Japan at the 2017 Asian Winter Games

Japan at the
2017 Asian Winter Games
Japan at the; 2017 Asian Winter Games
IOC code	JPN
NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
Website	https://www.joc.or.jp
in Sapporo and Obihiro; February 19–26
Competitors	146 in 5 sports
Flag bearer	Go Tanaka
Medals; Ranked 1st	Gold 27 Silver 21 Bronze 26 Total 74
Asian Winter Games appearances
	1986; 1990; 1996; 1999; 2003; 2007; 2011; 2017;

Japan competed in the 2017 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo and Obihiro, Japan from February 19 to 26.^[1]^[2] This marked the fourth time the country has played host to the Asian Winter Games.^[3] Japan competed in all eleven disciplines from five sports.^[4] Ice hockey player Go Tanaka was the country's flagbearer during the parade of nations at the opening ceremony.^[5]

Medal summary[edit]

Medal table[edit]


Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Speed skating	7	9	7	23
Cross-country skiing	7	1	3	11
Alpine skiing	3	2	2	7
Freestyle skiing	3	2	2	7
Ski jumping	3	2	0	5
Snowboarding	1	2	3	6
Figure skating	1	1	0	2
Biathlon	1	0	4	5
Ice hockey	1	0	1	2
Short track speed skating	0	1	3	4
Curling	0	1	1	2
Totals (11 entries)	27	21	26	74

