Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Billy Mills crossing the finish line in the 10,000 metres at the 1964 Olympic Games.

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[]

Men[]

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 Mikhailov  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 details	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 details	Abebe Bikila  Ethiopia	2:12:11.2 (WR)	Basil Heatley  Great Britain	2:16:19.2	Kokichi 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 details	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	John Rambo  United States	2.16 m
Pole vault details	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 Fyodoseyev  Soviet Union	16.58 m	Victor 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 Varju  Hungary	19.39 m
Discus throw details	Al Oerter  United States	61.00 m (OR)	Ludvik Danek  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 details	Willi Holdorf  United Team of Germany	7887	Rein Aun  Soviet Union	7842	Hans-Joachim Walde  United Team of Germany	7809

Women[]

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 Balaş  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 Schelkanova  Soviet Union	6.42 m
Shot put details	Tamara Press  Soviet Union	18.14 m (OR)	Renate 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 Peneş  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[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	14	7	3	24
2	Soviet Union (URS)	5	2	11	18
3	Great Britain (GBR)	4	7	1	12
4	United Team of Germany (EUA)	2	5	3	10
5	Poland (POL)	2	4	2	8
6	New Zealand (NZL)	2	0	2	4
7	Romania (ROU)	2	0	1	3
8	Australia (AUS)	1	1	4	6
9	Italy (ITA)	1	0	1	2
10	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
	Ethiopia (ETH)	1	0	0	1
	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
13	Hungary (HUN)	0	3	1	4
14	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	2	0	2
15	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	0	1	2	3
16	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
	France (FRA)	0	1	1	2
18	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	0	1
	Tunisia (TUN)	0	1	0	1
20	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Kenya (KEN)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 nations)		36	36	36	108

References[]

• International Olympic Committee results database
• Athletics Australia

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