori (NGR) W (21–2, 21–7)	Ivanov / Sozonov (ROC) W (21–19, 21–19)	Astrup / Rasmussen (DEN) W (21–14, 21–12)	1 Q	—	Lee Y / Wang C-l (TPE) L (16–21, 19–21)	Did not advance
Takeshi Kamura Keigo Sonoda	Doubles	Lamsfuß / Seidel (GER) W (21–13, 21–8)	P Chew / R Chew (USA) W (21–11, 21–3)	Li Jh / Liu Yc (CHN) L (14–21, 16–21)	2 Q	—	Ahsan / Setiawan (INA) L (14–21, 21–16, 9–21)	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Elimination	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Akane Yamaguchi	Singles	Shahzad (PAK) W (21–3, 21–8)	Gilmour (GBR) W (21–9, 21–18)	—	1 Q	Kim G-e (KOR) W (21–17, 21–18)	Sindhu (IND) L (13–21, 20–22)	Did not advance
Nozomi Okuhara	Singles	Li (GER) W (21–17, 21–4)	Kosetskaya (ROC) W (21–6, 21–16)	—	1 Q	Li (CAN) W (21–9, 21–7)	He Bj (CHN) L (21–13, 13–21, 14–21)	Did not advance
Yuki Fukushima Sayaka Hirota	Doubles	Birch / Smith (GBR) W (21–13, 21–14)	Chow M K / Lee M Y (MAS) W (17–21, 21–15, 21–8)	Polii / Rahayu (INA) L (22–24, 21–13, 8–21)	2 Q	—	Chen Qc / Jia Yf (CHN) L (21–18, 10–21, 10–21)	Did not advance
Mayu Matsumoto Wakana Nagahara	Doubles	Hany / Hosny (EGY) W (21–7, 21–3)	Honderich / Tsai (CAN) W (14–21, 21–19, 21–18)	Piek / Seinen (NED) W (24–22, 21–15)	1 Q	—	Kim S-y / Kong H-y (KOR) L (14–21, 21–14, 26–28)	Did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank=	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Yuta Watanabe Arisa Higashino	Doubles	Christiansen / Bøje (DEN) W (20–22, 21–11, 21–15)	Leung / Somerville (AUS) W (21–7, 21–15)	Jordan / Oktavianti (INA) W (21–13, 21–10)	1 Q	Puavaranukroh / Taerattanachai (THA) W (15–21, 21–16, 21–14)	Wang / Huang (CHN) L (23–21, 15–21, 14–21)	Tang C M / Tse Y S (HKG) W (21–17, 23–21)

Baseball

Japan national baseball team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation.

Team roster

The final roster was announced on 16 June 2021.^[15]^[16]

Baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics –

Japan roster

Players

Coaches

Pitchers

Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Manager

Coaches

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	RF	RA	RD	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	Japan (H)	2	2	0	11	7	+4	1.000	—	Round 2
2	Dominican Republic	2	1	1	4	4	0	.500	1	Round 1 game #2
3	Mexico	2	0	2	4	8	−4	.000	2	Round 1 game #1

Source: TOCOG and WBSC
(H) Hosts

28 July 12:00 (JST)
Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Dominican Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	3	8	0
Japan	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	4	9	0
WP: Ryoji Kuribayashi (1–0) LP: Jairo Asencio (0–1) Boxscore

31 July 12:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Japan	0	1	1	3	0	0	1	1	0	7	10	0
Mexico	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	4	7	2
WP: Masato Morishita (1–0) LP: Juan Pablo Oramas (0–1) Sv: Ryoji Kuribayashi (1) Home runs: JPN: Tetsuto Yamada (1), Hayato Sakamoto (1) MEX: Joey Meneses (1) Boxscore

Round 2

2 August 19:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	R	H	E
United States	0	0	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	6	12	2
Japan (10)	0	0	2	1	2	0	0	0	1	1	7	12	0
WP: Ryoji Kuribayashi (2–0) LP: Edwin Jackson (0–1) Home runs: USA: Triston Casas (2) JPN: Seiya Suzuki (1) Boxscore

Semifinal

4 August 19:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
South Korea	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	7	1
Japan	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	X	5	9	1
WP: Hiromi Itoh (1–0) LP: Go Woo-suk (0–1) Sv: Ryoji Kuribayashi (2) Boxscore

Gold medal game

7 August 19:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
United States	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	1
Japan	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	X	2	8	0
WP: Masato Morishita (2–0) LP: Nick Martinez (1–1) Sv: Ryoji Kuribayashi (3) Home runs: USA: None JPN: Munetaka Murakami (1) Boxscore

Basketball

Indoor

Men's tournament

Japan men's basketball team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation.

Team roster

The roster was announced on 5 July 2021.^[17]

Japan national basketball team roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Age – Date of birth	Height	Club
PG	2	Yuki Togashi	27 – (1993-07-30)30 July 1993	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)	Chiba Jets Funabashi
SG	6	Makoto Hiejima	31 – (1990-04-11)11 April 1990	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	Utsunomiya Brex
SF	8	Rui Hachimura	23 – (1998-02-08)8 February 1998	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)	Washington Wizards
PG	9	Leo Vendrame	27 – (1993-11-14)14 November 1993	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)	Sun Rockers Shibuya
SF	12	Yuta Watanabe	24 – (1996-10-13)13 October 1996	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	Toronto Raptors
SG	14	Kosuke Kanamaru	32 – (1989-03-08)8 March 1989	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)	Shimane Susanoo Magic
SF	18	Yudai Baba	25 – (1995-11-07)7 November 1995	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	Melbourne United
PF	23	Gavin Edwards	33 – (1988-01-15)15 January 1988	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	Chiba Jets Funabashi
SG	24	Daiki Tanaka	29 – (1991-09-03)3 September 1991	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)	Alvark Tokyo
C	32	Avi Schafer	23 – (1998-01-28)28 January 1998	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	SeaHorses Mikawa
PF	34	Hugh Watanabe	22 – (1998-12-23)23 December 1998	2.07 m (6 ft 9 in)	Ryukyu Golden Kings
SF	88	Tenketsu Harimoto	29 – (1992-01-08)8 January 1992	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	Nagoya Diamond Dolphins

Head coach

Assistant coach(es)

Herman Mandole

Legend

Club – describes last
club before the tournament
Age – describes age
on 25 July 2021

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Slovenia	3	3	0	329	268	+61	6	Quarterfinals
2	Spain	3	2	1	256	243	+13	5
3	Argentina	3	1	2	268	276	−8	4
4	Japan (H)	3	0	3	235	301	−66	3

Source: TOCOG and FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) classification points; 2) head-to-head results; 3) head-to-head game points difference; 4) head-to-head number of game points scored.
(H) Hosts

26 July 2021
21:00
v

Boxscore

Japan	77–88	Spain
Scoring by quarter: 14–18, 14–30, 28–21, 21–19
Pts: Hachimura 20 Rebs: Watanabe 8 Asts: Baba, Tanaka 5		Pts: Rubio 20 Rebs: Claver 9 Asts: Rubio 9

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama
Referees: Aleksandar Glišić (SRB), Mārtiņš Kozlovskis (LAT), Rabah Noujaim (LIB)

29 July 2021
13:40
v

Boxscore

Slovenia	116–81	Japan
Scoring by quarter: 29–23, 24–18, 27–23, 36–17
Pts: Dončić 25 Rebs: Tobey 11 Asts: Dončić 7		Pts: Hachimura 34 Rebs: Hachimura, Watanabe 7 Asts: Hachimura, Tanaka 3

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama
Referees: Aleksandar Glišić (SRB), Michael Weiland (CAN), Ferdinand Pascual (PHI)

1 August 2021
13:40
v

Boxscore

Argentina	97–77	Japan
Scoring by quarter: 26–16, 20–22, 19–15, 32–24
Pts: Scola 23 Rebs: Scola 10 Asts: Campazzo 11		Pts: Baba 18 Rebs: Hachimura 11 Asts: three players 3

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama
Referees: Roberto Vázquez (PUR), Mārtiņš Kozlovskis (LAT), Michael Weiland (CAN)

Women's tournament

Japan women's basketball team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation.

