1964 Summer Olympics medal table

1964 Summer Olympics medals
Larisa Latynina during the vault award ceremony at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Larisa Latynina (pictured) won six medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics, the most of any competing athlete
LocationTokyo,  Japan
Highlights
Most gold medals United States (36)
Most total medals Soviet Union (96)
Medalling NOCs41
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1964 Summer Olympics

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.[1][2] A total of 5,151 athletes representing 93 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated.[3] The games featured 163 events across 19 sports and 24 disciplines.[4][5] Two new sports were introduced to the Summer 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 time South Africa was excluded for using its apartheid system in sports.[11][12] 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.[13][14] China continued their boycott of the games, which began in 1952 and lasted until 1980, over the participation of Taiwan.[15][16]

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.[17] The Bahamas won their first gold medal ever, doing so in the star class sailing event,[18] while athletes from Kenya,[19] Nigeria,[20] and Tunisia won their nations' first Olympic medals of any kind.[21]

Soviet gymnast Larisa 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 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.[23][24] She also became the record holder for most gold and total Olympic medals by a female athlete.[25]

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