# Japan at the 2016 Asian Beach Games

Japan competed in the 2016 Asian Beach Games in Danang, Vietnam from September 24 to October 5, 2016. The delegation was bannered by 54 athletes. Japan send their representatives in 7 sports including beach soccer, beach volleyball, beach handball, beach wrestling, vovinam, pétanque, and bodybuilding.
The Japanese beach soccer team won the gold medal, being the Japanese team's only gold medal in this game. Bodybuilding took home one silver and two bronze medals, followed by beach sambo which won one silver and one bronze. Beach wrestling won two bronze medals, while pétanque and vovinam bagged one bronze medal each.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
| Gold | Shingo Terukina Yusuke Kawai Shotaro Haraguchi Yuki Nakahara Naoya Matsuo Teruki Tabata Takaaki Oba Takuya Akaguma Takasuke Goto Ozu Moreira | Beach soccer | Tournaments | October 2 |
| Silver | Takahiro Mizoguchi | Bodybuilding | Men's 158 cm | September 27 |
| Silver | Haruka Murase | Beach sambo | Men's 74 kg | October 2 |
| Bronze | Ayumi Goma | Pétanque | Women's singles | September 28 |
| Bronze | Hiroaki Inoue | Bodybuilding | Men's 172 cm | September 28 |
| Bronze | Shunsuke Taguchi | Bodybuilding | Men's 180 cm | September 28 |
| Bronze | Hikaru Aono | Beach wrestling | Women's 50 kg | September 30 |
| Bronze | Miku Saito | Beach wrestling | Women's +70 kg | October 1 |
| Bronze | Takehiro Yamashita | Beach sambo | Men's 74 kg | October 1 |
| Bronze | Yoshimi Sadamatsu | Vovinam | Dragon tiger form | October 1 |
Medals by sport :
| Sport | | | | Total |
| Beach soccer | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Bodybuilding | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Beach sambo | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Beach wrestling | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Pétanque | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Vovinam | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 |

## Competitors

| Sport | Men | Women | Total |
| Bodybuilding | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Beach handball | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Beach sambo | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Beach soccer | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Beach volleyball | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Beach wrestling | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Pétanque | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| Vovinam | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 34 | 20 | 54 |

## Beach soccer
### Result

| Team | Event | Group stage | Group stage | Group stage | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Gold medal match | Gold medal match |
| Team | Event | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Japan men's | Men's tournament | Afghanistan W 11–0 | China W 7–2 | 1 Q | UAE W 6–2 | Lebanon W 6–5 | Oman W 4–3 | |

### Team

Shingo Terukina Yusuke Kawai Shotaro Haraguchi Yuki Nakahara Naoya Matsuo Teruki Tabata Takaaki Oba Takuya Akaguma Takasuke Goto Ozu Moreira

## Beach volleyball
### Men's tournament

| Team | Event | Group stage | Group stage | Group stage | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Gold medal match | Gold medal match |
| Team | Event | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Masato Kurasaka Momota Shimada | Men's tournament | Al-Shereiqi/Al-Housni L 13–21, 13-21 | Sukto/Khaolumtarn W 21-19, 21-17 | 3 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |

### Women's tournament

Group Stage
| Team | Event | Group stage | Group stage | Group stage | Group stage | Group stage | Group stage |
| Team | Event | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Azusa Futami Reika Murakami | Women's tournament | Tang/Wang L 22-20, 13-21, 10-15 | Lakmini/ Weerasinghe W 21–16, 21–13 | Numwong/ Naraphornrapat L 17–21, 8–21 | Gorre/Arocha W 21-13, 21-5 | Tứ/Lê W 21–16, 18–21, 15–11 | 3 Q |
Knockout Stage
| Team | Round of 16 | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Gold medal match | Rank |
| Azusa Futami Reika Murakami | Ratnasari/Eka W 19-21, 21-18, 15–8 | Mashkova/ Tsimbalova L 15-21, 14-15 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |

## Pétanque
### Men

1. Shooting Haruki Kato
2. Singles Takayuki Watabe
3. Doubles Hiroshi Katata Yoshihiro Noda

### Women

1. Shooting Keiko Katata
2. Singles Ayumi Goma
3. Doubles Akemi Kinoshita Rieko Ujihara

## Vovinam

| Athlete | Event | Score | Rank |
| Yoshimi Sadamatsu | Dragon-tiger form | 261 | |