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Japan at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics
Flag of Japan
IOC code	JPN
NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
in Gangwon, South Korea 19 January 2024 (2024-01-19) – 1 February 2024 (2024-02-01)
Competitors	65 in 11 sports
Flag bearer	Kaito Fujii & Yuzuki Sato
Medals Ranked 10th	Gold 3 Silver 4 Bronze 8 Total 15
Winter Youth Olympics appearances (overview)
2012 2016 2020 2024

Japan is scheduled to compete at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics in Gangwon, South Korea, from January 19 to February 1, 2024. This will be Japan's fourth appearance at the Winter Youth Olympic Games, having competed at every Games since the inaugural edition in 2012.

The Japanese team consisted of 65 athletes. Curler Kaito Fujii and ski jumper Yuzuki Sato were the country's flagbearers during the opening ceremony.

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors (per gender) participating at the games per sport/discipline.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Yura Murase	Snowboarding	Women's big air	28 January
Gold	Mao Shimada	Figure skating	Women's singles	29 January
Gold	Rise Kudo	Snowboarding	Women's halfpipe	1 February
Silver	Olly Nicholls	Freestyle skiing	Men's slopestyle	25 January
Silver	Olly Nicholls	Freestyle skiing	Men's big air	28 January
Silver	Suzuno Fukuda Yumin Furuhira Rio Suzuki Mayu Hosogoe Riko Nishiuchi Lily Sato Rino Tada (A) Kika Terauchi (C) Nana Akimoto Momona Fukuzawa Tsumugi Ito Reina Kakuta Saika Kiyokawa Azumi Numabe Umeka Odaira Momoka Okamura Koko Ruike Nanaho Yamaguchi	Ice hockey	Women's tournament	31 January
Silver	Sara Shimizu	Snowboarding	Women's halfpipe	1 February
Bronze	Nonomi Inoue	Short track speed skating	Women's 1500 metres	20 January
Bronze	Raito Kida	Short track speed skating	Men's 1000 metres	21 January
Bronze	Waka Sasabuchi	Speed skating	Women's 500 metres	22 January
Bronze	Sota Kubo	Speed skating	Men's 1500 metres	23 January
Bronze	Nonomi Inoue Aoi Yoshizawa Yuta Fuchigami Raito Kida	Short track speed skating	Mixed relay	24 January
Bronze	Takuto Nakamura	Freestyle skiing	Men's dual moguls	27 January
Bronze	Yo Takagi	Figure skating	Women's singles	29 January
Bronze	Ryusei Yamada	Snowboarding	Men's halfpipe	1 February

Alpine skiing

Japan qualified three alpine skiers (one man and two women).

Men

Women

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Mikoto Onishi Neo Kamada	Parallel mixed team	Austria L 1–3	Did not advance

Cross-country skiing

Japan qualified three cross-country skiers (one man and two women).

Men

Women

Curling

Japan qualified a mixed team and mixed doubles pair for a total of six athletes.

Summary

Team	Event	Group Stage								Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Kaito Fujii Satsuki Maruzeni Koei Sato Himari Ichiyama	Mixed team	Nigeria W 20–1	China L 6–7	Sweden W 10–2	United States L 6–8	New Zealand W 6–2	Turkey W 8–2	Norway W 8–4	3 Q	Denmark L 3–8	Did not advance		6
Moka Tanaka Shinya Kawai	Mixed doubles	China L 5–7	Brazil W 11–1	Turkey W 9–5	New Zealand W 11–2	Latvia W 5–4	—	2 Q	Denmark L 7–9	Did not advance		7

Mixed team

Group A	Skip	W	L	W–L	PF	PA	EW	EL	BE	SE	DSC
China	Li Zetai	6	1	1–0	65	25	28	17	0	12	59.04
United States	Kenna Ponzio	6	1	0–1	68	26	31	16	1	15	51.38
Japan	Kaito Fujii	5	2	1–0	64	26	27	17	2	11	39.53
Sweden	Vilmer Nygren	5	2	0–1	55	42	27	19	5	10	58.05
Norway	Alexander Johansen	3	4	–	49	39	25	19	2	11	65.33
Turkey	Muhammed Taha Zenit	2	5	–	41	40	16	26	5	5	82.17
New Zealand	Jed Nevill	1	6	–	27	44	18	23	3	6	86.52
Nigeria	Goodnews Charles	0	7	–	6	133	4	39	1	0	199.60

