1964 Summer Olympics medal table

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1964 Summer Olympics medals
Larisa Latynina 1964.jpg
Larisa Latynina (pictured) won six medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics, the most of any competing athlete
Location Tokyo, Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan
Highlights
Most gold medalsFlag of the United States.svg  United States  (36)
Most total medalsFlag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union  (96)
Medalling NOCs41
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The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, and commonly known as Tokyo 1964, were an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan, from 9 to 24 October. [1] [2] A total of 5,151 athletes representing 93 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated. [3] The games featured 163 events across 19 sports and 24 disciplines. [4] [5] Two new sports were introduced to the Summer Olympic Games program in Tokyo: judo and volleyball. [6] [7] The inclusion of volleyball marked the first time that a women's team sport had been introduced. [8] [9]

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The 1964 Summer Games were the first Olympics held in Asia, [10] and marked the first time South Africa was excluded for using its apartheid system in sports. [11] [12] North Korea and Indonesia withdrew their athletes from the 1964 Summer Olympics just before the games were due to start, as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) were refusing to accept any athletes who had participated in the Games of the New Emerging Forces held in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1963. [13] [14] China continued their boycott of the games, which began in 1952 and lasted until 1980, over the participation of Taiwan. [15] [16]

Overall, 41 teams received at least one medal, with 26 of them winning at least one gold medal. Athletes from the Soviet Union won the most medals overall, with 96, while the United States won the most gold medals, with 36. [17] The Bahamas won their first gold medal ever, doing so in the star class sailing event, [18] while athletes from Kenya, [19] Nigeria, [20] and Tunisia won their nations' first Olympic medals of any kind. [21]

Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina won the most medals at the games with six (two gold, two silver, and two bronze). [22] With 18 total Olympic medals, Latynina became the world record holder for most Olympic medals won by an individual, a record that stood for 48 years until swimmer Michael Phelps surpassed that mark at the 2012 Summer Olympics. [23] [24] She also became the record holder for most gold and total Olympic medals by a female athlete. [25]

Medal table

The medal table is based on information provided by the IOC and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. [26] [27] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code. [28]

At the 1964 Summer Olympics, athletes were tied in three events, all of which were gymnastics events. In the men's artistic individual all-around event there was a three-way tie for second, which resulted in three silver medals and no bronze medal being awarded. [29] In the men's floor event, two silver medals and no bronze medal were awarded due to a tie. [30] Lastly, in the women's vault event, two silver medals and no bronze medal were awarded due to a tie. [31]

  *   Host nation (Japan)

1964 Summer Olympics medal table [17]
RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Flag of the United States.svg  United States 36262890
2Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 30313596
3Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan*165829
4Flag of the German Olympic Team (1960-1968).svg  United Team of Germany [upper-alpha 1] 10221850
5Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1010727
6Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 107522
7Flag of Poland (1928-1980).svg  Poland 761023
8Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 621018
9Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg  Czechoslovakia 56314
10Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 412218
11Flag of Bulgaria (1948-1967).svg  Bulgaria 35210
12Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 3025
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 3025
14Flag of Romania (1952-1965).svg  Romania 24612
15Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 24410
16Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 2316
17Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 2248
18Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 2136
19Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg  Yugoslavia 2125
20Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 2013
21Flag of France.svg  France 18615
22Flag of Canada (1957-1965).svg  Canada 1214
Civil Ensign of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 1214
24Flag of the Bahamas (1953-1964).svg  Bahamas 1001
Flag of Ethiopia (1897-1974).svg  Ethiopia 1001
Flag of India.svg  India 1001
27Flag of South Korea (1949-1984).svg  South Korea 0213
28Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago 0123
29Flag of Tunisia (1959-1999).svg  Tunisia 0112
30Flag of Argentina (1861-2010).svg  Argentina 0101
Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba 0101
Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 0101
Flag of the Philippines (1936-1985, 1986-1998).svg  Philippines 0101
34State Flag of Iran (1964-1980).svg  Iran 0022
35Flag of Brazil (1960-1968).svg  Brazil 0011
Flag of Ghana (1964-1966).svg  Ghana 0011
Flag of Ireland (3-2).svg  Ireland 0011
Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 0011
Flag of Mexico (1934-1968).svg  Mexico 0011
Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria 0011
Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay 0011
Totals (41 entries)163167174504

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Athletes from East Germany and West Germany competed together as the United Team of Germany. [32]

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