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Games of the 18 Olympiad,1964
Begin:
1964-10-10
End:
1964-10-24
Nations:
93
Participants:
5151
Women:
678
Events:
163
City:
Tokyo, Japan
  • In May 1959 at the 55th IOC session in Munich, Tokyo, Japan was given the honour of being named the host to the Games of the 18 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 Japan officials.
  • It was the first Olympic games in Asia in the history of the olympic movement.

Tokyo 1964 - Medal Table

36
26
28
30
31
35
16
5
8
10
10
7
10
7
5
7
6
10
6
2
10
3
5
2
3
0
2
2
4
6
2
3
1
2
2
4
2
1
3
2
0
1
1
8
6
1
2
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
2
2
0
2
1
0
1
1
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
2
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
1
Some facts about Games of the 18 Olympiad,1964

  • The Emperor Hirohito officially opened the Olympic games 1964 at the new 71,600-seat National Stadium and it was symbolically the last torchbearer was Yashinori Sakai, who was born in Hiroshima on the same day that the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb.
  • South Africa was banned from participating in the Olympic Games by the IOC because of South Africa's racist policy of apartheid. Later, teams of Indonesia, North Korea, Barbados and Ecuador were withdrew from Olympic games.
  • In gymnastics, Larissa Latynina from USSR won two gold, two silver and two bronze medals and became the greatest medallist in Olympic history with 18 medals.
  • The 1964 Olympic Games debuted the first use of computers to keep results.

The 1964 Olympic Games

Poster and Medals