Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics

The judo competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics was the first time the sport was included in the Summer Olympic Games. Medals were awarded in 4 classes, and competition was restricted to men only. The competition was held in the Nippon Budokan, which was built to host the competition. Of note is that future United States Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell competed for the United States in the competition, though he did not win a medal.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Lightweight 68 kg details	Takehide Nakatani Japan	Eric Hänni Switzerland	Ārons Bogoļubovs Soviet Union Oleg Stepanov Soviet Union
Middleweight 80 kg details	Isao Okano Japan	Wolfgang Hofmann United Team of Germany	James Bregman United States Kim Eui-Tae South Korea
Heavyweight +80 kg details	Isao Inokuma Japan	Doug Rogers Canada	Parnaoz Chikviladze Soviet Union Anzor Kiknadze Soviet Union
Open category details	Anton Geesink Netherlands	Akio Kaminaga Japan	Theodore Boronovskis Australia Klaus Glahn United Team of Germany

Participating nations

A total of 72 judoka from twenty-seven nations competed at the Tokyo Games:

Argentina (3)
Australia (4)
Austria (3)
Brazil (1)
Canada (1)
Costa Rica (2)
France (4)
United Team of Germany (4)
Great Britain (4)
Ireland (1)
Italy (2)
Japan (4)
Malaysia (1)
Mexico (3)
Netherlands (4)
Panama (1)
Philippines (4)
Portugal (1)
Taiwan (4)
South Korea (4)
Soviet Union (3)
Switzerland (1)
Thailand (3)
Tunisia (1)
United States (5)
Venezuela (1)
Vietnam (3)

Medal table

Total		4	4	8	16
1	Japan (JPN)	3	1	0	4
2	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	0	1
3	United Team of Germany (EUA)	0	1	1	2
4	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
4	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
6	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	4	4
7	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1

References

"Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-11-18.
Tokyo Organizing Committee (1964). The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2.
Videos of the 1964 Judo Summer Olympics