Japan at the 2014 Asian Beach Games

Sporting event delegation
Japan at the
2014 Asian Beach Games
IOC codeJPN
NOCJapanese Olympic Committee
Websitehttps://www.joc.or.jp
in Phuket
November 14 – November 23
Competitors95
Medals
Ranked 8th
Gold
7
Silver
5
Bronze
7
Total
19
Asian Beach Games appearances

Japan participated in the 2014 Asian Beach Games in Phuket, Thailand from 14 – 23 November 2014.

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date
 Gold Hikaru Aono Beach wrestling Women's freestyle -50 kg November 15
 Gold Ryo Sueoka Triathlon Men's duathlon November 15
 Gold Yurie Kato Triathlon Women's duathlon November 15
 Gold Ryo Sueoka
Yuya Fukaura
Fumika Matsumoto
Yurie Kato		 Triathlon Mixed team duathlon November 15
 Gold Ai Ueda Triathlon Women's triathlon November 17
 Gold Hirokatsu Tayama
Yuichi Hosoda
Ai Ueda
Yuka Sato		 Triathlon Mixed team triathlon November 17
 Gold Toshiki Yasui Waterskiing Men's wakeboard November 20
 Silver Yuya Fukaura Triathlon Men's duathlon November 15
 Silver Miku Saito Beach wrestling Women's freestyle +60 kg November 17
 Silver Yuka Sato Triathlon Women's triathlon November 17
 Silver Shingo Terukina
Tetsuji Sugita
Hirofumi Oda
Naoya Matsuo
Masahito Toma
Ozu Moreira
Takasuke Goto
Takaaki Oba
Takuya Akaguma
Takashi Takiguchi		 Beach Soccer Men's tournament November 21
 Silver Masaaki Hamada
Shohei Nagami
Shintaro Yukawa
Saaya Hirosawa
Kazumi Inoue
Harue Kamiya		 Waterskiing Team overall November 22
 Bronze Yoshihiro Shindo
Kenta Tanei
Yoshiya Nishioka
Yu Horita
Ayumu Iwai
Naoki Yoshimatsu
Keita Suzuki
Kyohei Shimizu
Kotaro Chiba
Keisuke Narita		 Beach flag football Men's tournament November 13
 Bronze Takeru Nobeashi Beach kurash Men -73 kg November 16
 Bronze Fumika Matsumoto Triathlon Women's duathlon November 15
 Bronze Mariko Kojima Sailing Women's RS:One November 20
 Bronze Saaya Hirosawa Waterskiing Women's tricks November 20
 Bronze Takeshi Furuta
Makoto Kawamura
Masaki Komatsu
Yoshiki Oka		 Air sports Men's team accuracy November 21
 Bronze Takahiro Mizoguchi Bodybuilding Flyweight +162 cm November 22
Medals by sport
Sport 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Total
Triathlon 5 2 1 8
Waterskiing 1 1 1 3
Beach wrestling 1 1 0 2
Beach soccer 0 1 0 1
Air sports 0 0 1 1
Beach flag football 0 0 1 1
Bodybuilding 0 0 1 1
Kurash 0 0 1 1
Sailing 0 0 1 1
Total 7 5 7 19
Medals by day
Day 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Total
Nov 12 0 0 0 0
Nov 13 0 0 1 1
Nov 14 0 0 0 0
Nov 15 4 1 1 6
Nov 16 0 0 1 1
Nov 17 2 2 0 4
Nov 18 0 0 0 0
Nov 19 0 0 0 0
Nov 20 1 0 2 3
Nov 21 0 1 1 2
Nov 22 0 1 1 2
Nov 23 0 0 0 0
Total 7 5 7 19

Competitors

Sport Men Women Total
Air sports 4 0 4
Beach flag football 10 0 10
Beach handball 14 9 23
Beach soccer 14 0 14
Beach volleyball 4 1 5
Beach wrestling 2 2 4
Extreme sports 1 0 1
Kurash 3 0 3
Pétanque 4 4 8
Sailing 1 1 2
Sambo 3 0 3
Triathlon 4 4 8
Waterskiing 3 5 8
Total 67 26 93

Air sports

Paragliding accuracy

Athlete Event Final
Points Rank
Makoto Kawamura Men's Individual 58 6
Yoshiki Oka
Masaki Komatsu 867 21
Takeshi Furuta 1060 23
Japan Team 735 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)

Beach flag football

group play
Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
 Thailand 5 5 0 0 297 125 +172 15
 Japan 5 4 0 1 248 119 +129 12
 Kuwait 5 3 0 2 233 146 +87 9
 China 5 2 0 3 209 227 −18 6
 Philippines 5 1 0 4 122 215 −93 3
 India 5 0 0 5 76 353 −277 0
12 November
9:00 		Japan  41–36  Kuwait Saphan Hin, Phuket
(27–18)
12 November
13:00 		Japan  61–6  Philippines Saphan Hin, Phuket
(34–6)
12 November
16:00 		India  12–55  Japan Saphan Hin, Phuket
(6–29)
13 November
9:00 		Japan  55–26  China Saphan Hin, Phuket
(28–6)
13 November
11:00 		Thailand  39–36  Japan Saphan Hin, Phuket
(12–12)
semifinals
13 November
16:00 		Japan  34–40  Kuwait Saphan Hin, Phuket
(27–14)
final rank

