Japan at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

Japan at the
2012 Summer Paralympics
Japan at the; 2012 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	JPN
NPC	Japan Paralympic Committee
Website	www.jsad.or.jp (in Japanese)
in London
Competitors	116
Medals; Ranked 24th	Gold 5 Silver 5 Bronze 6 Total 16
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
	1964; 1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988; 1992; 1996; 2000; 2004; 2008; 2012; 2016; 2020;

Japan competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Japan's team consisted of 116 competitors.^[1]

Medalists[]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Goalball team	Goalball	Women's tournament	7 September
Gold	Shingo Kunieda	Wheelchair tennis	Men's Singles	8 September
Gold	Kento Masaki	Judo	Men's +100 kg	1 September
Gold		Swimming	Men's 100 metre breaststroke SB14	6 September
Gold	Rina Akiyama	Swimming	Women's 100 metre backstroke S11	2 September
Silver	Tomoya Ito	Athletics	Men's 200 metres T52	8 September
Silver	Tomoya Ito	Athletics	Men's 400 metres T52	3 September
Silver	Tomoya Ito	Athletics	Men's 800 metres T52	7 September
Silver		Swimming	Men's 100 metre brestroke SB7	1 September
Silver	Keiichi Kimura	Swimming	Men's 100 metre breaststroke SB11	3 September
Bronze	Shinya Wada	Athletics	Men's 5000 metres T11	7 September
Bronze		Cycling	Men's road time trial C3	5 September
Bronze	Kyosuke Oyama	Swimming	Men's 50 metre butterfly S6	7 September
Bronze	Keiichi Kimura	Swimming	Men's 100 metre butterfly S11	6 September
Bronze	Takayuki Suzuki	Swimming	Men's 50 metre breaststroke SB3	3 September
Bronze	Takayuki Suzuki	Swimming	Men's 150 metre individual medley SM4	2 September

Archery[]

Men


Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank
	Ind. compound W1	563	11	N/A	Murphy (CAN) (6) L 2–6	Did not advance
	Ind. recurve W1/W2	539	22	Rodriguez (ESP) (11) L 0–6	Did not advance

Women


Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank
	Ind. compound open	614	11	N/A	van Nest (CAN) (6) W 6–5	Clarke (GBR) (3) L 4–6	Did not advance

Athletics[]

Boccia[]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Seeding matches	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
	Individual BC1	Bye	(CAN) W 5–0	Smith (GBR) L 4–6	Did not advance
	Individual BC2	Bye	(BRA) W 12–0	Murray (GBR) L 0–8	Did not advance
Hidetaka Sugimura	Individual BC2	Bye	Vongsa (THA) L 5–5	Did not advance
	Individual BC3	(USA) L 1–6	(BEL) L 1–5	Did not advance

Teams

Athlete	Event	Group stage			Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Hidetaka Sugimura	Team BC1-2	Hong Kong (HKG) W 7–6	Spain (ESP) W 8–3	1 Q	Portugal (POR) L 2–10	Did not advance

Cycling[]

Track[]

Pursuit

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Rank
	Men's individual pursuit C3	3:51.743	9	Did not advance
	Men's individual pursuit C4	5:02.100	9	Did not advance

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Rank
(pilot)	Men's individual sprint B	10.639	5	Oost/Bos (NED) (4) W 10.935, L REL, W 11.002	Kappes/MacLean (GBR) (1) L, L	Bronze medal match Porto/Villanueva (ESP) (3) L, L	4

Time trial

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
(pilot)	Men's 1 km time trial B	1:04.266	6
	Men's 1 km time trial C1–3	1:14.998	20
	Men's 1 km time trial C4–5	1:09.241	6

Road[]

Event	Time	Rank
Men's road race C1-3	1:42:51	12
Men's road time trial C3	23:55.54
Men's road time trial C4	37:07.11	11

Equestrian[]

Individual

Athlete	Horse	Event	Total
Athlete	Horse	Event	Score	Rank
	Rosado	Ind. champ. test grade Ib	62.826	12
	Rosado	Ind. freestyle test grade Ib	64.250	12

Goalball[]

Women's tournament[]

Group C

	Qualified for the quarterfinals
	Eliminated

Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Canada	4	3	0	1	6	3	+3	9
Japan	4	2	1	1	5	3	+2	7
Sweden	4	2	1	1	11	11	0	7
United States	4	2	0	2	9	4	+5	6
Australia	4	0	0	4	7	17	−10	0

31 August 2012 09:00 v	Australia	1 – 3	Japan	Copper Box, London Referees: Hooshang Shariati (IRI), Yasser Omar (EGY)
	Esdaile 1	Report	Adacho 2 Komiya 1

