# Japan at the 2014 Asian Beach Games

Japan participated in the 2014 Asian Beach Games in Phuket, Thailand from 14 – 23 November 2014.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
| Gold | Hikaru Aono | Beach wrestling | Women's freestyle -50 kg | November 15 |
| Gold | Ryo Sueoka | Triathlon | Men's duathlon | November 15 |
| Gold | Yurie Kato | Triathlon | Women's duathlon | November 15 |
| Gold | Ryo Sueoka Yuya Fukaura Fumika Matsumoto Yurie Kato | Triathlon | Mixed team duathlon | November 15 |
| Gold | Ai Ueda | Triathlon | Women's triathlon | November 17 |
| Gold | Hirokatsu Tayama Yuichi Hosoda Ai Ueda Yuka Sato | Triathlon | Mixed team triathlon | November 17 |
| Gold | Toshiki Yasui | Waterskiing | Men's wakeboard | November 20 |
| Silver | Yuya Fukaura | Triathlon | Men's duathlon | November 15 |
| Silver | Miku Saito | Beach wrestling | Women's freestyle +60 kg | November 17 |
| Silver | Yuka Sato | Triathlon | Women's triathlon | November 17 |
| Silver | Shingo Terukina Tetsuji Sugita Hirofumi Oda Naoya Matsuo Masahito Toma Ozu Moreira Takasuke Goto Takaaki Oba Takuya Akaguma Takashi Takiguchi | Beach Soccer | Men's tournament | November 21 |
| Silver | Masaaki Hamada Shohei Nagami Shintaro Yukawa Saaya Hirosawa Kazumi Inoue Harue Kamiya | Waterskiing | Team overall | November 22 |
| Bronze | Yoshihiro Shindo Kenta Tanei Yoshiya Nishioka Yu Horita Ayumu Iwai Naoki Yoshimatsu Keita Suzuki Kyohei Shimizu Kotaro Chiba Keisuke Narita | Beach flag football | Men's tournament | November 13 |
| Bronze | Takeru Nobeashi | Beach kurash | Men -73 kg | November 16 |
| Bronze | Fumika Matsumoto | Triathlon | Women's duathlon | November 15 |
| Bronze | Mariko Kojima | Sailing | Women's RS:One | November 20 |
| Bronze | Saaya Hirosawa | Waterskiing | Women's tricks | November 20 |
| Bronze | Takeshi Furuta Makoto Kawamura Masaki Komatsu Yoshiki Oka | Air sports | Men's team accuracy | November 21 |
| Bronze | Takahiro Mizoguchi | Bodybuilding | Flyweight +162 cm | November 22 |
Medals by sport :
| Sport | | | | Total |
| Triathlon | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| Waterskiing | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Beach wrestling | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Beach soccer | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Air sports | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Beach flag football | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Bodybuilding | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kurash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Sailing | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 7 | 5 | 7 | 19 |
Medals by day :
| Day | | | | Total |
| Nov 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Nov 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Nov 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Nov 17 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Nov 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 20 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Nov 21 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Nov 22 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Nov 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 7 | 5 | 7 | 19 |

## Competitors

| Sport | Men | Women | Total |
| Air sports | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Beach flag football | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Beach handball | 14 | 9 | 23 |
| Beach soccer | 14 | 0 | 14 |
| Beach volleyball | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Beach wrestling | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Extreme sports | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kurash | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Pétanque | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| Sailing | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Sambo | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Triathlon | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| Waterskiing | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| Total | 67 | 26 | 93 |

## Air sports
### Paragliding accuracy

| Athlete | Event | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank |
| Makoto Kawamura | Men's Individual | 58 | 6 |
| Yoshiki Oka | Men's Individual | |
| Masaki Komatsu | Men's Individual | 867 | 21 |
| Takeshi Furuta | Men's Individual | 1060 | 23 |
| Japan | Team | 735 | |

## Beach flag football
### group play

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| Thailand | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 297 | 125 | +172 | 15 |
| Japan | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 248 | 119 | +129 | 12 |
| Kuwait | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 233 | 146 | +87 | 9 |
| China | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 209 | 227 | −18 | 6 |
| Philippines | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 122 | 215 | −93 | 3 |
| India | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 76 | 353 | −277 | 0 |
| 12 November 9:00 | Japan | 41–36 | Kuwait | Saphan Hin, Phuket |
| 12 November 9:00 | | (27–18) | | Saphan Hin, Phuket |
| 12 November 13:00 | Japan | 61–6 | Philippines | Saphan Hin, Phuket |
| 12 November 13:00 | | (34–6) | | Saphan Hin, Phuket |
| 12 November 16:00 | India | 12–55 | Japan | Saphan Hin, Phuket |
| 12 November 16:00 | | (6–29) | | Saphan Hin, Phuket |
| 13 November 9:00 | Japan | 55–26 | China | Saphan Hin, Phuket |
| 13 November 9:00 | | (28–6) | | Saphan Hin, Phuket |
| 13 November 11:00 | Thailand | 39–36 | Japan | Saphan Hin, Phuket |
| 13 November 11:00 | | (12–12) | | Saphan Hin, Phuket |

