Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics
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- Japan was the host nation of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020 but postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Japan finished the Games with 58 total medals, 27 being gold, a significant improvement upon the country's previous record performances from the 1964 Olympics (also held in Tokyo) and 2004 Olympics.
- In terms of total medals, they also fell behind the Russian Olympic Committee and the United Kingdom.
- Medalists The following Japanese competitors won medals at the Games.
- Competitors The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
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WikipediaJapan was the host nation of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020 but postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the nation's official debut in 1912, Japanese athletes have appeared at every Summer Olympic Games in the modern era, except for the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, to which they were not invited due to the nation's role in World War II, and the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, as part of the United States-led boycott. The flag-bearers for Japan were basketball player Rui Hachimura and wrestler Yui Susaki in the opening ceremony and karateka Ryo Kiyuna in the closing ceremony.
Japan finished the Games with 58 total medals, 27 being gold, a significant improvement upon the country's previous record performances from the 1964 Olympics (also held in Tokyo) and 2004 Olympics. This placed them third overall by gold-first ranking for the third time (after 1964 and 1968), behind the United States and China. In terms of total medals, they also fell behind the Russian Olympic Committee and the United Kingdom. It was the most successful Summer Olympics in Japan's history.
The following Japanese competitors won medals at the Games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.
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