# Japan at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Japan competed at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

## Alpine skiing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Mikio Katagiri | Downhill | | | | | 1:50.03 | 27 |
| Sumihiro Tomii | Downhill | | | | | 1:48.88 | 20 |
| Haruhisa Chiba | Giant Slalom | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
| Masami Ichimura | Giant Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
| Mikio Katagiri | Giant Slalom | 1:54.68 | 45 | 1:58.05 | 38 | 3:52.73 | 37 |
| Sumihiro Tomii | Giant Slalom | 1:53.92 | 40 | 1:55.81 | 34 | 3:49.73 | 34 |
| Haruhisa Chiba | Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
| Mikio Katagiri | Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
| Sumihiro Tomii | Slalom | 1:07.69 | 34 | 1:10.98 | 28 | 2:18.67 | 29 |
| Masami Ichimura | Slalom | 1:02.35 | 10 | DNF | – | DNF | – |

## Biathlon
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time $^1$ | Rank |
| 20 km | Kazuo Sasakubo | 1'21:35.31 | 6 | 1'27:35.31 | 41 |
| 20 km | Manabu Suzuki | 1'19:35.79 | 7 | 1'26:35.79 | 38 |
| 20 km | Hiroyuki Deguchi | 1'20:53.84 | 4 | 1'24:53.84 | 30 |
    $^1$ One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

### Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Misses $^2$ | Time | Rank |
| Isao Ono Hiroyuki Deguchi Manabu Suzuki Yoshiyuki Shirate | 10 | 2'17:09.04 | 14 |
    $^2$ A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.

## Bobsleigh

| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| JPN-1 | Susumu Esashika Kazumi Abe | Two-man | 58.69 | 24 | 59.07 | 24 | 59.12 | 24 | 59.18 | 24 | 3:56.06 | 24 |
| JPN-2 | Rikio Sato Kimihiro Shinada | Two-man | 58.52 | 22 | 58.30 | 21 | 58.55 | 23 | 58.35 | 21 | 3:53.72 | 22 |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| JPN-1 | Susumu Esashika Kazumi Abe Rikio Sato Kimihiro Shinada | Four-man | 56.47 | 18 | 56.97 | 21 | 57.78 | 19 | 58.19 | 19 | 3:49.41 | 18 |

## Cross-country skiing
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 15 km | Ryoji Fujiki | 49:40.48 | 58 |
| 15 km | Kiyoshi Hayasaka | 48:46.93 | 50 |
| 30 km | Ryoji Fujiki | 1'42:59.25 | 57 |
| 30 km | Kiyoshi Hayasaka | 1'41:33.76 | 55 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 5 km | Mikiko Terui | 17:29.65 | 26 |
| 10 km | Mikiko Terui | 33:25.81 | 30 |

## Figure skating
### Men

| Athlete | CF | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Mitsuru Matsumura | 16 | 12 | 11 | 172.48 | 99 | 11 |
| Minoru Sano | 9 | 7 | 10 | 178.72 | 79 | 9 |

### Women

| Athlete | CF | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Emi Watanabe | 11 | 12 | 15 | 171.72 | 118.5 | 13 |

## Ice hockey
### First round

Winners (in bold) entered the Medal Round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th-12th places.
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Finland | 11–2 | Japan |

### Consolation round

| Rank | | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| 7 | Romania | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 15 | 8 |
| 8 | Austria | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 14 | 6 |
| 9 | Japan | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 18 | 6 |
| 10 | Yugoslavia | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 19 | 6 |
| 11 | Switzerland | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 22 | 4 |
| 12 | Bulgaria | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 19 | 38 | 0 |
* Romania 3-1 Japan
* Austria 3-2 Japan
* Japan 6-4 Switzerland
* Japan 4-3 Yugoslavia
* Japan 7-5 Bulgaria
* Contestants Toshimitsu Otsubo Minoru Misawa Hiroshi Hori Iwao Nakayama Hitoshi Nakamura Kiyoshi Esashika Takeshi Akiba Koji Wakasa Hideo Urabe Yoshiaki Kyoya Minoru Ito Takeshi Azuma Sadaki Honma Hideo Sakurai Tsutomu Hanzawa Osamu Wakabayashi Yasushio Tanaka Yoshio Hoshino

