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Japan at the
1960 Summer Olympics
Japan at the; 1960 Summer Olympics
IOC code	JPN; (GIA used at these Games)
NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
Website	www.joc.or.jp (in Japanese and English)
in Rome
Competitors	162 (142 men and 20 women) in 17 sports
Flag bearer	Takashi Ono
Medals; Ranked 8th	Gold 4 Silver 7 Bronze 7 Total 18
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Japan competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. 162 competitors, 142 men and 20 women, took part in 96 events in 17 sports.^[1] As the country hosted the next Olympics in Tokyo, the Japanese flag was raised at the closing ceremony.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Takashi Ono Nobuyuki Aihara Yukio Endo Takashi Mitsukuri Masao Takemoto Shuji Tsurumi	Gymnastics	Men's team all-around	September 7
Gold	Takashi Ono	Gymnastics	Men's horizontal bar	September 10
Gold	Takashi Ono	Gymnastics	Men's vault	September 10
Gold	Nobuyuki Aihara	Gymnastics	Men's floor	September 10
Silver	Yoshihiko Osaki	Swimming	Men's 200 m breaststroke	August 30
Silver	Tsuyoshi Yamanaka	Swimming	Men's 400 m freestyle	August 31
Silver	Makoto Fukui Hiroshi Ishii Tsuyoshi Yamanaka Tatsuo Fujimoto	Swimming	Men's 4 x 200 m freestyle relay	September 1
Silver	Masayuki Matsubara	Wrestling	Men's freestyle flyweight	September 6
Silver	Yoshinobu Miyake	Weightlifting	Men's 56 kg	September 7
Silver	Takashi Ono	Gymnastics	Men's individual all-around	September 7
Silver	Masao Takemoto	Gymnastics	Men's horizontal bar	September 10
Bronze	Kazuo Tomita Koichi Hirakida Yoshihiko Osaki Keigo Shimuzu	Swimming	Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay	September 1
Bronze	Satoko Tanaka	Swimming	Women's 100 m backstroke	September 3
Bronze	Kiyoshi Tanabe	Boxing	Men's flyweight	September 5
Bronze	Yoshihisa Yoshikawa	Shooting	Men's pistol	September 6
Bronze	Takashi Ono	Gymnastics	Men's parallel bars	September 10
Bronze	Takashi Ono	Gymnastics	Men's rings	September 10
Bronze	Shuji Tsurumi	Gymnastics	Men's pommel horse	September 10

Five male cyclists represented Japan in 1960.

Five fencers, all men, represented Japan in 1960.

Two male pentathletes represented Japan in 1960.

Japan had 14 male rowers participate in two out of seven rowing events in 1960.^[2]

Eight shooters represented Japan in 1960. Yoshihisa Yoshikawa won a bronze medal in the 50 metre pistol event.

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Yukio Inokuma	Men's 50 metre rifle prone	384	12 Q	586	6
Takao Ishii	Men's 50 metre rifle three positions	538	24 Q	1110	30
Takao Ishii	Men's 50 metre rifle prone	385	13 Q	582	20
Kenichi Kumagai	Trap	85	33 Q	178	21
Tadao Matsui	50 m pistol	—		540	12
Osamu Ochiai	25 m rapid fire pistol	—		565	35
Fumio Ryosenan	25 m rapid fire pistol	—		569	30
Mitsuo Yamane	Trap	?	AC	Did not advance
Yoshihisa Yoshikawa	50 m pistol	—		552

^ "Japan at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 4 August 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Japan Rowing at the 1960 Roma Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 February 2018.