Swimming at the 1964 Summer Paralympics

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Swimming at the 1964 Summer Paralympics consisted of 62 events, 31 for men, 30 for women and 1 mixed.

The wrong reports[]

Since at the dawn of the Paralympic Games there was no precision in reporting the results of the competitions, the Israeli athlete Michal Escapa was indicated with the Italian nationality and without prename (and so she is mentioned in the International Paralympic Committee^[1] of the Italian Paralympic Committee^[2] web sites) for the reports of the Swimming at the 1964 Summer Paralympics where she won two bronze medals, simply reported as Escapa and not as Michal Escapa.^[3][4] However, as can be seen from a 1968 Israeli newspaper reporting an interview with the athlete, she was the same athlete who had won medals in swimming and table tennis in Tokyo 1964.^[5]

Participating nations[]

Results[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
25 m freestyle prone complete class 1	Roy Fowler  Australia	United States	Stefan Florescu  United States
25 m freestyle prone complete class 2	David Ellis  Great Britain	Italy	W. Brenken  West Germany
25 m freestyle prone incomplete class 1	R. Rosenbaum  United States	Samuel Goldstein  United States	S. Miles  Great Britain
25 m freestyle prone incomplete class 2	Sedlacek  West Germany	Argentina	Renzo Rogo  Italy
50 m freestyle prone cauda equina	United States	Netherlands	Franco Rossi  Italy
50 m freestyle prone complete class 3	West Germany	West Germany	Italy
50 m freestyle prone complete class 4	G. Conn  United States	Rhodesia	S. Makioka  Japan
50 m freestyle prone incomplete class 3	H. Burkett  United States	G. Williams  Great Britain	Michael Dow  Australia
50 m freestyle prone incomplete class 4	Argentina	Argentina	Ed Owen  United States
50 m freestyle prone special class	Netherlands	P. Newman  Great Britain	Israel
25 m freestyle supine complete class 1	Roy Fowler  Australia	United States	Stefan Florescu  United States
25 m freestyle supine complete class 2	David Ellis  Great Britain	Trevor French  Australia	Italy
	Frank Ponta  Australia
25 m freestyle supine incomplete class 1	R. Rosenbaum  United States	Samuel Goldstein  United States	S. Miles  Great Britain
25 m freestyle supine incomplete class 2	Renzo Rogo  Italy	Sedlacek  West Germany	Argentina
50 m freestyle supine complete class 3	United States	W. Thornton  Great Britain	W. Johnson  United States
50 m freestyle supine complete class 4	Rhodesia	G. Conn  United States	B. Dickinson  Great Britain
50 m freestyle supine complete class 5	United States	Japan	Italy
50 m freestyle supine incomplete class 3	Michael Dow  Australia	H. Burkett  United States	Argentina
50 m freestyle supine incomplete class 4	Ed Owen  United States	United States	Argentina
50 m freestyle supine special class	Netherlands	Italy	L. Halford  Great Britain
25 m breaststroke junior class	Jacob Ben-Arie  Israel	None	None
25 m breaststroke complete class 1	Roy Fowler  Australia	Stefan Florescu  United States	United States
25 m breaststroke complete class 2	Italy	David Ellis  Great Britain	Austria
25 m breaststroke incomplete class 1	R. Rosenbaum  United States	S. Miles  Great Britain	Samuel Goldstein  United States
25 m breaststroke incomplete class 2	Renzo Rogo  Italy	Italy	None
50 m breaststroke complete class 3	W. Thornton  Great Britain	W. Johnson  United States	United States
50 m breaststroke complete class 4	Rhodesia	B. Dickinson  Great Britain	G. Conn  United States
50 m breaststroke complete class 5	United States	Ignesias  Argentina	Netherlands
50 m breaststroke incomplete class 3	Michael Dow  Australia	H. Burkett  United States	Aimé Planchon  France
50 m breaststroke incomplete class 4	Ed Owen  United States	G. Popperwell  South Africa	United States
50 m breaststroke special class	Baruch Hagai  Israel	Israel	Italy