Team roster

The roster was announced on 1 July 2021.^[19]

Japan women's national basketball team – 2020 Summer Olympics roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Age – Date of birth	Height	Club
PF	0	Moeko Nagaoka	27 – (1993-12-29)29 December 1993	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	Toyota Antelopes
C	8	Maki Takada	31 – (1989-08-23)23 August 1989	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	Denso Iris
SG	12	Naho Miyoshi	27 – (1993-12-21)21 December 1993	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)	Toyota Antelopes
PG	13	Rui Machida	28 – (1993-03-08)8 March 1993	1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)	Fujitsu Red Wave
PG	15	Nako Motohashi	27 – (1993-10-10)10 October 1993	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)	Haneda Vickies
SG	20	Nanaka Todo	20 – (2000-11-29)29 November 2000	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)	Toyota Boshoku Sunshine Rabbits
SG	27	Saki Hayashi	26 – (1995-03-16)16 March 1995	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	JX-Eneos Sunflowers
PF	30	Evelyn Mawuli	26 – (1995-06-02)2 June 1995	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)	Toyota Antelopes
PG	32	Saori Miyazaki	25 – (1995-08-27)27 August 1995	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)	JX-Eneos Sunflowers
PF	52	Yuki Miyazawa	28 – (1993-06-02)2 June 1993	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	Fujitsu Red Wave
SF	88	Himawari Akaho	22 – (1998-08-28)28 August 1998	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	Denso Iris
PF	99	Monica Okoye	22 – (1999-02-07)7 February 1999	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)	Fujitsu Red Wave

Head coach

Assistant coach(es)

Toru Ontsuka

Legend

Club – describes last
club before the tournament
Age – describes age
on 26 July 2021

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	3	0	260	223	+37	6	Quarterfinals
2	Japan (H)	3	2	1	245	239	+6	5
3	France	3	1	2	239	229	+10	4
4	Nigeria	3	0	3	217	270	−53	3

Source: TOCOG and FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) classification points; 2) head-to-head results; 3) head-to-head game points difference; 4) head-to-head number of game points scored.
(H) Hosts

27 July 2021
10:00
v

Boxscore

Japan	74–70	France
Scoring by quarter: 13–17, 21–19, 18–13, 22–21
Pts: Hayashi 12 Rebs: Akaho 9 Asts: Machida 11		Pts: Gruda 18 Rebs: Gruda 9 Asts: Johannès 4

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama
Referees: Maripier Malo (CAN), James Boyer (AUえーゆーS), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ)

30 July 2021
13:40
v

Boxscore

United States	86–69	Japan
Scoring by quarter: 28–30, 21–10, 16–13, 21–16
Pts: Wilson 20 Rebs: Stewart 13 Asts: Bird, Stewart 6		Pts: Takada 15 Rebs: Akaho 8 Asts: Machida 11

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama
Referees: Yener Yılmaz (TUR), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ), Gizella Györgyi (NOR)

2 August 2021
10:00
v

Boxscore

Nigeria	83–102	Japan
Scoring by quarter: 22–30, 16–21, 19–33, 26–18
Pts: Macaulay 18 Rebs: Chidom, Elonu 7 Asts: Nyingifa 8		Pts: Hayashi 23 Rebs: Akaho 7 Asts: Machida 15

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama
Referees: Juan Fernández (ARG), Andreia Silva (BRA), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ)

Quarterfinal

4 August 2021
17:20
v

Boxscore

Japan	86–85	Belgium
Scoring by quarter: 19–16, 22–26, 20–26, 25–17
Pts: Miyazawa 21 Rebs: Akaho 7 Asts: Machida 14		Pts: Meesseman 25 Rebs: Meesseman 11 Asts: Allemand 8

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama
Referees: Yu Jung (TPE), Amy Bonner (USA), James Boyer (AUえーゆーS)

Semifinal

6 August 2021
20:00
v

Boxscore

Japan	87–71	France
Scoring by quarter: 14–22, 27–12, 27–16, 19–21
Pts: Akaho 17 Rebs: Akaho, Miyazawa 7 Asts: Machida 18		Pts: Gruda 18 Rebs: Williams 8 Asts: Williams 7

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama
Referees: Maripier Malo (CAN), Luis Castillo (ESP), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ)

Final

8 August 2021
11:30
v

Boxscore

United States	90–75	Japan
Scoring by quarter: 23–14, 27–25, 25–17, 15–19
Pts: Griner 30 Rebs: Stewart 14 Asts: Taurasi 8		Pts: Takada 17 Rebs: Okoye 8 Asts: Machida 6

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama
Referees: Manuel Mazzoni (ITA), Andreia Silva (BRA), Maripier Malo (CAN)

3×3 basketball

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage								Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	GM / BM	Rank
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Japan men's 3×3	Men's 3×3 tournament	Poland L 19–20	Belgium W 18–16	Netherlands L 20–21	Latvia L 18–21	Serbia L 11–21	ROC L 16–19	China W 21–16	6	Latvia L 18–21	Did not advance		6
Japan women's 3×3	Women's 3×3 tournament	ROC L18–21	Romania W 20–8	Mongolia W 19–10	France W 19–15	China L 12–15	Italy W 22–10	United States W 20–18	4	France L 14–16	Did not advance		5

Men's tournament

Japan men's basketball 3x3 team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation.

Team roster

The players were announced on 3 July 2021.^[21]

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	Serbia	7	7	0	138	91	+47	Semifinals
2	Belgium	7	4^[a]	3	126	127	−1	Semifinals
3	Latvia	7	4^[a]	3	133	129	+4	Quarterfinals
4	Netherlands	7	4^[a]	3	132	129	+3
5	ROC	7	3	4	116	125	−9
6	Japan (H)	7	2^[b]	5	123	134	−11
7	Poland	7	2^[b]	5	120	130	−10
8	China	7	2^[b]	5	119	142	−23

Source: TOCOG and FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Wins; 2) Head-to-head record; 3) Points scored.
(H) Hosts
Notes:

^ ^a ^b ^c Belgium 2–0, Latvia 1–1, Netherlands 0–2
^ ^a ^b ^c Japan 1–1, 123 PS; Poland 1–1, 120 PS; China 1–1, 119 PS

24 July 2021
19:05
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Report

Japan	19–20 (OT)	Poland
Pts: Brown, Tominaga 7		Pts: Pawłowski, Zamojski 7

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo
Referees: Vlad Ghizdareanu (ROU), Jasmina Juras (SRB)

24 July 2021
22:25
v

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Belgium	16–18 (OT)	Japan
Pts: Bogaerts 5		Pts: Yasuoka 7

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo
Referees: Vlad Ghizdareanu (ROU), Su Yu-yen (TPE)

25 July 2021
19:05
v

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Japan	20–21	Netherlands
Pts: Tominaga 10		Pts: Bekkering, Slagter 6

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo
Referees: Marek Maliszewski (POL), Vanessa Devlin (AUえーゆーS)

25 July 2021
22:25
v

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Latvia	21–18	Japan
Pts: Lasmanis 7		Pts: Tominaga 9

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo
Referees: Edmond Ho (HKG), Marek Maliszewski (POL)

26 July 2021
12:00
v

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Serbia	21–11	Japan
Pts: Domović Bulut 7		Pts: Yasuoka 8

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo
Referees: Edmond Ho (HKG), Glenn Tuitt (USA)

26 July 2021
15:00
v

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Japan	16–19	ROC
Pts: Brown 7		Pts: Pisklov 7

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo
Referees: Glenn Tuitt (USA), Cecília Tóth (HUN)

27 July 2021
15:05
v

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China	16–21	Japan
Pts: Gao 8		Pts: Tominaga, Yasuoka 8

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo
Referees: Markos Michaelides (SUI), Jasmina Juras (SRB)

Quarter-finals

27 July 2021
22:20
v

Report

Latvia	21–18	Japan
Pts: Krūmiņš 9		Pts: Tominaga 8

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo
Referees: Jasmina Juras (SRB), Marek Maliszewski (POL)

Women's tournament

Japan women's national 3x3 team qualified for the Olympics by securing a top three finish at the 2021 Olympic Qualifying Tournament.^[22]

Team roster

The players were announced on 3 July 2021.^[21]

