1964 Summer Olympics / Judo

Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Tokyo
Competition venue	Nippon Budōkan
Nations	27
Athletes	72 (72 men)
date	20.-23. October 1964
decisions	4th
Munich 1972 →

At the XVIII. 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo found four Judo instead -Competitions for men. The venue was the specially built Nippon Budōkan in the Chiyoda district . Judo was on the Olympic program for the first time, but eight years passed before the next event.

Balance sheet

Nippon Budōkan

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Japan	3	1	-	4th
2	Netherlands	1	-	-	1
3	Germany	-	1	1	2
4th	Canada	-	1	-	1
	Switzerland	-	1	-	1
6th	Soviet Union	-	-	4th	4th
7th	Australia	-	-	1	1
	South Korea	-	-	1	1
	United States	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
lightweight	Takehide Nakatani	Eric Hänni	Ārons Bogoļubovs Oleg Stepanov
Light middleweight	Isao Okano	Wolfgang Hofmann	James Bregman Kim Eui-tae
Heavyweight	Isao Inokuma	Douglas Rogers	Ansor Kiknadze Parnaos Chikwiladze
Open class	Anton Geesink	Akio Kaminaga	Theodore Boronovski's Klaus Glahn

Results

Lightweight (up to 68 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	JPN	Takehide Nakatani
2	SUI	Eric Hänni
3	URS	Ārons Bogoļubovs
	URS	Oleg Stepanov
5	ROC	Chang Won-Ku
	United States	Paul Maruyama
	COR	Park Chung-sam
	AUT	Gerhard Zotter
9	AUT	Karl Reisinger
19th	EUA	Matthias Schießleder

Award ceremony (from left: Hänni, Nakatani, Stepanow)

Date: October 20, 1964
25 participants from 18 countries

Medium weight (up to 80 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	JPN	Isao Okano
2	EUA	Wolfgang Hofmann
3	United States	James Bregman
	COR	Kim Eui-tae
5	FRA	Lionel Grossain
	ARG	Rodolfo Perez
	BRA	Lhofei Shiozawa
	NED	Peter Snijders
9	AUT	Alfred Redl

Date: October 21, 1964
25 participants from 20 countries

Heavy weight (over 80 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	JPN	Isao Inokuma
2	CAN	Douglas Rogers
3	URS	Ansor Kiknadze
	URS	Parnaos Chikviladze
5	COR	Kim Jong-dai
6th	ARG	Michel Casella
	ROC	Chang Chung-Huei
	NED	Job Gouweleeuw
	United States	George Harris
	ITA	Nicola Tempesta
11	EUA	Herbert Niemann

All medal winners at the award ceremony (from left: Rogers, Inokuma, Tschikwiladze, Kiknadze)

Date: October 22, 1964
14 participants from 12 countries

Open class

space	country	athlete
1	NED	Anton Geesink
2	JPN	Akio Kaminaga
3	OUT	Theodore Boronovskis
	EUA	Klaus Glahn
5	IRL	John Ryan
6th	United States	Ben Nighthorse Campbell
7th	PHI	Thomas Ong
8th	TO DO	Ali Hachicha
	GBR	Alan Petherbridge

The medal winners at the award ceremony (from left: Kaminaga, Geesink, Boronovskis, Glahn)

Date: October 23, 1964
9 participants from 9 countries

Web links

Commons : Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 1964 Summer Games (PDF, 14.5 MB)