Japan at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Japan participated in the Summer Olympics in 1920 in Antwerp, Belgium, with a delegation of 15 athletes (all men) in 14 competitions in four sports part. There were two medals ( silver ) are obtained. The youngest athlete was the marathon runner Kenzo Yashima (18 years and 139 days), the oldest athlete was the decathlete Gensaburō Noguchi (31 years and 361 days). It was after the Summer Olympics 1912, the second participation in the Olympic Summer Games for the country.
- 2.1 Athletics
- 2.2 Swimming
- 2.3 Tennis
- 2.4 Diving
Medalist
Silver
Participants by sport
Athletics
- Saburo Hasumi 800 -meter run
- Ichiro Kaga 100 -meter run
- 200 -meter run
- Kanaguri Shiso marathon
- Hiroshi Masuda pentathlon
- Yahei Miura marathon
- Zensaku Motegi 10,000 -meter run
- Marathon
- Gensaburo Noguchi decathlon
- Tomeichi Ōura 5000 -meter run
- Konosuke Sano 5000 -meter run
- Shinichi Yamaoka 100 -meter run
- 200 -meter run
- Kenzo Yashima marathon
Swimming
- Kenkichi Saito 100 meter freestyle
- 400 meter freestyle
- Masaren Uchida 100 meter freestyle
- 400 meter freestyle
Tennis
Doubles
- Results rank two Quarter-finals: 3-1 win in sets ( 6:3, 6:2, 4:6, 6:3 ) against Brian Norton and Louis Raymond from the Union of South Africa Semi-finals: 3-1 in sets ( 6:4, 4:6, 6:3, 6:1 ) against Blanchy François and Jacques Brugnon from France Final: 1-3 defeat by sets ( 2:6, 7:5, 5:7, 5:7 ) against Oswald Turnbull and Max Woosnam from the UK
- Team Kumagai Ichiya Seiichiro Kashio
Singles
- Kumagai Ichiya rank two Round one: 3-0 set victory against José María Alonso de Areyzaga from Spain Round two: 3-0 in sets against Victor de Laveleye from Belgium Round three: enforced against Albert Lammens from Belgium to sets ( 3-0) Quarterfinals: Victory for sentences (3-0) vs. George Dodd of the Union of South Africa Semi-finals: 3-0 set victory against Charles Winslow of the Union of South Africa Finals: Defeat for sentences (0:3) against Louis Raymond from the Union of South Africa
- Seiichiro Kashio ninth Round one: bye Round two: 3-0 in sets against Erik Tegner from Denmark Round three: 2:3 defeat after sentences against George Dodd of the Union of South Africa
Diving
- Masaren Uchida Diving 3 m and 10 m