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	United States	7	6	1	136	98	+38	Semifinals
2	ROC	7	5^[a]	2	129	90	+39	Semifinals
3	China	7	5^[a]	2	127	97	+30	Quarterfinals
4	Japan (H)	7	5^[a]	2	130	97	+33
5	France	7	4	3	118	116	+2
6	Italy	7	2	5	98	125	−27
7	Romania	7	1	6	89	142	−53
8	Mongolia	7	0	7	79	141	−62

Source: TOCOG and FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Wins; 2) Head-to-head record; 3) Points scored.
(H) Hosts
Notes:

^ ^a ^b ^c ROC 2–0, China 1–1, Japan 0–2

24 July 2021
10:15
v

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ROC	21–18	Japan
Pts: O. Frolkina 7		Pts: Shinozaki 8

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo
Referees: Edmond Ho (HKG), Cecília Tóth (HUN)

24 July 2021
14:25
v

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Romania	8–20	Japan
Pts: Ursu-Kim 3		Pts: Mawuli 9

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo
Referees: Sara El-Sharnouby (EGY), Markos Michaelides (SUI)

25 July 2021
10:15
v

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Japan	19–10	Mongolia
Pts: Mawuli, Yamamoto 6		Pts: Chimeddolgor, Solongo 3

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo
Referees: Shi Qirong (CHN), Markos Michaelides (SUI)

25 July 2021
17:55
v

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Japan	19–15	France
Pts: three players 5		Pts: Paget 6

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo
Referees: Evgeny Ostrovskiy (RUS), Vanessa Devlin (AUえーゆーS)

26 July 2021
10:15
v

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Japan	12–15	China
Pts: Mawuli 5		Pts: Wang L. 5

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo
Referees: Marek Maliszewski (POL), Vanessa Devlin (AUえーゆーS)

26 July 2021
14:25
v

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Italy	10–22	Japan
Pts: Consolini 4		Pts: Mawuli 8

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo
Referees: Cecília Tóth (HUN), Su Yu-yen (TPE)

27 July 2021
13:30
v

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United States	18–20	Japan
Pts: Dolson 7		Pts: Yamamoto 8

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo
Referees: Evgeny Ostrovskiy (RUS), Shi Qirong (CHN)

Quarterfinal

27 July 2021
21:50
v

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Japan	14–16	France
Pts: Shinozaki 7		Pts: Paget 5

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo
Referees: Evgeny Ostrovskiy (RUS), Cecília Tóth (HUN)

Boxing

Japan entered six boxers (four men and two women) into the Olympic tournament. Sewon Okazawa (men's welterweight), 2018 world bronze medalist Tsukimi Namiki (women's flyweight), and Sena Irie (women's featherweight) secured the spots on the host nation's squad in their respective weight divisions, either by advancing to the semifinal match or by scoring a box-off triumph, at the 2020 Asia & Oceania Qualification Tournament in Amman, Jordan.^[23]^[24] Three more boxers were officially selected by the Japanese Olympic Committee and the Japanese Boxing Federation to take up the host nation places for the Games, including Rio 2016 Olympian Daisuke Narimatsu in the men's lightweight division.^[25]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ryomei Tanaka	Men's flyweight	Finol (VEN) W 5–0	Hu Jg (CHN) W 3–1	Martinez (COL) W 4–1	Paalam (PHI) L 0–5	Did not advance
Daisuke Narimatsu	Men's lightweight	Pezo (PER) W 5–0	Safiullin (KAZ) L WO	Did not advance
Sewon Okazawa	Men's welterweight	Yadav (IND) W 5–0	Iglesias (CUB) L 2–3	Did not advance
Yuito Moriwaki	Men's middleweight	Mousavi (IRI) W 3–2	Khyzhniak (UKR) L 0–5	Did not advance
Tsukimi Namiki	Women's flyweight	Nanziri (UGA) W 5–0	Sousa (BRA) W 5–0	Valencia (COL) W 5–0	Krasteva (BUL) L 0–5	Did not advance
Sena Irie	Women's featherweight	Solorzano (ESA) W 5–0	Hlimi (TUN) W 5–0	Nechita (ROU) W 3–2	Artingstall (GBR) W 3–2	Petecio (PHI) W 5–0

Canoeing

Slalom

Being the host nation, Japan has been awarded one boat each in all four classes. On October 20, 2019, the slalom canoeists were officially selected to the host nation's roster at the conclusion of the NHK Slalom International Cup, with Rio 2016 bronze medalist Takuya Haneda remarkably going to his fourth straight Olympics.^[26]^[27]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary						Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Best	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Takuya Haneda	Men's C-1	106.57	11	105.15	11	105.15	13 Q	107.82	10 Q	109.30	10
Kazuya Adachi	Men's K-1	97.72	14	92.09	6	92.09	6 Q	101.60	16	Did not advance
Ayano Sato	Women's C-1	161.77	21	151.03	19	151.03	20	Did not advance
Aki Yazawa	Women's K-1	129.87	21	127.91	21	127.91	22 Q	124.73	19	Did not advance

Sprint

Being the host nation, Japan has been awarded a minimum of three boats, with one each in the men's C-1 1000 m, women's C-1 200 m, and women's K-1 500 m. The men's K-4 500 m boat was added to the team roster with a top-ten finish at the 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged, Hungary and the women's K-1 200 m with the fastest finish vying for qualification at the 2021 Asian Championships in Pattaya, Thailand.^[28]^[29] With the cancellation of the 2021 Pan American Championships and the lack of eligible competitors available from the Americas in the canoe sprint regatta, the women's C-2 500 m crew accepted a spare berth from the International Canoe Federation for the Japanese team.^[30]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Takanori Tōme	Men's C-1 1000 m	4:37.208	7 QF	4:38.546	6	Did not advance
Hiroki Fujishima Yūsuke Miyata Momotaro Matsushita Keiji Mizumoto	Men's K-4 500 m	1:32.295	6 QF	1:28.211	7	Did not advance
Teruko Kiriake Manaka Kubota	Women's C-2 500 m	2:16.791	7 QF	2:08.849	5 FB	Bye		2:06.196	14
Yuka Ono	Women's K-1 200 m	45.251	7 QF	45.610	7	Did not advance

Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)

Cycling

Road

Japan entered a squad of four riders (two per gender) to compete in their respective Olympic road races. Two of them filled out the places reserved for the host nation, while the remaining male and female rider earned a slot each by finishing in the top 50 (for men) and top 22 (for women) in the UCI World Ranking.^[31]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Yukiya Arashiro	Men's road race	6:15:38	35
Nariyuki Masuda	Men's road race	6:25:16	84
Hiromi Kaneko	Women's road race	4:01:08	43
Eri Yonamine	Women's road race	3:55:13	21
Eri Yonamine	Women's time trial	34:34.97	22

Track

Following the completion of the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Japanese riders accumulated spots for both men and women in the sprint, keirin, and omnium, as well as the women's madison, based on their country's results in the final UCI Olympic rankings.

Topping the podium in the women's omnium at the 2020 Worlds, Yumi Kajihara became the first Japanese rider to guarantee a spot on the host nation's track cycling team for the Games.^[32] Five more members on the squad were named on June 4, 2020, with sprint riders Yudai Nitta (London 2012) and Yuta Wakimoto (Rio 2016) booking their spots for the second Olympics.^[33]

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round 1	Repechage 1	Round 2	Repechage 2	Round 3	Repechage 3	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Time Speed (km/h)	Rank	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Rank
Yudai Nitta	Men's sprint	9.728 74.013	26	Did not advance
Yuta Wakimoto	Men's sprint	9.518 75.646	9 Q	Quintero (COL) W 9.997 72.022	Bye	Kenny (GBR) L	Bötticher (GER) W 10.323 69.747	Paul (TTO) L	Kenny (GBR) Awang (MAS) L	Did not advance
Yuka Kobayashi	Women's sprint	10.711 67.221	17 Q	Marchant (GBR) L	Krupeckaitė (LTU) Marozaitė (LTU) W 11.335 63.520	Gros (FRA) L	Voynova (ROC) L	Did not advance

Keirin

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Repechage	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Rank	Rank	Rank	Rank	Rank
Yudai Nitta	Men's keirin	1 QF	Bye	6	Did not advance
Yuta Wakimoto	Men's keirin	1 QF	Bye	1 SF	5 FB	7
Yuka Kobayashi	Women's keirin	2 QF	Bye	6	Did not advance

Omnium

Athlete	Event	Scratch race		Tempo race		Elimination race		Points race		Total points	Rank
Athlete	Event	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Total points	Rank
Eiya Hashimoto	Men's omnium	8	26	16	10	12	18	15	0	54	15
Yumi Kajihara	Women's omnium	2	38	5	32	2	38	11	2	110

Madison

Athlete	Event	Points	Laps	Rank
Yumi Kajihara Kisato Nakamura	Women's madison	0	–40	13

Mountain biking

As the host nation, Japanese mountain bikers have already received a quota place each per gender at their disposal for the Games. The mountain biking team was officially named to the host nation's roster on June 5, 2020, with Kohei Yamamoto booking his fourth consecutive trip to the Games on the men's side.^[34]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Kohei Yamamoto	Men's cross-country	1:32:35	29
Miho Imai	Women's cross-country	LAP (3 laps)	37

BMX

As the host nation, Japan has already received four quota places each per gender per event at their disposal for the Games.