Round robin

Draw 1

Saturday, January 20, 10:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Japan (Fujii)	5	0	4	5	3	3	X	X	20
Nigeria (Charles)	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	X	1

Draw 2

Saturday, January 20, 18:00

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Japan (Fujii)	2	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	6
China (Li)	0	2	0	1	0	0	2	2	7

Draw 3

Sunday, January 21, 14:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Japan (Fujii)	6	2	1	1	0	0	X	X	10
Sweden (Nygren)	0	0	0	0	1	1	X	X	2

Draw 4

Monday, January 22, 10:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
United States (Ponzio)	0	1	0	0	2	0	2	3	8
Japan (Fujii)	2	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	6

Draw 5

Monday, January 22, 18:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Japan (Fujii)	0	0	0	1	4	0	1	X	6
New Zealand (Nevill)	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	2

Draw 6

Tuesday, January 23, 14:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Turkey (Zenit)	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	X	2
Japan (Fujii)	1	3	0	1	0	1	2	X	8

Draw 7

Wednesday, January 24, 9:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Norway (Johansen)	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	X	4
Japan (Fujii)	1	0	1	0	2	0	4	X	8

Qualification Game

Wednesday, January 24, 19:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Denmark (Schmidt)	2	1	1	0	3	0	1	X	8
Japan (Fujii)	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	X	3

Mixed doubles

Group C	W	L	W–L	DSC
China	5	0	–	56.80
Japan	4	1	–	38.84
Latvia	3	2	–	77.39
Turkey	2	3	–	89.37
New Zealand	1	4	–	94.80
Brazil	0	5	–	112.92

Round robin

Draw 4

Saturday, January 27, 18:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
China (Gong / Xu)	0	2	1	0	2	2	0	X	7
Japan (Tanaka / Kawai)	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	X	5

Draw 5

Sunday, January 28, 10:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Brazil (Gentile / Melo)	0	0	1	0	0	0	X	X	1
Japan (Tanaka / Kawai)	3	2	0	2	3	1	X	X	11

Draw 8

Monday, January 29, 10:00

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Turkey (Ekmekçi / Aybar)	0	0	1	1	1	2	0	X	5
Japan (Tanaka / Kawai)	3	2	0	0	0	0	4	X	9

Draw 12

Tuesday, January 30, 14:00

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Japan (Tanaka / Kawai)	3	0	1	1	0	4	2	X	11
New Zealand (Russell / Nevill)	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	X	2

Draw 15

Wednesday, January 31, 12:30

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Japan (Tanaka / Kawai)	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	5
Latvia (Regža / Zass)	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	4

Quarterfinal

Wednesday, January 31, 19:00

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Denmark (Schmidt / Schmidt)	0	0	4	2	0	0	3	0	9
Japan (Tanaka / Kawai)	1	1	0	0	3	1	0	1	7

Figure skating

Japan qualified four figure skaters (two per gender).

Athlete	Event	SP/SD		FS/FD		Total
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Haru Kakiuchi	Men's singles	61.11	8	124.77	5	185.88	7
Rio Nakata		55.59	13	142.70	2	198.29	5
Mao Shimada	Women's singles	71.05	1	125.94	1	196.99
Yo Takagi		67.23	2	115.97	5	183.20

Freestyle skiing

Japan qualified ten freestyle skiers (five per gender).

