1964 Summer Paralympics medal table

A far view of a stadium, with suspension roof design.
Yoyogi National Gymnasium hosted the closing ceremony of the Games.[1]

The 13th International Stoke Mandeville Games, later known as the 1964 Summer Paralympics, was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan, from November 3 to 12, 1964, in which paraplegic and tetraplegic athletes competed against one another.[2][3][4] The Stoke Mandeville Games were a forerunner to the Paralympics first organized by Sir Ludwig Guttmann in 1948.[4] This medal table ranks the competing National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals won by their athletes.

A total of 418 medals were awarded in 9 sports. Athletes from 17 of the 19 competing NPCs won at least one medal with the United States taking both the most gold medals, with 50, and most in total, with 123.[5] The host nation Japan won 10 medals at the Games: 1 gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze. The debuting NPCs included Japan, South Africa, Sweden and Fiji. South Africa, despite being banned from the Olympics,[6] was present at the 1964 Paralympics.[7]

Athletes with outstanding performances included Margaret Harriman of Rhodesia who won two gold medals in archery,[8] and Serge Bec of France who won two individuals gold medals, one team gold medal and one team silver medal.[9] Dick Thompson of the United Kingdom won two individual golds, one silver and one bronze in athletics.[10] The United States' Ron Stein won six golds and South Africa's Daniel Erasmus won two golds and two silvers in athletics.[10]

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  6. ^ "South Africa Readmitted To Olympics". The Victoria Advocate. February 16, 1968. South Africa, barred from the 1964 Olympics for its racial policies, was readmitted into the 1968 Olympics at Mexico City by a vote of an "absolute majority" of members of the International Olympic Committee.
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  8. ^ "Medallists-Tokyo 1964 Paralympic Games-Archery". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 11 March 2014. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
  9. ^ "Medallists-Tokyo 1964 Paralympic Games-Wheelchair Fencing". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 11 March 2014. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
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