Japan at the 1959 Summer Universiade

Japan at the
1959 Summer Universiade
Japan at the; 1959 Summer Universiade
IOC code	JPN
NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
Website	www.joc.or.jp/english/ (in English)
in Turin, Italy; 26 August – 7 September 1959
Competitors	22
Medals; Ranked 9th	Gold 2 Silver 2 Bronze 3 Total 7
Summer Universiade appearances (overview)
	1959; 1961; 1963; 1965; 1967; 1970; 1973; 1975; 1977; 1979; 1981; 1983; 1985; 1987; 1989; 1991; 1993; 1995; 1997; 1999; 2001; 2003; 2005; 2007; 2009; 2011; 2013; 2015; 2017; 2019; 2021; 2025; 2027;

IOC codeJPN

NOCJapanese Olympic Committee

Websitewww.joc.or.jp/english/ (in English)

Competitors22

Japan participated at the 1959 Summer Universiade, in Turin, Italy.^[1] Japan finished ninth in the medal table with 2 gold medals, 2 silver medals, and 3 bronze medals.^[2]

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Takeo Hanna Masao Nagasaki	Tennis	Men's doubles	August 31
Gold	Noriaki Yasuda	Athletics	Men's pole vault	September 4
Silver	Koji Sakurai	Athletics	Men's triple jump	September 5
Silver	Saburo Yokomizo	Athletics	Men's 5000 m	September 6
Bronze	Kuniaki Watanabe	Athletics	Men's 800 m	September 4
Bronze	Hiroshi Shibata	Athletics	Men's triple jump	September 5
Bronze	Kuniaki Watanabe	Athletics	Men's 1500 m	September 6

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Athletics	1	2	3	6
Tennis	1	0	0	1
Total	2	2	3	7

v t e FISU World University Games
Summer Games	Turin 1959 Sofia 1961 Porto Alegre 1963 Budapest 1965 Tokyo 1967 Turin 1970 Moscow 1973 Rome 1975 Sofia 1977 Mexico City 1979 Bucharest 1981 Edmonton 1983 Kobe 1985 Zagreb 1987 Duisburg 1989 Sheffield 1991 Buffalo 1993 Fukuoka 1995 Sicily 1997 Palma de Mallorca 1999 Beijing 2001 Daegu 2003 İzmir 2005 Bangkok 2007 Belgrade 2009 Shenzhen 2011 Kazan 2013 Gwangju 2015 Taipei 2017 Naples 2019 Chengdu 2021^† Yekaterinburg 2023^‡ Rhine-Ruhr 2025 Chungcheong 2027 North Carolina 2029
Winter Games	Chamonix 1960 Villars 1962 Špindlerův Mlýn 1964 Sestriere 1966 Innsbruck 1968 Rovaniemi 1970 Lake Placid 1972 Livigno 1975 Špindlerův Mlýn 1978 Jaca 1981 Sofia 1983 Belluno 1985 Štrbské Pleso 1987 Sofia 1989 Sapporo 1991 Zakopane 1993 Jaca 1995 Muju-Chonju 1997 Poprad-Tatry 1999 Zakopane 2001 Tarvisio 2003 Innsbruck-Seefeld 2005 Turin 2007 Harbin 2009 Erzurum 2011 Trentino 2013 Granada-Štrbské Pleso 2015 Almaty 2017 Krasnoyarsk 2019 Lucerne 2021^§ Lake Placid 2023 Turin 2025 Changchun 2027 TBD 2029
^†Postponed to 2023 due to the COVID-19 pandemic ^‡Cancelled due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine ^§Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic FISU Sports at the FISU World University Games All-time FISU World University Games medal table FISU World University Games medals by host nation

Japan at the 1959 Summer Universiade

Medal summary

Medalists

Medals by sport

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