Japan at the 1986 Asian Winter Games
IOC code	JPN
NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
Website	https://www.joc.or.jp
in Sapporo
Competitors	92 (61 men, 31 women)
Medals Ranked 1st	Gold 29 Silver 23 Bronze 6 Total 58
Asian Winter Games appearances
1986 1990 1996 1999 2003 2007 2011 2017

Japan participated and hosted the 1986 Asian Winter Games held in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan from March 1 to March 8, 1986. The country sent a total of 92 athletes to the games, 61 men and 31 women. Japan garnered 29 gold medals securing its top spot in the medal tally.^[1]

Medal table

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Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Short track speed skating	8	6	1	15
Speed skating	7	5	3	15
Cross-country skiing	5	5	0	10
Alpine skiing	4	3	0	7
Biathlon	3	1	1	5
Figure skating	2	2	1	5
Ice Hockey	0	1	0	1
Totals (7 entries)	29	23	6	58

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Keiko Asao Speed skating Women's 3000 metres March 4  Gold Seiko Hashimoto Speed skating Women's 1500 metres March 4  Gold Seiko Hashimoto Speed skating Women's 500 metres March 4  Gold Munehisa Kuroiwa Speed skating Men's 10000 metres March 4  Gold Masahito Shinohara Speed skating Men's 5000 metres March 4  Gold Yukihiro Mitani Speed skating Men's 1500 metres March 4  Gold Akira Kuroiwa Speed skating Men's 500 metres March 4  Gold Naomine Iwaya Alpine skiing Men's slalom March 6  Gold Tetsuya Okabe Alpine skiing Men's giant slalom March 6  Gold Sachie Sato Alpine skiing Women's slalom March 6  Gold Harumi Jin Alpine skiing Women's giant slalom March 6  Gold Kazuko Nakajima Cross-country skiing Women's 5 km classical March 6  Gold Kazuko Nakajima Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km freestyle March 6  Gold Kazunari Sasaki Cross-country skiing Men's 15 km classical March 6  Gold Taniyuki Yuki Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km freestlye March 6  Gold Hirofumi Sokata Yuji Yamaishi Taniyuki Yuki Hidetsugu Sugawara Cross-country skiing Men's 4 × 10 km relay March 6  Gold Eiko Shishii Short-track speed skating Women's 3000 metres March 6  Gold Mariko Kinoshita Short-track speed skating Women's 1500 metres March 6  Gold Hiromi Takeuchi Short-track speed skating Women's 1000 metres March 6  Gold Eiko Shishii Short-track speed skating Women's 500 metres March 6  Gold Yuichi Akasaka Short-track speed skating Men's 3000 metres March 6  Gold Toshinobu Kawai Short-track speed skating Men's 1500 metres March 6  Gold Yuichi Akasaka Short-track speed skating Men's 1000 metres March 6  Gold Kenichi Sugio Short-track speed skating Men's 500 metres March 6  Gold Koichi Sato Biathlon Men's 10 km sprint March 7  Gold Isao Yamase Biathlon Men's 20 km individual March 7  Gold Koichi Sato Isao Yamase Hirohide Sato Tadashi Nakamura Biathlon 4 × 7.5 km relay March 7  Gold Juri Ozawa Figure skating Women's singles March 8  Gold Makoto Kano Figure skating Men's singles March 8  Silver Natsue Seki Speed skating Women's 3000 metres March 4  Silver Shoko Fusano Speed skating Women's 500 metres March 4  Silver Toshiaki Imamura Speed skating Men's 10000 metres March 4  Silver Munehisa Kuroiwa Speed skating Men's 1500 metres March 4  Silver Makoto Hirose Speed skating Men's 1000 metres March 4  Silver Chiaki Ishioka Alpine skiing Men's giant slalom March 6  Silver Waka Okazaki Alpine skiing Women's slalom March 6  Silver Sachie Sato Alpine skiing Women's giant slalom March 6  Silver Mihoko Shimizume Cross-country skiing Women's 5 km classical March 6  Silver Mihoko Shimizume Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km freestyle March 6  Silver Mayumi Ando Mika Ito Kazuko Nakajima Rumiko Yamamoto Cross-country skiing Women's 4 × 5 km relay March 6  Silver Yuji Yamaishi Cross-country skiing Men's 15 km classical March 6  Silver Kazunari Sasaki Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km freestlye March 6  Silver Hiromi Takeuchi Short-track speed skating Women's 1500 metres March 6  Silver Yumiko Yamada Short-track speed skating Women's 500 metres March 6  Silver Tatsuyoshi Ishihara Short-track speed skating Men's 3000 metres March 6  Silver Tatsuyoshi Ishihara Short-track speed skating Men's 1500 metres March 6  Silver Tatsuyoshi Ishihara Short-track speed skating Men's 1000 metres March 6  Silver Toshinobu Kawai Short-track speed skating Men's 500 metres March 6  Silver Koichi Sato Biathlon Men's 20 km individual March 7  Silver Takeshi Iwamoto Atsuo Kudo Hayato Aoyama Fumihiko Kajikawa Yuji Sugai Kazutoshi Kawamura Hidekatsu Takagi Kunio Takagi Shuji Momoi Sadaki Honma Kenji Tanaka Keiji Takahashi Yoshio Hoshino Toshiyuki Yajima Norio Suzuki Kazumi Unjo Koji Wakasa Toshiyuki Sakai Takayuki Ueno Motoki Ebina Kenichi Suzuki Masaki Hino Ice hockey Men's tournaments March 8  Silver Hiroaki Takita Junko Ito Figure skating Ice dancing March 8  Silver Masako Kato Figure skating Women's singles March 8  Bronze Shoko Fusano Speed skating Women's 1000 metres March 4  Bronze Munehisa Kuroiwa Speed skating Men's 5000 metres March 4  Bronze Akira Kuroiwa Speed skating Men's 1000 metres March 4  Bronze Hiromi Takeuchi Short-track speed skating Women's 3000 metres March 6  Bronze Isao Yamase Biathlon Men's 10 km sprint March 7  Bronze Kenji Takino Kaoru Takino Figure skating Ice dancing March 8 Demonstration sports Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Jun Shibuya Ski jumping Men's large hill March 2  Silver Sadao Shimizu Ski jumping Men's large hill March 2  Bronze Masahiko Takahashi Ski jumping Men's large hill March 2 References ↑ OCA 1986 Winter Asiad medal tally Archived 2006-12-11 at the Wayback Machine