1964 Summer Olympics medal table

The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, and commonly known as Tokyo 1964, were an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan, from 9 to 24 October.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> A total of 5,151 athletes representing 93 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The games featured 163 events across 19 sports and 24 disciplines.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Two new sports were introduced to the Summer Olympic Games program in Tokyo: judo and volleyball.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The inclusion of volleyball marked the first time that a women's team sport had been introduced.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The 1964 Summer Games were the first Olympics held in Asia,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and marked the first time South Africa was excluded for using its apartheid system in sports.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> North Korea and Indonesia withdrew their athletes from the 1964 Summer Olympics just before the games were due to start, as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) were refusing to accept any athletes who had participated in the Games of the New Emerging Forces held in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1963.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> China continued their boycott of the games, which began in 1952 and lasted until 1980, over the participation of Taiwan.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Overall, 41 teams received at least one medal, with 26 of them winning at least one gold medal. Athletes from the Soviet Union won the most medals overall, with 96, while the United States won the most gold medals, with 36.<ref name="medal count" /> The Bahamas won their first gold medal ever, doing so in the star class sailing event,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> while athletes from Kenya,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Nigeria,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and Tunisia won their nations' first Olympic medals of any kind.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina won the most medals at the games with six (two gold, two silver, and two bronze).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> With 18 total Olympic medals, Latynina became the world record holder for most Olympic medals won by an individual, a record that stood for 48 years until swimmer Michael Phelps surpassed that mark at the 2012 Summer Olympics.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She also became the record holder for most gold and total Olympic medals by a female athlete.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Medal table

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 the Olympic 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

At the 1964 Summer Olympics, athletes were tied in three events, all of which were gymnastics events. In the men'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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In the men's floor event, two silver medals and no bronze medal were awarded due to a tie.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Lastly, in the women's vault event, two silver medals and no bronze medal were awarded due to a tie.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

See also

• List of 1964 Summer Olympics medal winners
• All-time Olympic Games medal table
• 1964 Winter Olympics medal table
• 1964 Summer Paralympics medal table