# Japan at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Japan competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States. The Team Consists of 50 athletes 46 were men and 4 were women.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| Silver | Hirokazu Yagi | Ski jumping | Men's normal hill (K90) |

## 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 | | | | | 1:49.77 | 21 |
| Osamu Kodama | Giant Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
| Atsushi Sawada | Giant Slalom | 1:25.23 | 36 | 1:28.82 | 37 | 2:54.05 | 36 |
| Toshihiro Kaiwa | Giant Slalom | 1:24.29 | 35 | 1:24.49 | 28 | 2:48.78 | 29 |
| Osamu Kodama | Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
| Atsushi Sawada | Slalom | 56.80 | 21 | 53.14 | 14 | 1:49.94 | 15 |
| Toshihiro Kaiwa | Slalom | 55.78 | 17 | DNF | – | DNF | – |

## Biathlon
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Misses $^1$ | Time | Rank |
| 10 km Sprint | Masaichi Kinoshita | 4 | 38:50.19 | 43 |
| 10 km Sprint | Takashi Shibata | 6 | 37:26.91 | 37 |
| 10 km Sprint | Hiroyuki Deguchi | 2 | 36:14.61 | 26 |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time $^2$ | Rank |
| 20 km | Tsusumisa Kikuchi | 1'13:44.30 | 11 | 1'24:44.30 | 41 |
| 20 km | Hiroyuki Deguchi | 1'14:53.16 | 7 | 1'21:53.16 | 39 |
| 20 km | Masaichi Kinoshita | 1'14:21.46 | 2 | 1'16:21.46 | 28 |

### Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Misses $^1$ | Time | Rank |
| Hiroyuki Deguchi Masaichi Kinoshita Takashi Shibata Tsusumisa Kikuchi | 7 | 1'45:53.98 | 13 |
    $^1$ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
    $^2$ One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

## 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 | Yoshimitsu Kadowaki Yuji Funayama | Two-man | 1:04.62 | 17 | 1:04.92 | 19 | 1:04.82 | 20 | 1:04.30 | 14 | 4:18.66 | 19 |

## Cross-country skiing
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 15 km | Shiro Sato | 46:15.29 | 43 |
| 30 km | Shiro Sato | 1'35:52.77 | 39 |
| 50 km | Shiro Sato | 2'48:33.02 | 37 |

## Figure skating
### Men

| Athlete | CF | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Fumio Igarashi | 13 | 8 | 6 | 172.04 | 77 | 9 |
| Mitsuru Matsumura | 11 | 7 | 7 | 172.28 | 75 | 8 |

### Women

| Athlete | CF | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Emi Watanabe | 4 | 8 | 5 | 179.04 | 48 | 6 |

## Ice hockey
### First Round - Red Division

* Team advanced to the Final Round
* Team advanced to Consolation round
| Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| Soviet Union | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 11 | 10 |
| Finland | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 18 | 6 |
| Canada | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 12 | 6 |
| Poland | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 23 | 4 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 43 | 3 |
| Japan | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 36 | 1 |
All times are local (UTC-5).
* Contestants Minoru Misawa Takeshi Iwamoto Hiroshi Hori Iwao Nakayama Norio Ito Hitoshi Nakamura Tadamitsu Fujii Koji Wakasa Yoshiaki Kyoya Katsutoshi Kawamura Takeshi Azuma Satoru Misawa Mikio Matsuda Sadaki Honma Hideo Sakurai Tsutomu Hanzawa Hideo Urabe Osamu Wakabayashi Mikio Hosoi 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 |
| Koji Kuriyama | 45.820 | 26 | 45.872 | 17 | 45.852 | 18 | 45.538 | 18 | 3:03.082 | 19 |
| Takashi Takagi | 45.294 | 20 | 51.003 | 24 | 45.575 | 17 | 47.962 | 21 | 3:09.564 | 23 |
(Men's) Doubles
| Athletes | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Total | Total |
| Athletes | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Koji Kuriyama Takashi Takagi | 41.035 | 17 | 41.499 | 14 | 1:22.534 | 13 |

## 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 |
| Toshihiro Hanada | Individual | 73.0 | 78.0 | 192.1 | 15 | 54:44.2 | 157.045 | 28 | 349.145 | 27 |
| Michio Kubota | Individual | 78.5 | 72.5 | 187.9 | 16 | 52:34.4 | 176.515 | 26 | 364.415 | 25 |

## Ski jumping

| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank |
| Hiroyasu Aizawa | Normal hill | 69.5 | 88.4 | 68.0 | 88.5 | 176.9 | 42 |
| Takafumi Kawabata | Normal hill | 79.0 | 111.1 | 71.5 | 96.1 | 207.2 | 29 |
| Masahiro Akimoto | Normal hill | 83.5 | 120.8 | 87.5 | 127.7 | 248.5 | 4 |
| Hirokazu Yagi | Normal hill | 87.0 | 128.9 | 83.5 | 120.3 | 249.2 | |
| Hiroyasu Aizawa | Large hill | 95.0 | 99.2 | 93.5 | 96.1 | 195.3 | 35 |
| Hirokazu Yagi | Large hill | 96.5 | 103.3 | 105.5 | 116.9 | 220.2 | 19 |
| Takafumi Kawabata | Large hill | 102.5 | 111.2 | 90.0 | 90.2 | 201.4 | 32 |
| Masahiro Akimoto | Large hill | 104.0 | 113.8 | 108.0 | 120.9 | 234.7 | 10 |

## Speed skating
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Kazuaki Ichimura | 39.44 | 20 |
| 500 m | Kaoru Fukuda | 39.24 | 14 |
| 1000 m | Kazuaki Ichimura | 1:21.05 | 25 |
| 1000 m | Masayuki Kawahara | 1:20.88 | 23 |
| 1000 m | Kaoru Fukuda | 1:19.66 | 19 |
| 1500 m | Yasuhiro Shimizu | 2:04.54 | 24 |
| 1500 m | Masayuki Kawahara | 2:01.28 | 20 |
| 1500 m | Masahiko Yamamoto | 2:01.25 | 19 |
| 5000 m | Masayuki Kawahara | 7:42.18 | 25 |
| 5000 m | Masahiko Yamamoto | 7:33.02 | 21 |
| 5000 m | Yasuhiro Shimizu | 7:21.50 | 16 |
| 10,000 m | Masahiko Yamamoto | 15:26.92 | 17 |
| 10,000 m | Yasuhiro Shimizu | 14:57.48 | 9 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Makiko Nagaya | 42.70 | 5 |
| 1000 m | Yuko Yaegashi-Ota | 1:30.72 | 25 |
| 1000 m | Makiko Nagaya | 1:30.27 | 22 |
| 1000 m | Miyoshi Kato | 1:28.97 | 17 |
| 1500 m | Miyoshi Kato | 2:19.80 | 24 |
| 1500 m | Yuko Yaegashi-Ota | 2:19.41 | 23 |
| 3000 m | Yuko Yaegashi-Ota | 5:00.40 | 25 |
| 3000 m | Miyoshi Kato | 4:57.39 | 21 |