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Venue	Yoyogi National Gymnasium
Dates	11–18 October
No. of events	18
Competitors	405 from 42 nations
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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.

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

Events

Participating nations

405 swimmers from 42 nations competed.^[1]

Deutschland (38)
Great Britain (25)
Hongkong (3)
Ungarn (19)
Island (2)
Iran (1)
Israel (2)
Italien (16)
Japan (38)
Luxemburg (1)

Malaysia (7)
Mexiko (10)
Myanmar (1)
Niederlande (26)
Neuseeland (2)
Peru (6)
Philippinen (2)
Portugal (3)
Puerto Rico (4)
Südkorea (4)

Soviet Union (21)
Spanien (11)
Schweden (14)
Schweiz (2)
Thailand (2)
Vereinigte Staaten (48)
Venezuela (2)
Vietnam (3)
Yugoslavia (2)
Sambia (2)
Simbabwe (2)

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Vereinigte Staaten	13	8	8	29
2	Australien	4	1	4	9
3	Soviet Union	1	1	2	4
4	United Team of Germany	0	4	2	6
5	Niederlande	0	2	1	3
6	Frankreich	0	1	0	1
6	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
8	Japan	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		18	18	18	54

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Don Schollander (USA)	53.4 (OR)	Robert McGregor (GBR)	53.5	Hans-Joachim Klein (EUA)	54.0
400 m freestyle details	Don Schollander (USA)	4:12.2 (WR)	Frank Wiegand (EUA)	4:14.9	Allan Wood (AUS)	4:15.1
1500 m freestyle details	Bob Windle Australien	17:01.7 (OR)	John Nelson Vereinigte Staaten	17:03.0	Allan Wood Australien	17:07.7
200 m backstroke details	Jed Graef Vereinigte Staaten	2:10.3 (WR)	Gary Dilley Vereinigte Staaten	2:10.5	Bob Bennett Vereinigte Staaten	2:13.1
200 m breaststroke details	Ian O'Brien Australien	2:27.8 (WR)	Georgy Prokopenko Soviet Union	2:28.2	Chet Jastremski Vereinigte Staaten	2:29.6
200 m butterfly details	Kevin Berry Australien	2:06.6 (WR)	Carl Robie Vereinigte Staaten	2:07.5	Fred Schmidt Vereinigte Staaten	2:09.3
400 m individual medley details	Dick Roth (USA)	4:45.4 (WR)	Roy Saari (USA)	4:47.1	Gerhard Hetz (EUA)	4:51.0
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	Vereinigte Staaten (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	Australien (AUS) David Dickson Peter Doak John Ryan Bob Windle	3:39.1
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	Vereinigte Staaten (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 details	Vereinigte Staaten (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	Australien (AUS) Peter Reynolds Ian O'Brien Kevin Berry David Dickson	4:02.3

Women's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Dawn Fraser Australien	59.5 (OR)	Sharon Stouder Vereinigte Staaten	59.9	Kathy Ellis Vereinigte Staaten	1:00.8
400 m freestyle details	Ginny Duenkel Vereinigte Staaten	4:43.3 (OR)	Marilyn Ramenofsky Vereinigte Staaten	4:44.6	Terri Stickles Vereinigte Staaten	4:47.2
100 m backstroke details	Cathy Ferguson Vereinigte Staaten	1:07.7 (WR)	Kiki Caron Frankreich	1:07.9	Ginny Duenkel Vereinigte Staaten	1:08.0
200 m breaststroke details	Galina Prozumenshchikova (URS)	2:46.4 (OR)	Claudia Kolb (USA)	2:47.6	Svetlana Babanina (URS)	2:48.6
100 m butterfly details	Sharon Stouder Vereinigte Staaten	1:04.7 (WR)	Ada Kok Niederlande	1:05.6	Kathy Ellis Vereinigte Staaten	1:06.0
400 m individual medley details	Donna de Varona Vereinigte Staaten	5:18.7 (OR)	Sharon Finneran Vereinigte Staaten	5:24.1	Martha Randall Vereinigte Staaten	5:24.2
4 × 100 metre freestyle relay details	Vereinigte Staaten (USA) Sharon Stouder Donna de Varona Lillian Watson Kathy Ellis	4:03.8 (WR)	Australien (AUS) Robyn Thorn Janice Murphy Lynette Bell Dawn Fraser	4:06.9	Niederlande (NED) Pauline van der Wildt Toos Beumer Winnie van Weerdenburg Erica Terpstra	4:12.0
4 × 100 metre medley relay details	Vereinigte Staaten (USA) Cathy Ferguson Cynthia Goyette Sharon Stouder Kathy Ellis	4:33.9 (OR)	Niederlande (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

Gallery of the medalists

Some of the Olympic medalists in Tokyo:

Don Schollander, winner of the 100-metre freestyle, 400-metre freestyle, 4×100-metre freestyle relay, and 4×200-metre freestyle relay.
Jed Graef, winner of the 200-metre backstroke.
Fred Schmidt, winner of the 4×100-metre medley relay.
Dick Roth, winner of the 400-metre individual medley.
Donna de Varona, winner of the 400-metre individual medley and 4×100-metre freestyle relay.
Dawn Fraser, winner of the 100-metre freestyle.

References

^ ^a ^b "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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[SportsRef-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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