Race

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Result	Rank
Yoshitaku Nagasako	Men's race	12	5	Did not advance
Sae Hatakeyama	Women's race	22	6	Did not advance

Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Seeding		Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Rim Nakamura	Men's freestyle	87.67	2	85.10	5
Minato Oike	Women's freestyle	61.45	8	75.40	7

Diving

Japan, as the host nation, is automatically entitled to places in all synchronized diving events, but athletes for individual events must qualify through their own performances at 2019 FINA World Championships, the 2019 Asian Cup, and the 2020 FINA World Cup series.

Five-time Olympian Ken Terauchi and his Rio 2016 partner Sho Sakai became the first Japanese divers to be selected to the squad after finishing seventh in the men's synchronized springboard at the 2019 FINA World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea.^[35]

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Ken Terauchi	3 m springboard	430.20	10 Q	424.50	7 Q	359.70	12
Reo Nishida	10 m platform	314.30	25	Did not advance
Rikuto Tamai	10 m platform	374.25	16 Q	413.65	8 Q	431.95	7
Sho Sakai Ken Terauchi	3 m synchronized springboard	—				393.93	5
Hiroki Ito Kazuki Murakami	10 m synchronized platform	—				377.10	8

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Haruka Enomoto	3 m springboard	277.85	17 Q	255.40	17	Did not advance
Sayaka Mikami	3 m springboard	317.10	5 Q	273.70	16	Did not advance
Matsuri Arai	10 m platform	268.80	22	Did not advance
Haruka Enomoto Hazuki Miyamoto	3 m synchronized springboard	—				269.40	5
Matsuri Arai Minami Itahashi	10 m synchronized platform	—				291.42	6

Equestrian

Japan, as the host nation, automatically received a team of three riders in each of the three sporting disciplines: dressage, eventing, and jumping.

Dressage

Masanao Takahashi and Rubicon have been named the traveling alternates.

Athlete	Horse	Event	Grand Prix		Grand Prix Special		Grand Prix Freestyle		Overall
Athlete	Horse	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Technical	Artistic	Score	Rank
Shingo Hayashi	Scolari	Individual	65.714	48	—		Did not advance
Hiroyuki Kitahara	Huracan		66.304	45			Did not advance
Kazuki Sado	Ludwig der Sonnenkönig		62.531	56			Did not advance
Shingo Hayashi Hiroyuki Kitahara Kazuki Sado	See above	Team	6264.5	14	Did not advance		—		Did not advance

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualified for the final; q = Qualified for the final as a lucky loser

Eventing

Ryuzo Kitajima and Feroza Nieuwmoed have been named the reserves.

Athlete	Horse	Event	Dressage		Cross-country			Jumping						Total
			Dressage		Cross-country			Qualifier			Final			Total
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Yoshiaki Oiwa	Calle	Individual	31.50	21	Eliminated			Did not advance
Toshiyuki Tanaka	Talma d'Allou		32.70	29	30.80	63.50	35	12.00	75.50	34	Did not advance
Kazuma Tomoto	Vinci de la Vigne		26.10	7	1.60	27.50	5	4.00	31.50	7	0.40	31.90	4	31.90	4
Yoshiaki Oiwa Toshiyuki Tanaka Kazuma Tomoto Ryuzo Kitajima (s)	Calle Talma d'Allou Vinci de la Vigne Feroza Nieuwmoed	Team	90.10	4	232.40	322.50	12	16.00+20.00	358.50	11	—			358.50	11

(s) – substituted before jumping – 20 replacement penalties

Jumping

Mike Kawai and As de Mai have been named the traveling alternates.

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification		Final			Jump-off
Athlete	Horse	Event	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Time	Rank	Penalties	Time	Rank
Daisuke Fukushima	Canyon	Individual	0	=1 Q	0	87.57	=1 Q	0	43.76	6
Koki Saito	Chilensky		0	=1 Q	5	89.82	13	Did not advance
Eiken Sato	Saphyr des Lacs		1	=26 Q	16	84.67	25	Did not advance
Daisuke Fukushima Koki Saito Eiken Sato	See above	Team	Eliminated		Did not advance

Fencing

Japanese fencers qualified a full squad in the women's team foil for the Games as the highest-ranked nation from Asia and Oceania outside the world's top four in the FIE Olympic Team Rankings.^[36] Rookies Masaru Yamada (men's épée), Takahiro Shikine (men's foil), Kento Yoshida (men's sabre), and Misaki Emura (women's sabre), with Nozomi Satō (women's épée) going to her third consecutive Games, secured additional places on the host nation's roster as one of the two highest-ranked fencers each vying for qualification from Asia and Oceania in the FIE Adjusted Official Rankings.^[37]^[38]

Eight more fencers were officially named to the host nation's roster on April 25, 2021, including Rio 2016 Olympians Kazuyasu Minobe (men's épée) and Chika Aoki (women's sabre) and American-born Kaito Streets (men's sabre).^[39]

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Koki Kano	Épée	Bye	E Garozzo (ITA) W 15–12	Bida (ROC) L 12–15	Did not advance
Kazuyasu Minobe		Bye	Jurka (CZE) W 15–14	Park S-y (KOR) L 6–15	Did not advance
Masaru Yamada		Bye	Petrov (KGZ) W 15–13	Kurbanov (KAZ) W 15–8	Santarelli (ITA) L 13–15	Did not advance
Koki Kano Kazuyasu Minobe Satoru Uyama Masaru Yamada	Team épée	—		United States (USA) W 45–39	France (FRA) W 45–44	South Korea (KOR) W 45–38	ROC W 45–36
Kyosuke Matsuyama	Foil	Bye	Pauty (FRA) W 15–7	D Garozzo (ITA) L 14–15	Did not advance
Toshiya Saito		Bye	Toldo (BRA) W 15–10	Lefort (FRA) L 4–15	Did not advance
Takahiro Shikine		Bye	Samandi (TUN) W 15–4	Choi (HKG) W 15–6	Abouelkassem (EGY) W 15–13	D Garozzo (ITA) L 9–15	Choupenitch (CZE) L 8–15	4
Kyosuke Matsuyama Yudai Nagano Toshiya Saito Takahiro Shikine	Team foil	—		Bye	Italy (ITA) W 45–43	France (FRA) L 42–45	United States (USA) L 31–45	4
Tomohiro Shimamura	Sabre	Mackiewicz (USA) L 13–15	Did not advance
Kaito Streets		Bounabi (ALG) W 15–9	Dershwitz (USA) L 9–15	Did not advance
Kento Yoshida		Quintero (VEN) L 13–15	Did not advance
Tomohiro Shimamura Kaito Streets Kenta Tokunan Kento Yoshida	Team sabre	—		Egypt (EGY) L 42–45	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Nozomi Satō	Épée	Bye	Kang Y-m (KOR) W 15–14	Beljajeva (EST) L 10–15	Did not advance
Rio Azuma	Foil	Bye	Jeon H-s (KOR) L 10–11	Did not advance
Sera Azuma		Bye	Ryan (CAN) L 11–12	Did not advance
Yuka Ueno		Bye	Mohamed (EGY) W 15–5	Ross (USA) W 15–9	Kiefer (USA) L 11–15	Did not advance
Rio Azuma Sera Azuma Sumire Tsuji Yuka Ueno	Team foil	—			United States (USA) L 36–45	Classification semifinal Egypt (EGY) W 45–27	Fifth place match Canada (CAN) L 31–45	6
Chika Aoki	Sabre	Dayibekova (UZB) L 9–15	Did not advance
Misaki Emura		Bye	Gkountoura (GRE) W 15–8	Brunet (FRA) L 12–15	Did not advance
Norika Tamura		Bye	Qian Jr (CHN) L 8–15	Did not advance
Chika Aoki Misaki Emura Shihomi Fukushima Norika Tamura	Team sabre	—		Tunisia (TUN) W 45–29	ROC L 34–45	Classification semifinal Hungary (HUN) W 45–42	Fifth place match United States (USA) W 45–43	5

