| 1964 Summer Olympics medals | ||||
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 Larisa Latynina (pictured) won six medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics, the most of any competing athlete. | ||||
| Location | Tokyo, Japan | |||
| Highlights | ||||
| Most gold medals |  United States (36) | |||
| Most total medals |  Soviet Union (96) | |||
| Medalling NOCs | 41 | |||
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The1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, and commonly known as Tokyo 1964, were an internationalmulti-sport event held inTokyo,Japan, from 9 to 24 October.[1][2] A total of 5,151 athletes representing 93National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated.[3] The games featured 163 events across 19sports and 24 disciplines.[4][5] Two new sports were introduced to theSummer Olympic Games program in Tokyo: judo and volleyball.[6][7] The inclusion of volleyball marked the first time that a women's team sport had been introduced.[8][9]
The 1964 Summer Games were the first Olympics held in Asia,[10] and marked the first timeSouth Africa was excluded for using itsapartheid system in sports.[11][12]North Korea andIndonesia withdrew their athletes from the 1964 Summer Olympics just before the games were due to start, as theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) were refusing to accept any athletes who had participated in theGames of the New Emerging Forces held inJakarta, Indonesia, in 1963.[13][14]China continued their boycott of the games, which began in 1952 and lasted until 1980, over the participation ofTaiwan.[15][16]
Overall, 41 teams received at least one medal, with 26 of them winning at least one gold medal. Athletes from theSoviet Union won the most medals overall, with 96, while theUnited States won the most gold medals, with 36.[17] TheBahamas won their first gold medal ever, doing so in thestar class sailing event,[18] while athletes fromKenya,[19]Nigeria,[20] andTunisia won their nations' first Olympic medals of any kind.[21]
Soviet gymnastLarisa Latynina won the most medals at the games with six (two gold, two silver, and two bronze).[22] With 18 total Olympic medals, Latynina became the world record holder formost Olympic medals won by an individual, a record that stood for 48 years until swimmerMichael Phelps surpassed that mark at the2012 Summer Olympics.[23][24] She also became the record holder for most gold and total Olympic medals by a female athlete.[25]
The medal table is based on information provided by the IOC and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses theOlympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.[26][27] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by theirIOC country code.[28]
At the 1964 Summer Olympics, athletes were tied in three events, all of which were gymnastics events. In themen's artistic individual all-around event there was a three-way tie for second, which resulted in three silver medals and no bronze medal being awarded.[29] In themen's floor event, two silver medals and no bronze medal were awarded due to a tie.[30] Lastly, in thewomen's vault event, two silver medals and no bronze medal were awarded due to a tie.[31]
* Host nation (Japan)
| Rank | NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 36 | 26 | 28 | 90 |
| 2 | Soviet Union | 30 | 31 | 35 | 96 |
| 3 | Japan* | 16 | 5 | 8 | 29 |
| 4 |  United Team of Germany[A] | 10 | 22 | 18 | 50 |
| 5 |  Italy | 10 | 10 | 7 | 27 |
| 6 |  Hungary | 10 | 7 | 5 | 22 |
| 7 |  Poland | 7 | 6 | 10 | 23 |
| 8 |  Australia | 6 | 2 | 10 | 18 |
| 9 |  Czechoslovakia | 5 | 6 | 3 | 14 |
| 10 |  Great Britain | 4 | 12 | 2 | 18 |
| 11 |  Bulgaria | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10 |
| 12 |  Finland | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
 New Zealand | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | |
| 14 |  Romania | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 |
| 15 |  Netherlands | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 |
| 16 |  Turkey | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 17 |  Sweden | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 18 |  Denmark | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 19 |  Yugoslavia | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 20 |  Belgium | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 21 |  France | 1 | 8 | 6 | 15 |
| 22 |  Canada | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
 Switzerland | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |
| 24 |  Bahamas | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Ethiopia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 India | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 27 |  South Korea | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 28 |  Trinidad and Tobago | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 29 |  Tunisia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 30 |  Argentina | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Cuba | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Pakistan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Philippines | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 34 |  Iran | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 35 |  Brazil | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Ghana | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Ireland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Kenya | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Mexico | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Nigeria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Uruguay | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (41 entries) | 163 | 167 | 174 | 504 | |
