Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Athletics
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Billy Mills crossing the finish line in the 10,000 metres at the 1964 Olympic Games.
No. of events36
Competitors1,016 from 82 nations
← 1960
1968 →

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.

Medal summary

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Men

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details
Bob Hayes
 United States
10.0
(=WR)
Enrique Figuerola
 Cuba
10.2 Harry Jerome
 Canada
10.2
200 metres
details
Henry Carr
 United States
20.3
(OR)
Paul Drayton
 United States
20.5 Edwin Roberts
 Trinidad and Tobago
20.6
400 metres
details
Mike Larrabee
 United States
45.1 Wendell Mottley
 Trinidad and Tobago
45.2 Andrzej Badeński
 Poland
45.6
800 metres
details
Peter Snell
 New Zealand
1:45.1
(OR)
Bill Crothers
 Canada
1:45.6 Wilson Kiprugut
 Kenya
1:45.9
1500 metres
details
Peter Snell
 New Zealand
3:38.1 Josef Odložil
 Czechoslovakia
3:39.6 John Davies
 New Zealand
3:39.6
5000 metres
details
Bob Schul
 United States
13:48.8 Harald Norpoth
 United Team of Germany
13:49.6 Bill Dellinger
 United States
13:49.8
10,000 metres
details
Billy Mills
 United States
28:24.4
(OR)
Mohammed Gammoudi
 Tunisia
28:24.8 Ron Clarke
 Australia
28:25.8
110 metres hurdles
details
Hayes Jones
 United States
13.67 Blaine Lindgren
 United States
13.74 Anatoly Mikhaylov
 Soviet Union
13.78
400 metres hurdles
details
Rex Cawley
 United States
49.6 John Cooper
 Great Britain
50.1 Salvatore Morale
 Italy
50.1
3000 metres steeplechase
details
Gaston Roelants
 Belgium
8:30.8
(OR)
Maurice Herriott
 Great Britain
8:32.4 Ivan Belyayev
 Soviet Union
8:33.8
4 × 100 metres relay
details
 United States (USA)
Paul Drayton
Gerry Ashworth
Richard Stebbins
Bob Hayes
39.0
(WR)
 Poland (POL)
Andrzej Zieliński
Wiesław Maniak
Marian Foik
Marian Dudziak
39.3  France (FRA)
Paul Genevay
Bernard Laidebeur
Claude Piquemal
Jocelyn Delecour
39.3
4 × 400 metres relay
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 United States (USA)
Ollan Cassell
Mike Larrabee
Ulis Williams
Henry Carr
3:00.7
(WR)
 Great Britain (GBR)
Tim Graham
Adrian Metcalfe
John Cooper
Robbie Brightwell
3:01.6  Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)
Edwin Skinner
Kent Bernard
Edwin Roberts
Wendell Mottley
3:01.7
Marathon
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Abebe Bikila
 Ethiopia
2:12:11.2
(WR)
Basil Heatley
 Great Britain
2:16:19.2 Kōkichi Tsuburaya
 Japan
2:16:22.8
20 kilometres walk
details
Ken Matthews
 Great Britain
1:29:34.0
(OR)
Dieter Lindner
 United Team of Germany
1:31:13.2 Volodymyr Holubnychy
 Soviet Union
1:31:59.4
50 kilometres walk
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Abdon Pamich
 Italy
4:11:12.4
(OR)
Paul Nihill
 Great Britain
4:11:31.2 Ingvar Pettersson
 Sweden
4:14:17.4
High jump
details
Valeriy Brumel
 Soviet Union
2.18 m
(OR)
John Thomas
 United States
2.18 m
(OR)
John Rambo
 United States
2.16 m
Pole vault
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Fred Hansen
 United States
5.10 m
(OR)
Wolfgang Reinhardt
 United Team of Germany
5.05 m Klaus Lehnertz
 United Team of Germany
5.00 m
Long jump
details
Lynn Davies
 Great Britain
8.07 m Ralph Boston
 United States
8.03 m Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
 Soviet Union
7.99 m
Triple jump
details
Józef Szmidt
 Poland
16.85 m
(OR)
Oleg Fedoseyev
 Soviet Union
16.58 m Viktor Kravchenko
 Soviet Union
16.57 m
Shot put
details
Dallas Long
 United States
20.33 m
(OR)
Randy Matson
 United States
20.20 m Vilmos Varjú
 Hungary
19.39 m
Discus throw
details
Al Oerter
 United States
61.00 m
(OR)
Ludvík Daněk
 Czechoslovakia
60.52 m Dave Weill
 United States
59.49 m
Hammer throw
details
Romuald Klim
 Soviet Union
69.74 m
(OR)
Gyula Zsivótzky
 Hungary
69.09 m Uwe Beyer
 United Team of Germany
68.09 m
Javelin throw
details
Pauli Nevala
 Finland
82.66 m Gergely Kulcsár
 Hungary
82.32 m Jānis Lūsis
 Soviet Union
80.57 m
Decathlon
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Willi Holdorf
 United Team of Germany
7887 Rein Aun
 Soviet Union
7842 Hans-Joachim Walde
 United Team of Germany
7809

