1964 Summer Olympics - Sports

Sports

The 1964 Summer Olympic programme featured 163 events in the following 21 sports:

  • Aquatics
    • Diving (4)
    • Swimming (18)
    • Water polo (1)
  • Athletics (36)
  • Basketball (1)
  • Boxing (10)
  • Canoeing (7)
  • Cycling
    • Road (2)
    • Track (5)
  • Equestrian
    • Dressage (2)
    • Eventing (2)
    • Jumping (2)
  • Fencing (8)
  • Field hockey (1)
  • Football (1)
  • Gymnastics (14)
  • Judo (4)
  • Modern pentathlon (2)
  • Rowing (7)
  • Sailing (5)
  • Shooting (6)
  • Volleyball (2)
  • Weightlifting (7)
  • Wrestling
    • Freestyle (8)
    • Greco-Roman (8)

Note: In the Japan Olympic Committee report, sailing is listed as "yachting".

Demonstration sports
  • Baseball
  • Budō

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