Record of Asahi Kasei Employee Participation in the Olympics Kurao Hiroshima (Athletics, men’s marathon: 33rd) Melbourne 1956 Keiji Ogushi (Athletics, men’s 400 m hurdles: 3rd in preliminaries) Keiji Ogushi (Athletics, men’s 4 x 400 m relay: 4th in preliminaries) Kurao Hiroshima (Athletics, men’s marathon: 31st) Keiji Ogushi (Athletics, men’s 400 m hurdles: 3rd in preliminaries) Keiji Ogushi (Athletics, men’s 4 x 100 m relay: 5th in semifinal) Rome 1960 Noriaki Yasuda (Athletics, men’s pole vault: eliminated in preliminaries) Noboru Okamoto (Athletics, men’s hammer throw: 13th) Masayuki Minami (Men’s volleyball: Bronze Medal) Sumio Miwa (Athletics, men’s 50 km race walk: 27th) Satsuo Iwashita (Athletics, men’s 5000 m: 6th in preliminaries) Keiji Ogushi (Athletics, men’s 400 m hurdles: 5th in preliminaries) Tokyo 1964 Kiyoo Yui (Athletics, men’s 400 m hurdles: 7th in preliminaries) Akira Tanaka (Athletics, men’s 110 m hurdles: 6th in preliminaries) Noboru Okamoto (Athletics, men’s hammer throw: eliminated in preliminaries) Masayuki Minami (Men’s volleyball: Silver Medal) Mexico City 1968 Kiyoo Yui (Athletics, men’s 400 m hurdles: 5th in preliminaries) Munich 1972 Masayuki Minami (Men’s volleyball: Gold Medal) Haruki Uemura (Judo, men’s open class: Gold Medal) Montreal 1976 Shigeru So (Athletics, men’s marathon: 20th) Moscow Shigeru So (Athletics, men’s marathon) (Japan did not 1980 Takeshi So (Athletics, men’s marathon) participate) Takeshi So (Athletics, men’s marathon: 4th) Los Angeles 1984 Shigeru So (Athletics, men’s marathon: 17th) Akinobu Osako (Judo, men’s −86 kg: Bronze Medal) Shuichi Yoneshige (Athletics, men’s 10,000 m: 17th in finals) Seoul 1988 Shuichi Yoneshige (Athletics, men’s 5,000 m: 11th in preliminaries) Misako Miyahara (Athletics, women’s marathon: 29th) Koichi Morishita (Athletics, men’s marathon: Silver Medal) Hiromi Taniguchi (Athletics, men’s marathon: 8th) Barcelona 1992 Sakae Osaki (Athletics, men’s 10,000 m: 14th in preliminaries) Katsuyuki Minami (Men’s volleyball: 6th) Kenzo Nakamura (Judo, men’s −71 kg: Gold Medal) Yukimasa Nakamura (Judo, men’s −65 kg: Silver Medal) Atlanta 1996 Yoshio Nakamura (Judo, men’s −95 kg: 7th) Hiromi Taniguchi (Athletics, men’s marathon: 19th) Masako Chiba (Athletics, women’s 10,000 m: 5th) Shinichi Shinohara (Judo, men’s +100 kg: Silver Medal) Kenzo Nakamura (Judo, men’s −73 kg: eliminated in repechage) Sydney 2000 Yukimasa Nakamura (Judo, men’s −66 kg: 7th) Shinji Kawashima (Athletics, men’s marathon: 21st) Sato Nobuyuki (Athletics, men’s marathon: 41st) Ryuji Ono (Athletics, men’s 10,000 m: 19th) Masato Uchishiba (Judo, men’s −66 kg: Gold Medal) Athens 2004 Masahiro Takamatsu (Judo, men’s −73 kg: eliminated in round two) Masahiko Tomouchi (Judo, men’s −81 kg: eliminated in repechage) Masato Uchishiba (Judo, men’s −66 kg: Gold Medal) Beijing 2008 Hiroshi Izumi (Judo, men’s −90 kg: eliminated in quarterfinal) London 2012 Kenzo Nakamura (Coach of Japanese men’s Judo team) Satoru Sasaki (Athletics, men’s marathon: 16th) Kouta Murayama (Athletics, men’s 5,000 m: 22nd in preliminaries) Rio de Kouta Murayama (Athletics, men’s 10,000 m: 30th) 2016 Janeiro Shohei Ono (Judo, men’s −73 kg: Gold Medal) Takanori Nagase (Judo, men’s −81 kg: Bronze Medal) Ryunosuke Haga (Judo, men’s −100 kg: Bronze Medal).