Japan’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic Medalists
Tokyo 2020 Sports Society
A full list of Japan’s medal winners at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Japan’s Medalists at Tokyo 2020
■ =Gold ■ =Silver ■ =Bronze
| Japan national team (August 8) | Women’s basketball | Performed strongly, but lost out to the United States, which won its seventh consecutive gold. |
| Kajihara Yūmi (August 8) | Women’s Omnium (cycling) | The first Japanese woman to win a cycling medal. |
| Japan national team (August 7) | Baseball | A 2-0 victory over the United States secured gold for Japan. |
| Susaki Yui (August 7) | Women’s freestyle 50-kilogram (wrestling) | Her victory meant Japan won four gold medals in women’s wrestling, matching the achievement of 2016. |
| Araga Ryūtarō (August 7) | Men’s +75kg (karate) | Japan’s only medal in the kumite sparring division. |
| Otoguro Takuto (August 7) | Men’s freestyle 65-kilogram (wrestling) | Overcame triple world champion Haji Aliyev of Azerbaijan in the final. |
| Inami Mone (August 7) | Women’s individual (golf) | Beat Lydia Ko of New Zealand in a sudden-death playoff after finishing level. |
| Nonaka Mihō (August 6) | Women’s combined (sport climbing) | A hard-fought silver after battles with injuries. |
| Noguchi Akiyo (August 6) | Women’s combined (sport climbing) | Announced her retirement after winning the bronze. |
| Mukaida Mayu (August 6) | Women’s freestyle 53-kilogram (wrestling) | Came back from four points down to win the gold. |
| Kiyuna Ryō (August 6) | Men’s kata (karate) | The hot favorite became the first gold medalist from Okinawa. |
| Mizutani Jun, Harimoto Tomokazu, Niwa Kōki (August 6) | Men’s team (table tennis) | Won a medal for the second successive Olympics after silver in 2016. |
| Ishikawa Kasumi, Itō Mima, Hirano Miu (August 5) | Women’s team (table tennis) | Lost 3–0 to China in the final. Itō Mima ended the Olympics with one medal of each color. |
| Kawai Risako (August 5) | Women’s freestyle 57-kilogram (wrestling) | Won the gold for the second successive time, following her younger sister’s triumph the previous day. |
| Shimizu Kiyō (August 5) | Women’s kata (karate) | Lost to her long-term rival, Sandra Sánchez of Spain. |
| Ikeda Kōki (August 5) | Men’s 20 kilometres walk (athletics) | Achieved Japan’s best result in an Olympic race walking event. |
| Yamanishi Toshikazu (August 5) | Men’s 20 kilometres walk (athletics) | The gold medal winner at the 2019 World Athletics Championships was not able to match that feat this time. |
| Tanaka Ryōmei (August 5) | Men’s flyweight (boxing) | Japan’s first men’s flyweight medal since 1960. |
| Kawai Yukako (August 4) | Women’s freestyle 62-kilogram (wrestling) | Matched her older sister Risako’s gold medal in 2016. |
| Namiki Tsukimi (August 4) | Women’s flyweight (boxing) | Japan’s second medal in women’s boxing. |
| Yosozumi Sakura (August 4) | Women’s park (skateboarding) | Her winning performance meant Japan won both women’s skateboarding gold medals. |
| Hiraki Kokona (August 4) | Women’s park (skateboarding) | Became Japan’s youngest ever medalist at 12 years and 11 months. |
| Yabiku Shōhei (August 3) | Men’s Greco-Roman 77-kilogram (wrestling) | Came back from a quarterfinal loss to progress through the repechage rounds and win a bronze medal. |
| Hashimoto Daiki (August 3) | Men’s horizontal bar (gymnastics) | The only finalist to score more than 15 points, he secured his second individual gold of the games. |
| Irie Sena (August 3) | Women’s featherweight (boxing) | Defeated world champion Nesthy Petecio of the Philippines to win Japan’s first medal in women’s boxing. |
| Fumita Ken’ichirō (August 2) | Men’s Greco-Roman 60-kilogram (wrestling) | Won the World Championships in 2017 and 2019, but lost out to Luis Orta of Cuba in the Olympic final. |
| Murakami Mai (August 2) | Women’s floor exercise (gymnastics) | Japan’s first women’s gymnastics medal since 1964 and the first time a Japanese woman has won an individual medal. |
| Kaya Kazuma (August 1) | Men’s pommel horse (gymnastics) | Added an individual medal to the silver he won as part of Japan’s men’s team. |
| Japan national team (July 31) | Mixed team (jūdō) | Despite a loss to France in the final, the silver in the new team event rounded off a successful Olympics for Japan’s jūdōka. |
