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was the host nation for the 1972 Winter Olympics
1972 Winter Olympics
The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XI Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated from February 3 to February 13, 1972 in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan...

in Sapporo. It was the first time that Japan had hosted the Winter Olympic Games

Winter Olympic Games

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, but second time overall after the 1964 Summer Olympics

1964 Summer Olympics

The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan in 1964. Tokyo had been awarded with the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subsequently passed to Helsinki because of Japan's...

in Tokyo

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, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

.

Three Japanese ski jumpers swept the medals in the normal hill event, becoming national heroes.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
		Ski jumping Ski jumping at the 1972 Winter Olympics -Large hill:February 11, 1972In the competition on the Okurayama jumping hill, conditions were "variable and unfair" according to a Norwegian account of the 1972 Games published in 2006, and the result is described as "the greatest surprise of all time on the jumping hill"...	Men's normal hill (K70)
		Ski jumping Ski jumping at the 1972 Winter Olympics -Large hill:February 11, 1972In the competition on the Okurayama jumping hill, conditions were "variable and unfair" according to a Norwegian account of the 1972 Games published in 2006, and the result is described as "the greatest surprise of all time on the jumping hill"...	Men's normal hill (K70)
		Ski jumping Ski jumping at the 1972 Winter Olympics -Large hill:February 11, 1972In the competition on the Okurayama jumping hill, conditions were "variable and unfair" according to a Norwegian account of the 1972 Games published in 2006, and the result is described as "the greatest surprise of all time on the jumping hill"...	Men's normal hill (K70)

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Masahiko Otsue	Downhill					1:59.55	35
Sumihiro Tomii	Downhill					1:55.34	22
Masayoshi Kashiwagi	Giant Slalom	DSQ	–	–	–	DSQ	–
Masahiko Otsue		1:38.71	34	DSQ	–	DSQ	–
Haruhisa Chiba		1:36.36	26	1:40.87	20	3:17.23	19
Masami Ichimura		1:35.77	22	1:39.57	12	3:15.34	15

Men's slalom

Athlete	Classification		Final
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Total	Rank
Haruhisa Chiba	1:43.17	1	1:01.25	29	DNF	–	DNF	–
Toshimasa Furukawa	1:46.33	3	?	25	DSQ	–	DSQ	–
Masayoshi Kashiwagi	DNF	–	1:00.19	24	56.42	17	1:56.61	18
Masami Ichimura	1:42.90	1	57.58	13	57.25	18	1:54.83	17

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Emiko Okazaki	Downhill					1:48.85	41
Harue Okitsu						1:45.37	40
Miyuki Katagiri						1:44.10	35
Mitsuyo Nagumo						1:43.07	32
MItsuyo Nagumo	Giant Slalom					DSQ	–
Emiko Okazaki						1:40.37	32
Miyuki Katagiri						1:39.11	30
Harue Okitsu						1:35.33	22
Miyuki Katagiri	Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Mitsuyo Nagumo		DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Harue Okitsu		50.55	19	50.12	16	1:40.67	16
Emiko Okazaki		50.06	18	49.47	14	1:39.53	13

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ¹	Rank
20 km	Kazuo Sasakubo	1'19:07.43	9	1'28:07.43	38
	Isao Ono	1'16:26.83	7	1'23:26.83	25
	Shozo Sasaki	1'18:05.54	5	1'23:05.54	23
	Miki Shibuya	1'16:57.27	5	1'21:57.27	17

¹One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.
Men's 4 x 7.5km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ²	Time	Rank
Isao Ono Shozo Sasaki Miki Shibuya Kazuo Sasakubo	5	1'59:09.48	8

²A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.

