Japan at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Japan at the 2004 Summer Olympics is represented by the Japanese Olympic Committee and abbreviated JPN. Japan's anthem, Kimi Ga Yo ("May 1000 Years of Happy Reign Be Yours") is played when Japan wins a gold medal. The flag bearer in the opening ceremony was Kyoko Hamaguchi, a wrestler.
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| Gold
| Silver
| Bronze
| Total
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| Japan | 16 | 9 | 12 | 37
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Results by event
Men's individual:
Women's individual:
Men's team:
- Takaharu Furukawa, Yuji Hamano, and Hiroshi Yamamoto - 8th place
Women's team:
- Yukari Kawasaki, Sayoko Kawauchi, and Sayami Matsushita - 14th place
Men's 100 metres:
- Koji Murofushi - Final, 82.91 metres (gold medal)
Women
Men's singles:
Women's singles:
Men's doubles:
Women's doubles:
Mixed doubles:
- Tadashi Ohtsuka and Shizuka Yamamoto - defeated in round of 32
The Japanese baseball team won the bronze medal.
- Players: Ryoji Aikawa, Yuya Ando, Atsushi Fujimoto, Kosuke Fukudome, Hirotoshi Ishii, Hisashi Iwakuma, Hitoki Iwase, Kenji Jojima, Makoto Kaneko, Takuya Kimura, Masahide Kobayashi, Hiroki Kuroda, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Daisuke Miura, Shinya Miyamoto, Arihito Muramatsu, Norihiro Nakamuru, Michihiro Ogasawara, Naoyuki Shimizu, Yoshinobu Takahashi, Yoshitomo Tani, Koji Uehara, Kazuhiro Wada, Tsuyoshi Wada
- Manager: Kiyoshi Nakahata
- Coaches: Yutaka Ono, Yutaka Takagi
Women's: 10th place
- Preliminary round: 1-4
- Classification (9/10): lost to China, 83-62
Men's: 13th place
- Preliminary round: 1-0-2
- Quarterfinal: did not qualify
Women's: 7th place
- Preliminary round: 1-0-1
- Quarterfinal: lost to United States, 2-1
Women's: 8th place
- Preliminary round: 2-0-2
- Classification (5-8): lost to Australia, 3-1
- Classification (7/8): lost to Korea, 3-1
Men
- Tadahiro Nomura - Men's -60 kg, gold medal
- Masato Uchishiba - Men's 60-66 kg, gold medal
- Masahiro Takamatsu - Men's 66-73 kg, defeated in 2nd round
- Masahiko Tomouchi - Men's 73-81 kg, defeated in 1st round
- Hiroshi Izumi - Men's 81-90 kg, silver medal
- Kosei Inoue - Men's 90-100 kg, defeated in 4th round
- Keiji Suzuki - Men's +100 kg, gold medal
Women
- Ryoko Tani - Women's -48 kg, gold medal
- Yuki Yokosawa - Women's 48-52 kg, silver medal
- Kie Kusakabe - Women's 52-57 kg, defeated in 3rd round
- Ayumi Tanimoto - Women's 57-63 kg, gold medal
- Masae Ueno - Women's 63-70 kg, gold medal
- Noriko Anno - Women's 70-78 kg, gold medal
- Maki Tsukada - Women's +78 kg, gold medal
Men
Women
Men
Freestyle
- Chikara Tanabe - Freestyle 55 kg, bronze medal
- Kenji Inoue - Freestyle 60 kg, bronze medal
- Kazuhiko Ikematsu - Freestyle 66 kg, 5th place
- Kunihiko Obata - Freestyle 74 kg
- Hidekazu Yokoyama - Freestyle 84 kg
Greco-Roman
- Masatoshi Toyota - Greco-Roman 55 kg
- Makoto Sasamoto - Greco-Roman 60 kg
- Katsuhiko Nagata - Greco-Roman 74 kg
- Shingo Matsumoto - Greco-Roman 84 kg
Women
- Chiharu Icho - Freestyle 48 kg, silver medal
- Saori Yoshida - Freestyle 55 kg, gold medal
- Kaori Icho - Freestyle 63 kg, gold medal
- Kyoko Hamaguchi - Freestyle 72 kg, bronze medal
