Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Billy Mills crossing the finish line in the 10,000 metres at the 1964 Olympic Games.

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	Bob Hayes  United States	10.0 (=WR)	Enrique Figuerola  Cuba	10.2	Harry Jerome  Canada	10.2
200 metres	Henry Carr  United States	20.3 (OR)	Paul Drayton  United States	20.5	Edwin Roberts  Trinidad and Tobago	20.6
400 metres	Mike Larrabee  United States	45.1	Wendell Mottley  Trinidad and Tobago	45.2	Andrzej Badeński  Poland	45.6
800 metres	Peter Snell  New Zealand	1:45.1 (OR)	Bill Crothers  Canada	1:45.6	Wilson Kiprugut  Kenya	1:45.9
1500 metres	Peter Snell  New Zealand	3:38.1	Josef Odložil  Czechoslovakia	3:39.6	John Davies  New Zealand	3:39.6
5000 metres	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	Billy Mills  United States	28:24.4 (OR)	Mohammed Gammoudi  Tunisia	28:24.8	Ron Clarke  Australia	28:25.8
110 metres hurdles	Hayes Jones  United States	13.67	Blaine Lindgren  United States	13.74	Anatoly Mikhailov  Soviet Union	13.78
400 metres hurdles	Rex Cawley  United States	49.6	John Cooper  Great Britain	50.1	Salvatore Morale  Italy	50.1
3000 metres steeplechase	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	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	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	Abebe Bikila  Ethiopia	2:12:11.2 (WR)	Basil Heatley  Great Britain	2:16:19.2	Kokichi Tsuburaya  Japan	2:16:22.8
20 kilometres walk	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	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	Valeriy Brumel  Soviet Union	2.18 m (OR)	John Thomas  United States	2.18 m	John Rambo  United States	2.16 m
Pole vault	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	Lynn Davies  Great Britain	8.07 m	Ralph Boston  United States	8.03 m	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan  Soviet Union	7.99 m
Triple jump	Józef Szmidt  Poland	16.85 m (OR)	Oleg Fyodoseyev  Soviet Union	16.58 m	Victor Kravchenko  Soviet Union	16.57 m
Shot put	Dallas Long  United States	20.33 m (OR)	Randy Matson  United States	20.20 m	Vilmos Varju  Hungary	19.39 m
Discus throw	Al Oerter  United States	61.00 m (OR)	Ludvik Danek  Czechoslovakia	60.52 m	Dave Weill  United States	59.49 m
Hammer throw	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	Pauli Nevala  Finland	82.66 m	Gergely Kulcsár  Hungary	82.32 m	Jānis Lūsis  Soviet Union	80.57 m
Decathlon	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	Wyomia Tyus  United States	11.4	Edith McGuire  United States	11.6	Ewa Kłobukowska  Poland	11.6
200 metres	Edith McGuire  United States	23.0 (OR)	Irena Kirszenstein  Poland	23.1	Marilyn Black  Australia	23.1
400 metres	Betty Cuthbert  Australia	52.0 (OR)	Ann Packer  Great Britain	52.2	Judy Amoore  Australia	53.4
800 metres	Ann Packer  Great Britain	2:01.1 (WR)	Maryvonne Dupureur  France	2:01.9	Marise Chamberlain  New Zealand	2:02.8
80 metres hurdles	Karin Balzer  United Team of Germany	10.5	Teresa Ciepły  Poland	10.5	Pam Kilborn  Australia	10.6
4×100 metres relay	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	Iolanda Balaş  Romania	1.90 m (OR)	Michele Brown  Australia	1.80 m	Taisia Chenchik  Soviet Union	1.78 m
Long jump	Mary Rand  Great Britain	6.76 m (WR)	Irena Kirszenstein  Poland	6.60 m	Tatyana Schelkanova  Soviet Union	6.42 m
Shot put	Tamara Press  Soviet Union	18.14 m (OR)	Renate Culmberger  United Team of Germany	17.61 m	Galina Zybina  Soviet Union	17.45 m
Discus throw	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	Mihaela Peneş  Romania	60.54 m	Márta Rudas  Hungary	58.27 m	Yelena Gorchakova  Soviet Union	57.06 m
Pentathlon	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