Japan at the 1928 Summer Olympics the first time included a woman (Kinue Hitomi). For the 1928 Olympics, Japan fielded 43 athletes. Japan at the 1928 Summer Olympics The Empire of Japan competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Japan Amateur Athletic Federation ("Nihon Rikujo Kyogi Renmei"), founded in 1925, officially took over sponsorship of the Japanese Olympic team from the Japan Amateur Athletic Association in 1928. Japanese government sponsorship of the Olympic effort continued, both financially, and through expansion of the annual Meiji Shrine Games to include a wider variety of sports, including archery, basketball, field hockey, rowing, table tennis, volleyball and
Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump The men's long jump event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1928 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on Tuesday, July 31, 1928. Forty-one long jumpers from 23 nations competed. These were the standing world and Olympic records (in metres) prior to the 1928 Summer Olympics. "(*)" Robert LeGendre set the Olympic record in the 1924 pentathlon contest The best six long jumpers qualified for the final. Two jumpers, Hannes de Boer and Ed Gordon, tied for sixth place, but only de Boer advanced to