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 MedalNameSportEvent Ski jumping Men's normal hill (K90)
Alpine skiing
Men
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankMikio KatagiriDownhill1:49.7721Osamu KodamaGiant SlalomDNF–––DNF–Atsushi Sawada1:25.23361:28.82372:54.0536Toshihiro Kaiwa1:24.29351:24.49282:48.7829Osamu KodamaSlalomDNF–––DNF–Atsushi Sawada56.802153.14141:49.9415Toshihiro Kaiwa55.7817DNF–DNF–
Biathlon
Men EventAthleteMisses 1TimeRank10 km SprintMasaichi Kinoshita438:50.1943Takashi Shibata637:26.9137Hiroyuki Deguchi236:14.6126
EventAthleteTimePenaltiesAdjusted time 2Rank20 kmTsusumisa Kikuchi1'13:44.30111'24:44.3041Hiroyuki Deguchi1'14:53.1671'21:53.1639Masaichi Kinoshita1'14:21.4621'16:21.4628
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay AthletesRaceMisses 1TimeRankHiroyuki DeguchiMasaichi KinoshitaTakashi ShibataTsusumisa Kikuchi71'45:53.9813
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
SledAthletesEventRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankJPN-1Yoshimitsu KadowakiYuji FunayamaTwo-man1:04.62171:04.92191:04.82201:04.30144:18.6619
Cross-country skiing
Men EventAthleteRaceTimeRank15 kmShiro Sato46:15.294330 kmShiro Sato1'35:52.773950 kmShiro Sato2'48:33.0237
Figure skating
Men AthleteCFSPFSPointsPlacesRank Fumio Igarashi1386172.04779 Mitsuru Matsumura1177172.28758
Women AthleteCFSPFSPointsPlacesRank Emi Watanabe485179.04486
Ice hockey
First Round - Red Division Team advanced to the Final Round Team advanced to Consolation round
Team 5 5 0 0 51 11 10 5 3 2 0 26 18 6 5 3 2 0 28 12 6 5 2 3 0 15 23 4 5 1 3 1 16 43 3 5 0 4 1 7 36 1
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 AthleteRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankKoji Kuriyama45.8202645.8721745.8521845.538183:03.08219Takashi Takagi45.2942051.0032445.5751747.962213:09.56423
(Men's) Doubles AthletesRun 1Run 2TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankKoji KuriyamaTakashi Takagi41.0351741.499141:22.53413
Nordic combined
Events: normal hill ski jumping 15 km cross-country skiing
AthleteEventSki JumpingCross-countryTotalDistance 1Distance 2PointsRankTimePointsRankPointsRankToshihiro HanadaIndividual73.078.0192.11554:44.2157.04528349.14527Michio Kubota78.572.5187.91652:34.4176.51526364.41525
Ski jumping
AthleteEventJump 1Jump 2TotalDistancePointsDistancePointsPointsRankHiroyasu AizawaNormal hill69.588.468.088.5176.942Takafumi Kawabata79.0111.171.596.1207.229Masahiro Akimoto83.5120.887.5127.7248.54Hirokazu Yagi87.0128.983.5120.3249.2Hiroyasu AizawaLarge hill95.099.293.596.1195.335Hirokazu Yagi96.5103.3105.5116.9220.219Takafumi Kawabata102.5111.290.090.2201.432Masahiro Akimoto104.0113.8108.0120.9234.710
Speed skating
Men EventAthleteRaceTimeRank500 mKazuaki Ichimura39.4420Kaoru Fukuda39.24141000 mKazuaki Ichimura1:21.0525Masayuki Kawahara1:20.8823Kaoru Fukuda1:19.66191500 mYasuhiro Shimizu2:04.5424Masayuki Kawahara2:01.2820Masahiko Yamamoto2:01.25195000 mMasayuki Kawahara7:42.1825Masahiko Yamamoto7:33.0221Yasuhiro Shimizu7:21.501610,000 mMasahiko Yamamoto15:26.9217Yasuhiro Shimizu14:57.489
Women EventAthleteRaceTimeRank500 mMakiko Nagaya42.7051000 mYuko Yaegashi-Ota1:30.7225Makiko Nagaya1:30.2722Miyoshi Kato1:28.97171500 mMiyoshi Kato2:19.8024Yuko Yaegashi-Ota2:19.41233000 mYuko Yaegashi-Ota5:00.4025Miyoshi Kato4:57.3921
References Official Olympic Reports International Olympic Committee results database Japan Olympic Committee database Olympic Winter Games 1980, full results by sports-reference.com