Bobsleigh

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
JPN-1	Susumu Esashika Kazumi Abe	Two-man	1:18.13	16	1:16.43	6	1:15.17	14	1:16.86	18	5:06.59	15
JPN-2	Akihiko Suzuki Rikio Sato	Two-man	1:18.98	21	1:18.46	21	1:15.63	16	1:18.84	21	5:11.91	21

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
JPN-1	Susumu Esashika Kazumi Abe Rikio Sato Yoshiyuki Ichihashi	Four-man	1:11.51	6	1:12.99	15	1:11.42	12	1:12.00	13	4:47.92	12
JPN-2	Toshihisa Nagata Hiroshi Inaba Koichi Sugawara Akihiko Suzuki	Four-man	1:11.51	6	1:12.99	15	DSQ	–	–	–	DSQ	–

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Motoharu Matsumura	50:43.76	51
	Akiyoshi Matsuoka	49:50.72	43
	Kunio Shibata	49:38.95	41
	Hideo Tanifuji	49:06.97	37
30 km	Tomio Okamura	1'47:50.22	47
	Seiji Kudo	1'47:00.40	44
	Hideo Tanifuji	1'45:37.13	37
	Kunio Shibata	1'42:30.83	23
50 km	Motoharu Matsumura	DNF	–
50 km	Seiji Kudo	2'57:42.62	29

Men's 4 x 10km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Hideo Tanifuji Kunio Shibata Akiyoshi Matsuoka Tomio Okamura	2'13:59.14	10

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km	Akiko Akasaka	19:49.74	43
	Harumi Imai	19:05.73	38
	Tokiko Ozeki	19:00.82	37
	Hiroko Takahashi	18:32.75	34
10 km	Hideko Saito	39:51.61	38
	Harumi Imai	39:33.13	37
	Tokiko Ozeki	38:07.24	33
	Hiroko Takahashi	36:53.84	25

Women's 3 x 5km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Tokiko Ozeki Hiroko Takahashi Hideko Saito	53:20.75	9

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Yutaka Higuchi Yutaka Higuchi in Tokyo, Japan is a Japanese figure skater who is now a coach and figure skating commentator. He is a three-time Japanese national champion. He placed 25th in the 1968 Winter Olympic Games, and 16th in the 1972 Winter Olympic Games.-Competitive highlights:...	16	15	2309.7	140	16

Women

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Kazumi Yamashita	10	10	2449.9	93	10

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Kotoe Nagasawa Kotoe Nagasawa is a Japanese pair skater who now works as a coach. She competed with Hiroshi Nagakubo. They placed 16th in the 1972 Winter Olympic Games. They are five-time Japanese National Champions.-Competitive highlights:- External links :*... Hiroshi Nagakubo Hiroshi Nagakubo is a Japanese retired pair skater who now works as a coach. He is one of the more successful coaches in Japan. As a skater, he is the 1967-1971 Japanese national champion with partner Kotoe Nagasawa. They placed 16th at the 1972 Winter Olympics....	16	16	345.5	144	16

Ice hockey

First Round

Winners (in bold) entered the Medal Round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th-11th places.
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Consolation Round

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
7		4	3	1	0	22	10	6
8		4	3	1	0	16	14	6
9		4	2	1	1	17	16	5
10		4	0	2	2	9	16	2
11	Yugoslavia	4	0	3	1	9	17	1

Japan 3-3 Switzerland
Japan 3-2 Yugoslavia
Japan 4-5 Norway
Japan 7-6 West Germany

	Contestants Toshimitsu Otsubo Tsutomu Hanzawa Minoru Misawa Hiroshi Hori Iwao Nakayama Takeshi Akiba Fumio Yamazaki Takashi Tsuburai Minoru Ito Teruyasu Honma Yasushio Tanaka Hideaki Kurokawa Takao Hikigi Koji Iwamoto Isao Kakihara Toru Okajima Yoshio Hoshino Osamu Wakabayashi Hideo Suzuki

Luge

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Masatoshi Kobayashi	55.30	32	54.43	25	53.00	19	53.66	27	3:36.39	24
Satoru Arai	54.76	26	55.07	30	53.75	25	53.73	29	3:37.31	26
Masako Eguchi	54.09	15	53.37	12	52.78	18	53.57	25	3:33.81	18
Kazuaki Ichikawa	54.09	15	54.21	22	53.29	22	53.40	22	3:34.99	20