1 September 2012 15:00 v	Japan	2 – 1	United States	Copper Box, London

2 September 2012 11:30 v	Sweden	0 – 0	Japan	Copper Box, London Referees: Tony Collonny (USA), Christl Däntler (GER)
		Report

3 September 2012 19:45 v	Japan	0 – 1	Canada	Copper Box, London

Quarter-final

5 September 2012 10:30 v	Japan	2 – 0	Brazil	Copper Box, London
		Report

Semi-final

6 September 2012 15:00 v	Sweden	3 – 4 (a.e.t.)	Japan	Copper Box, London Referees: Dina Murdie (GBR), Launel Scott (CAN)
	Gustavsson 1 Jälmestål 1 Wåglund 1	Report	Komiya 2 Adachi 1 Urata 1

Final

7 September 2012 15:00 v	China	0 – 1	Japan	Copper Box, London
		Report	Adachi 1

Judo[]

Powerlifting[]

Men

Event	Result	Rank
48 kg	117	9
82.5 kg	191	6
75 kg	180	7

Rowing[]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Finals
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
	Women's single sculls	6:44.67	6 R	7:02.53	5 FB	6:50.67	5

Sailing[]

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11*	Net points	Rank
	Sonar - 3 person keelboat	(14)	14	13	13	14	12	14	14	14	14	N/A	121	14

* Due to a lack of wind race 11 was cancelled

Shooting[]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
	Mixed 10 m air rifle prone SH2	598	21	Did not advance
	Mixed 10 m air rifle prone SH1	589	44	Did not advance
	Mixed 50 m rifle prone SH1	581	22	Did not advance

Sitting volleyball[]

Women's tournament[]

Roster

The following is the Japanese roster in the women's volleyball tournament of the 2012 Summer Paralympics.^[2]

№	Date of birth	2012 club
1	12 March 1967	Soul
2	13 September 1988
3	9 March 1968
4	3 April 1966
5	21 September 1972
6	5 November 1985
7	6 March 1982
8	21 February 1964
9	28 April 1980
10	23 July 1967
11	15 June 1967

Group A

v t		Pts	Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team	Pts	W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Ukraine	6	3	0	9	1	9.000	241	167	1.443
2	Netherlands	5	2	1	7	4	1.750	251	201	1.249
3	Japan	4	1	2	4	6	0.667	190	218	0.872
4	Great Britain	3	0	3	0	9	0.000	129	225	0.573

31 August 2012 19:00 v	Netherlands	3–1	Japan	ExCeL London, London Referees: Amin Al-Traifi (KSA), Dominik Raca (CRO)
	(22–25, 25–18, 25–13, 25–14) Report

2 September 2012 19:00 v	Great Britain	0–3	Japan	ExCeL London, London Referees: Dariusz Jasinski (POL), Anton Probst (GER)
	(11–25, 21–25, 14–25) Report

3 September 2012 16:00 v	Ukraine	3–0	Japan	ExCeL London, London Referees: Ronaldo Chaves (BRA), Joe Campbell (USA)
	(25–20, 25–9, 25–16) Report

5th–8th place semi-final

4 September 2012 21:00 v	Japan	0–3	Slovenia	ExCeL London, London Referees: France Marcoux (CAN), Dee Wauchope (GBR)
	(19–25, 22–25, 20–25) Report

7th/8th place match

6 September 2012 9:00 v	Great Britain	0–3	Japan	ExCeL London, London Referees: Dimosthenis Kostopoulos (GRE), Janko Plesnik (SLO)
	(23–25, 19–25, 13–25) Report

Swimming[]

Table tennis[]

Men's singles

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries			Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	Finals
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
	Singles class 6	(FRA) L 2–3	(CHN) L 0–3	3	Did not advance
	Singles class 11	Palos (HUN) L 0–3	Son (KOR) L 0–3	3	N/A	Did not advance

Women's singles

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries			Semi-finals	Finals
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Kimie Bessho	Singles class 5	(ARG) W 3–0	Abuawad (JOR) L 0–3	2	Did not advance

Wheelchair basketball[]

Men's tournament[]

Group B

Team v t	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Canada	5	5	0	362	280	+82	10
Germany	5	4	1	339	303	+36	9
Great Britain	5	3	2	365	301	+64	8
Poland	5	2	3	327	341	−14	7
Japan	5	1	4	273	330	−57	6
Colombia	5	0	5	223	334	−111	5

30 August 2012
13:00

Report

Japan	53–68	Canada
Scoring by quarter: 11–16, 10–19, 10–18, 22–15
Pts: 16 Rebs: 11 Asts: 5		Pts: Anderson 32 Rebs: Anderson 13 Asts: Peter, Anderson 3

Basketball Arena, London
Referees: Cristian Roja (ITA)