Dual moguls

Individual

Athlete	Event	Group Stage						Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Points	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Takuto Nakamura	Men's dual moguls	Hill (AUS) W 3–2	Kim (KOR) W 3–2	Koehler (CAN) L 2–3	Dooley (IRL) W 3–2	11	1 Q	Huff (USA) L 3–32	Cohen (USA) W 19–16
Hikaru Sakai	Women's dual moguls	Kisil (UKR) W 3–2	Joly (FRA) W 3–2	Lodge (AUS) L 2–3	Feklistova (KAZ) W 3–2	11	2	Did not advance
Rin Taguchi		DNS

Team

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Hikaru Sakai Takuto Nakamura	Mixed team	Nilsson / Gravenfors (SWE) W 42–28	Lodge / Hill (AUS) W 50–20	Lemley / Huff (USA) L 32–38	McLarnon / Cohen (USA) L 26–44	4

Ski cross

Individual

Team

Halfpipe, Slopestyle & Big Air

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best	Rank
Olly Nicholls	Men's big air	91.00	42.00	91.00	3 Q	86.00	88.50	28.25	174.50
	Men's slopestyle	10.50	73.50	73.50	9 Q	71.00	36.50	85.75	85.75
Kashu Sato	Men's halfpipe	59.75	56.25	59.75	9 Q	55.00	47.75	53.50	55.00	9
Kiho Sugawara	Women's big air	63.50	67.00	67.00	8 Q	45.00	44.75	42.00	87.00	10
	Women's slopestyle	53.50	50.50	53.50	12	Did not advance

Ice hockey

Japan qualified a team of eighteen ice hockey players for the women's six-team tournament.

Roster

Haruna Yoneyama served as head coach and Moeko Fujimoto was assistant coach.

• Nana Akimoto
• Suzuno Fukuda
• Momona Fukuzawa
• Yumin Furuhira
• Mayu Hosogoe
• Tsumugi Ito
• Reina Kakuta
• Saika Kiyokawa
• Riko Nishiuchi
• Azumi Numabe
• Umeka Odaira
• Momoka Okamura
• Koko Ruike
• Lily Sato
• Rio Suzuki
• Rino Tada – A
• Kika Terauchi – C
• Nanaho Yamaguchi – A

Summary

Key:

• GWS – Game winning shots

Team	Event	Group stage			Semifinal	Final
		Opponent Score	Opponent Score	Rank	Opponent Score	Opponent Score	Rank
Japan	Women's tournament	Norway W 5–1	Sweden L 1–2 GWS	Q	Switzerland W 2–1	Sweden L 0–4

Women's tournament

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	SOW	SOL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sweden	2	1	1	0	0	7	2	+5	5	Semifinals
2	Japan	2	1	0	1	0	6	3	+3	4
3	Norway	2	0	0	0	2	2	10	−8	0

28 January 2024 11:00

Japan

5–1 (1–0, 0–0, 4–1)

Norway

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 2,837

Game reference
	Suzuno Fukuda	Goalies	Shiva Nobari	Referees: Ding Siwen Beatrice Fortin Linesmen: Laura Schmidlein Ilona Silander
	Terauchi (Odaira, Numabe) (PP) – 10:47 1–0 Numabe (Odaira, Terauchi) – 30:41 2–0 2–1 33:25 – Helle, (Klomstad, Bax-Kristiansen) (PP) Odaira (Numabe, Terauchi) – 36:17 3–1 Numabe (Terauchi, Odaira) – 40:12 4–1 Odaira (Numabe) – 43:04 5–1
	6 min	Penalties	6 min
	41	Shots	13

29 January 2024 11:00

Sweden

2–1 GWS (0–0, 0–0, 1–1) (SO: 1–0)

Japan

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 1,503

Game reference
	Tilde Wyckman	Goalies	Rio Suzuki	Referees: María Chávez Maria Gherardi Linesmen: Lara Fischer Ilona Silander
	0–1 35:07 – Odaira (Yamaguchi, Numabe) Svanefjord (Österman) – 37:18 1–1
	Österman Westerlind	Shootout	Odaira Numabe
	3 min	Penalties	1.5 min
	21	Shots	18

Semifinals

30 January 2024 17:00

Switzerland

1–2 (1–1, 0–1, 0–0)