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Satoru Arai Masatoshi Kobayashi	44.73	4	44.90	7	1:29.63	4
Masako Eguchi Kazuaki Ichikawa	46.93	19	46.63	18	1:33.56	18

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Miyako Kawase	47.93	20	47.31	19	46.72	18	46.14	18	3:08.10	19
Hiroko Shibuya	46.66	14	46.41	13	45.89	8	45.49	12	3:04.45	13
Yuko Otaka	45.21	4	45.65	5	45.39	5	44.73	5	3:00.98	5

Nordic combined

Events:

normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
Athlete	Event	Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Nobutaka Sasaki	Individual	72.5	76.0	190.3	8	54:00.6	169.645	37	359.945	24
Hideki Nakano		82.0	81.0	220.5	1	55:41.2	154.555	39	375.055	13
Yuji Katsuro Yuji Katsuro Yuji Katsuro was a Japanese nordic combined skier who competed in the 1970s. His best finish at the Winter Olympics was fifth in the Nordic combined event at Sapporo in 1972.-External links:...		74.5	78.0	195.1	6	51:10.9	195.100	18	390.200	5
Kazuo Araya		76.5	77.0	199.7	5	53:29.3	174.340	34	374.040	15

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Takashi Fujisawa	Normal hill	81.0	117.8	68.0	90.0	207.8	23
Akitsugu Konno Akitsugu Konno is a former Japanese ski jumper who competed in the early 1970s. His best finish was a Silver Medal in the Individual Normal Hill at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.-External links:...		82.5	120.2	79.0	114.6	234.8
Seiji Aochi		83.5	123.3	77.5	106.2	229.5
Yukio Kasaya Yukio Kasaya Yukio Kasaya is a former Japanese ski jumper. He was one of the most successful ski jumpers of the late 1960s and the early 1970s. At the 1970 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships at Vysoké Tatry, Czechoslovakia, he finished 2nd in the individual normal hill behind Gariy Napalkov...		84.0	126.6	79.0	117.6	244.2
Hiroshi Itagaki	Large hill	90.0	96.0	84.0	87.1	183.1	19
Takashi Fujisawa		95.5	107.2	86.0	89.9	197.1	14
Akitsugu Konno Akitsugu Konno is a former Japanese ski jumper who competed in the early 1970s. His best finish was a Silver Medal in the Individual Normal Hill at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.-External links:...		98.0	109.7	88.5	89.4	199.1	12
Yukio Kasaya Yukio Kasaya Yukio Kasaya is a former Japanese ski jumper. He was one of the most successful ski jumpers of the late 1960s and the early 1970s. At the 1970 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships at Vysoké Tatry, Czechoslovakia, he finished 2nd in the individual normal hill behind Gariy Napalkov...		106.0	124.9	85.0	84.5	209.4	7

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Keiichi Suzuki	41.28	19
	Norio Hirate	41.08	17
	Takayuki Hida	40.62	13
	Masaki Suzuki	40.35	8
1500 m	Kiyomi Ito	2:11.96	22
1500 m	Mutsuhiko Maeda	2:11.09	20
5000 m	Osamu Naito	7:56.97	16
5000 m	Kiyomi Ito	7:45.96	13
10,000 m	Osamu Naito	15:52.93	12
10,000 m	Kiyomi Ito	15:48.17	10

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Ryoko Onozawa	46.70	21
500 m	Sachiko Saito	45.35	9
1000 m	Ryoko Onozawa	1:36.99	28
	Sachiko Saito	1:35.12	18
	Emiko Taguchi	1:34.40	15
1500 m	Kaname Ide	2:28.34	18
	Emiko Taguchi	2:28.19	17
	Satomi Koike	2:25.16	11
3000 m	Akiko Aruga	5:22.60	18
	Kaname Ide	5:17.30	16
	Satomi Koike	5:09.21	12

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