The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan in 1964.... in Tokyo
Tokyo
, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people.... , the athletics
Athletics (track and field)
Track and field athletics, commonly known as athletics or track and field, is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping.... competition included 36 events, 24 for men and 12 for women. The women's 400 metres
400 metres
400 m is a common track running event. It is the longest common Sprint distance. On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track.... and women's pentathlon
Women's pentathlon
The pentathlon is a sports contest made up of five events . The women's pentathlon was contested in the Summer Olympics from 1964 Summer Olympics until 1980 Summer Olympics, and it was replaced in the 1984 Summer Olympics Games with the heptathlon.... events were newly introduced at these Games. There were a total number of 1016 participating athletes from 82 countries.
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The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan in 1964.... in Tokyo
Tokyo
, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people.... , the athletics
Athletics (track and field)
Track and field athletics, commonly known as athletics or track and field, is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping.... competition included 36 events, 24 for men and 12 for women. The women's 400 metres
400 metres
400 m is a common track running event. It is the longest common Sprint distance. On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track.... and women's pentathlon
Women's pentathlon
The pentathlon is a sports contest made up of five events . The women's pentathlon was contested in the Summer Olympics from 1964 Summer Olympics until 1980 Summer Olympics, and it was replaced in the 1984 Summer Olympics Games with the heptathlon.... events were newly introduced at these Games. There were a total number of 1016 participating athletes from 82 countries.
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's 100 metres
The men's 100 metres was the shortest of the men's track races in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 14 October and 15 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's 200 metres
The men's 200 metres was the second-shortest of the men's track races in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 16 October and 17 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's 400 metres
The men's 400 metres was the third-shortest of the men's track races in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 17 October, 18 October, and 19 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's 800 metres
The men's 800 metres was the middle of the seven men's track races in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 14 October, 15 October, and 16 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's 1500 metres
The men's 1500 metres was the third-longest of the seven men's track races in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 17 October, 19 October, and 21 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's 5000 metres
The men's 5000 metres was the second-longest of the seven men's track races in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 16 October and 18 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's 10000 metres
The men's 10000 metres was the longest of the seven men's track races in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 14 October....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's 110 metre hurdles
The men's 110 metre hurdles was the shorter of the men's hurdle races in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 17 October and 18 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's 400 metre hurdles
The men's 400 metre hurdles was the longer of the men's hurdle races in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 14 October, 15 October, and 16 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's 3000 metre steeplechase
The men's 3000 metre steeplechase was the only steeplechase on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 15 October and 17 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's 4x100 metre relay
The men's 4?100 metre relay was the shorter of the two men's relays on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 20 October and 21 October 1964....
Richard Vaughn Stebbins is a former United States Sport, winner of gold medal in 4x100 Metre Relay race at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He also played in the New York Giants....
Robert Lee Hayes was an Olympic gold-medal sprinter turned NFL Hall of Fame wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys. An United States Track and field athletics athlete, he was a two-sport stand-out in college in both track and college football at Florida A&M University....
Andrzej Zielinski was a Poland athlete who mainly competed in the 100 metres.He competed for Poland in the 4 x 100 metre relay at the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan, where he won the silver medal with his team mates Wieslaw Maniak, Marian Foik and Marian Dudziak....
Wieslaw Jan Maniak was a Poland athlete who mainly competed in the 100 metre dash.He competed for Poland at the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan where he won the silver medal in the men's 4 x 100 metre relay with his team mates Andrzej Zielinski , Marian Foik and Marian Dudziak....
Marian Foik was a Poland athlete who mainly competed in the 100 metres.He competed at the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan, participating in the 4 x 100 metre relay....
Marian Andrzej Dudziak was a Poland athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.He competed for Poland in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the silver medal with his team mates Andrzej Zielinski , Wieslaw Maniak and Marian Foik....
Paul Genevay was a France athlete, who won the bronze medal in the 4 x 100 metre relay at the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. His winning teammates in that race were Bernard Laidebeur, Claude Piquemal and Jocelyn Delecour....
Bernard Laidebaur was a France athlete, who mainly competed in the 100 metres.He competed for France at the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan, where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Paul Genevay, Claude Piquemal and Jocelyn Delecour in the men's 4 x 100 metre relay....
Claude Piquemal was a France athlete who mainly competed in the 100 metres.He competed for a France in the 4 x 100 metre relay at the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan, where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Paul Genevay, Bernard Laidebeur and Jocelyn Delecour....
Jocelyn Delecour was a France athlete, who won the bronze medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in the 4 x 100 metre relay. His winning teammates were Paul Genevay, Bernard Laidebeur and Claude Piquemal....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's 4x400 metre relay
The men's 4?400 metre relay was the longer of the two men's relays on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 20 October and 21 October 1964....
Ollan Conn Cassell was an United States sprint in the 1950s and 1960s, winning a gold medal in the men's 4x400 m Relay race at the 1964 Summer Olympics....
Michael Denny Larrabee was an United States of America Athletics , winner of two gold medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics.Born in Hollywood, California, but raised in Ventura, California, Larrabee was a young running talent in the mid 1950s....
Ulis C. Williams is a former United States Athletics , winner of a gold medal in the 4 x 400 meter Relay race at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He later served as President of Compton Community College in Compton, California, from 1996 to 2005....
Henry Carr is a former United States track and field athlete who won two gold medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.Henry Carr was one of the greatest Sprint of the early 1960s....