Medalists[edit]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Eri Yanetani	Snowboarding	Women's giant slalom	19 February
Gold	Nao Kodaira	Speed skating	Women's 1000 metres	20 February
Gold	Miho Takagi	Speed skating	Women's 3000 metres	20 February
Gold	Yuki Kobayashi	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 kilometre freestyle	21 February
Gold	Takuro Oda	Speed skating	Men's 1000 metres	21 February
Gold	Nao Kodaira	Speed skating	Women's 500 metres	21 February
Gold	Miho Takagi	Speed skating	Women's 1500 metres	21 February
Gold	Misaki Oshigiri Nana Takagi Miho Takagi	Speed skating	Women's team pursuit	21 February
Gold	Yohei Koyama	Alpine skiing	Men's giant slalom	22 February
Gold	Yukiya Sato	Ski jumping	Normal hill individual	22 February
Gold	Emi Hasegawa	Alpine skiing	Women's giant slalom	23 February
Gold	Akira Lenting	Cross-country skiing	Men's 10 kilometre classical	23 February
Gold	Yuki Kobayashi	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 kilometre classical	23 February
Gold	Miho Takagi	Speed skating	Women's mass start	23 February
Gold	Mikito Tachizaki	Biathlon	Men's pursuit	24 February
Gold	Nobuhito Kashiwabara Kohei Shimizu Naoto Baba Akira Lenting	Cross-country skiing	Men's 4 × 7.5 kilometre relay	24 February
Gold	Hikari Miyazaki Kozue Takizawa Yuki Kobayashi Chisa Obayashi	Cross-country skiing	Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay	24 February
Gold	Ikuma Horishima	Freestyle skiing	Men's dual moguls	24 February
Gold	Naoki Nakamura	Ski jumping	Large hill individual	24 February
Gold	Emi Hasegawa	Alpine skiing	Women's slalom	25 February
Gold	Yurie Adachi Yoshino Enomoto Moeko Fujimoto Nana Fujimoto Mika Hori Akane Hosoyamada Tomomi Iwahara Shiori Koike Mai Kondo Akane Konishi Hanae Kubo Ami Nakamura Shoko Ono Chiho Osawa Sena Suzuki Aina Takeuchi Naho Terashima Ayaka Toko Haruka Toko Rui Ukita Haruna Yoneyama	Ice hockey	Women's tournament	25 February
Gold	Yuken Iwasa Yukiya Sato Naoki Nakamura Masamitsu Ito	Ski jumping	Large hill team	25 February
Gold	Akira Lenting	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 kilometre freestyle	26 February
Gold	Yuki Kobayashi	Cross-country skiing	Women's 15 kilometre freestyle	26 February
Gold	Shoma Uno	Figure skating	Men's singles	26 February
Gold	Ikuma Horishima	Freestyle skiing	Men's moguls	26 February
Gold	Arisa Murata	Freestyle skiing	Women's moguls	26 February
Silver	Yuya Suzuki	Snowboarding	Men's slalom	20 February
Silver	Eri Yanetani	Snowboarding	Women's slalom	20 February
Silver	Tsubasa Hasegawa	Speed skating	Men's 500 metres	20 February
Silver	Ryosuke Tsuchiya	Speed skating	Men's 5000 metres	20 February
Silver	Miho Takagi	Speed skating	Women's 1000 metres	20 February
Silver	Naoto Baba	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 kilometre freestyle	21 February
Silver	Ayuko Ito	Short track speed skating	Women's 500 metres	21 February
Silver	Misaki Oshigiri	Speed skating	Women's 1500 metres	21 February
Silver	Yuken Iwasa	Ski jumping	Normal hill individual	22 February
Silver	Ryosuke Tsuchiya	Speed skating	Men's 10000 metres	22 February
Silver	Shota Nakamura Shane Williamson Ryosuke Tsuchiya	Speed skating	Men's team pursuit	22 February
Silver	Asa Ando	Alpine skiing	Women's giant slalom	23 February
Silver	Takuro Oda	Speed skating	Men's 1500 metres	23 February
Silver	Shane Williamson	Speed skating	Men's mass start	23 February
Silver	Ayano Sato	Speed skating	Women's mass start	23 February
Silver	Yusuke Morozumi Tetsuro Shimizu Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi Kosuke Morozumi Kosuke Hirata	Curling	Men's team	24 February
Silver	Chris Reed Kana Muramoto	Figure skating	Ice dancing	24 February
Silver	Daichi Hara	Freestyle skiing	Men's dual moguls	24 February
Silver	Arisa Murata	Freestyle skiing	Women's dual moguls	24 February
Silver	Yuken Iwasa	Ski jumping	Large hill individual	24 February
Silver	Asa Ando	Alpine skiing	Women's slalom	25 February
Bronze	Shinnosuke Kamino	Snowboarding	Men's giant slalom	19 February
Bronze	Nobuhito Kashiwabara	Cross-country skiing	Men's sprint classical	20 February
Bronze	Seitaro Ichinohe	Speed skating	Men's 5000 metres	20 February
Bronze	Ayano Sato	Speed skating	Women's 3000 metres	20 February
Bronze	Akira Lenting	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 kilometre freestyle	21 February
Bronze	Shunsuke Nakamura	Speed skating	Men's 1000 metres	21 February
Bronze	Arisa Go	Speed skating	Women's 500 metres	21 February
Bronze	Hideyuki Narita	Alpine skiing	Men's giant slalom	22 February
Bronze	Keita Watanabe	Short track speed skating	Men's 1000 metres	22 February
Bronze	Sumire Kikuchi	Short track speed skating	Women's 1000 metres	22 February
Bronze	Hiroki Yokoyama Kazuki Yoshinaga Keita Watanabe Ryosuke Sakazume Takayuki Muratake	Short track speed skating	Men's 5000 metres relay	22 February
Bronze	Seitaro Ichinohe	Speed skating	Men's 10000 metres	22 February
Bronze	Mai Kiyama	Speed skating	Women's 5000 metres	22 February
Bronze	Mikito Tachizaki	Biathlon	Men's sprint	23 February
Bronze	Kohei Shimizu	Cross-country skiing	Men's 10 kilometre classical	23 February
Bronze	Taro Kondo	Speed skating	Men's 1500 metres	23 February
Bronze	Satsuki Fujisawa Mari Motohashi Chinami Yoshida Yurika Yoshida Yumi Suzuki	Curling	Women's team	24 February
Bronze	Miki Itō	Freestyle skiing	Women's dual moguls	24 February
Bronze	Hideyuki Narita	Alpine skiing	Men's slalom	25 February
Bronze	Fuyuko Tachizaki Yurie Tanaka Mikito Tachizaki Tsukasa Kobonoki	Biathlon	Mixed relay	25 February
Bronze	Ayumu Nedefuji	Snowboarding	Men's halfpipe	25 February
Bronze	Kurumi Imai	Snowboarding	Women's halfpipe	25 February
Bronze	Kosuke Ozaki	Biathlon	Men's mass start	26 February
Bronze	Fuyuko Tachizaki	Biathlon	Women's mass start	26 February
Bronze	Miki Itō	Freestyle skiing	Women's moguls	26 February
Bronze	Yutaka Fukufuji Yuto Ito Takuto Onoda Yōsuke Haga Ryo Hashiba Ryo Hashimoto Keigo Minoshima Kazumasa Sasaki Hiroto Sato Takafumi Yamashita Maruru Furuhashi Yushiroh Hirano Takuma Kawai Shuhei Kuji Masahito Nishiwaki Daisuke Obara Kenta Takagi Seiji Takahashi Hiromichi Terao Yuri Terao Go Tanaka Hiroki Ueno Takuro Yamashita	Ice hockey	Men's tournament	26 February

