Tokyo 1964 - Olympic Games Winners

Start:

10 Oct 1964

End:

24 Oct 1964

Countries:

Athletes:

5151

Sports:

Events:

163

City:

Tokyo, Japan (Kanagawa Prefecture - Sailing)

In May 1959, at the 55th IOC session in Munich, Tokyo, Japan was given the honor of hosting the Games of the 18th Olympiad.
Out of 56 votes, Tokyo polled 34, leading Detroit, USA; Vienna, Austria and Brussels, Belgium by a wide margin, and the President of the IOC Avary Brandage congratulated Japanese officials.
It was the first Olympic Games in Asia in the history of the Olympic movement.

Emperor Hirohito officially opened the 1964 Summer Olympic Games at the new 71,600-seat National Stadium. It was symbolically the last torchbearer, Yashinori Sakai, who was born in Hiroshima on the same day that an atomic bomb destroyed the city.
South Africa was banned from participating in the Olympic Games by the IOC because of South Africa's racist policy of apartheid. Later, the teams from Indonesia, North Korea, Barbados, and Ecuador were withdrawn from the Olympic Games for different reasons.
In gymnastics, Larissa LATYNINA from the USSR won two gold, two silver, and two bronze medals, becoming the greatest medallist in Olympic history with 18 medals. Her record was broken only in 2012 by the great American swimmer Michael PHELPS.
American swimmer Donald SCHOLLANDER won four gold medals.
Female athlete from Czechoslovakia Vera CASLAVSKA and Japanese Yukio ENDO won three gold and one silver medal each in Gymnastics.
American female swimmer Sharon STOUDER won three gold and one silver medal.
Swimmer from the USA Stephen CLARK won three gold medals.
The 1964 Olympic Games debuted the first use of computers to keep results.