Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics

At the 1964 Summer Olympics, eighteen swimming events were contested, ten for men and eight for women. There were a total of 405 participants from 42 countries competing.[1] For the first time, the 4×100 metres freestyle relay for men and the 400 metres individual medley for both men and women were contested. Olympic records were broken in all events and the world record was broken in ten events. This competition also marked the debut of electronic touchpads for timing.

Swimming
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
VenueYoyogi National Gymnasium
Dates11–18 October
No. of events18
Competitors405 from 42 nations

15-year-old Sharon Stouder won four medals, three of them gold.

Participating nations

405 swimmers from 42 nations competed.[1]

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States138829
2 Australia4149
3 Soviet Union1124
4 United Team of Germany0426
5 Netherlands0213
6 France0101
 Great Britain0101
8 Japan0011
Totals (8 nations)18181854

Medal summary

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle
Don Schollander
 United States
53.4 (OR) Robert McGregor
 Great Britain
53.5 Hans-Joachim Klein
 United Team of Germany
54.0
400 m freestyle
Don Schollander
 United States
4:12.2 (WR) Frank Wiegand
 United Team of Germany
4:14.9 Allan Wood
 Australia
4:15.1
1500 m freestyle
Bob Windle
 Australia
17:01.7 (OR) John Nelson
 United States
17:03.0 Allan Wood
 Australia
17:07.7
200 m backstroke
Jed Graef
 United States
2:10.3 (WR) Gary Dilley
 United States
2:10.5 Bob Bennett
 United States
2:13.1
200 m breaststroke
Ian O'Brien
 Australia
2:27.8 (WR) Georgy Prokopenko
 Soviet Union
2:28.2 Chet Jastremski
 United States
2:29.6
200 m butterfly
Kevin Berry
 Australia
2:06.6 (WR) Carl Robie
 United States
2:07.5 Fred Schmidt
 United States
2:09.3
400 m individual medley
Dick Roth
 United States
4:45.4 (WR) Roy Saari
 United States
4:47.1 Gerhard Hetz
 United Team of Germany
4:51.0
4 × 100 m freestyle relay
 United States (USA)
Steve Clark
Mike Austin
Gary Ilman
Don Schollander
3:33.2 (WR)  United Team of Germany (EUA)
Horst Löffler
Frank Wiegand
Uwe Jacobsen
Hans-Joachim Klein
3:37.2  Australia (AUS)
David Dickson
Peter Doak
John Ryan
Bob Windle
3:39.1
4 × 200 m freestyle relay
 United States (USA)
Steve Clark
Roy Saari
Gary Ilman
Don Schollander
7:52.1 (WR)  United Team of Germany (EUA)
Horst-Günther Gregor
Gerhard Hetz
Frank Wiegand
Hans-Joachim Klein
7.59.3  Japan (JPN)
Makoto Fukui
Kunihiro Iwasaki
Toshio Shoji
Yukiaki Okabe
8:03.8
4 × 100 m medley relay
 United States (USA)
Thompson Mann
Bill Craig
Fred Schmidt
Steve Clark
3:58.4 (WR)  United Team of Germany (EUA)
Ernst-Joachim Küppers
Egon Henninger
Horst-Günther Gregor
Hans-Joachim Klein
4:01.6  Australia (AUS)
Peter Reynolds
Ian O'Brien
Kevin Berry
David Dickson
4:02.3

Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle
Dawn Fraser
 Australia
59.5 (OR) Sharon Stouder
 United States
59.9 Kathy Ellis
 United States
1:00.8
400 m freestyle
Ginny Duenkel
 United States
4:43.3 (OR) Marilyn Ramenofsky
 United States
4:44.6 Terri Stickles
 United States
4:47.2
100 m backstroke
Cathy Ferguson
 United States
1:07.7 (WR) Kiki Caron
 France
1:07.9 Ginny Duenkel
 United States
1:08.0
200 m breaststroke
Galina Prozumenshchikova
 Soviet Union
2:46.4 (OR) Claudia Kolb
 United States
2:47.6 Svetlana Babanina
 Soviet Union
2:48.6
100 m butterfly
Sharon Stouder
 United States
1:04.7 (WR) Ada Kok
 Netherlands
1:05.6 Kathy Ellis
 United States
1:06.0
400 m individual medley
Donna de Varona
 United States
5:18.7 (OR) Sharon Finneran
 United States
5:24.1 Martha Randall
 United States
5:24.2
4 × 100 metre freestyle relay
 United States (USA)
Sharon Stouder
Donna de Varona
Lillian Watson
Kathy Ellis
4:03.8 (WR)  Australia (AUS)
Robyn Thorn
Janice Murphy
Lynette Bell
Dawn Fraser
4:06.9  Netherlands (NED)
Pauline van der Wildt
Toos Beumer
Winnie van Weerdenburg
Erica Terpstra
4:12.0
4 × 100 metre medley relay
 United States (USA)
Cathy Ferguson
Cynthia Goyette
Sharon Stouder
Kathy Ellis
4:33.9 (OR)  Netherlands (NED)
Corrie Winkel
Klenie Bimolt
Ada Kok
Erica Terpstra
4:37.0  Soviet Union (URS)
Tatyana Savelyeva
Svetlana Babanina
Tatyana Devyatova
Natalya Ustinova
4:39.2

Some of the Olympic medalists in Tokyo:

References

  1. "Swimming at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2016.

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