1964 Summer Paralympics

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II. Summer Paralympics
Paralympics logo (until 1987)
Venue: Tokyo JapanJapanJapan 
Opening ceremony: 3rd November 1964
Closing ceremony: November 12, 1964
Opened by: Yoshiaki Kasai
(Minister of Public Health)
Olympic oath : Shigeo Aono
Competitions: 144 competitions in 9 sports
Countries: 21st
Athletes: 375
(307 men, 68 women)
← Rome 1960
Tel Aviv 1968 →
Medal table
space country gold medal Silver medal Bronze medal total
1 United StatesUnited States United States 50 41 32 123
2 United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom 18th 23 20th 61
3 ItalyItaly Italy 14th 15th 16 45
4th AustraliaAustralia Australia 12 11 7th 30th
5 Rhodesia South 1964Southern Rhodesia Rhodesia 10 5 2 17th
6th South Africa 1961South Africa South Africa 8th 8th 3 19th
7th IsraelIsrael Israel 7th 3 11 21st
8th ArgentinaArgentina Argentina 6th 15th 16 37
9 Germany team all GermanAll-German team Germany 5 2 5 12
10 NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 4th 6th 4th 14th
... ...
12 AustriaAustria Austria 4th 1 7th 12
... ...
15th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland - 1 - 1
Complete medal table

The 2nd Paralympic Summer Games were held in the Japanese capital Tokyo from November 3 to 12, 1964, despite the host's lack of experience in disabled sports. They found ten days after the end of the XVIII. Summer Olympic Games take place at the same competition venues. The term Paralympics was coined with these games, in the planning they were still running as the 13th International Stoke Mandeville Games for the disabled.

Ceremonies

Opening ceremony

The opening ceremony took place on November 3, 1964 in front of about 5,000 spectators at the Oda Field Stadium in the Olympic Village . The patrons for the games, Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko , were present.

Closing ceremony

The closing ceremony took place on November 12, 1964 in front of about 5000 spectators and in the presence of Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko, Sir Guttmann, the representative of the Prime Minister of Japan, the Minister of Health and the Governor of Tokyo in the Yoyogi State Sports Hall.

Participating Nations

375 athletes from 21 nations took part in the competitions in nine sports, including athletes from South Africa: Although they were excluded from the regular Olympic Games from this year, disabled athletes were allowed to take part in the Paralympics. The United Kingdom had the largest team with 70 athletes, followed by the USA with 66 participants.

sports

At the 2nd Summer Paralympics, weightlifting was added to the competition program as a new sport. In athletics, the one-mile demonstration competition was a new Paralympic discipline in the sport.

  • Archery
  • darts
  • Weightlifting
  • athletics
  • Wheelchair basketball
  • Wheelchair fencing
  • swim
  • snooker
  • Table tennis

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f International Paralympic Committee: Paralympics Tokyo 1964 on the website of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) . Retrieved August 28, 2012.