128.0 (→ 19th place) Shooting Six male shooters represented Japan in 1972. Open Swimming Volleyball Men's Team Competition Preliminary Round (Group B) Defeated Romania (3-1) Defeated Cuba (3-0) Defeated East Germany (3-0) Defeated Brazil (3-0) Defeated West Germany (3-0) Semifinals Defeated Bulgaria (3-2) Final Defeated East Germany (3-1) → Gold Medal Team Roster Kenji Kimura Yoshinide Fukao Junko Morita Seiji Ohko Tadayoshi Yokota Katsutoshi Nekoda Yasuhiro Noguchi Kenji Shimaoka Yūzo Nakamura Tetsuo Nishimoto Massao Minami Tetsuo Satō Water polo Men's Team Competition Preliminary Round (Group C) Lost to Spain (4-6) Lost to Soviet Union (1-11) Lost to Bulgaria (4-7) Lost to Italy (5-12) → Did not advance Team Roster Yukiharu Oshita Hirokatsu Kuwayama Toshio Takahashi Shuzo Yajima Hiroshi Hashimoto Koji Nakano Naoto Minegishi Tatsuo Jihira Takashi Kimura Yoshihiro Yasumi Toru Arase Weightlifting Wrestling Badminton (demonstration sports) Men's Doubles: Ippei Kojima and Suresh Goel of India 1st round - Lost to Ng. Boon Bee and Punch Gunalan of Malaysia (8 - 15, 1 - 15) Women's Singles: Noriko Nakayama → Gold Medal 1st round - defeated Ulla Strand of Denmark (11 - 5, 11 - 9) Semi–Final - defeated Gillian Gilks of Great Britain (11 - 3, 8 - 11, 11 - 9) Final - defeated Utami Dewi of Indonesia (11 - 5, 11 - 3) Hiroe Yuki → bronze medal 1st round - defeated Joke van Beusekom of Netherlands (11 - 3, 11 - 2) Semi-Final - lost to Utami Dewi of Indonesia (5 - 11, 9 - 11) Mixed Doubles: Kojima and Nakayama 1st round - lost to Talbot and Gilks of Great Britain (9 - 15, 4 - 15) References Nations at the 1972 Summer Olympics 1972 Summer Olympics Summer Olympics