## Luge
### Men

| Athlete | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Kazuaki Ichikawa | 56.252 | 29 | 55.502 | 30 | 55.400 | 33 | 55.288 | 29 | 3:42.442 | 27 |
| Hidetoshi Sato | 55.699 | 27 | 55.142 | 26 | 54.906 | 27 | 55.184 | 27 | 3:40.931 | 24 |
(Men's) Doubles
| Athletes | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Total | Total |
| Athletes | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Kazuaki Ichikawa Masaaki Oyagi | 45.176 | 18 | 45.407 | 19 | 1:30.583 | 18 |

### Women

| Athlete | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Teruko Yamada | 45.482 | 20 | 45.155 | 19 | 44.943 | 21 | 45.228 | 20 | 3:00.808 | 20 |
| Mieko Ogawa | 45.341 | 18 | 45.263 | 20 | 44.907 | 20 | 45.219 | 19 | 3:00.730 | 19 |

## Nordic combined

Events:
* normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
* 15 km cross-country skiing
| Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Cross-country | Cross-country | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance 1 | Distance 2 | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Michio Kubota | Individual | 74.0 | 74.5 | 196.3 | 15 | 56:39.45 | 142.31 | 32 | 338.61 | 30 |
| Yuji Katsuro | Individual | 75.0 | 76.0 | 209.8 | 5 | 54:15.75 | 163.87 | 29 | 373.67 | 21 |

## Ski jumping

| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank |
| Koji Kakuta | Normal hill | 74.5 | 104.5 | 76.0 | 105.9 | 210.4 | 29 |
| Takao Ito | Normal hill | 75.0 | 106.8 | 75.5 | 107.1 | 213.9 | 24 |
| Hiroshi Itagaki | Normal hill | 76.0 | 109.4 | 76.5 | 111.7 | 221.1 | 20 |
| Yukio Kasaya | Normal hill | 78.0 | 114.1 | 76.0 | 109.9 | 224.0 | 16 |
| Minoru Wakasa | Large hill | 86.0 | 90.4 | 84.0 | 87.1 | 177.5 | 29 |
| Hiroshi Itagaki | Large hill | 86.0 | 95.4 | 77.0 | 79.8 | 175.2 | 33 |
| Takao Ito | Large hill | 85.0 | 95.5 | 80.5 | 87.7 | 183.2 | 22 |
| Yukio Kasaya | Large hill | 86.0 | 95.9 | 86.0 | 96.4 | 192.3 | 17 |

## Speed skating
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Mikio Oyama | 40.90 | 18 |
| 500 m | Norio Hirate | 40.85 | 16 |
| 500 m | Masaki Suzuki | 40.22 | 11 |
| 1000 m | Norio Hirate | 1:29.42 | 30 |
| 1000 m | Mikio Oyama | 1:25.91 | 24 |
| 1000 m | Masaki Suzuki | 1:23.40 | 19 |
| 1500 m | Masahiko Yamamoto | 2:06.67 | 21 |
| 5000 m | Masayuki Kawahara | 8:10.08 | 24 |
| 5000 m | Masahiko Yamamoto | 8:06.97 | 22 |
| 10,000 m | Masahiko Yamamoto | 16:20.83 | 16 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Keiko Hasegawa | 45.09 | 17 |
| 500 m | Makiko Nagaya | 43.88 | 7 |
| 1000 m | Keiko Hasegawa | 1:35.42 | 24 |
| 1000 m | Yuko Yaegashi-Ota | 1:33.99 | 20 |
| 1000 m | Makiko Nagaya | 1:31.23 | 9 |
| 1500 m | Yuko Yaegashi-Ota | 2:25.74 | 24 |
| 1500 m | Chieko Ito | 2:25.27 | 22 |
| 3000 m | Chieko Ito | 5:02.57 | 21 |
| 3000 m | Yuko Yaegashi-Ota | 4:58.92 | 19 |