Netherlands at the 1964 Summer Paralympics

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Netherlands at the
1964 Summer Paralympics
Flag of the Netherlands.svg
IPC code NED
NPC Nederlands Olympisch Comité *
Nederlandse Sport Federatie
Website paralympisch.nl  (in Dutch)
in Tokyo
Competitors11 (7 men, 4 women) [1] [2]
Medals
Ranked 10th
Gold
4
Silver
6
Bronze
4
Total
14
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)

Netherlands competed at the 1964 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan. The team included 8 athletes, 5 men and 3 women. [3] Competitors from Netherlands won 14 medals, including 4 gold, 6 silver and 4 bronze to finish 10th in the medal table. [4]

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Medalists

MedalNameSportEvent
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Elka Gaarlandt [5] Swimming Women's 50 m Breaststroke complete class 3
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Cor Prins Swimming Men's 50 m Freestyle Prone special class
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Cor Prins Swimming Men's 50 m Freestyle Supine special class
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Gerard Jacobs
Marion de Groot
Table tennis Men's Doubles A1
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Peter Blanker Archery Men's Albion Round open
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Peter Blanker [6] Archery Men's FITA Round open
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Elka Gaarlandt [7] [8] Athletics Women's Slalom open
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Marion de Groot Swimming Women's 25 m Freestyle Supine complete class 1
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Dik Kruidenier Swimming Men's 50 m Freestyle Prone cauda equina
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Gerard Jacobs Table tennis Men's Singles A1
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze E. O'Brien Athletics Women's Slalom open
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Marion de Groot Swimming Women's 25 m Freestyle Supine incomplete class 1
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Dik Kruidenier Swimming Men's 50 m Breaststroke complete class 5
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Marion de Groot Table tennis Men's Singles A1

Source: www.paralympic.org [9] & www.olympischstadion.nl [10]

Competitors

A team of 7 men and 3 women were announced in the newspaper on 23 October 1964. [11] In the newspaper of 20 November (after the Paralympics) was written "ten became eleven".

The name of the 11th person was not named.

Men
Women

Archery

The Dutch team consisted of three archers. [12]

Athletics

Swimming

Table tennis

See also

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