Field hockey

Summary

Key:

FT – After full time.
P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Team	Event	Group stage						Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	GM / BM
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Japan men's	Men's tournament	Australia L 3–5	Argentina L 1–2	New Zealand D 2–2	Spain L 1–4	India L 3–5	6	did not advance			11
Japan women's	Women's tournament	China L 3–4	New Zealand L 1–2	Australia L 0–1	Argentina L 1–2	Spain L 1–4	6	did not advance			11

Men's tournament

As the host nation, Japan men's field hockey team qualified for the Olympics by virtue of obtaining a world ranking equal to or better than thirtieth place by the end of 2018, or not finish lower than sixth at the 2018 Asian Games.^[40]

Team roster

The squad was announced on 8 June 2021.^[41]

Head coach: Siegfried Aikman^[42]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	FW	Koji Yamasaki	(1996-02-27)27 February 1996 (aged 25)	97	28	Gifu Asahi Club
4	MF	Genki Mitani	(1990-06-12)12 June 1990 (aged 31)	168	6	Vercosta Fukui
5	MF	Seren Tanaka	(1992-11-09)9 November 1992 (aged 28)	103	8	Gifu Asahi Club
6	MF	Hiromasa Ochiai	(1994-02-09)9 February 1994 (aged 27)	75	5	Tochigi Liebe
7	FW	Kazuma Murata	(1991-11-28)28 November 1991 (aged 29)	120	33	Tochigi Liebe
9	FW	Kenta Tanaka	(1988-05-04)4 May 1988 (aged 33)	154	80	HGC
11	FW	Kenji Kitazato	(1989-05-19)19 May 1989 (aged 32)	162	50	Alder Hanno
12	MF	Yuma Nagai	(1996-03-18)18 March 1996 (aged 25)	11	0	Gifu Asahi Club
13	DF	Manabu Yamashita (Captain)	(1989-02-04)4 February 1989 (aged 32)	186	1	Oyabe Redox
14	MF	Kaito Tanaka	(1995-11-01)1 November 1995 (aged 25)	45	5	Indicator Light Fullertel
15	MF	Ken Nagayoshi	(1999-10-26)26 October 1999 (aged 21)	12	0	Tenri University Bears
17	FW	Kentaro Fukuda	(1995-07-27)27 July 1995 (aged 25)	69	15	Gifu Asahi Club
20	DF	Masaki Ohashi	(1993-05-08)8 May 1993 (aged 28)	94	0	Tochigi Liebe
25	DF	Shota Yamada	(1994-12-21)21 December 1994 (aged 26)	102	32	Gifu Asahi Club
29	DF	Hirotaka Zendana	(1993-02-14)14 February 1993 (aged 28)	119	30	Tenri University Bears
30	GK	Takashi Yoshikawa	(1994-11-29)29 November 1994 (aged 26)	94	0	Gifu Asahi Club
31	FW	Kota Watanabe	(1996-10-30)30 October 1996 (aged 24)	74	8	Vercosta Fukui
32	DF	Yoshiki Kirishita	(1998-12-27)27 December 1998 (aged 22)	55	4	Tochigi Liebe

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	5	4	1	0	22	9	+13	13	Quarter-finals
2	India	5	4	0	1	15	13	+2	12
3	Argentina	5	2	1	2	10	11	−1	7
4	Spain	5	1	2	2	9	10	−1	5
5	New Zealand	5	1	1	3	11	16	−5	4
6	Japan (H)	5	0	1	4	10	18	−8	1

Source: Tokyo 2020 and FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals scored.
(H) Hosts

24 July 2021
09:30
v

Japan	3–5	Australia
Ke. Tanaka 22', 27' Kirishita 26'	Report	Brand 11' Craig 14' Govers 31' Zalewski 38' Beale 50'

North Pitch
Umpires:
Jakub Mejzlík (CZE)
Lim Hong-Zhen (SGP)

25 July 2021
19:00
v

Japan	1–2	Argentina
Ke. Tanaka 60'	Report	Tolini 5' Keenan 19'

South Pitch
Umpires:
Raghu Prasad (IND)
Peter Wright (RSA)

27 July 2021
11:45
v

Japan	2–2	New Zealand
Yamasaki 3' Ke. Tanaka 40'	Report	Wilson 11' Lane 41'

North Pitch
Umpires:
Ben Göntgen (GER)
Germán Montes de Oca (ARG)

28 July 2021
20:45
v

Japan	1–4	Spain
Zendana 2'	Report	Lleonart 3', 55' Quemada 23' Alegre 28'

North Pitch
Umpires:
Lim Hong Zhen (SGP)
Martin Madden (GBR)

30 July 2021
18:30
v

Japan	3–5	India
Ke. Tanaka 19' Watanabe 33' Murata 59'	Report	Harmanpreet 13' Gurjant 17', 56' Shamsher 34' Nilakanta 51'

North Pitch
Umpires:
David Tomlinson (NZL)
Lim Hong Zhen (SGP)

Women's tournament

As the host nation, Japan women's field hockey team qualified for the Olympics by virtue of obtaining a world ranking equal to or better than thirtieth place by the end of 2018, or not finish lower than sixth at the 2018 Asian Games.^[43]

Team roster

The squad was announced on 8 June 2021.^[44]

Head coach: Xavier Arnau

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	DF	Yu Asai	(1996-01-08)8 January 1996 (aged 25)	78	{{{goals}}}	Coca-Cola Red Sparks
3	DF	Kimika Hoshi	(1996-01-26)26 January 1996 (aged 25)	46	{{{goals}}}	Sony H.C. BRAVIA Ladies
6	DF	Emi Nishikori	(1993-01-09)9 January 1993 (aged 28)	73	{{{goals}}}	Coca-Cola Red Sparks
7	FW	Kana Nomura	(1990-03-23)23 March 1990 (aged 31)	128	{{{goals}}}	Southern Metropolis Silver Shooting Stars
8	MF	Yukari Mano (captain)	(1994-03-04)4 March 1994 (aged 27)	124	{{{goals}}}	Sony H.C. BRAVIA Ladies
9	FW	Yuri Nagai	(1992-05-26)26 May 1992 (aged 29)	179	{{{goals}}}	Sony H.C. BRAVIA Ladies
10	MF	Hazuki Nagai	(1994-08-15)15 August 1994 (aged 26)	173	{{{goals}}}	Sony H.C. BRAVIA Ladies
11	DF	Shihori Oikawa	(1989-03-12)12 March 1989 (aged 32)	133	{{{goals}}}	Tokyo Verdy Hockey Team
13	DF	Miki Kozuka	(1996-01-13)13 January 1996 (aged 25)	65	{{{goals}}}	GlaxoSmithKline Orange United
14	MF	Maho Segawa	(1996-06-23)23 June 1996 (aged 25)	46	{{{goals}}}	Tokyo Verdy Hockey Team
15	FW	Mai Toriyama	(1995-04-13)13 April 1995 (aged 26)	15	{{{goals}}}	Southern Metropolis Silver Shooting Stars
16	DF	Natsuha Matsumoto	(1995-07-31)31 July 1995 (aged 25)	43	{{{goals}}}	Coca-Cola Red Sparks
17	FW	Aki Yamada	(1992-11-24)24 November 1992 (aged 28)	27	{{{goals}}}	Coca-Cola Red Sparks
18	FW	Aki Mitsuhashi	(1989-09-12)12 September 1989 (aged 31)		{{{goals}}}
19	FW	Kanon Mori	(1996-05-01)1 May 1996 (aged 25)	28	{{{goals}}}	Coca-Cola Red Sparks
25	FW	Kaho Tanaka	(1997-10-25)25 October 1997 (aged 23)		{{{goals}}}
29	MF	Sakurako Omoto	(1998-03-19)19 March 1998 (aged 23)	31	{{{goals}}}	Coca-Cola Red Sparks
32	GK	Sakiyo Asano	(1987-05-26)26 May 1987 (aged 34)	111	{{{goals}}}	Gifu Morning Ladies

