Walk Satoshi Yanagisawa Final – 1:25:03 (22nd place) Daisuke Ikeshima Final – 1:25:34 (27th place) Men's 50 km Walk Fumio Imamura Final – 4:13:28 (36th place) Akihiko Koike Final – DQ Men's marathon Shinji Kawashima Final – 2:17:21 (21st place) Nobuyuki Sato Final – 2:20:52 (41st place) Takayuki Inubushi Final – DNF Women's competition Women's 5,000 m Yoshiko Ichikawa Round 1 – 15:23.41 (did not advance) Megumi Tanaka Round 1 – 15:39.83 (did not advance) Michiko Shimizu Round 1 – 15:48.20 (did not advance) Women's 10,000 m Harumi Hiroyama Round 1 – 32:07.68 Final – 32:24.17 (20th place) Chiemi Takahashi Round 1 – 32:34.70 Final – 31:52.59 (15th place) Yuko Kawakami Round 1 – 32:36.60 Final – 31:27.44 (10th place) Women's 100 m Hurdles Yvonne Kanazawa Round 1 – 13.13 Round 2 – 13.11 Semifinal – 13.16 (did not advance) Women's 800 m Wheelchair Wakako Tsuchida Final – 01:56.49 (silver medal) Women's High Jump Yoko Ota Qualifying – 1.94 Final – 1.90 (11th place) Miki Imai Qualifying – 1.92 (did not advance) Women's Marathon Naoko Takahashi Final – 2:23:14 (gold medal) Eri Yamaguchi Final – 2:27:03 (7th place) Ari Ichihashi Final – 2:30:34 (15th place) Badminton Men's singles Hidetaka Yamada Round of 64: Bye Round of 32: Lost to Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia Keita Masuda Round of 64: Bye Round of 32: Lost to Xia Xuanze of China Women's singles Kanako Yonekura Round of 64: Defeated Tatiana Vattier of France Round of 32: Defeated Anu Weckstrom of Finland Round of 16: Lost to Dai Yun of China Yasuko Mizui Round of 64: Bye Round of 32: Defeated Marina Yakusheva of Russia Round of 16: Defeated Julia Mann of Great Britain Quarterfinal: Lost to Gong Zhichao of China Takako Ida Round of 64: Bye Round of 32: Lost to Mette Sorensen of Denmark Women's doubles Haruko Matsuda, Yoshiko Iwata Round of 32: Defeated Amrita Sawaram, Marie-Helene Valerie Pierre of Mauritius Round of 16: Lost to Qin Yiyuan, Gao Ling of China Satomi Igawa, Hiroko Nagamine Round of 32: Lost to Irina Rousliakova, Marina Yakusheva of Russia Baseball Men's Team Competition Japan, which had won a bronze medal in the first Olympic baseball tournament and a silver medal in the second, once again made the semifinals in the third. The Japanese team defeated the Netherlands, Italy, Australia, and Africa but lost to the three teams that finished at the top of the