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The team competition was a modern pentathlon event held as part of the Modern pentathlon at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme. The team scores were the sum of the three pentathletes' scores in the individual competition.
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| Place | Team |  |  |  |  |  | Total |
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| | | 3050 | 2385 | 3040 | 3150 | 3336 | 14961 |
| | | 3240 | 2262 | 2640 | 2915 | 3132 | 14189 |
| | | 3150 | 2590 | 2380 | 2885 | 3168 | 14173 |
| 4. |  | 3240 | 2057 | 2460 | 3200 | 3099 | 14056 |
| 5. |  | 3210 | 1770 | 2880 | 2990 | 2853 | 13703 |
| 6. |  | 3130 | 1729 | 2800 | 2955 | 2985 | 13599 |
| 7. |  | 3120 | 2221 | 2560 | 2885 | 2754 | 13540 |
| 8. |  | 3210 | 1524 | 2860 | 2865 | 2943 | 13402 |
| 9. |  | 3150 | 1688 | 2500 | 3030 | 2784 | 13152 |
| 10. |  | 3270 | 2467 | 2260 | 2525 | 2091 | 12613 |
| 11. |  | 3240 | 1196 | 2040 | 2550 | 2520 | 11546 |
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The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan, from 10 to 24 October 1964. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honour was subsequently passed to Helsinki because of Japan's invasion of China, before ultimately being cancelled because of World War II.
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The Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne, commonly known by the acronym UIPM, has been the international governing body of modern pentathlon since its foundation in London in 1948. Its headquarters are in Monte-Carlo, Monaco and it has 115 national federation members. Modern pentathlon was introduced at the 5th Olympiad in Stockholm (SWE) in 1912, comprising the contemporary sports of pistol shooting, fencing, swimming, horse riding and running, which embraced the spirit of its ancient counterpart.
Igor Novikov was a Soviet modern pentathlete and Olympic Champion. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where he won a gold medal in the team competition (together with Aleksandr Tarasov and Ivan Deryugin. He won a silver medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, and he competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where he won a gold medal in the team competition, and a silver medal in the individual competition.
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