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	5	5	0	13	1	+12	15	Quarterfinals
2	Spain	5	3	2	9	8	+1	9
3	Argentina	5	3	2	8	8	0	9
4	New Zealand	5	2	3	8	7	+1	6
5	China	5	2	3	9	16	−7	6
6	Japan (H)	5	0	5	6	13	−7	0

Source: Tokyo 2020 and FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals scored.
(H) Hosts

25 July 2021
11:45
v

Japan	3–4	China
Nomura 21' Y. Nagai 31' H. Nagai 45+'	Report	Gu 10', 35' Zhang Y. 20' Liang 52'

North Pitch
Umpires:
Ayanna McClean (TTO)
Michelle Meister (GER)

26 July 2021
20:45
v

Japan	1–2	New Zealand
Oikawa 18'	Report	Merry 26' Ralph 29'

North Pitch
Umpires:
Irene Presenqui (ARG)
Annelize Rostron (RSA)

28 July 2021
18:30
v

Japan	0–1	Australia
	Report	M. Fitzpatrick 33'

North Pitch
Umpires:
Maggie Giddens (USA)
Liu Xiaoying (CHN)

29 July 2021
20:45
v

Japan	1–2	Argentina
Mori 19'	Report	Gorzelany 10' M. Granatto 45'

North Pitch
Umpires:
Kelly Hudson (NZL)
Ayanna McClean (TTO)

31 July 2021
10:00
v

Japan	1–4	Spain
Mori 6'	Report	Barrios 25' García Grau 38' Mejías 55' Bonastre 57'

South Pitch
Umpires:
Sarah Wilson (GBR)
Maggie Giddens (USA)

Football (soccer)

Summary

Key:

A.E.T – After extra time.
P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Team	Event	Group stage				Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	Bronze medal match
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Japan men's	Men's tournament	South Africa W 1–0	Mexico W 2–1	France W 4–0	1 Q	New Zealand D 0–0 (4–2)	Spain L 0–1	Mexico L 1–3	4
Japan women's	Women's tournament	Canada D 1–1	Great Britain L 0–1	Chile W 1–0	3 Q	Sweden L 1–3	Did not advance		8

Men's tournament

Japan men's football team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation.

Team roster

Japan's final squad was announced on 22 June 2021.^[45]

Head coach: Hajime Moriyasu

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Keisuke Osako	(1999-07-28)28 July 1999 (aged 21)	Sanfrecce Hiroshima
2	2DF	Hiroki Sakai*	(1990-04-12)12 April 1990 (aged 31)	Marseille
3	2DF	Yuta Nakayama	(1997-02-16)16 February 1997 (aged 24)	PEC Zwolle
4	2DF	Ko Itakura	(1997-01-27)27 January 1997 (aged 24)	Groningen
5	2DF	Maya Yoshida* (captain)	(1988-08-24)24 August 1988 (aged 32)	Sampdoria
6	3MF	Wataru Endō*	(1993-02-09)9 February 1993 (aged 28)	VfB Stuttgart
7	4FW	Takefusa Kubo	(2001-06-04)4 June 2001 (aged 20)	Getafe
8	3MF	Koji Miyoshi	(1997-03-26)26 March 1997 (aged 24)	Antwerp
9	4FW	Daizen Maeda	(1997-10-20)20 October 1997 (aged 23)	Yokohama F. Marinos
10	3MF	Ritsu Dōan	(1998-06-16)16 June 1998 (aged 23)	Arminia Bielefeld
11	4FW	Kaoru Mitoma	(1997-05-20)20 May 1997 (aged 24)	Kawasaki Frontale
12	1GK	Kosei Tani	(2000-11-22)22 November 2000 (aged 20)	Shonan Bellmare
13	3MF	Reo Hatate	(1997-11-21)21 November 1997 (aged 23)	Kawasaki Frontale
14	2DF	Takehiro Tomiyasu	(1998-11-05)5 November 1998 (aged 22)	Bologna
15	2DF	Daiki Hashioka	(1999-05-17)17 May 1999 (aged 22)	Sint-Truiden
16	4FW	Yuki Soma	(1997-02-25)25 February 1997 (aged 24)	Nagoya Grampus
17	3MF	Ao Tanaka	(1998-09-10)10 September 1998 (aged 22)	Kawasaki Frontale
18	4FW	Ayase Ueda	(1998-08-28)28 August 1998 (aged 22)	Kashima Antlers
19	4FW	Daichi Hayashi	(1997-05-23)23 May 1997 (aged 24)	Sagan Tosu
20	2DF	Koki Machida	(1997-08-25)25 August 1997 (aged 23)	Kashima Antlers
21	2DF	Ayumu Seko	(2000-06-07)7 June 2000 (aged 21)	Cerezo Osaka
22	1GK	Zion Suzuki	(2002-08-21)21 August 2002 (aged 18)	Urawa Red Diamonds

* Overage player

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan (H)	3	3	0	7	1	+6	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Mexico	3	2	1	8	3	+5	6	Advance to knockout stage
3	France	3	1	2	5	11	−6	3
4	South Africa	3	0	3	3	8	−5	0

Source: TOCOG and FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

22 July 2021

20:00

Japan	1–0	South Africa
Kubo 71'	Report (TOCOG) Report (FIFA)

Tokyo Stadium, Chōfu

Referee: Jesús Valenzuela (Venezuela)

25 July 2021

20:00

Japan	2–1	Mexico
Kubo 6' Dōan 11' (pen.)	Report (TOCOG) Report (FIFA)	Alvarado 85'

Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama

Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)

28 July 2021

20:30

France	0–4	Japan
	Report (TOCOG) Report (FIFA)	Kubo 27' Sakai 34' Miyoshi 70' Maeda 90+1'

International Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama

Referee: Iván Barton (El Salvador)

Quarterfinal

31 July 2021

18:00

Japan	0–0 (a.e.t.)	New Zealand
	Report (TOCOG) Report (FIFA)
Penalties
Ueda Itakura Nakayama Yoshida	4–2	Wood Cacace Lewis McCowatt

Kashima Stadium, Kashima

Referee: Ismail Elfath (United States)

Semifinal

3 August 2021

20:00

Japan	0–1 (a.e.t.)	Spain
	Report (TOCOG) Report (FIFA)	Asensio 115'

Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama

Referee: Kevin Ortega (Peru)

Bronze medal match

6 August 2021

18:00

Mexico	3–1	Japan
Córdova 13' (pen.) Vásquez 22' Vega 58'	Report (TOCOG) Report (FIFA)	Mitoma 78'

Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama

Referee: Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)

Women's tournament

Japan women's football team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation.

