Japan at the 1932 Summer Olympics

Japan at the
1932 Summer Olympics
Japan at the; 1932 Summer Olympics
IOC code	JPN
NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
Website	www.joc.or.jp (in Japanese and English)
in Los Angeles
Competitors	157
Flag bearer	Mikio Oda
Medals; Ranked 5th	Gold 7 Silver 7 Bronze 4 Total 18
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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The Empire of Japan competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. 131 athletes competed in 10 sports and also participated in art competitions.

Swimming became the most successful sport after collecting five gold medals, five silver medals and also two bronze medals. Takeichi Nishi also performed stunningly in equestrian and won Japan's first gold medal in the sport. The field hockey team also competed with two other teams from the United States and India, and won a silver medal.

With so many teams, Japan's delegation was the second largest, exceeded only by the United States.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Chuhei Nambu	Athletics	Men's triple jump	August 4
Gold	Yasuji Miyazaki	Swimming	Men's 100 m freestyle	August 7
Gold	Yasuji Miyazaki Masanori Yusa Takashi Yokoyama Hisakichi Toyoda	Swimming	Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay	August 9
Gold	Masaji Kiyokawa	Swimming	Men's 100 m backstroke	August 12
Gold	Yoshiyuki Tsuruta	Swimming	Men's 200 m breaststroke	August 13
Gold	Kusuo Kitamura	Swimming	Men's 1500 m freestyle	August 13
Gold	Takeichi Nishi	Equestrian	Individual jumping	August 14
Silver	Shuhei Nishida	Athletics	Men's pole vault	August 3
Silver	Tatsugo Kawaishi	Swimming	Men's 100 m freestyle	August 7
Silver	Hideko Maehata	Swimming	Women's 200 m breaststroke	August 9
Silver	Shunkichi Hamada Junzo Inohara Sadayoshi Kobayashi Haruhiko Kon Kenichi Konishi Hiroshi Nagata Eiichi Nakamura Yoshio Sakai Katsumi Shibata Toshio Usami	Field hockey	Tournaments	August 11
Silver	Toshio Irie	Swimming	Men's 100 m backstroke	August 12
Silver	Reizo Koike	Swimming	Men's 200 m breaststroke	August 13
Silver	Shozo Makino	Swimming	Men's 1500 m freestyle	August 13
Bronze	Chuhei Nambu	Athletics	Men's long jump	August 2
Bronze	Kenkichi Oshima	Athletics	Men's triple jump	August 4
Bronze	Tsutomu Ōyokota	Swimming	Men's 400 m freestyle	August 10
Bronze	Kentaro Kawatsu	Swimming	Men's 100 m backstroke	August 12

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Swimming	5	5	2	12
Athletics	1	1	2	4
Equestrian	1	0	0	1
Field hockey	0	1	0	1
Total	7	7	4	18

Athletics

Aquatics

Swimming

Diving

Men's 3 metre springboard
Kazuo Kobayashi - 133.76(6th Place)
Tetsutaro Namae - 125.18(8th Place)
Men's 10 metre platform
Hidekatsu Ishida - 75.92(8th Place)

Water polo

7 August


United States	10 – 0	Japan

8 August


Hungary	18 – 0^[1]	Japan

12 August


Germany	10 – 0	Japan

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	HUN	GER	USA	JPN
	Hungary (HUN)	3	3	0	0	31	2	+29	6		6–2	7–0	18–0
	Germany (GER)	3	1	1	1	16	10	+6	3	2–6		4–4	10–0
	United States (USA)	3	1	1	1	14	11	+3	3	0–7	4–4		10–0
4	Japan (JPN)	3	0	0	3	0	38	−38	0	0–18	0–10	0–10

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Boxing

Equestrian

Field hockey

Standings

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
India	2	2	0	35	2	+33	2
Japan	2	1	1	10	13	−3	1
United States (H)	2	0	2	3	33	−30	0

Source: Sports Reference
(H) Hosts

Matches

4 August 1932

India	11–1^[2]	Japan
Roop Singh(3) Kullar(3) Carr (1) Chand (4)		Inohara(1)

8 August 1932

Japan	9–2	United States
Inohara(4)

Gymnastics

Rowing

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Rokuro Takahashi Norio Ban Umetaro Shibata Daikichi Suzuki Shokichi Nanba	Coxed four	7:16.8	3 R	7:47.0	4	Did not advance	6
Yoshio Enomoto Shigeo Fujiwara Saburo Hara Kenzo Ikeda Setsuo Matsura Taro Nishidono Hidemitsu Tanaka Setsuji Tanaka Toshi Sano	Eight	6:43.4	3 R	7:22.6	3	Did not advance	7

Wrestling

Art competitions

References

^ 17-0 in the 1932 Official book, but 18-0 in 1932 newspapers which gave the goalscorers
^ "India vs. Japan". Bharatiyahockey.org. Retrieved 2 April 2019.

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[1] 17-0 in the 1932 Official book, but 18-0 in 1932 newspapers which gave the goalscorers

[2] "India vs. Japan". Bharatiyahockey.org. Retrieved 2 April 2019.

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