Competitors[edit]

The following table lists the Japanese delegation per sport and gender.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Alpine skiing	4	4	8
Biathlon	6	6	12
Cross-country skiing	4	4	8
Curling	5	5	10
Figure skating	6	6	12
Freestyle skiing	4	4	8
Ice hockey	23	21	44
Short track speed skating	5	5	10
Ski jumping	4	—	4
Snowboarding	4	6	10
Speed skating	10	10	20
Total	75	71	146

Alpine skiing[edit]

Japan's alpine skiing team will consist of eight athletes (four men and four women). The team was announced on January 19, 2017.^[6]

Men

Naoki Yuasa
Hideyuki Narita
Yohei Koyama
Tatsuki Matsumoto

Women

Biathlon[edit]

Men

Junji Nagai
Mikito Tachizaki
Yuuki Nakajima
Tsukasa Kobonoki
Kosuke Ozaki
Takuto Terabayashi

Women

Cross-country skiing[edit]

Japan's cross-country skiing team will consist of eight athletes (four men and four women). The team was announced on January 19, 2017.^[6]

Men

Women

Yuki Kobayashi
Hikari Miyazaki
Chisa Obayashi
Kozue Takizawa

Curling[edit]

Japan has entered both a men's and women's teams.^[7]^[8]

Men's tournament[edit]

Japan's men's curling team consists of five athletes.^[8]

Yusuke Morozumi – skip
Tetsuro Shimizu – third
Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi – second
Kosuke Morozumi – lead
Koshuke Hirata – alternate

Key
	Teams to playoffs

Country v t e	Skip	W	L
China	Liu Rui	5	0
South Korea	Kim Soo-hyuk	4	1
Japan	Yusuke Morozumi	3	2
Chinese Taipei	Randolph Shen	2	3
Kazakhstan	Viktor Kim	1	4
Qatar	Nabeel Alyafei	0	5

Round-robin

Japan has a bye in draw 3

Draw 1

Saturday, February 18, 9:00

Sheet A v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Morozumi)	0	2	0	0	6	0	3	X	X	X	11
Chinese Taipei (Shen)	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	X	X	3

Draw 2

Saturday, February 18, 18:00

Sheet B v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Morozumi)	1	2	4	3	4	5	0	X	X	X	19
Qatar (Alyafei)	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	X	X	X	1

Draw 4

Monday, February 20, 13:30

Sheet A v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Rui)	2	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	2	1	9
Japan (Morozumi)	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	6

Draw 5

Tuesday, February 21, 9:00

Sheet C v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kazakhstan (Kim)	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	X	X	4
Japan (Morozumi)	3	3	0	2	1	1	0	3	X	X	13

Draw 6

Tuesday, February 21, 18:00

Sheet C v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Morozumi)	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	X	X	4
South Korea (Soo-hyuk)	2	0	2	1	0	2	0	1	X	X	8

Semifinals

Wednesday, February 22, 1:30

Sheet A v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Morozumi)	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	6
South Korea (Soo-hyuk)	0	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	5

Gold medal match

Friday, February 24, 1:30

Sheet C v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Rui)	0	1	0	3	3	2	0	2	X	X	11
Japan (Morozumi)	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	X	X	4

Women's tournament[edit]

