KEY FACTS
Opening date: 10 October 1964
Closing date: 24 October 1964
The Host City: Tokyo
Sports: 19
TOKYO 1964 Games of the XVIII Olympiad
The 1964 Tokyo Games were the first to be held in Asia. The Japanese expressed their successful reconstruction1 after World War II by choosing as the final torchbearer Yoshinori Sakai, who was born in Hiroshima the day that that city was destroyed by an atomic bomb.
Judo2 and volleyball were introduced to the Olympic programme. American swimmer Don Schollander won four gold medals. Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia became the first repeat winner of the marathon - less than six weeks after having his appendix removed. Russian rower Vyacheslav Ivanov won the single sculls for the third time, and Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser won the 100m freestyle for the third time.
Al Oerter of the United States did the same in the discus throw despite a cervical disc injury that forced him to wear a neck harness and torn rib3 cartilage incurred4 a week before the competition. Hungarian water polo player Dezso Gyarmati won his fifth medal in a row. Another Hungarian, Greco-Roman wrestler5 Imre Polyak, finally won a gold medal after finishing second in the same pision at the previous three Olympics. By winning two medals of each kind, Larysa Latynina of the Ukraine brought her career medal total to an incredible 18. She is also one of only four athletes in any sport to win nine gold medals.
Do You Know? 颁布了第一个公平竞赛奖
The first Fair Play prize awarded by the International Olympic Committee, but given by the Japanese National Olympic Committee, was presented to two Swedes, Lars Gunnar Kall and Stig Lennart Kall, who gave up their chances of winning the regatta to come to the aid of two other competitors whose boat had sunk.
国际奥委会颁布了第一个公平竞赛奖，由2位来自日本的奥委会官员授与了2位瑞典人，表彰他们在赛艇比赛中因救助2位沉船的对手而失去了取得冠军的机会.