| Furukawa Takaharu (July 31) | Men’s individual (archery) | The 2012 silver medalist also won a bronze medal in Tokyo as part of the Japanese team. |
| Kanō Kōki, Yamada Masaru, Uyama Satoru, Minobe Kazuyasu (July 30) | Men’s team épée (fencing) | Japan’s first ever Olympic fencing gold, and its first medal for épée. |
| Sone Akira (July 30) | Women’s +78-kilogram (jūdō) | Defeated 2012 gold medal winner Idalys Ortiz of Cuba in the final. |
| Higashino Arisa, Watanabe Yūta (July 30) | Mixed doubles (badminton) | Have been playing as a team since they were at junior high school. |
| Itō Mima (July 29) | Women’s singles (table tennis) | Following her part in the historic mixed doubles gold, won Japan’s first medal in the women’s singles. |
| Wolf, Aaron (July 29) | Men’s 100-kilogram (jūdō) | Japan’s first gold in the 100-kilogram class since 2000. |
| Hamada Shōri (July 29) | Women’s 78-kilogram (jūdō) | Won gold on her Olympic debut at 30 years old. |
| Hashimoto Daiki (July 28) | Men’s artistic individual all-around (gymnastics) | Followed two successive Olympic gold medals by Uchimura Kōhei in the event. |
| Arai Chizuru (July 28) | Women’s 70-kilogram (jūdō) | After an epic 16-minute semifinal bout against Madina Taimazova of Russia, she still had the energy to triumph in the final. |
| Ōhashi Yui (July 28) | Women’s 200-meter individual medley (swimming) | Became the first Japanese woman to win two swimming golds at the same Olympics. |
| Honda Tomoru (July 28) | Men’s 200 meter butterfly (swimming) | The 19-year-old followed up wins at the 2020 and 2021 national championships with Olympic silver. |
| Japan national team (July 27) | Softball | Beat the United States in the final 2-0, matching the gold medal in 2008, which was the last time softball featured at the Olympics. |
| Nagase Takanori (July 27) | Men’s 81-kilogram (jūdō) | Won an overtime victory over Saeid Mollaei of Mongolia. |
| Andō Mikiko (July 27) | Women’s 59-kilogram (weightlifting) | Improved on a fifth-place finish at the 2016 Olympics. |
| Igarashi Kanoa (July 27) | Men’s shortboard (surfing) | Lost out to 2019 World Surf League champion Ítalo Ferreira in the final. |
| Tsuzuki Amuro (July 27) | Women’s shortboard (surfing) | Overcame higher ranked opponents to take the bronze. |
| Itō Mima, Mizutani Jun (July 26) | Mixed doubles (table tennis) | In the first time this event was held, Japan won its first-ever gold medal in table tennis. |
| Hashimoto Daiki, Kaya Kazuma, Kitazono Takeru, Tanigawa Wataru (July 26) | Men’s artistic team all-around (gymnastics) | With all members making their Olympic debuts, the team came close to matching Japan’s 2016 gold medal in this event. |
| Ōno Shōhei (July 26) | Men’s 73-kilogram (jūdō) | Won a second consecutive gold medal in the event. |
| Yoshida Tsukasa (July 26) | Women’s 57-kilogram (jūdō) | Lost to eventual winner Nora Gjakova of Kosovo in the semifinal. |
| Mutō Hiroki, Kawata Yūki, Furukawa Takaharu (July 26) | Men’s team (archery) | Defeated the Netherlands in the bronze medal match. |
| Nishiya Momiji (July 26) | Women’s street (skateboarding) | The youngest ever Japanese medalist at 13 years and 11 months, and one of the youngest of any nationality. |
| Nakayama Fūna (July 26) | Women’s street (skateboarding) | Scored highest in the semifinal round, but dropped back to third in the final. |
| Abe Hifumi (July 25) | Men’s 66-kilogram (jūdō) | On matching his sister Uta’s victory, they became the first siblings ever to win Olympic gold on the same day. |
| Abe Uta (July 25) | Women’s 52-kilogram (jūdō) | Won through an ippon in Golden Score overtime. |
| Horigome Yūto (July 25) | Men’s street (skateboarding) | The first-ever winner of a gold medal in a skateboarding event. |
| Ōhashi Yui (July 25) | Women’s 400-meter individual medley (swimming) | A superb performance on the breaststroke leg gave her an unassailable lead. |
| Takatō Naohisa (July 24) | Men’s 60-kilogram (jūdō) | Improved on his bronze medal at Rio de Janeiro in 2016. |
| Tonaki Fūna (July 24) | Women’s 48-kilogram (jūdō) | The first Japanese medalist at the Tokyo Olympics. |
(Originally published in Japanese. Banner photo: Abe Hifumi, at left, and sister Uta, who both won jūdō gold medals on July 25, 2021. © Jiji.)