Women

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details
Wyomia Tyus
 United States
11.4 Edith McGuire
 United States
11.6 Ewa Kłobukowska
 Poland
11.6
200 metres
details
Edith McGuire
 United States
23.0
(OR)
Irena Kirszenstein
 Poland
23.1 Marilyn Black
 Australia
23.1
400 metres
details
Betty Cuthbert
 Australia
52.0
(OR)
Ann Packer
 Great Britain
52.2 Judy Amoore
 Australia
53.4
800 metres
details
Ann Packer
 Great Britain
2:01.1
(WR)
Maryvonne Dupureur
 France
2:01.9 Marise Chamberlain
 New Zealand
2:02.8
80 metres hurdles
details
Karin Balzer
 United Team of Germany
10.5 Teresa Ciepły
 Poland
10.5 Pam Kilborn
 Australia
10.6
4 × 100 metres relay
details
 Poland (POL)
Teresa Ciepły
Irena Kirszenstein
Halina Górecka
Ewa Kłobukowska
43.6
(WR)
 United States (USA)
Willye White
Wyomia Tyus
Marilyn White
Edith McGuire
43.9  Great Britain (GBR)
Janet Simpson
Mary Rand
Daphne Arden
Dorothy Hyman
44.0
High jump
details
Iolanda Balaș
 Romania
1.90 m
(OR)
Michele Brown
 Australia
1.80 m Taisia Chenchik
 Soviet Union
1.78 m
Long jump
details
Mary Rand
 Great Britain
6.76 m
(WR)
Irena Kirszenstein
 Poland
6.60 m Tatyana Shchelkanova
 Soviet Union
6.42 m
Shot put
details
Tamara Press
 Soviet Union
18.14 m
(OR)
Renate Garisch-Culmberger
 United Team of Germany
17.61 m Galina Zybina
 Soviet Union
17.45 m
Discus throw
details
Tamara Press
 Soviet Union
57.27 m
(OR)
Ingrid Lotz
 United Team of Germany
57.21 m Lia Manoliu
 Romania
56.97 m
Javelin throw
details
Mihaela Peneș
 Romania
60.54 m Márta Rudas
 Hungary
58.27 m Yelena Gorchakova
 Soviet Union
57.06 m
Pentathlon
details
Irina Press
 Soviet Union
5246
(WR)
Mary Rand
 Great Britain
5035 Galina Bystrova
 Soviet Union
4956

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)147324
2 Soviet Union (URS)521118
3 Great Britain (GBR)47112
4 United Team of Germany (EUA)25310
5 Poland (POL)2428
6 New Zealand (NZL)2024
7 Romania (ROU)2013
8 Australia (AUS)1146
9 Italy (ITA)1012
10 Belgium (BEL)1001
 Ethiopia (ETH)1001
 Finland (FIN)1001
13 Hungary (HUN)0314
14 Czechoslovakia (TCH)0202
15 Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)0123
16 Canada (CAN)0112
 France (FRA)0112
18 Cuba (CUB)0101
 Tunisia (TUN)0101
20 Japan (JPN)0011
 Kenya (KEN)0011
 Sweden (SWE)0011
Totals (22 entries)363636108

References

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