### semifinals

| 13 November 16:00 | Japan | 34–40 | Kuwait | Saphan Hin, Phuket |
| 13 November 16:00 | | (27–14) | | Saphan Hin, Phuket |

### final rank
## Beach Handball
### Men's Tournament

| Team | Pld | W | L | SF | SA | Pts |
| Qatar | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| Oman | 4 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 6 |
| Vietnam | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Japan | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| Hong Kong | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 |

### Women's Tournament

| Team | Pld | W | L | SF | SA | Pts |
| Thailand | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 8 |
| China | 4 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 6 |
| Hong Kong | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| Japan | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| India | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 |

## Beach Soccer
### Group Play

| Team | Pld | W | WE | WP | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | +4 | 4 |
| Japan | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 3 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 11 | −7 | 0 |

### final rank
## Beach Volleyball

| Athlete | Event | Preliminary round | Standing | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Score | Standing | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Koichi Nishimura Tsuchiya | Men's | Pool C Sergey Bogatu – Pustynnikov| L 0 –2 (21–17, 27–25) Xavier – Correia| W 2 – 0 (21–10, 21–16) Nguyễn – Võ W 2 – 0 (21–14, 21–14) Jiaxin – Yang Cong| L 0 – 2 (21–23, 16–21) | 3 Q | | |

## Extreme Sports
### Inline Skate

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Height | Position | Height | Position |
| Takeshi Yasutoko | Big air | DNS | DNS | did not advance | did not advance |
| Takeshi Yasutoko | Park | DNS | DNS | did not advance | did not advance |

## Kurash

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Repechage 1 | Repechage 2 | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |

## Sailing
### men

| Athlete | Event | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Net points | Final rank |
| Athlete | Event | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Net points | Final rank |
| Jun Ogawa | RS:One | 2 | 5 | 4 | (7) | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 27 | 4 |

### women

| Athlete | Event | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Net points | Final rank |
| Athlete | Event | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Net points | Final rank |
| Mariko Kojima | | 4 | 3 | 4 | (8) | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 31 | |

## Triathlon
### Triathlon

| Athlete | Event | Swim | Trans 1 | Bike | Trans 2 | Run | Total Time | Rank |
| Hirokatsu Tayama | Men's | 00:54:37 | 00:09:21 | 00:00:33 | 00:28:53 | 00:00:15 | 00:15:35 | 4 |
| Yuichi Hosoda | Men's | 00:55:48 | 00:09:27 | 00:00:36 | 00:28:42 | 00:00:19 | 00:16:44 | 9 |
| Ai Ueda | Women's | 01:00:30 | 00:10:19 | 00:00:36 | 00:31:45 | 00:00:18 | 00:17:32 | |
| Yuka Sato | Women's | 01:00:56 | 00:09:58 | 00:00:36 | 00:32:07 | 00:00:20 | 00:17:55 | |
| Yuka Sato Hirokatsu Tayama Ai Ueda Yuichi Hosoda | 4 x 4 relay | 00:23:39 00:22:25 00:23:54 00:22:26 | 00:04:19 00:04:12 00:04:46 00:04:11 | 00:00:33 00:00:32 00:00:33 00:00:35 | 00:11:31 00:11:06 00:11:24 00:10:25 | 00:00:21 00:00:16 00:00:18 00.00.19 | 00:06:55 00:06:19 00:06:53 00:06:56 | |

## Waterskiing
### Skiing
#### Men

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank |
| Toshiyuki Sumita | | 14.00 | | 19.50 | |
| Shintaro Yukawa | | 4.50 | 11 | did not advance | did not advance |

#### Women

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank |
| Saaya Hirosawa | Women's slalom | 16.00 | | 17.00 | |
| Hiroko Komori | Women's slalom | 4.00 | | did not advance | did not advance |
| Saaya Hirosawa | Women's tricks | 3570 | | 3420 | |
| Hiroko Komori | Women's tricks | 3410 | | 3250 | |