Japan at The 1996 Summer Olympics - Athletics

Athletics

Men's 100 metres

• Nobuharu Asahara
• Hiroyasu Tsuchie

Men's 200 metres

• Koji Ito
• Takahiro Mazuka

Men's 400 metres

• Shigekazu Omori

Men's 10,000 metres

• Toshinari Takaoka
• Katsuhiko Hanada

Men's 4×100 metres Relay

• Nobuharu Asahara
• Hiroyasu Tsuchie
• Koji Ito
• Satoru Inoue

Men's 4×400 metres Relay

• Shunji Karube, Koji Ito, Jun Osakada, and Shigekazu Omori

• Heat — 3:02.82
• Semi Final — 3:01.92
• Final — 3:00.76 (→ 5th place)

Men's 400m Hurdles

• Shunji Karube

• Heat — 48.96s (→ did not advance)

• Hideaki Kawamura

• Heat — 49.88s (→ did not advance)

• Kazuhiko Yamazaki

• Heat — 49.07s (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

• Hiromi Taniguchi — 2:17.26 (→ 19th place)

• Masaki Oya — 2:22.13 (→ 54th place)

• Kenjiro Jitsui — 2:33.27 (→ 93rd place)

Men's 20 km Walk

• Daisuke Ikeshima — 1:24.54 (→ 22nd place)

Men's 50 km Walk

• Tadahiro Kosaka — 4:05.57 (→ 29th place)

Men's High Jump

• Tomohiro Nomura

Men's Long Jump

• Nobuharu Asahara

• Qualification — 7.46m (→ did not advance)

Men's Pole Vault

• Teruyasu Yonekura

Women's 5,000 metres

• Michiko Shimizu
• Harumi Hiroyama
• Yoshiko Ichikawa

Women's 10,000 metres

• Masako Chiba

• Qualification — 31:37.03
• Final — 31:20.62 (→ 5th place)

• Yuko Kawakami

• Qualification — 32:31.69
• Final — 31:23.23 (→ 7th place)

• Hiromi Suzuki

• Qualification — 31:54.89
• Final — 32:43.39 (→ 16th place)

Women's Marathon

• Yuko Arimori — 2:28.39 (→ Bronze Medal)

• Izumi Maki — 2:32.35 (→ 12th place)

• Junko Asari — 2:34.31 (→ 17th place)

Women's 100 metres Hurdles

• Yvonne Kanazawa

Women's 10 km Walk

• Yuka Mitsumori — dsq (→ no ranking)

Women's Javelin Throw

• Akiko Miyajima

• Qualification — 53.98m (→ did not advance)