Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics

At the 1964 Summer Olympics, eighteen swimming events were contested, ten for men and eight for women. There was a total of 405 participants from 42 countries competing. For the first time, the 4×100 metres freestyle relay for men and the 400 metres individual medley for both men and women was contested.

Medal table

1	United States	13	8	8	29
2	Australia	4	1	4	9
3	Soviet Union	1	1	2	4
4	United Team of Germany	0	4	2	6
5	Netherlands	0	2	1	3
6	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
	France	0	1	0	1
8	Japan	0	0	1	1

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Don Schollander  United States	53.4 (OR)	Robert McGregor  Great Britain	53.5	Hans-Joachim Klein  United Team of Germany	54.0
400 m freestyle	Don Schollander  United States	4:12.2 (WR)	Frank Wiegand  United Team of Germany	4:14.9	Allan Wood  Australia	4:15.1
1500 m freestyle	Bob Windle  Australia	17:01.7 (OR)	John Nelson  United States	17:03.0	Allan Wood  Australia	17:07.7
200 m backstroke	Jed Graef  United States	2:10.3 (WR)	Gary Dilley  United States	2:10.5	Bob Bennett  United States	2:13.1
200 m breaststroke	Ian O'Brien  Australia	2:27.8 (WR)	Georgy Prokopenko  Soviet Union	2:28.2	Chet Jastremski  United States	2:29.6
200 m butterfly	Kevin Berry  Australia	2:06.6 (WR)	Carl Robie  United States	2:07.5	Fred Schmidt  United States	2:09.3
400 m individual medley	Dick Roth  United States	4:45.4 (WR)	Roy Saari  United States	4:47.1	Gerhard Hetz  United Team of Germany	4:51.0
4×100 m freestyle relay	United States (USA) Steve Clark Mike Austin Gary Ilman Don Schollander	3:33.2 (WR)	United Team of Germany (EUA) Horst Löffler Frank Wiegand Uwe Jacobsen Hans-Joachim Klein	3:37.2	Australia (AUS) David Dickson Peter Doak John Ryan Bob Windle	3:39.1
4×200 m freestyle relay	United States (USA) Steve Clark Roy Saari Gary Ilman Don Schollander	7:52.1 (WR)	United Team of Germany (EUA) Horst-Günther Gregor Gerhard Hetz Frank Wiegand Hans-Joachim Klein	7.59.3	Japan (JPN) Makoto Fukui Kunihiro Iwasaki Toshio Shoji Yukiaki Okabe	8:03.8
4×100 m medley relay	United States (USA) Thompson Mann Bill Craig Fred Schmidt Steve Clark	3:58.4 (WR)	United Team of Germany (EUA) Ernst Küppers Egon Henninger Horst-Günther Gregor Hans-Joachim Klein	4:01.6	Australia (AUS) Peter Reynolds Ian O'Brien Kevin Berry David Dickson	4:02.3

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Dawn Fraser  Australia	59.5 (OR)	Sharon Stouder  United States	59.9	Kathy Ellis  United States	1:00.8
400 m freestyle	Ginny Duenkel  United States	4:43.3 (OR)	Marilyn Ramenofsky  United States	4:44.6	Terri Stickles  United States	4:47.2
100 m backstroke	Cathy Ferguson  United States	1:07.7 (WR)	Kiki Caron  France	1:07.9	Ginny Duenkel  United States	1:08.0
200 m breaststroke	Galina Prozumenshchikova  Soviet Union	2:46.4 (OR)	Claudia Kolb  United States	2:47.6	Svetlana Babanina  Soviet Union	2:48.6
100 m butterfly	Sharon Stouder  United States	1:04.7 (WR)	Ada Kok  Netherlands	1:05.6	Kathy Ellis  United States	1:06.0
400 m individual medley	Donna de Varona  United States	5:18.7 (OR)	Sharon Finneran  United States	5:24.1	Martha Randall  United States	5:24.2
4×100 m freestyle relay	United States (USA) Sharon Stouder Donna de Varona Lillian Watson Kathy Ellis	4:03.8 (WR)	Australia (AUS) Robyn Thorn Janice Murphy Lynette Bell Dawn Fraser	4:06.9	Netherlands (NED) Pauline van der Wildt Toos Beumer Winnie van Weerdenburg Erica Terpstra	4:12.0
4×100 m medley relay	United States (USA) Cathy Ferguson Cynthia Goyette Sharon Stouder Kathy Ellis	4:33.9 (OR)	Netherlands (NED) Corrie Winkel Klenie Bimolt Ada Kok Erica Terpstra	4:37.0	Soviet Union (URS) Tatyana Savelyeva Svetlana Babanina Tatyana Devyatova Natalya Ustinova	4:39.2

References

• 1964 Summer Olympics results: swimming, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-11-08.