Timothy Joseph Michael Graham was a Great Britain athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.He competed for Great Britain in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the silver medal with his team mates Adrian Metcalfe, John Cooper and Robbie Brightwell....
Adrian Peter Metcalfe John Hugh Cooper Robbie Ian Brightwell
Edwin Skinner was a Trinidad and Tobago athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.He competed for Trinidad and Tobago in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Kenneth Bernard, Edwin Roberts and Wendell Mottley....
Kent Bernard was a Trinidad and Tobago athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.He competed for Trinidad and Tobago in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his teammates Edwin Skinner, Edwin Roberts and Wendell Mottley....
Edwin Roberts was a Trinidad and Tobago athlete who competed mainly in the 200 metres.He competed for Trinidad and Tobago in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan in the 200 metres where he ....
Wendell Adrian Mottley educated at Queen's Royal College is a Trinidad and Tobago economics, politician and Athletics . He was the leader of the Citizens'_Alliance_, a dissolved two-party system political party in Trinidad and Tobago, which received 5,955 votes and captured no seats in the Trinidad_and_Tobago_general_election,_2002....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's 20 kilometre walk
The men's 20 kilometre walk was the shorter of the two men's racewalking events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 15 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's 50 kilometre walk
The men's 50 kilometre walk was the longer of the two men's race walking events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo, as well as the longest event on the program....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's marathon
The men's marathon was part of the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 21 October 1964. 79 athletes from 41 nations entered, with 68 starting and 58 finishing....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's high jump
The men's high jump was one of four men's jumping events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. Qualification was held on October 20, 1964, with the final on October 21....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's long jump
The men's long jump was one of four men's jumping events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 14 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's triple jump
The men's triple jump was one of four men's jumping events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 16 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's pole vault
The men's pole vault was one of four men's jumping events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. Qualification was held on 15 October 1964, with the final on 17 October....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's shot put
The men's shot put was one of four men's throwing events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 17 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's discus throw
The men's discus throw was one of four men's throwing events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 15 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's javelin throw
The men's javelin throw was one of four men's throwing events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 14 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's hammer throw
The men's hammer throw was one of four men's throwing events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 17 October and 18 October 1964, with the qualification on the first day and the final the next....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's decathlon
The men's decathlon was part of the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 19 October and 20 October 1964, with five events each day....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metres
The women's 100 metres was the shortest of the four women's track races in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 15 October and 16 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Women's 200 metres
The women's 200 metres was the second-shortest of the four women's track races in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 18 October and 19 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Women's 400 metres
The women's 400 metres was the second-longest of the four women's track races in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 15 October, 16 October, and 17 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Women's 800 metres
The women's 800 metres was the longest of the four women's track races in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 18 October, 19 October, and 20 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Women's 80 metre hurdles
The women's 80 metre hurdles was the only women's hurdle race in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 18 October and 19 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Women's 4x100 metre relay
The women's 4?100 metre relay was the only women's relay on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 20 October and 21 October 1964....
Teresa Barbara Cieply n?e Wieczorek was a Poland sprint and hurdler.She was a bronze Olympic medalist in women's the 4x100 metre relay race at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome....
Halina G?recka n?e Richter is a former Poland and Germany sprint and a four-time Olympic Games and an Olympic Games gold and bronze medal winner and a world record holder in women's 4x100 m relay race....
Ewa Klobukowska is a former Poland sprint .She won the gold medal in women's 4x100 m relay race and the bronze medal in women's 100 m sprint at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo....
Wyomia Tyus is an United States Athletics , and the first woman to retain the Olympic Games title in the 100 m.Tyus, from Tennessee State University, participated in the 1964 Summer Olympics at age 19....
Marilyn Elaine White is an the United States sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.She won a silver medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, with teammates Willye White, Wyomia Tyus and Edith McGuire....
Edith Marie McGuire , later known as Edith McGuire Duvall, is a former United States sprinter.Born in Atlanta, Georgia, McGuire ran for Tennessee State University....
Janet Mary Simpson is a Great Britain Athletics who competed in sprint events.She competed for Great Britain in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan in the 4 x 100 metres relay, where she won the bronze medal with her team-mates Mary Rand, Daphne Arden and Dorothy Hyman....
Mary Denise Rand, Member of the Order of the British Empire, is a former England Athletics . She won the gold medal in the long jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics by breaking the world record, becoming the first-ever British female to win an Olympic gold medal in a track and field event....
Daphne Slater is a Great Britain athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.She competed for Great Britain in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan in the 4 x 100 metres where she won the bronze medal with her team mates Janet Simpson, long jump gold medallist Mary Rand and 100 metre silver medallist Dorothy Hyman....
Dorothy Hyman is a United Kingdom Athletics who competed mainly in the 100 metres.She competed for Great Britain in the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy in the 100 metres, where she won the Silver medal....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Women's high jump
The women's high jump was one of two women's jumping events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. Both qualification and the final were held on 15 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Women's long jump
The women's long jump was one of two women's jumping events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 14 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Women's shot put
The women's shot put was one of three women's throwing events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 20 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Women's discus throw
The women's discus throw was one of three women's throwing events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 19 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Women's javelin throw
The Women's Javelin Throw was one of three women's throwing events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 16 October 1964....
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Women's pentathlon
The women's pentathlon was part of the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 16 October and 17 October 1964, with the first three events on 16 October and the last two on 17 October....