Satsuki Fujisawa – Skip
Mari Motohashi – Third
Chinami Yoshida – Second
Yurika Yoshida – Lead
Yumi Suzuki – Alternate

Key
	Teams to playoffs

Country v t e	Skip	W	L
South Korea	Kim Eun-jung	4	0
China	Wang Bingyu	3	1
Japan	Satsuki Fujisawa	2	2
Kazakhstan	Ramina Yunicheva	1	3
Qatar	Maryam Binali	0	4

Round-robin

Japan has a bye in draw 3

Draw 1

Saturday, February 18, 13:30

Sheet A v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Fujisawa)	2	3	1	0	4	3	2	2	X	X	17
Qatar (Binali)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	X	1

Draw 2

Saturday, February 19, 9:00

Sheet B v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kazakhstan (Yunicheva)	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	X	3
Japan (Fujisawa)	0	4	1	3	2	0	2	0	5	X	17

Draw 4

Monday, February 20, 18:00

Sheet C v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Fujisawa)	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	5
South Korea (Eun-jung)	1	0	0	1	2	0	1	1	0	1	7

Draw 5

Tuesday, February 21, 13:30

Sheet C v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Wang)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Japan (Fujisawa)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Figure skating[edit]

Japan's figure skating team consists of twelve athletes.^[9]^[10] On February 7, 2017, it was announced that Kaori Sakamoto would replace Satoko Miyahara, because the latter had sustained an injury to her hip.^[11]

Singles

Athlete	Event	SP		FP		Total
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Shoma Uno	Men's	92.43	2	188.84	1	281.27
Takahito Mura	Men's	90.32	4	172.99	4	263.31	4
Kaori Sakamoto	Women's	WD
Rika Hongo	Women's	60.98	2	100.39	4	161.37	4

Mixed

Athlete(s)	Event	SP/SD		FP/FD		Total
Athlete(s)	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara	Pairs	WD
Narumi Takahashi / Ryo Shibata	Pairs	48.78	5	81.75	6	130.53	5
Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed	Ice dancing	64.74	2	94.40	2	159.14
Ibuki Mori / Kentaro Suzuki	Ice dancing	48.84	5	75.28	5	124.12	5

Freestyle skiing[edit]

Japan's freestyle skiing team will consist of eight athletes (four men and four women). The team was announced on January 19, 2017.^[6]

Men

Women

Ice hockey[edit]

Japan as the host nation has entered teams in both hockey tournaments. The men's team will compete in the top division.^[12]^[13]

Men's tournament[edit]

Japan was represented by the following 23 athletes:^[14]

Legend

G– Goalie D = Defense F = Forward

Rank	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
	Kazakhstan	3	3	0	19	0	+19	9
	South Korea	3	2	1	14	6	+8	6
	Japan	3	1	2	15	11	+4	3
4	China	3	0	3	0	32	–32	0

22 February 2017
19:00

Japan

14–0
(5–0, 4–0, 5–0)

China

Tsukisamu Gymnasium
Attendance: 1,197




8 min	Penalties	14 min
59	Shots	9

24 February 2017
19:00

Japan

1–4
(0–1, 0–1, 1–2)

South Korea

Tsukisamu Gymnasium
Attendance: 2,118




8 min	Penalties	6 min
28	Shots	32

26 February 2017
12:30

Kazakhstan

7–0
(4–0, 2–0, 1–0)

Japan

Tsukisamu Gymnasium
Attendance: 1,631




6 min	Penalties	20 min
41	Shots	12

Women's tournament[edit]

Japan was represented by the following 21 athletes:^[15]

Legend: G = Goalie, D = Defense, F = Forward

Rank	Team v t e	Pld	W	OW	OL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
	Japan	5	5	0	0	0	98	1	+97	15
	China	5	3	0	1	1	46	12	+34	10
	Kazakhstan	5	3	0	0	2	31	14	+17	9
4	South Korea	5	2	1	0	2	37	6	+31	8
5	Thailand	5	1	0	0	4	5	84	–79	3
6	Hong Kong	5	0	0	0	5	4	104	–100	0

