Soviet Union at the 1964 Summer Olympics

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Soviet Union at the
1964 Summer Olympics
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg
Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC codeURS
NOCSoviet Olympic Committee
in Tokyo
Competitors317 (254 men, 63 women)[1] in 19 sports
Flag bearer Yury Vlasov
Medals
Ranked 2nd
Gold
30
Silver
31
Bronze
35
Total
96
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
  • 1952
  • 1956
  • 1960
  • 1964
  • 1968
  • 1972
  • 1976
  • 1980
  • 1984
  • 1988
Other related appearances
 Russian Empire (1900–1912)
 Estonia (1920–1936, 1992–)
 Latvia (1924–1936, 1992–)
 Lithuania (1924–1928, 1992–)
 Unified Team (1992)
 Armenia (1994–)
 Belarus (1994–)
 Georgia (1994–)
 Kazakhstan (1994–)
 Kyrgyzstan (1994–)
 Moldova (1994–)
 Russia (1994–2016)
 Ukraine (1994–)
 Uzbekistan (1994–)
 Azerbaijan (1996–)
 Tajikistan (1996–)
 Turkmenistan (1996–)
 ROC (2020-2022)

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. 317 competitors, 254 men and 63 women, took part in 154 events in 19 sports.[2]

Medalists[]

The USSR finished second in the final medal rankings, with 30 gold and 96 total medals.

Gold[]

  • Larisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's floor exercise
  • Boris Shakhlin — Artistic gymnastics, men's horizontal bar
  • Larisa Latynina, Polina Astakhova, Tamara Manina, Elena Volchetskaya, Tamara Zamotailova, Lyudmila Gromova — Artistic gymnastics, women's team competition
  • Polina Astakhova — Artistic gymnastics, women's uneven bars
  • Tamara Press — Athletics, women's discus throw
  • Romuald Klim — Athletics, men's hammer throw
  • Valery Brumel — Athletics, men's high jump
  • Irina Press — Athletics, women's pentathlon
  • Tamara Press — Athletics, women's shot put
  • Stanislav Stepashkin — Boxing, men's featherweight
  • Boris Lagutin — Boxing, men's light-middleweight
  • Valery Popenchenko — Boxing, men's 71–75 kg
  • Andrei Khimich, Stepan Oshchepkov — Canoeing, men's C-2 1000 m
  • Lyudmila Khvedosyuk-Pinaeva — Canoeing, women's K-1 500 m
  • Nikolai Chuzhikov, Anatoli Grishin, Vyacheslav Ionov, Vladimir Morozov — Canoeing, K-4 1000 m
  • Grigori Kriss — Fencing, men's épée individual
  • Viktor Zhdanovich, Yuri Sharov, Yuri Sisikin, German Sveshnikov, Mark Midler — Fencing, men's foil team
  • Boris Melnikov, Nugzar Asatiani, Mark Rakita, Yakov Rylsky, Umar Mavlikhanov — Fencing, men's sabre team
  • Albert Mokeev, Igor Novikov, Viktor Mineev — Modern pentathlon, men's team competition
  • Oleg Tyurin, Boris Dubrovskiy — Rowing, men's double sculls
  • Vyacheslav Ivanov — Rowing, men's single sculls
  • Galina Prozumenschikova-Stepanova — Swimming, women's 200 m breaststroke
  • Yuri Chesnokov, Yuri Vengerovsky, Eduard Sibiryakov, Dmitry Voskoboinikov, Vazha Katcharava, Stanislav Lyugailo, Vitali Kovalenko, Yuri Poyarkov, Ivan Bugaenkov, Nikolai Burobin, Valery Kalachikhin, Georgi Mondzolevsky — Volleyball, men's team
  • Leonid Zhabotinsky — Weightlifting, men's heavyweight
  • Aleksei Vakhonin — Weightlifting, men's bantamweight
  • Rudolf Plyukfelder — Weightlifting, men's light-heavyweight
  • Vladimir Golovanov — Weightlifting, men's middle-heavyweight
  • Alexander Ivanytsky — Wrestling, men's freestyle heavyweight
  • Alexander Medved — Wrestling, men's freestyle light-heavyweight
  • Anatoli Kolesov — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman welterweight

Silver[]

Bronze[]

  • Larisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's balance beam
  • Polina Astakhova — Artistic gymnastics, women's individual all-round
  • Yury Tsapenko — Artistic gymnastics, men's pommel horse
  • Boris Shakhlin — Artistic gymnastics, men's rings
  • Larisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's uneven bars
  • Anatoly Mikhailov — Athletics, men's 110 m hurdles
  • Vladimir Golubnichy — Athletics, men's 20 km walk
  • Ivan Belyayev — Athletics, men's 3000 m steeplechase
  • Taisiya Chenchik — Athletics, women's high jump
  • Yanis Lusis — Athletics, men's javelin throw
  • Yelena Gorchakova — Athletics, women's javelin throw
  • Igor Ter-Ovanesyan — Athletics, men's long jump
  • Tatyana Shchelkanova — Athletics, women's long jump
  • Galina Bystrova — Athletics, women's pentathlon
  • Galina Zybina — Athletics, women's shot put
  • Viktor Kravchenko — Athletics, men's triple jump
  • Vadim Emelyanov — Boxing, men's heavyweight
  • Stanislav Sorokin — Boxing, men's flyweight
  • Yevgeny Penyaev — Canoeing, men's C-1 1000 m
  • Galina Alekseeva — Diving, women's 10 m platform
  • Sergei Filatov, his horse Absent — Equestrian, individual mixed
  • Sergei Filatov, Absent, Ivan Kizimov, Ikhor, Ivan Kalita, Moar — Equestrian, team mixed
  • Guram Kostava — Fencing, men's épée individual
  • Umar Mavlikhanov — Fencing, men's sabre individual
  • Anzor Kiknadze — Judo, men's heavyweight
  • Parnaos Chikviladze — Judo, men's heavyweight
  • Oleg Stepanov — Judo, men's lightweight
  • Aron Bogolyubov — Judo, men's lightweight
  • Albert Mokeev — Modern pentathlon, men's individual competition
  • Svetlana Babanina — Swimming, women's 200 m breaststroke
  • Tatyana Savelyeva, Svetlana Babanina, Tatyana Devyatova, Natalya Ustinova — women's 4 × 100 m medley relay
  • Igor Grabovsky, Vladimir Kuznetsov, Boris Grishin, Boris Popov, Nikolai Kalashnikov, Zenon Bortkevich, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Vladimir Semyonov, Viktor Ageev, Leonid Osipov, Eduard Egorov — Water polo, men's team
  • Aydin Ibrahimov — Wrestling, men's freestyle bantamweight
  • Nodar Khokhashvili — Wrestling, men's freestyle featherweight
  • David Gvanteladze — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman lightweight

Athletics[]

Basketball[]

Boxing[]

Canoeing[]

Cycling[]

Twelve cyclists represented the Soviet Union in 1964.

Individual road race
Team time trial
Sprint
1000 m time trial
Tandem
Individual pursuit
Team pursuit

Diving[]

Equestrian[]

Fencing[]

20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women, represented the Soviet Union in 1964.

Men's foil
Men's team foil
Men's épée
Men's team épée
Men's sabre
Men's team sabre
Women's foil
Women's team foil

Gymnastics[]

Judo[]

Modern pentathlon[]

Three male pentathlete represented the Soviet Union in 1964. The team won gold, Albert Mokeyev won an individual bronze and Igor Novikov won an individual silver.

Individual
Team
  • Igor Novikov
  • Albert Mokeyev
  • Viktor Mineyev

Rowing[]

The Soviet Union had 26 male rowers participate in seven rowing events in 1964.[3]

Men's single sculls – 1st place (Med 1.png gold medal)
  • Vyacheslav Ivanov (Вячеслав Иванов)
Men's double sculls – 1st place (Med 1.png gold medal)
Men's coxless pair
  • Oleg Golovanov (Олег Голованов)
  • Valentin Boreyko (Валентин Борейко)
Men's coxed pair – 4th place
Men's coxless four – 7th place
  • Celestinas Jucys (Целестинас Юцис)
  • Eugenijus Levickas (Еугениус Левицкас)
  • Jonas Motiejūnas (Йонас Матеюнас)
  • Anatoliy Sass (Анатолий Сасс)
Men's coxed four – 5th place
Men's eight – 5th place
  • Juozas Jagelavičius (Yozas Yagelavichyus, Йозас Ягелавичюс)
  • Yury Suslin (Юрий Суслин)
  • Petras Karla (Петрас Карла)
  • Vytautas Briedis (Vitautas Briedis, Витаутас Бриедис)
  • Volodymyr Sterlik (Vladimir Sterlik, Владимир Стерлик)
  • Zigmas Jukna (Zigmas Yukna, Зигмас Юкна)
  • Antanas Bagdonavičius (Antanas Bagdonavichyus, Антанас Багдонавичюс)
  • Ričardas Vaitkevičius (Richardas Vaytkyavichyus, Ричардас Вайткявичус)
  • Yury Lorentsson (Юрий Лоренцсон)

Sailing[]

Shooting[]

Ten shooters represented the Soviet Union in 1964. Shota Kveliashvili won a silver in the 300 m rifle, three positions and Pāvels Seničevs won a silver in the trap event.

25 m pistol
50 m pistol
300 m rifle, three positions
50 m rifle, three positions
50 m rifle, prone
Trap

Swimming[]

Volleyball[]

Men's team competition
  • Round robin
  • Defeated Romania (3–0)
  • Defeated Netherlands (3–0)
  • Defeated South Korea (3–0)
  • Defeated Hungary (3–0)
  • Defeated Czechoslovakia (3–2)
  • Lost to Japan (1–3)
  • Defeated United States (3–0)
  • Defeated Bulgaria (3–0)
  • Defeated Brazil (3–0) → Med 1.png gold medal
  • Team roster
  • Ivan Bugaenkov
  • Nikolai Burobin
  • Yuri Chesnokov
  • Vascha Kacharava
  • Valery Kalatschikhin
  • Vitaly Kovalenko
  • Stanislav Ljugailo
  • Georgy Mondzolevsky
  • Yuri Poryarkov
  • Eduard Sibiryakov
  • Yuri Vengorovsky
  • Dimitri Voskoboynikov
Women's team competition
  • Round robin
  • Defeated Romania (3–0)
  • Defeated South Korea (3–0)
  • Defeated Poland (3–0)
  • Defeated United States (3–0)
  • Lost to Japan (0–3) → Med 2.png silver medal
  • Team roster

Water polo[]

Weightlifting[]

Wrestling[]

References[]

  1. ^ "The USSR and Olympism" (PDF). Olympic Review. International Olympic Committee (84): 530–557. October 1974. Retrieved 28 March 2008.
  2. ^ "Soviet Union at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2010.
  3. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Soviet Union Rowing at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2015.

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