Team roster

The final squad of 22 athletes was announced on 18 June 2021.^[46]

Head coach: Asako Takakura

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Sakiko Ikeda	(1992-09-08) 8 September 1992 (age 31)	18	0	Urawa Reds
2	2DF	Risa Shimizu	(1996-06-15) 15 June 1996 (age 28)	37	1	Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza
3	2DF	Saori Takarada	(1999-12-27) 27 December 1999 (age 24)	7	1	Washington Spirit
4	2DF	Saki Kumagai (captain)	(1990-10-17) 17 October 1990 (age 33)	114	1	Lyon
5	2DF	Moeka Minami	(1998-12-07) 7 December 1998 (age 25)	15	1	Urawa Reds
6	3MF	Hina Sugita	(1997-01-31) 31 January 1997 (age 27)	23	2	INAC Kobe Leonessa
7	3MF	Emi Nakajima	(1990-09-27) 27 September 1990 (age 33)	85	14	INAC Kobe Leonessa
8	3MF	Narumi Miura	(1997-07-03) 3 July 1997 (age 27)	24	1	Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza
9	4FW	Yuika Sugasawa	(1990-10-05) 5 October 1990 (age 33)	75	24	Urawa Reds
10	4FW	Mana Iwabuchi	(1993-03-18) 18 March 1993 (age 31)	77	35	Aston Villa
11	4FW	Mina Tanaka	(1994-04-28) 28 April 1994 (age 30)	47	23	INAC Kobe Leonessa
12	4FW	Jun Endo	(2000-05-24) 24 May 2000 (age 24)	17	1	Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza
13	3MF	Yuzuho Shiokoshi	(1997-11-01) 1 November 1997 (age 26)	3	2	Urawa Reds
14	3MF	Yui Hasegawa	(1997-01-29) 29 January 1997 (age 27)	46	11	Milan
15	4FW	Yuka Momiki	(1996-04-09) 9 April 1996 (age 28)	38	14	OL Reign
16	2DF	Asato Miyagawa	(1998-02-24) 24 February 1998 (age 26)	14	0	Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza
17	2DF	Nanami Kitamura	(1999-11-25) 25 November 1999 (age 24)	3	0	Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza
18	1GK	Ayaka Yamashita	(1995-09-29) 29 September 1995 (age 28)	40	0	Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza
19	2DF	Shiori Miyake	(1995-10-13) 13 October 1995 (age 28)	25	0	INAC Kobe Leonessa
20	3MF	Honoka Hayashi	(1998-05-19) 19 May 1998 (age 26)	6	0	AIK
21	3MF	Momoka Kinoshita	(2003-03-02) 2 March 2003 (age 21)	4	1	Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza
22	1GK	Chika Hirao	(1996-12-31) 31 December 1996 (age 27)	2	0	Albirex Niigata

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Great Britain	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Canada	3	1	2	0	4	3	+1	5
3	Japan (H)	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4
4	Chile	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0

Source: TOCOG and FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

21 July 2021

19:30

Japan	1–1	Canada
Iwabuchi 84'	Report (TOCOG) Report (FIFA)	Sinclair 6'

Sapporo Dome, Sapporo

Attendance: 0^[47]

Referee: Edina Alves Batista (Brazil)

24 July 2021

19:30

Japan	0–1	Great Britain
	Report (TOCOG) Report (FIFA)	White 74'

Sapporo Dome, Sapporo

Attendance: 0^[47]

Referee: Anastasia Pustovoitova (Russia)

27 July 2021

20:00

Chile	0–1	Japan
	Report (TOCOG) Report (FIFA)	Tanaka 77'

Miyagi Stadium, Rifu

Attendance: 1,326^[47]

Referee: Melissa Borjas (Honduras)

Quarterfinal

30 July 2021

19:00

Sweden	3–1	Japan
Eriksson 7' Blackstenius 53' Asllani 68' (pen.)	Report (TOCOG) Report (FIFA)	Tanaka 23'

Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama

Attendance: 0^[47]

Referee: Lucila Venegas (Mexico)

Golf

Japan entered two male and two female golfers into the Olympic tournament.

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Total
Athlete	Event	Score	Score	Score	Score	Score	Par	Rank
Hideki Matsuyama	Men's	69	64	67	69	269	−15	=4
Rikuya Hoshino	Men's	71	68	73	66	278	−6	=38
Nasa Hataoka	Women's	70	68	67	69	274	−10	=9
Mone Inami	Women's	70	65	68	65	268	−16

Gymnastics

Artistic

Japan fielded a full squad of four gymnasts each in both the men's and women artistic gymnastics events, respectively. The men's team secured a berth in the team all-around by winning a bronze at the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Doha, Qatar, while the women's team claimed one of the nine spots available at the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.^[48]^[49] The women's team was named on 15 May 2021 at the conclusion of the NHK Cup.^[50] The full men's team was announced on 6 June 2021.^[51]

Men
Team

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
		F	PH	R	V	PB	HB	Total	Rank	F	PH	R	V	PB	HB	Total	Rank
Daiki Hashimoto	Team	14.700	14.766	13.866	14.866	15.300	15.033 Q	88.531	1 Q	14.600	14.800	13.833	14.833	—	15.100	—
Kazuma Kaya		13.933	14.833 Q	14.366	13.200	15.100	14.033	85.465	9	—	14.566	14.100	—	15.000	14.200
Takeru Kitazono		14.666	13.916	13.333	14.700	14.900	14.433 Q	85.948	7 Q	14.600	14.200	—	14.166	15.000	14.500
Wataru Tanigawa		14.466	13.833	14.300	13.666	15.241	13.400	84.906	13	14.500	—	14.500	15.233	14.666	—
Total		43.832	42.515	42.532	43.232	45.641	43.499	262.251	1 Q	43.700	43.566	42.433	44.232	44.666	43.800	262.397

Individual finals

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
		F	PH	R	V	PB	HB	Total	Rank	F	PH	R	V	PB	HB	Total	Rank
Daiki Hashimoto	All-around	See team results								14.833	15.166	13.533	14.700	15.300	14.933	88.465
Daiki Hashimoto	Horizontal bar	—					15.033	15.033	1 Q	—					15.066	15.066
Kohei Kameyama	Pommel horse	—	15.266	—				15.266	2 Q	—	14.600	—				14.600	5
Kazuma Kaya	Pommel horse	—	14.833	—				14.833	7 Q	—	14.900	—				14.900
Takeru Kitazono	All-around	See team results								14.566	14.500	13.500	14.666	15.066	14.400	86.698	5
Takeru Kitazono	Horizontal bar	—					14.433	14.433	6 Q	—					12.333	12.333	6
Kōhei Uchimura	Horizontal bar	—					13.866	13.866	20	Did not advance

Women
Team

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
		V	UB	BB	F	Total	Rank	V	UB	BB	F	Total	Rank
Hitomi Hatakeda	Team	12.266	14.133	13.000	13.333	52.732	39	—	14.100	13.333	12.800	—
Yuna Hiraiwa		13.733	11.700	13.533	12.666	51.632	49	13.900	—	13.566	—
Mai Murakami		14.433	12.133	13.366	13.933 Q	53.965	23 Q	14.266	12.700	13.833	14.066
Aiko Sugihara		14.266	13.366	11.566	13.333	52.531	41	14.183	13.333	—	13.200
Total		42.432	39.632	39.999	40.599	162.662	8 Q	42.349	40.133	40.732	40.066	163.280	5

Individual finals

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
		V	UB	BB	F	Total	Rank	V	UB	BB	F	Total	Rank
Urara Ashikawa	Balance beam	—		13.900	—	13.900	12 Q*	—		13.733	—	13.733	6
Mai Murakami	All-around	See team results						14.533	13.733	13.766	14.000	56.032	5
Mai Murakami	Floor exercise	—			13.933	13.933	8 Q	—			14.166	14.166

Rhythmic

As the host nation, Japan automatically received a guaranteed place in the group all-around competition at the Games. One rhythmic gymnast was added to the roster by finishing in the top sixteen of the individual all-around at the 2019 World Championships in Baku.^[52] Chisaki Oiwa qualified an additional spot through the 2021 World Cup series.^[53] The athletes for the group all-around were announced on 2 July 2021.^[54]

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
Athlete	Event	Hoop	Ball	Clubs	Ribbon	Total	Rank	Hoop	Ball	Clubs	Ribbon	Total	Rank
Chisaki Oiwa	Individual	23.100	19.600	23.600	21.250	87.550	19	Did not advance
Sumire Kita	Individual	23.150	23.900	24.550	21.200	92.800	11	Did not advance

Athletes	Event	Qualification				Final
Athletes	Event	5 apps	3+2 apps	Total	Rank	5 apps.	3+2 apps	Total	Rank
Sakura Noshitani Sayuri Sugimoto Ayuka Suzuki Nanami Takenaka Kiko Yokota	Group	40.400	39.325	79.725	7 Q	42.750	29.750	72.500	8

Trampoline

Japan qualified one gymnast each for the men's and women's trampoline by finishing in the top eight, respectively, at the 2019 World Championships in Tokyo.^[55] Japan qualified an additional spot in both men's and women's trampoline through the 2019–2020 Trampoline World Cup series.