18 February 2017
12:00

Kazakhstan

0–6
(0–2, 0–3, 0–1)

Japan

Tsukisamu Gymnasium
Attendance: 2,200


			Referee: Tijana Haack Linesmen: Julia Kainberger Lee Tae-ri

12 min	Penalties	4 min
3	Shots	58

20 February 2017
19:00

Japan

3–0
(1–0, 0–0, 2–0)

South Korea

Tsukisamu Gymnasium
Attendance: 1,221




12 min	Penalties	6 min
47	Shots	19

21 February 2017
19:00

Japan

46–0
(17–0, 18–0, 11–0)

Hong Kong

Tsukisamu Gymnasium
Attendance: 513




0 min	Penalties	2 min
158	Shots	0

23 February 2017
19:00

Thailand

0–37
(0–18, 0–13, 0–6)

Japan

Tsukisamu Gymnasium
Attendance: 348




10 min	Penalties	0 min
0	Shots	150

25 February 2017
19:00

Japan

6–1
(5–0, 0–1, 1–0)

China

Tsukisamu Gymnasium
Attendance: 1,807




4 min	Penalties	8 min
70	Shots	3

Short track speed skating[edit]

Japan's speed skating team consists of 10 athletes (five men and five women). The team was officially unveiled on January 9, 2017.^[16]

Men

Women

Ski jumping[edit]

Japan's ski jumping team will consist of four athletes (all men, as women's events are not scheduled to be held). The team was announced on January 19, 2017.^[6]

Men

Snowboarding[edit]

Japan's snowboarding team will consist of ten athletes (four men and six women). The team was announced on January 19, 2017.^[6]

Men

Ayumu Nedefuji - halfpipe
Shinnosuke Kamino - slalom/giant slalom
Yuya Suzuki - slalom/giant slalom
Takumi Miyazawa - slalom/giant slalom

Women

Hikaru Oe - halfpipe
Haruna Matsumoto - halfpipe
Kurumi Imai - halfpipe
Sena Tomita - halfpipe
Eri Yanetani - slalom/giant slalom
Asa Toyoda - slalom/giant slalom

Speed skating[edit]

Japan's speed skating team consists of 20 athletes (ten men and ten women). The team was officially unveiled on January 15, 2017.^[17]

Men

Takuro Oda - 1000 m, 1500 m
Shota Nakamura - 1500 m, 1000 m, TP MS
Ryosuke Tsuchiya - 5000 m, 10000 m, TP MS
Shane Williamson 1500 m, 5000 m, 10000 m, TP, MS
Seitaro Ichinohe 5000 m, 10000 m, TP (sub)
Taro Kondo 1500 m
Yuto Fujino 500 m, 1000 m
Tsubasa Hasegawa 500 m
Shunsuke Nakamura 500 m, 1000 m
Yuma Murakami 500 m

Women

Nao Kodaira 500 m, 1000 m
Miho Takagi 1000 m, 1500 m, 3000 m, TP, MS
Mai Kiyama 5000 m
Misaki Oshigiri 1500 m, 3000 m, TP
Nana Takagi 1,500 m, TP, MS
Ayano Sato 500 m, 1500 m, 3000 m, MS
Arisa Go 500 m, 1000 m
Maki Tabata 5000 m
Maki Tsuji 500 m, 1000 m
Fuyo Matsuoka 5000 m

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[4] "2017 Sapporo AWG sport entries by NOC". www.sapporo2017.org. 8th Sapporo Asian Winter Games Organizing Committee. 16 December 2016. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2016.

[5] "Team Japan unites for Asian Winter Games with eye on building momentum for 2020 Olympics". Japan Times. Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. 16 February 2017. Retrieved 16 February 2017.

[skiing-6] "2017 冬季アジア札幌大会派遣候補選手一覧" [2017 Winter Asia Sapporo Tournament Candidate list]. www.ski-japan.or.jp/ (in Japanese). Ski Association of Japan. 19 January 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2017.

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v t e Nations at the 2017 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan
Asia	China Chinese Taipei East Timor Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Macau Malaysia Mongolia Nepal North Korea Pakistan Philippines Qatar Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Independent Olympic Athletes
Oceania	Australia New Zealand