31 August 2012
10:45

Report

Poland	78–53	Japan
Scoring by quarter: 21–10, 22–10, 21–19, 14–14
Pts: 24 Rebs: 17 Asts: 10		Pts: 18 Rebs: 9 Asts: 4

North Greenwich Arena, London
Referees: Cristian Salguero (ARG)

1 September 2012
15:15

Report

Japan	49–64	Germany
Scoring by quarter: 18–14, 7–13, 13–11, 11–26
Pts: 13 Rebs: 8 Asts: 7		Pts: 16 Rebs: 12 Asts: 8

Basketball Arena, London
Referees: Nureddin Bilmez (TUR)

2 September 2012
10:45

Report

Colombia	49–63	Japan
Scoring by quarter: 14–22, 11–13, 8–13, 16–15
Pts: 14 Rebs: 17 Asts: , 5		Pts: 27 Rebs: 14 Asts: , 7

North Greenwich Arena, London
Referees: Juan Uruñuela (ESP)

3 September 2012
15:15

Report

Japan	55–71	Great Britain
Scoring by quarter: 14–25, 10–21, 13–14, 18–11
Pts: 20 Rebs: , 5 Asts: 7		Pts: Bywater 19 Rebs: Munn 9 Asts: Bywater, Pollock 5

North Greenwich Arena, London
Referees: Matt Wells (AUS)

9th/10th place match

5 September 2012
10:45

Report

Italy	60–64	Japan
Scoring by quarter: 13–20, 18–18, 14–15, 15–11
Pts: 31 Rebs: 6 Asts: 5		Pts: 14 Rebs: 10 Asts: 5

North Greenwich Arena, London
Referees: Mati Quintana (ARG)

Wheelchair rugby[]

Group stage

	Qualified for the semifinals
	Eliminated

Team v t	Pld	W	L	G	GA	GD	Pts
United States (USA)	3	3	0	190	136	+54	6
Japan (JPN)	3	2	1	164	159	+5	4
Great Britain (GBR)	3	1	2	140	157	–17	2
France (FRA)	3	0	3	150	192	–42	0

5 September 2012

21:15

Japan	65 – 56	France
	Report

Basketball Arena

Attendance: 3,642

Referee: Mitch Carr (USA), Alexander Schreiner (GER)

6 September 2012

21:15

Japan	48 – 64	United States
	Report

Basketball Arena

Attendance: 2,959

Referee: Philip Washbourn (NZL), Dave Woods (GBR)

7 September 2012

15:00

Great Britain	39 – 51	Japan
	Report

Basketball Arena

Attendance: 8,458

Referee: Mitch Carr (USA), Philip Washbourn (NZL)

Semi-finals

8 September 2012

14:00

Australia	59 – 45	Japan
Batt 27 Bond 14 Smith 6 Scott 2 Lees 2 Meakin 2 Newton 1 Carr 1 Harrison 1 Team 3	Report	24 7 6 4 2 Team 2

Basketball Arena

Attendance: 5,333

Referee: Mitch Carr (USA), Darren Roberts (USA)

Bronze medal match

9 September 2012

12:00

United States	53 – 43	Japan
	Report

Basketball Arena

Attendance: 7,852

Referee: Pierre-Alexandre Briére (CAN), Philip Washbourn (NZL)

Wheelchair tennis[]

References[]

^ "Japan". 2012 Summer Olympics. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
^ Women's Sitting Volleyball – Teams – Japan, london2012.com. Retrieved 12 October 2012.

[1] "Japan". 2012 Summer Olympics. Retrieved 28 August 2012.

[2] Women's Sitting Volleyball – Teams – Japan, london2012.com. Retrieved 12 October 2012.

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v t National Paralympic Committees at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom
Africa	Algeria Angola Benin Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa Tanzania Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
America	Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Barbados Bermuda Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Peru Puerto Rico Suriname Trinidad and Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela Virgin Islands
Asia	Afghanistan Bahrain Brunei Cambodia China East Timor Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Laos Macau Malaysia Mongolia Myanmar Nepal North Korea Oman Palestine Pakistan Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Syria Chinese Taipei Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam
Europe	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Faroe Islands Finland France Germany Georgia Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Latvia Lithuania Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Oceania	Australia Fiji New Zealand Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Vanuatu

Japan at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

Contents

Medalists[]

Archery[]

Athletics[]

Boccia[]

Cycling[]

Track[]

Road[]

Equestrian[]

Goalball[]

Women's tournament[]

Judo[]

Powerlifting[]

Rowing[]

Sailing[]

Shooting[]

Sitting volleyball[]

Women's tournament[]

Swimming[]

Table tennis[]

Wheelchair basketball[]

Men's tournament[]

Wheelchair rugby[]

Wheelchair tennis[]

See also[]

References[]