Japan at the 1951 Asian Games

Japan at the 1951 Asian Games
IOC code	JPN
NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
in New Delhi
Competitors	65 (58 men, 7 women)
Medals Ranked 1st	Gold 24 Silver 21 Bronze 15 Total 60
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Japan participated in the 1951 Asian Games held in the capital city of New Delhi, India. The nation sent a total of 65 athletes to the games, 58 men and 7 women.

Japan was ranked 1st with 24 gold medals, 21 silver medals and 15 bronze medals with a total of 60 medals to secure its top spot in the medal tally. Athletics was the most successful sport with 20 gold medals, 17 silver medals and 15 bronze medals. Female athletes won all nine events with Kiyoko Sugimura and Toyoko Yoshino became the most successful Japanese athletes in the games after collecting 3 gold medals each.

The cyclists collected four gold medals, three silver medals and a bronze medal. Japanese road cyclists consisting of Kihei Tomioka, Yuji Tachiiri, and Takeo Sato swept the road race medals. Tomioka, Tachiiri, and Sato, along with Ryo Ishikawa also won the team pursuit gold medal. Sato became the most successful cyclist after winning two gold medals and a bronze, including the men's sprint gold medal. In the 1 km time trial, Shoichiro Sugihara won the gold medal, making every Japanese cyclist collect at least one gold medal from the games.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Kihei Tomioka	Cycling	Men's road race	March 6
Gold	Takeo Sato	Cycling	Men's sprint	March 7
Gold	Shoichiro Sugihara	Cycling	Men's 1 km time trial	March 7
Gold	Ryo Ishikawa Takeo Sato Yuji Tachiiri Kihei Tomioka	Cycling	Men's team pursuit	March 8
Gold	Fumio Kamamoto	Athletics	Men's hammer throw	March 8
Gold	Bunkichi Sawada	Athletics	Men's pole vault	March 8
Gold	Soichi Tamoi	Athletics	Men's 10,000 m	March 8
Gold	Toyoko Yoshino	Athletics	Women's discus throw	March 9
Gold	Fumio Nishiuchi	Athletics	Men's decathlon	March 9
Gold	Kyoko Yoneda	Athletics	Women's high jump	March 10
Gold	Haruo Nagayasu	Athletics	Men's javelin throw	March 10
Gold	Masaji Tajima	Athletics	Men's long jump	March 10
Gold	Toyoko Yoshino	Athletics	Women's shot put	March 10
Gold	Eitaro Okano	Athletics	Men's 400 m hurdles	March 10
Gold	Kiyoko Sugimura	Athletics	Women's 100 m	March 10
Gold	Kiyoko Sugimura	Athletics	Women's long jump	March 11
Gold	Yoshio Iimura	Athletics	Men's triple jump	March 11
Gold	Eitaro Okano	Athletics	Men's 400 m	March 11
Gold	Susumu Takahashi	Athletics	Men's 3000 m steeplechase	March 11
Gold	Kyoko Yoneda	Athletics	Women's 80 m hurdles	March 11
Gold	Kimiko Okamoto	Athletics	Women's 200 m	March 11
Gold	Kimiko Okamoto Taeko Sato Ayako Yoshikawa Kiyoko Sugimura	Athletics	Women's 4x100 m relay	March 11
Gold	Masaji Tajima Toshihiro Ohashi Tomio Hosoda Kazuta Ikoma	Athletics	Men's 4x100 m relay	March 11
Gold	Toyoko Yoshino	Athletics	Women's javelin throw	unknown
Silver	Yuji Tachiiri	Cycling	Men's road race	March 6
Silver	Shoichiro Sugihara	Cycling	Men's sprint	March 7
Silver	Ryo Ishikawa	Cycling	Men's 1 km time trial	March 7
Silver	Takeo Sato	Athletics	Men's 10,000 m walk	March 8
Silver	Ryosuke Takasugu	Athletics	Men's 10,000 m	March 8
Silver	Fumi Kojima	Athletics	Women's discus throw	March 9
Silver	Susumu Takahashi	Athletics	Men's 1500 m	March 9
Silver	Bunkichi Sawada	Athletics	Men's decathlon	March 9
Silver	Taeko Sato	Athletics	Women's high jump	March 10
Silver	Fumi Kojima	Athletics	Women's shot put	March 10
Silver	Sukeo Denda	Athletics	Men's shot put	March 10
Silver	Makoto Arai Mitsugu Hachiya Hiroshi Ikeda Junichi Iwao Michio Katayama Fumio Matsuoka Kasaburo Ogura Shuzo Okubo Shigeru Saito Minoru Takahashi Mitsuhide Tsuji	Basketball	Men's tournament	March 10
Silver	Norimi Sato	Athletics	Men's discus throw	March 11
Silver	Ayako Yoshikawa	Athletics	Women's long jump	March 11
Silver	Takashi Aso	Athletics	Men's triple jump	March 11
Silver	Toshihiro Ohashi	Athletics	Men's 100 m	March 11
Silver	Michitaka Kinami	Athletics	Men's 110 m hurdles	March 11
Silver	Katsuo Nishida	Athletics	Men's marathon	March 11
Silver	Yukio Ishikawa	Athletics	Men's high jump	March 11
Silver	Yorio Mizuyoke Ichiro Tao Fumio Nishiuchi Eitaro Okano	Athletics	Men's 4x400 m relay	March 11
Silver	Miyoko Kato	Athletics	Women's javelin throw	unknown
Bronze	Takeo Sato	Cycling	Men's road race	March 6
Bronze	Yukio Iguchi	Weightlifting	Men's 60 kg	March 6
Bronze	Minoru Kubota	Weightlifting	Men's 67.5 kg	March 6
Bronze	Takeo Sato	Athletics	Men's 50 km walk	March 8
Bronze	Shuhei Nishida	Athletics	Men's pole vault	March 8
Bronze	Kikuo Moriya	Athletics	Men's 1500 m	March 9
Bronze	Ko Arima Toshio Iwatani Taro Kagawa Takashi Kano Nobuyuki Kato Seki Matsunaga Koji Miyata Hirokazu Ninomiya Ken Noritake Yoshio Okada Shigeo Sugimoto Megumu Tamura Masanori Tokita Yukio Tsuda	Football	Men's tournament	March 9
Bronze	Takashi Aso	Athletics	Men's long jump	March 10
Bronze	Norimi Sato	Athletics	Men's shot put	March 10
Bronze	Soichi Tamoi	Athletics	Men's 5000 m	March 10
Bronze	Kikuo Moriya	Athletics	Men's 800 m	March 10
Bronze	Tomio Hosoda	Athletics	Men's 200 m	March 10
Bronze	Kimiko Okamoto	Athletics	Women's 100 m	March 10
Bronze	Taeko Sato	Athletics	Women's 80 m hurdles	March 11
Bronze	Tomio Hosoda	Athletics	Men's 100 m	March 11

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Athletics	20	17	11	48
Cycling	4	3	1	8
Basketball	0	1	0	1
Weightlifting	0	0	2	2
Football	0	0	1	1
Total	24	21	15	60

See also

• Japan at the 1952 Summer Olympics