Matsuno Women's Marathon Eriko Asai Final — 2:34:41 (→ 25th place) Kumi Araki Final — 2:35:15 (→ 28th place) Misako Miyahara Final — 2:35:26 (→ 29th place) Women's High Jump Megumi Sato Women's Javelin Throw Emi Matsui Qualification — 56.26m (→ did not advance) Boxing Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg) Mamoru Kuroiwa First Round — Lost to Ochiryn Demberel (MGL), KO-3 Canoeing Cycling Twelve cyclists, nine men and three women, represented Japan in 1988. Men's road race Mitsuhiro Suzuki Kyoshi Miura Yoshihiro Tsumuraya Men's sprint Hideki Miwa Men's 1 km time trial Hiroshi Toyooka Men's team pursuit Koichi Azuma Fumiharu Miyamoto Kazuaki Sasaki Kazuo Takikawa Men's points race Yoshihiro Tsumuraya Women's road race Terumi Ogura — 2:00:52 (→ 30th place) Natsue Seki — 2:14:32 (→ 50th place) Women's sprint Seiko Hashimoto Diving Equestrianism Fencing Ten fencers, five men and five women, represented Japan in 1988. Men's foil Koji Emura Kenichi Umezawa Yoshihiko Kanatsu Men's team foil Matsuo Azuma, Harunobu Deno, Koji Emura, Yoshihiko Kanatsu, Kenichi Umezawa Women's foil Tomoko Oka Akemi Morikawa Mieko Miyahara Women's team foil Nona Kiritani, Keiko Mine, Mieko Miyahara, Akemi Morikawa, Tomoko Oka Gymnastics Handball Men's Team Competition Preliminary Round (Group B) vs East Germany (18 — 25) vs Spain (19 — 25) vs Hungary (19 — 22) vs South Korea (24 — 33) vs Czechoslovakia (17 — 21) Classification Match 11th/12th place: vs United States 24 — 21 (→ 11th place) Team Roster Hidetada Ito Hiroshi Yanai Izumi Fujii Kazuhiro Miyashita Kenji Tamamura Kiyoshi Nishiyama Kodo Yamamoto Koji Tachiki Seiichi Takamura Shinichi Shudo Shinji Okuda Takashi Taguchi Toshiyuki Yamamura Yoshihiro Nikawadori Yukihiro Hashimoto Judo Modern pentathlon Three male pentathletes represented Japan in 1988. Men's Individual Competition: Hiroshi Saito — 4881pts (→ 30th place) Tadafumi Miwa — 4517pts (→ 51st place) Hiroaki Izumikawa — 3722pts (→ 63rd place) Men's Team Competition: Saito, Miwa, and Izumikawa — 13120pts (→ 17th place) Rhythmic gymnastics Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Men's 100 m Freestyle Shigeo Ogata Heat — 52.08 (→ did not advance, 32nd place) Men's 200 m Freestyle Shigeo Ogata Heat — 1:51.14 B-Final — 1:51.89 (→ 15th place) Men's 400 m Freestyle Yoshiyuki Mizumoto Heat — 4:02.02 (→ did not advance, 32nd place) Shigeo Ogata Heat — 4:05.68 (→ did not advance, 38th place) Men's 1500 m Freestyle Masashi Kato Heat — 15:47.35 (→ did not advance, 25th place) Yoshiyuki Mizumoto Heat — 15:52.06 (→ did not