Women's events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
25 m freestyle prone complete class 1	Evelyn Mulry  United States	None	None
25 m freestyle prone complete class 2	R. Kuhnel  Austria	Susan Masham  Great Britain	None
25 m freestyle prone incomplete class 1	Janet Little  United States	A. Somerset  South Africa	N. Thesen  South Africa
25 m freestyle prone incomplete class 2	S. Simmons  United States	Anna Maria Toso  Italy	Michal Escapa  Israel
50 m freestyle prone cauda equina	Batia Mishani  Israel	Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum  Israel	None
50 m freestyle prone complete class 3	J. Slade  United States	Valerie Forder  Great Britain	I. Driessler  Austria
50 m freestyle prone complete class 4	Pauline Foulds  Great Britain	None	None
50 m freestyle prone complete class 5	Elizabeth Edmondson  Australia	Daphne Ceeney  Australia	Christa Welger  United States
50 m freestyle prone incomplete class 3	Rhodesia	United States	J. Howe  United States
50 m freestyle prone incomplete class 4	Rosalie Hixson  United States	Irene Monaco  Italy	United States
50 m freestyle prone special class	Argentina	Argentina	Argentina
25 m freestyle supine complete class 1	Evelyn Mulry  United States	Netherlands	None
25 m freestyle supine complete class 2	Austria	Susan Masham  Great Britain	Italy
25 m freestyle supine incomplete class 1	Janet Little  United States	South Africa	Netherlands
25 m freestyle supine incomplete class 2	Anna Maria Toso  Italy	S. Simmons  United States	None
50 m freestyle supine cauda equina	Elizabeth Edmondson  Australia	Christa Welger  United States	Daphne Ceeney  Australia
50 m freestyle supine complete class 3	Valerie Forder  Great Britain	J. Laughton  Great Britain	I. Driessler  Austria
50 m freestyle supine complete class 4	P. Foulds  Great Britain	None	None
50 m freestyle supine incomplete class 3	Rhodesia	United States	J. Howe  United States
50 m freestyle supine incomplete class 4	Rosalie Hixson  United States	United States	Irene Monaco  Italy
50 m freestyle supine special class	Argentina	Argentina	Argentina
25 m breaststroke complete class 2	R. Kuhnel  Austria	Susan Masham  Great Britain	None
25 m breaststroke incomplete class 1	A. Somerset  South Africa	Janet Little  United States	None
25 m breaststroke incomplete class 2	S. Simmons  United States	Anna Maria Toso  Italy	Michal Escapa  Israel
50 m breaststroke cauda equina	E. Edmondson  Australia	Christa Welger  United States	M. Gibbs  Great Britain
50 m breaststroke complete class 3	Netherlands	Valerie Forder  Great Britain	Great Britain
50 m breaststroke complete class 4	Pauline Foulds  Great Britain	None	None
50 m breaststroke incomplete class 3	Rhodesia	Italy	J. Howe  United States
50 m breaststroke incomplete class 4	United States	Rosalie Hixson  United States	Irene Monaco  Italy
50 m breaststroke special class	Argentina	Argentina	Argentina

Mixed events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Medley relay open	United States (USA) Ed Owen	Rhodesia (RHO)	Israel (ISR) Jacob Ben-Arie Baruch Hagai

Medal table[]

Source and with the displacement of two bronze medals from Italy to Israel due to the Michal Escapa case documented in the first section of this article.^[6]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	22	18	14	54
2	Australia (AUS)	9	2	2	13
3	Great Britain (GBR)	7	12	6	25
4	Rhodesia (RHO)	5	2	0	7
5	Italy (ITA)	4	7	9	20
6	Argentina (ARG)	4	6	6	16
7	Israel (ISR)	3	2	4	9
8	Netherlands (NED)	3	2	2	7
9	Austria (AUT)	3	0	3	6
10	West Germany (FRG)	2	2	1	5
11	South Africa (RSA)	1	3	1	5
12	Japan (JPN)	0	1	1	2
13	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 nations)		63	57	50	170

References[]

External links[]

• Results Archive Tokyo 1964 - Swimming at Paralympic.org