Japan at the 2017 Asian Winter Games

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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

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

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

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

• Emi Hasegawa
• Mio Arai
• Asa Ando
• Emiko Kiyosawa

Men

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

Women

• Fuyuko Tachizaki
• Yurie Tanaka
• Rina Mitsuhashi
• Sari Furuya
• Asuka Hachisuka
• Kirari Tanaka

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

• Akira Lenting
• Nobuhito Kashiwabara
• Naoto Baba
• Kohei Shimizu

Women

• Yuki Kobayashi
• Hikari Miyazaki
• Chisa Obayashi
• Kozue Takizawa

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

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

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

• 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

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

Mixed

Athlete(s)	Event	SP/SD		FP/FD		Total
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara	Pairs	WD
Narumi Takahashi / Ryo Shibata		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		48.84	5	75.28	5	124.12	5

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

• Sho Endo
• Daichi Hara
• Ikuma Horishima
• Kosuke Sugimoto

Women

• Miki Ito
• Arisa Murata
• Kisara Sumiyoshi
• Hinako Tomitaka

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

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

Legend

• G– Goalie D = Defense F = Forward

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

22 February 2017 19:00 v

Japan

14–0 (5–0, 4–0, 5–0)

China

Tsukisamu Gymnasium Attendance: 1,197

Game reference
	8 min	Penalties	14 min
	59	Shots	9

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24 February 2017 19:00 v

Japan

1–4 (0–1, 0–1, 1–2)

South Korea

Tsukisamu Gymnasium Attendance: 2,118

Game reference
	8 min	Penalties	6 min
	28	Shots	32

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26 February 2017 12:30 v

Kazakhstan

7–0 (4–0, 2–0, 1–0)

Japan

Tsukisamu Gymnasium Attendance: 1,631

Game reference
	6 min	Penalties	20 min
	41	Shots	12

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 v

Kazakhstan

0–6 (0–2, 0–3, 0–1)

Japan

Tsukisamu Gymnasium Attendance: 2,200

Game reference
				Referee: Tijana Haack Linesmen: Julia Kainberger Lee Tae-ri
	12 min	Penalties	4 min
	3	Shots	58

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20 February 2017 19:00 v

Japan

3–0 (1–0, 0–0, 2–0)

South Korea

Tsukisamu Gymnasium Attendance: 1,221

Game reference
	12 min	Penalties	6 min
	47	Shots	19

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21 February 2017 19:00 v

Japan

46–0 (17–0, 18–0, 11–0)

Hong Kong

Tsukisamu Gymnasium Attendance: 513

Game reference
	0 min	Penalties	2 min
	158	Shots	0

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23 February 2017 19:00 v

Thailand

0–37 (0–18, 0–13, 0–6)

Japan

Tsukisamu Gymnasium Attendance: 348

Game reference
	10 min	Penalties	0 min
	0	Shots	150

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25 February 2017 19:00 v

Japan

6–1 (5–0, 0–1, 1–0)

China

Tsukisamu Gymnasium Attendance: 1,807

Game reference
	4 min	Penalties	8 min
	70	Shots	3

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

• Keita Watanabe
• Ryosuke Sakazume
• Kazuki Yoshinaga
• Hiroki Yokoyama
• Takayuki Muratake

Women

• Moemi Kikuchi
• Hitomi Saito
• Sumire Kikuchi
• Ayuko Ito
• Aoi Watanabe

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

• Yukiya Satō
• Naoki Nakamura
• Masamitsu Itō
• Yūken Iwasa