en Japan at the 2016 Asian Beach Games

Japan at the
2016 Asian Beach Games
Japan at the; 2016 Asian Beach Games
IOC code	JPN
NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
Website	https://www.joc.or.jp
in Danang, Vietnam; September 24 – October 5
Competitors	54 in 7 sports
Medals; Ranked 25th	Gold 1 Silver 2 Bronze 7 Total 10
Asian Beach Games appearances
	2008; 2010; 2012; 2014; 2016;

Japan competed in the 2016 Asian Beach Games in Danang, Vietnam from September 24 to October 5, 2016. The delegation was bannered by 54 athletes.^[1] Japan send their representatives in 7 sports including beach soccer, beach volleyball, beach handball, beach wrestling, vovinam, pétanque, and bodybuilding.^[2]

The Japanese beach soccer team won the gold medal,^[3] being the Japanese team's only gold medal in this game.^[4] Bodybuilding took home one silver and two bronze medals, followed by beach sambo which won one silver and one bronze. Beach wrestling won two bronze medals, while pétanque and vovinam bagged one bronze medal each.^[5]^[6]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Shingo Terukina Yusuke Kawai Shotaro Haraguchi Yuki Nakahara Naoya Matsuo Teruki Tabata Takaaki Oba Takuya Akaguma Takasuke Goto Ozu Moreira	Beach soccer	Tournaments	October 2
Silver	Takahiro Mizoguchi	Bodybuilding	Men's 158 cm	September 27
Silver	Haruka Murase	Beach sambo	Men's 74 kg	October 2
Bronze	Ayumi Goma	Pétanque	Women's singles	September 28
Bronze	Hiroaki Inoue	Bodybuilding	Men's 172 cm	September 28
Bronze	Shunsuke Taguchi	Bodybuilding	Men's 180 cm	September 28
Bronze	Hikaru Aono	Beach wrestling	Women's 50 kg	September 30
Bronze	Miku Saito	Beach wrestling	Women's +70 kg	October 1
Bronze	Takehiro Yamashita	Beach sambo	Men's 74 kg	October 1
Bronze	Yoshimi Sadamatsu	Vovinam	Dragon tiger form	October 1

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Beach soccer	1	0	0	1
Bodybuilding	0	1	2	3
Beach sambo	0	1	1	2
Beach wrestling	0	0	2	2
Pétanque	0	0	1	1
Vovinam	0	0	1	1
Total	1	2	7	10

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Bodybuilding	3	0	3
Beach handball	10	10	20
Beach sambo	4	1	5
Beach soccer	10	0	10
Beach volleyball	2	2	4
Beach wrestling	1	2	3
Pétanque	4	4	8
Vovinam	0	1	1
Total	34	20	54

Beach soccer

Result

Team	Event	Group stage			Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	Gold medal match
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Japan men's	Men's tournament	Afghanistan W 11–0	China W 7–2	1 Q	UAE W 6–2	Lebanon W 6–5	Oman W 4–3

Team

Shingo Terukina
Yusuke Kawai
Shotaro Haraguchi
Yuki Nakahara
Naoya Matsuo
Teruki Tabata
Takaaki Oba
Takuya Akaguma
Takasuke Goto
Ozu Moreira

Beach volleyball

Men's tournament

Team	Event	Group stage			Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	Gold medal match
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Masato Kurasaka Momota Shimada	Men's tournament	Al-Shereiqi/Al-Housni L 13–21, 13-21	Sukto/Khaolumtarn W 21-19, 21-17	3	did not advance

Women's tournament

Group Stage

Team	Event	Group stage
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Azusa Futami Reika Murakami	Women's tournament	Tang/Wang L 22-20, 13-21, 10-15	Lakmini/ Weerasinghe W 21–16, 21–13	Numwong/ Naraphornrapat L 17–21, 8–21	Gorre/Arocha W 21-13, 21-5	Tứ/Lê W 21–16, 18–21, 15–11	3 Q