1964 Summer Olympics

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1964 Summer Olympics
Olympiad	XVIII
Host City	Tokyo, Japan
# Nations	94
Events	163
Sports	19
Males	4,457
Females	683
Total Athletes	5,140

The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan in 1964. Tokyo had been awarded the 1940 Summer Olympics, but those games were reassigned to Helsinki because of Japan's invasion of China, before ultimately being canceled because of World War II. The 1964 Summer Games marked the first time that the Olympics were held by a non-Western nation. This was the first Olympics in which South Africa was barred from taking part due to its refusal to racially desegregate its sports. ^[1]

The games were telecast to the United States using Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite. It was the first television program to cross the Pacific Ocean.

Contents 1 Medal summary 1.1 Men's events 1.2 Women's events 2 Medal table 3 References

Medal summary

At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the athletics competition included 36 events, 24 for men and 12 for women. The women's 400 metres and women's pentathlon events were newly introduced at these Games. There were a total number of 1016 participating athletes from 82 countries.

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Bob Hayes (USA)	10.0 WR	Enrique Figuerola (CUB)	10.2	Harry Jerome (CAN)	10.2
200 metres	Henry Carr (USA)	20.3 OR	Paul Drayton (USA)	20.5	Edwin Roberts (TRI)	20.6
400 metres	Michael Larrabee (USA)	45.1	Wendell Mottley (TRI)	45.2	Andrzej Badeński (POL)	45.6
800 metres	Peter Snell (NZL)	1:45.1 OR	Bill Crothers (CAN)	1:45.6	Wilson Kiprugut (KEN)	1:45.9
1500 metres	Peter Snell (NZL)	3:38.1	Josef Odložil (TCH)	3:39.6	John Davies (NZL)	3:39.6
5000 metres	Bob Schul (USA)	13:48.8	Harald Norpoth (EUA)	13:49.6	William Dellinger (USA)	13:49.8
10000 metres	Billy Mills (USA)	28:24.4 OR	Mohammed Gammoudi (TUN)	28:24.8	Ron Clarke (AUS)	28:25.8
110 metre hurdles	Hayes Jones (USA)	13.6 OR	Blaine Lindgren (USA)	13.7	Anatoly Mikhailov (URS)	13.7
400 metre hurdles	Rex Cawley (USA)	49.6	John Cooper (GBR)	50.1	Salvatore Morale (ITA)	50.1
3000 metre steeplechase	Gaston Roelants (BEL)		Maurice Herriott (GBR)		Ivan Beliaev (URS)
4×100 metre relay	United States Paul Drayton Gerald Ashworth Richard Stebbins Bob Hayes	39.0 WR	Poland Andrzej Zieliński Wiesław Maniak Marian Foik Marian Dudziak	39.3	France Paul Genevay Bernard Laidebeur Claude Piquemal Jocelyn Delecour	39.3
4×400 metre relay	United States Ollan Cassell Michael Larrabee Ulis Williams Henry Carr	3:00.7 WR	Great Britain Timothy Graham Adrian Peter Metcalfe John Hugh Cooper Robbie Ian Brightwell	3:01.6	Trinidad and Tobago Edwin Skinner Kenneth Bernard Edwin Roberts Wendell Mottley	3:01.7
20 km walk	Kenneth Matthews (GBR)	1:29:34.0 OR	Dieter Lindner (EUA)	1:31:13.2	Volodymyr Holubnychy (URS)	1:31:59.4
50 km walk	Abdon Pamich (ITA)	4:11:12.4 OB	Paul Nihill (GBR)	4:11:31.2	Ingvar Pettersson (SWE)	4:14:17.4
Marathon	Abebe Bikila (ETH)	2:12:11.2 WB	Basil Heatley (GBR)	2:16:19.2	Kokichi Tsuburaya (JPN)	2:16:22.8
High jump	Valeriy Brumel (URS)		John Thomas (USA)		John Rambo (USA)
Long jump	Lynn Davies (GBR)		Ralph Boston (USA)		Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS)
Triple jump	Józef Szmidt (POL)		Oleg Fedoseev (URS)		Victor Kravchenko (URS)
Pole vault	Fred Hansen (USA)		Wolfgang Reinhardt (EUA)		Klaus Lehnertz (EUA)
Shot put	Dallas Long (USA)		Randy Matson (USA)		Vilmos Varju (HUN)
Discus throw	Al Oerter (USA)		Ludvik Danek (TCH)		Dave Weill (USA)
Javelin throw	Pauli Nevala (FIN)		Gergely Kulcsár (HUN)		Jānis Lūsis (URS)
Hammer throw	Romuald Klim (URS)		Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN)		Uwe Beyer (EUA)
Decathlon	Willi Holdorf (EUA)		Rein Aun (URS)		Hans-Joachim Walde (EUA)

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Wyomia Tyus (USA)	11.4	Edith McGuire (USA)	11.6	Ewa Kłobukowska (POL)	11.6
200 metres	Edith McGuire (USA)	23.0 OR	Irena Kirszenstein (POL)	23.1	Marilyn Black (AUS)	23.1
400 metres	Betty Cuthbert (AUS)	52.0 OR	Ann Packer (GBR)	52.2	Judy Amoore (AUS)	52.4
800 metres	Ann Packer (GBR)	2:01.1 WR	Maryvonne Dupureur (FRA)	2:01.9	Marise Chamberlain (NZL)	2:02.8
80 metre hurdles	Karin Balzer (EUA)	10.5w	Teresa Ciepły (POL)	10.5w	Pam Kilborn (AUS)	10.5w
4×100 metre relay	Poland Teresa Ciepły Irena Kirszenstein Halina Górecka Ewa Kłobukowska	43.6 WR	United States Willye White Wyomia Tyus Marilyn White Edith McGuire	43.9	Great Britain Janet Simpson Mary Rand Daphne Arden Dorothy Hyman	44.0
High jump	Iolanda Balaş (ROU)		Michele Brown (AUS)		Taisia Chenchik (URS)
Long jump	Mary Rand (GBR)		Irena Kirszenstein (POL)		Tatyana Schelkanova (URS)
Shot put	Tamara Press (URS)		Renate Culmberger (EUA)		Galina Zybina (URS)
Discus throw	Tamara Press (URS)		Ingrid Lotz (EUA)		Lia Manoliu (ROU)
Javelin throw	Mihaela Penes (ROU)		Márta Rudas (HUN)		Elena Gorchakova (URS)
Pentathlon	Irina Press (URS)		Mary Rand (GBR)		Galina Bystrova (URS)

AR Area record | CR championship record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB/PR personal best/record | SB seasonal best | WL world leading (in a given season) | WR world record

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	14	7	3	24
2	Soviet Union	5	2	11	18
3	Great Britain	4	7	1	12
4	United Team of Germany	2	5	3	10
5	Poland	2	4	2	8
6	New Zealand	2	0	2	4
7	Romania	2	0	1	3
8	Australia	1	1	4	6
9	Italy	1	0	1	2
10	Belgium	1	0	0	1
	Ethiopia	1	0	0	1
	Finland	1	0	0	1
13	Hungary	0	3	1	4
14	Czechoslovakia	0	2	0	2
15	Trinidad and Tobago	0	1	2	3
16	Canada	0	1	1	2
	France	0	1	1	2
18	Cuba	0	1	0	1
	Tunisia	0	1	0	1
20	Japan	0	0	1	1
	Kenya	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1

References

• International Olympic Committee results database
• Athletics Australia

1. ↑ http://www.gamesbids.com/english/archives/past.shtml

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