3rd place, bronze medalist(s)

Beach Handball

Men's Tournament

Team Pld W L SF SA Pts
 Qatar 4 4 0 8 0 8
 Oman 4 3 1 6 2 6
 Vietnam 4 2 2 4 4 4
 Japan 4 1 3 2 6 2
 Hong Kong 4 0 4 0 8 0

Women's Tournament

Team Pld W L SF SA Pts
 Thailand 4 4 0 8 1 8
 China 4 3 1 7 3 6
 Hong Kong 4 2 2 5 4 4
 Japan 4 1 3 2 6 2
 India 4 0 4 0 8 0

Beach Soccer

Group Play
Team Pld W WE WP L GF GA GD Pts
 United Arab Emirates 2 1 0 1 0 6 2 +4 4
 Japan 2 1 0 0 1 5 2 +3 3
 Malaysia 2 0 0 0 2 4 11 −7 0
Japan 5–2 Malaysia
Oda 5'
Akaguma 20', 26'
Ozu 31'
Goto 34' (pen.)		 Report Nor 4'
Mohamad 13'
Saphan Hin Sport Center, Phuket
Referee: Suwat Wongsuwan (Thailand)
Japan 0–0 (a.e.t.) United Arab Emirates
Report
Penalties
Ozu soccer ball with red X
Akaguma soccer ball with red X		 0–2 soccer ball with check mark Al-Hammadi
soccer ball with check mark Daryaei
Saphan Hin Sport Center, Phuket
Referee: Liang Shao (China)
quarterfinal
China 3–7 Japan
Wen Tingyuan 2'
Chen Xiaowei 20'
Cai Weiming 25'		 Report Akaguma 5', 32'
Oba 16'
Goto 19'
Ozu 30'
Oda 35'
Matsuo 36'
Saphan Hin Sport Center, Phuket
Referee: Bakhtiyor Namazov (Uzbekistan)
semifinal
Vietnam 2–7 Japan
Trần Vĩnh Phong 12'
Bùi Trần Tuấn Anh 24'		 Report Ozu 7', 27'
Akaguma 21'
Toma 24'
Oba 26'
Goto 31', 34'
Saphan Hin Sport Center, Phuket
Referee: Suhaimi Mat Hassan (Malaysia)
Japan 3–4 Iran
Ozu 10', 25'
Goto 17'		 Report Mojdeh 6'
Naderi 8'
Akbari 28'
Abdollahi 33'
Saphan Hin Sport Center, Phuket
Referee: Suhaimi Mat Hassan (Malaysia)
final rank

2nd place, silver medalist(s)

Beach Volleyball

Athlete Event Preliminary round Standing Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM
Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Rank
Koichi Nishimura
Tsuchiya 		Men's Pool C
Kazakhstan Sergey Bogatu – Pustynnikov|
L 0 –2 (21–17, 27–25)
East Timor Xavier – Correia|
W 2 – 0 (21–10, 21–16)
VietnamNguyễn – Võ
W 2 – 0 (21–14, 21–14)
China Jiaxin – Yang Cong|
L 0 – 2 (21–23, 16–21) 		3 Q

Extreme Sports

Inline Skate

Athlete Event Qualification Final
Height Position Height Position
Takeshi Yasutoko Big air DNS did not advance
Park DNS did not advance

Kurash

Athlete Event Qualification Round of 16 Quarterfinal Semifinal Repechage 1 Repechage 2 Final / BM
Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Rank
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Sailing

men
Athlete Event Race Net points Final rank
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Jun Ogawa RS:One 2 5 4 (7) 5 3 4 4 27 4
women
Athlete Event Race Net points Final rank
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Mariko Kojima 4 3 4 (8) 3 5 7 5 31 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)

Triathlon

Triathlon

Athlete Event Swim Trans 1 Bike Trans 2 Run Total Time Rank
Hirokatsu Tayama Men's 00:54:37 00:09:21 00:00:33 00:28:53 00:00:15 00:15:35 4
Yuichi Hosoda 00:55:48 00:09:27 00:00:36 00:28:42 00:00:19 00:16:44 9
Ai Ueda Women's 01:00:30 00:10:19 00:00:36 00:31:45 00:00:18 00:17:32 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Yuka Sato 01:00:56 00:09:58 00:00:36 00:32:07 00:00:20 00:17:55 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Yuka Sato
Hirokatsu Tayama
Ai Ueda
Yuichi Hosoda 		4 x 4 relay 00:23:39
00:22:25
00:23:54
00:22:26 		00:04:19
00:04:12
00:04:46
00:04:11 		00:00:33
00:00:32
00:00:33
00:00:35 		00:11:31
00:11:06
00:11:24
00:10:25 		00:00:21
00:00:16
00:00:18
00.00.19 		00:06:55
00:06:19
00:06:53
00:06:56 		1st place, gold medalist(s)

Waterskiing

Skiing

Men
Athlete Event Heat Final
Result Rank Result Rank
Toshiyuki Sumita 14.00 19.50
Shintaro Yukawa 4.50 11 did not advance
Women
Athlete Event Heat Final
Result Rank Result Rank
Saaya Hirosawa Women's slalom 16.00 17.00
Hiroko Komori 4.00 did not advance
Saaya Hirosawa Women's tricks 3570 3420 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Hiroko Komori 3410 3250

References