Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
competed at the
2022 Winter Olympics
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in
Beijing
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, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.
Akito Watabe and
Arisa Go were the country's flagbearers during the
opening ceremony
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Meanwhile Go was also the flagbearer during the
closing ceremony
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Medalists
The following Japanese competitors won medals at the games. In the discipline sections below, the medalists' names are bolded.
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.
Alpine skiing
Biathlon
;Mixed
Cross-country skiing
Japan qualified four male and four female cross-country skiers.
;Men
;Women
;Sprint
Curling
;Summary
Women's tournament
Japan has qualified their women's team (five athletes), by finishing second in the
2021 Olympic Qualification Event. Team
Satsuki Fujisawa
is a Japanese curler from Kitami, Hokkaido. As a skip, she has won the Japanese national championship six times. Fujisawa skipped the bronze medal-winning Japanese team at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games and the silver medal-winning team at the ...
qualified as Japanese representatives by winning the
2021 Japanese Olympic Curling Trials, defeating
Sayaka Yoshimura
is a Japanese curler from Sapporo, Hokkaido. She is the skip of the FORTIUS curling team, which won the Japan Curling Championships in both 2015 and 2021. At the international level, she has represented Japan twice at the World Women's Curling ...
3–2 in the best-of-five trial.
;Round robin
Japan had a
bye in draws 2, 6 and 10.
;Draw 1
''Thursday, 10 February, 9:05''
;Draw 3
''Friday, 11 February, 14:05''
;Draw 4
''Saturday, 12 February, 9:05''
;Draw 5
''Saturday, 12 February, 20:05''
;Draw 7
''Monday, 14 February, 9:05''
;Draw 8
''Monday, 14 February, 20:05''
;Draw 9
''Tuesday, 15 February, 14:05''
;Draw 11
''Wednesday, 16 February, 20:05''
;Draw 12
''Thursday, 17 February, 14:05''
;Semifinal
''Friday, 18 February, 20:05''
;Gold medal game
''Sunday, 20 February, 9:05''
Figure skating
In the
2021 World Figure Skating Championships
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in
Stockholm
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, Sweden, Japan secured three quotas in both the men's and ladies singles competitions, and one each in the pairs and ice dance competitions.
;Team trophy
Freestyle skiing
;Freeskiing
;Women
Kokone Kondo withdrew from the slopestyle event after sustaining an injury during practice.
Moguls
Men
Women
;Ski cross
Ice hockey
;Summary
Key:
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*by custom (what is considered healthy or reasonable by society), ...
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GWS – Match decided by penalty-shootout
Japan has qualified 23 female competitors to the ice hockey tournament.
Women's tournament
Japan women's national ice hockey team
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qualified by being 6th in the 2020
IIHF World Ranking
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s.
;Team roster
;Group play
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Quarterfinals
Luge
Nordic combined
Short track speed skating
Japan has qualified four male and three female short track speed skaters. They will participate in the men's and mixed relays as well.
;Men
;Women
;Mixed
Qualification legend: ADV – Advanced due to being impeded by another skater; FA – Qualify to medal round; FB – Qualify to consolation round; OR – Olympic record
Ski jumping
;Men
;Women
;Mixed
Snowboarding
;Freestyle
;Men
;Women
;Parallel
;Cross
Speed skating
;Men
;Women
;Mass start
;Team pursuit
See also
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Japan at the 2022 Winter Paralympics
References
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Winter Olympics
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