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 events	36
Competitors	1,016 from 82 nations
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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 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 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	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 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 (OR)	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 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 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 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

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 entries)		36	36	36	108

References

• International Olympic Committee results database
• Athletics Australia

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