01: Wrestlers: Vladimír Kormaník (bronze) Branislav Simić (gold); Lothar Metz (silver)
02: Volleyball player Astra Biltauere with the silver medal
03: Astra Biltauere (number 2, second from left) - players of the USSR volleyball team
04: Volleyball player Ivans Bugajenkovs (number 9)
05: Basketball player Janis Krumins (number 9)
06: The silver medal to Janis Krumins is presented by Antonio Dos Cameiro, President of the International Amateur Basketball Federation (FIBA)
07: Yugoslavian Basketball Team
08: Cyclist Imants Bodnieks with the silver medal
09: Cyclist Imants Bodnieks (on right) won a silver medal in the tandem sprint race together with Viktor Logunov
10: Janis Lusis won the bronze medal in javelin throw
11: The 22-year-old Cologne student Gerhard Hetz (left) congratulates the gold medallist in the 400 m medley, the US swimmer Dick Roth. Hetz himself secured the bronze medal
12: Harry Boldt rides Remus in the team dressage at the Baji Koen Equestrian Park. The German team won the gold medal in the dressage team competition
13: Willy Kuhweide bringing his boat ashore after his last race. The 21-year-old European champion won the gold medal in the Finn Dinghy class at the Olympic sailing regattas in Sagami Bay
14: German decathlete Willi Holdorf (centre) collapsed after the 1500m run securing the gold medal. Holdorf is escorted off the track by USSR Athlete Rein Aun (left) who won the silver medal
15: The German four-men kayak consisting of Guenter Perleberg, Bernhard Schulze, Friedhelm Wentzke and Holger Zander won the silver medal behind the team of the Soviet Union
16: Miroslav Cerar. A Yugoslav gymnast and lawyer of Slovene ethnicity who won the pommel horse event in Tokyo
17: Miroslav Cerar. A Yugoslav gymnast and lawyer of Slovene ethnicity who won the pommel horse event in Tokyo
18: The Czechoslovak boxer Vladimír Kučera after the winning fight
19: Weightlifting - middleweight: Zdražila (1st - Czechoslovakia), Viktor Kurentsov (2nd - USSR), Masushi Ouchi (3rd - Japan)
20: The fall on the Hachioji Velodrome
21: The Czechoslovak female gymnastic team
22: Věra Čáslavská (Czechoslovakia)
23: Balance beam: Čáslavská (1st - Czechoslavakia); Maninova (2nd - USSR); Latyninová (3rd - USSR)
24: Czechslovak football team
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01: Wrestlers: Vladimír Kormaník (bronze) Branislav Simić (gold); Lothar Metz (silver)
02: Volleyball player Astra Biltauere with the silver medal
03: Astra Biltauere (number 2, second from left) - players of the USSR volleyball team
04: Volleyball player Ivans Bugajenkovs (number 9)
05: Basketball player Janis Krumins (number 9)
06: The silver medal to Janis Krumins is presented by Antonio Dos Cameiro, President of the International Amateur Basketball Federation (FIBA)
07: Yugoslavian Basketball Team
08: Cyclist Imants Bodnieks with the silver medal
09: Cyclist Imants Bodnieks (on right) won a silver medal in the tandem sprint race together with Viktor Logunov
10: Janis Lusis won the bronze medal in javelin throw
11: The 22-year-old Cologne student Gerhard Hetz (left) congratulates the gold medallist in the 400 m medley, the US swimmer Dick Roth. Hetz himself secured the bronze medal
12: Harry Boldt rides Remus in the team dressage at the Baji Koen Equestrian Park. The German team won the gold medal in the dressage team competition
13: Willy Kuhweide bringing his boat ashore after his last race. The 21-year-old European champion won the gold medal in the Finn Dinghy class at the Olympic sailing regattas in Sagami Bay
14: German decathlete Willi Holdorf (centre) collapsed after the 1500m run securing the gold medal. Holdorf is escorted off the track by USSR Athlete Rein Aun (left) who won the silver medal
15: The German four-men kayak consisting of Guenter Perleberg, Bernhard Schulze, Friedhelm Wentzke and Holger Zander won the silver medal behind the team of the Soviet Union
16: Miroslav Cerar. A Yugoslav gymnast and lawyer of Slovene ethnicity who won the pommel horse event in Tokyo
17: Miroslav Cerar. A Yugoslav gymnast and lawyer of Slovene ethnicity who won the pommel horse event in Tokyo
18: The Czechoslovak boxer Vladimír Kučera after the winning fight
19: Weightlifting - middleweight: Zdražila (1st - Czechoslovakia), Viktor Kurentsov (2nd - USSR), Masushi Ouchi (3rd - Japan)
20: The fall on the Hachioji Velodrome
21: The Czechoslovak female gymnastic team
22: Věra Čáslavská (Czechoslovakia)
23: Balance beam: Čáslavská (1st - Czechoslavakia); Maninova (2nd - USSR); Latyninová (3rd - USSR)
24: Czechslovak football team
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The 1964 Summer Olympics featured 19 different sports encompassing 25 disciplines, and medals were awarded in 163 events.

The Games were beautifully run and the minor boycott had minimal effect. In athletics, Billy Mills of the United States pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Olympic history when he won the 10,000 metre run. Prior to the Olympic Trials he was only a longshot to make the United States’ team. At Tokyo, USA hopes rested on the slim shoulders of tiny Gerry Lindgren in that event, but a few days before the race, Lindgren sprained his ankle and was not at his best. However, Mills lowered his personal best by over 45 seconds to win the gold medal in a wild sprint finish against Australia’s Ron Clarke and Tunisia’s Mohamad Gammoudi.

The most decorated hero of the Games was swimmer Don Schollander who won four gold medals in men’s swimming. Schollander could have added a fifth gold medal but he was mercifully left off the medley relay team by US coaches, although he was America’s fastest freestyler.

The Japanese were gracious hosts but they were helped in their own efforts by two new Olympic sports: judo and volleyball. In volleyball the Japanese women, coached by the martinet-like Hirofumi Daimatsu, were easily victorious. In judo, the Japanese won three of the four gold medals. But the one they lost, in the open class to the Netherland’s Anton Geesink, was a crushing blow to the hosts.

Several repeat winners were prominent at Tokyo. Peter Snell, from New Zealand,  won the 800 metre race again and this time doubled by also winning the 1,500 metre event

In the marathon, Ethiopia’s Abebe Bikila repeated his Rome victory only a few weeks after recovering from an emergency appendectomy. Al Oerter won his third consecutive discus title, despite a disc injury in his neck, and torn rib cartilage sustained only the week before the discus throw. And in rowing, the Sovie Union’s Vyacheslav Ivanov also won his third consecutive title, in the single sculls.

Czechoslovakian gymnast Věra Čáslavská won three gold medals, including the individual all-around competition, crowning her the new queen over reigning champion Larisa Latynina.

Source: olympedia.org

Photos provided by Czech Olympic Committee, Olympic Committee of Serbia, Latvian Olympic Academy, German Olympic Sports Confederation, Bulgarian Olympic Academy/Bulgarian Olympic Committee

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