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Daiki Kishi	Men's	111.540	6 Q	57.815	7
Ryosuke Sakai	Men's	62.250	15	Did not advance
Hikaru Mori	Women's	63.775	13	Did not advance
Megu Uyama	Women's	103.585	5 Q	54.655	5

Handball

Summary

Key:

ET: After extra time
P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Team	Event	Group stage						Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	GM / BM
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Japan men's	Men's tournament	Denmark L 30–47	Sweden L 26–28	Egypt L 29–33	Bahrain L 30–32	Portugal W 31–30	6	Did not advance
Japan women's	Women's tournament	Netherlands L 21–32	Montenegro W 29–26	South Korea L 24–27	Angola L 25–28	Norway L 25–37	6	Did not advance

Men's tournament

Japan men's handball team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation.

Team roster

The squad was announced on 8 July 2021.^[56]

Head coach: Dagur Sigurðsson

No.	Pos.	Name	Date of birth (age)	Height	App.	Goals	Club
10	LW	Naoki Sugioka	(1994-04-18)18 April 1994 (aged 27)	1.77 m	33	37	Toyota Auto Body
12	GK	Yuta Iwashita	(1991-06-21)21 June 1991 (aged 30)	1.83 m	20	1	Toyota Boshoku Kyushu
13	P	Kenya Kasahara	(1988-05-15)15 May 1988 (aged 33)	1.97 m	77	64	Toyota Auto Body
15	LB	Adam Yuki Baig	(1999-04-12)12 April 1999 (aged 22)	1.94 m	43	79	Chuo University
18	LB	Kohei Narita	(1989-06-15)15 June 1989 (aged 32)	1.91 m	93	136	Wakunaga Pharmaceutical
19	RB	Shinnosuke Tokuda	(1995-12-06)6 December 1995 (aged 25)	1.78 m	63	224	Toyoda Gosei
20	RB	Jin Watanabe	(1990-01-17)17 January 1990 (aged 31)	1.83 m	95	305	Toyota Auto Body
21	LW	Remi Anri Doi	(1989-09-28)28 September 1989 (aged 31)	1.80 m	60	145	Zeekstar Tokyo
22	GK	Motoki Sakai	(1995-11-10)10 November 1995 (aged 25)	1.92 m	25	3	Toyoda Gosei
25	RW	Hiroki Motoki	(1992-02-14)14 February 1992 (aged 29)	1.82 m	86	235	Osaki Osol
31	LB	Tatsuki Yoshino	(1994-07-13)13 July 1994 (aged 27)	1.83 m	46	181	Toyota Auto Body
33	CB	Yuto Agarie	(1993-07-06)6 July 1993 (aged 28)	1.83 m	69	238	Zeekstar Tokyo
38	CB	Kotaro Mizumachi	(1995-03-13)13 March 1995 (aged 26)	1.83 m	8	12	Toyoda Gosei
41	RB	Rennosuke Tokuda	(1998-05-15)15 May 1998 (aged 23)	1.80 m	11	20	Grupa Azoty Tarnów
43	P	Shuichi Yoshida	(2001-03-26)26 March 2001 (aged 20)	1.91 m	10	23	Grupa Azoty Tarnów

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Denmark	5	4	1	174	139	+35	8^[a]	Quarter-finals
2	Egypt	5	4	1	154	134	+20	8^[a]
3	Sweden	5	4	1	144	142	+2	8^[a]
4	Bahrain	5	1	4	129	149	−20	2^[b]
5	Portugal	5	1	4	143	156	−13	2^[b]
6	Japan (H)	5	1	4	146	170	−24	2^[b]

Source: Tokyo 2020 and IHF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored; 7) Draw.
(H) Hosts
Notes:

^ ^a ^b ^c Denmark 2 Pts, +2 GD; Egypt 2 Pts, 0 GD, Sweden 2 Pts, −2 GD
^ ^a ^b ^c Bahrain 2 Pts, +1 GD; Portugal 2 Pts, 0 GD, Japan 2 Pts, −1 GD

24 July 2021 21:30	Denmark	47–30	Japan	Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Schulze, Tönnies (GER)
	Holm, Saugstrup 9	(25–14)	Motoki 8
	1× 1×	Report	1× 4×

26 July 2021 21:30	Japan	26–28	Sweden	Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Lah, Sok (SLO)
	Motoki 6	(14–17)	Wanne 8
	1× 4×	Report	1× 1×

28 July 2021 14:15	Japan	29–33	Egypt	Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Schulze, Tönnies (GER)
	Tokuda 8	(11–18)	El-Ahmar 8
	1× 7×	Report	2×

30 July 2021 11:00	Bahrain	32–30	Japan	Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Raluy, Sabroso (ESP)
	Al-Sayyad, Habib 7	(17–16)	Motoki 7
	2× 4×	Report	4×

1 August 2021 09:00	Portugal	30–31	Japan	Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Brunner, Salah (SUI)
	four players 4	(14–16)	R. Tokuda 6
	2× 4×	Report	2× 2×

Women's tournament

Japan women's handball team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation.

Team roster

The squad was announced on 28 June 2021.^[57] On 30 July, Kaho Sunami was replaced by Mana Horikawa.^[58]

Head coach: Ulrik Kirkely

No.	Pos.	Name	Date of birth (age)	Height	App.	Goals	Club
3	P	Kaho Sunami	(1993-01-05)5 January 1993 (aged 28)	1.66 m	45	74	Sony Semiconductor
4	RB	Yui Sunami	(1991-06-07)7 June 1991 (aged 30)	1.62 m	59	160	Hokkoku Bank
5	LB	Sayo Shiota	(1989-03-21)21 March 1989 (aged 32)	1.72 m	66	62	Hokkoku Bank
9	CB	Aya Yokoshima	(1990-07-03)3 July 1990 (aged 31)	1.62 m	55	160	Hokkoku Bank
11	P	Mana Horikawa	(1994-03-04)4 March 1994 (aged 27)	1.74 m	17	2	lzumi Maple Reds
12	GK	Minami Itano	(1993-02-02)2 February 1993 (aged 28)	1.74 m	26	1	lzumi Maple Reds
18	LW	Yuki Tanabe	(1989-08-25)25 August 1989 (aged 31)	1.70 m	59	196	Thüringer HC
21	RW	Ayaka Ikehara	(1990-09-24)24 September 1990 (aged 30)	1.58 m	43	101	Odense Håndbold
24	LB	Nozomi Hara	(1991-03-09)9 March 1991 (aged 30)	1.70 m	78	224	MIE violet' IRIS
25	CB	Mana Ohyama	(1992-12-07)7 December 1992 (aged 28)	1.65 m	45	105	Hokkoku Bank
27	LB	Haruno Sasaki	(1995-02-26)26 February 1995 (aged 26)	1.72 m	23	80	Hokkoku Bank
28	P	Shiori Nagata	(1987-10-24)24 October 1987 (aged 33)	1.71 m	109	92	Omron
30	GK	Sakura Hauge	(1987-01-07)7 January 1987 (aged 34)	1.74 m	49	5	ESBF Besançon
34	LW	Maharu Kondo	(1996-01-24)24 January 1996 (aged 25)	1.58 m	0	0	lzumi Maple Reds
40	RB	Shio Fujii	(1985-03-27)27 March 1985 (aged 36)	1.64 m	121	613	Osaka Lovvits
81	CB	Mayuko Ishitate	(1987-01-18)18 January 1987 (aged 34)	1.67 m	96	201	MIE violet' IRIS

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
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[table_hth_BEL0.94442840104198-22] Belgium 2–0, Latvia 1–1, Netherlands 0–2

[table_hth_JPN0.94442840104198-23] Japan 1–1, 123 PS; Poland 1–1, 120 PS; China 1–1, 119 PS

[table_hth_ROC0.39836651384754-25] ROC 2–0, China 1–1, Japan 0–2

[table_hth_DEN0.85465830045503-60] Denmark 2 Pts, +2 GD; Egypt 2 Pts, 0 GD, Sweden 2 Pts, −2 GD

[table_hth_BHR0.85465830045503-61] Bahrain 2 Pts, +1 GD; Portugal 2 Pts, 0 GD, Japan 2 Pts, −1 GD

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