Japan at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Japan competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. 266 competitors, 156 men and 110 women, took part in 156 events in 28 sports.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
	Tadahiro Nomura	Judo	Men's extra lightweight	16 September
	Ryoko Tamura	Judo	Women's extra lightweight	16 September
	Makoto Takimoto	Judo	Men's half middleweight	19 September
	Kosei Inoue	Judo	Men's half heavyweight	21 September
	Naoko Takahashi	Athletics	Women's marathon	24 September
	Yasuko Tajima	Swimming	Women's 400 m individual medley	16 September
	Noriko Narazaki	Judo	Women's half lightweight	17 September
	Mai Nakamura	Swimming	Women's 100 m backstroke	18 September
	Shinichi Shinohara	Judo	Men's heavyweight	22 September
	Reika Utsugi Miyo Yamada Noriko Yamaji Haruka Saito Juri Takayama Hiroko Tamoto Mariko Masubuchi Naomi Matsumoto Emi Naito Kazue Ito Yoshimi Kobayashi Shiori Koseki Misako Ando Yumiko Fujii Taeko Ishikawa	Softball	Women's competition	25 September
	Miya Tachibana Miho Takeda	Synchronized swimming	Women's duet	26 September
	Katsuhiko Nagata	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 69 kg	27 September
	Juri Tatsumi Yoko Yoneda Yuko Yoneda Rei Jimbo Ayano Egami Raika Fujii Miya Tachibana Yoko Isoda Miho Takeda	Synchronized swimming	Women's team	29 September
	Kie Kusakabe	Judo	Women's lightweight	18 September
	Mayumi Yamashita	Judo	Women's heavyweight	22 September
	Miki Nakao	Swimming	Women's 200 m backstroke	22 September
	Junko Onishi Masami Tanaka Sumika Minamoto Mai Nakamura	Swimming	Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay	23 September
	Yoriko Okamoto	Taekwondo	Women's 67 kg	29 September

Archery

Sayoko Kawauchi was the most successful Japanese archer in Sydney, advancing to the quarterfinal before being defeated by eventual silver medallist Kim Nam-Soon.
Men's team competition:

Makiyama, Matsushita, Hamano – Round of 16, 14th place

Athletics

Men's competition

Men's 100 m

Men's 200 m

Men's 400 m

Men's 5,000 m

Men's 10,000 m

Men's 110 m Hurdles

Satoru Tanigawa

Men's 400 m Hurdles

Men's 4 × 100 m

Nobuharu Asahara, Koji Ito, Shingo Kawabata, Shigeyuki Kojima, Shingo Suetsugu

Men's 4 × 400 m

Shunji Karube, Jun Osakada, Kenji Tabata, Takahiko Tamamura

Men's Hammer Throw

Koji Murofushi

Men's Long Jump

Men's Triple Jump

Takamori Sugibayashi

Men's High Jump

Takahisa Yoshida

Men's Pole Vault

Manabu Yokoyama

Men's 20 km Walk

Men's 50 km Walk

Men's marathon

Women's competition

Women's 5,000 m

Women's 10,000 m

Women's 100 m Hurdles

Yvonne Kanazawa

Women's 800 m Wheelchair

Wakako Tsuchida

Women's High Jump

Women's Marathon

Badminton

Men's singles

Women's singles

Women's doubles

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 group: the United States, Korea, and Cuba. In the semifinals, Japan played Cuba for the second time in as many games, losing again to the two-time gold medallists. Playing for the bronze medal against Korea, the Japanese team was again defeated.