Japan

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 1,083

Game reference
	Valentina Camenzind	Goalies	Suzuno Fukuda	Referees: María Chávez Beatrice Fortin Linesmen: Anhelina Maifeld Domenica Maurer
	Müller – 10:06 1–0 1–1 10:38 – Fukuzawa (Ruike) 1–2 24:26 – Numabe (Odaira, Tada) (PP)
	7.5 min	Penalties	1.5 min
	12	Shots	20

Finals

31 January 2024 16:00

Sweden

4–0 (2–0, 0–0, 2–0)

Japan

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 2,880

Game reference
	Tilde Wyckman	Goalies	Suzuno Fukuda	Referees: Beatrice Fortin Maria Gherardi Linesmen: Anhelina Maifeld Laura Schmidlein
	Grillfors – 09:02 1–0 Westerlind – 11:06 2–0 Norén (Carlsson, Melin) – 31:00 3–0 Österman (ENG) – 44:26 4–0
	6 min	Penalties	0 min
	14	Shots	27

Nordic combined

Japan qualified four nordic combined athletes (two per gender).

Short track speed skating

Japan qualified four short-track speed skaters (two per gender).

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Yuta Fuchigami	500 m	42.738	1 Q	42.078	3 q	57.216	5 FB	42.930	9
	1000 m	1:29.377	1 Q	1:54.976	5	Did not advance
	1500 m	—	2:16.364	2 Q	2:57.832	7	Did not advance
Raito Kida	500 m	42.479	1 Q	42.490	3	Did not advance
	1000 m	1:32.515	2 Q	1:29.852	2 Q	1:26.061	2 FA	1:26.478
	1500 m	—	2:31.283	3 Q	2:22.103	3 FA	2:23.299	6

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Nonomi Inoue	500 m	46.250	3 q	45.557	5	Did not advance
	1000 m	1:36.646	1 Q	1:33.523	5	Did not advance
	1500 m	—	2:38.688	1 Q	2:26.311	2 FA	2:42.293
Aoi Yoshizawa	500 m	45.320	2 Q	44.554	3 q	44.935	4 FB	46.137	9
	1000 m	1:37.171	2 Q	1:33.904	4	Did not advance
	1500 m	—	2:28.337	1 Q	2:27.287	4 FB	2:44.661	10

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Yuta Fuchigami Nonomi Inoue Raito Kida Aoi Yoshizawa	Mixed relay	2:46.957	1 FA	2:47.412

Skeleton

Japan qualified one skeleton racer.

Ski jumping

Japan qualified four ski jumpers (two per gender).

Snowboarding

Japan qualified eight snowboarders (three men and five women).

Snowboard cross

Individual

Mixed

Halfpipe, Slopestyle & Big Air

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best	Rank
Kyu Shimasaki	Men's halfpipe	69.75	64.25	69.75	7 Q	13.00	43.50	57.25	57.25	9
Ryusei Yamada	Men's halfpipe	81.75	85.75	85.75	2 Q	42.00	83.00	14.00	83.00
Rise Kudo	Women's halfpipe	92.25	91.25	92.25	1 Q	90.75	73.25	68.25	90.75
Kiara Morii	Women's big air	84.25	25.50	84.25	4 Q	78.75	72.50	21.50	151.25	4
	Women's slopestyle	25.75	20.50	25.75	17	Did not advance
Yura Murase	Women's big air	82.00	33.25	82.00	6 Q	66.00	79.50	74.75	154.25
	Women's slopestyle	49.50	93.00	93.00	1 Q	24.00	10.00	79.25	79.25	5
Sara Shimizu	Women's halfpipe	83.75	89.00	89.00	2 Q	84.50	19.50	63.00	84.50

Speed skating

Japan qualified four speed skaters (two per gender).

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Sota Kubo	500 m	37.20	4
	1500 m	1:53.16
Takumi Murashita	500 m	37.23	5
	1500 m	1:54.30	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Kaede Kojima	500 m	41.06	9
	1500 m	2:05.71	4
Waka Sasabuchi	500 m	39.65
	1500 m	2:14.59	20

Mass Start

Mixed relay

See also

• Japan at the 2024 Summer Olympics

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