1964 Summer Olympics / Participant (Czechoslovakia)

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The Czechoslovakia took part in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo with a delegation of 104 athletes (95 men and 9 women) in 64 competitions in 13 sports part.

The Czechoslovakian athletes won five gold, six silver and three bronze medals, with which Czechoslovakia took ninth place in the medal table. Olympic champions were the track cyclist Jiří Daler in the single pursuit, the weightlifter Hans Zdražila in the middleweight division and the gymnast Věra Čáslavská in the individual all-around , horse vault and balance beam. The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the gymnast Karel Klečka .

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Jaroslav Šlajs

  Bantamweight: eliminated in the round of 16

• Vladimír Kučera

  Light welterweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Bohumil Němeček

  Welterweight: eliminated in the second round

• František Poláček

  Light Heavyweight: Eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Josef Němec

  Heavyweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

Soccer

• silver

  Ján Brumovský

  Ludovít Cvetler

  Ján Geleta

  František Knebort

  Karel Knesl

  Karel Lichtnégl

  Vojtech Masný

  Štefan Matlák

  Ivan Mráz

  Karel Nepomucký

  Zdeněk Pičman

  František Schmucker

  Anton Švajlen

  Anton Urban

  František Valošek

  Josef Vojta

  Vladimír Weiss

Weightlifting

• Zdeněk Otáhal

  Lightweight: 5th place

• Hans Zdražila

  Middleweight: gold

canoe

Men

• Jan Jiráň

  Single Canoe 1000 m: 9th place

• Miloslav Houzim

  Two-man canoe 1000 m: 8th place

• Rudolf Pěnkava

  Two-man canoe 1000 m: 8th place

Women

• Zdenka Hradilová

  Single kayak 500 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

athletics

Men

• Josef Trousil

  400 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Josef Odložil

  1500 m: silver

• Josef Tomáš

  5000 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  10,000 m: 17th place

• Václav Chudomel

  Marathon: 18th place

• Pavel Kantorek

  Marathon: 25th place

• Alexander Bílek

  20 km walking: 11th place

  50 km walking: 20th place

• Rudolf Tomášek

  Pole vault: 6th place

• Ludvík Daněk

  Discus throw: silver

• Jiří Žemba

  Discus throw: 18th place

• Josef Matoušek

  Hammer throw: 9th place

Women

• Eva Lehocká

  100 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

  200 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

• Jiřina Němcová

  Discus throw: 9th place

Cycling

• Daniel Gráč

  Road race: 22nd place

• Jiří Daler

  Road race: 67th place

  Track 4000 m single pursuit: gold

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 5th place

• František Řezáč

  Road race: 70th place

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 5th place

• Jan Smolík

  Road race: 71st place

• Ivan Kučírek

  Track sprint: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Jiří Pecka

  Track 1000 m time trial: 5th place

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 5th place

• Karel couple

  Rail tandem: 5th place

• Karel Štark

  Rail tandem: 5th place

• Antonín Kříž

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 5th place

Wrestling

• Jiří Švec

  Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: 4th place

• Jiří Kormaník

  Middleweight, Greco-Roman: silver

• Petr Kment

  Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 4th place

• Bohumil Kubát

  Heavyweight, freestyle: 4th place

rowing

• Václav Kozák

  One: 12th place

• Vladimír Andrs

  Double twos: bronze

• Pavel Hofmann

  Double twos: bronze

• Jiří Palko

  Two with a helmsman: 5th place

• Zdeněk Mejstřík

  Two with a helmsman: 5th place

• Václav Chalupa

  Two with a helmsman: 5th place

• Karel Karafiát

  Foursome with helmsman: not started for the final run

• Jaroslav Starosta

  Foursome with helmsman: not started for the final run

• René Líbal

  Foursome with helmsman: not started for the final run

• Jan Štefan

  Foursome with helmsman: not started for the final run

• Arnošt Poisl

  Foursome with helmsman: not started for the final run

• Josef Věntus

  Eighth with helmsman: bronze

• Július Toček

  Eighth with helmsman: bronze

• Luděk Pojezný

  Eighth with helmsman: bronze

• Richard Nový

  Eighth with helmsman: bronze

• Jan Mrvík

  Eighth with helmsman: bronze

• Jiří Lundák

  Eighth with helmsman: bronze

• Miroslav Koníček

  Eighth with helmsman: bronze

• Bohumil Janoušek

  Eighth with helmsman: bronze

• Petr Čermák

  Eighth with helmsman: bronze

shoot

• Lubomír Nácovský

  Rapid fire pistol 25 m: bronze

• Ladislav Falta

  Rapid fire pistol 25 m: 9th place

• Vladimír Kudrna

  Free pistol 50 m: 18th place

• Vladimír Stibořík

  Free rifle three-position fight 300 m: 18th place

  Small bore rifle, three-position fight 50 m: 28th place

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 30th place

swim

Men

• Jindřich Vágner

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the semi-finals

• Petr Lohnický

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  400 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  1500 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Ivan Ferák

  200 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

sailing

• Miroslav Vejvoda

  Finn dinghy: 18th place

do gymnastics

Men

• Bohumil Mudřík

  Individual all-around: 30th place

  Floor: 46th place

  Horse jump: 30th place

  Bars: 30th place

  Horizontal bar: 50th place

  Rings: 49th place

  Pommel horse: 25th place

  Team all-around competition: 6th place

• Ladislav Pazdera

  Individual all-around: 42nd place

  Floor: 69th place

  Horse jump: 100th place

  Bars: 30th place

  Horizontal bar: 42nd place

  Rings: 41st place

  Pommel horse: 40th place

  Team all-around competition: 6th place

• Václav Kubíčka

  Individual all-around: 44th place

  Floor: 21st place

  Horse jump: 36th place

  Bars: 83rd place

  Horizontal bar: 37th place

  Rings: 23rd place

  Pommel horse: 90th place

  Team all-around competition: 6th place

• Přemysl Krbec

  Individual all-around: 45th place

  Floor: 41st place

  Horse jump: 9th place

  Bars: 41st place

  Horizontal bar: 50th place

  Rings: 21st place

  Pommel horse: 98th place

  Team all-around competition: 6th place

• Karel Klečka

  Individual all-around: 52nd place

  Floor: 35th place

  Horse jump: 54th place

  Bars: 75th place

  Horizontal bar: 26th place

  Rings: 62nd place

  Pommel horse: 76th place

  Team all-around competition: 6th place

• Pavel Gajdoš

  Individual all-around: 106th place

  Floor: 127th place

  Horse jump: 48th place

  Bars: 22nd place

  Horizontal bar: 102nd place

  Rings: 42nd place

  Pommel horse: 28th place

  Team all-around competition: 6th place

Women

• Věra Čáslavská

  Individual all-around: gold

  Floor: 6th place

  Horse jump: gold

  Uneven bars: 5th place

  Balance beam: gold

  Team all-around: silver

• Hana Růžičková

  Individual all-around: 5th place

  Floor: 10th place

  Horse jump: 18th place

  Uneven bars: 7th place

  Balance beam: 5th place

  Team all-around: silver

• Jaroslava Sedláčková

  Individual all-around: 11th place

  Floor: 21st place

  Horse jump: 13th place

  Uneven bars: 8th place

  Balance beam: 7th place

  Team all-around: silver

• Adolfína Tkačíková

  Individual all-around: 16th place

  Floor: 21st place

  Horse jump: 10th place

  Uneven bars: 18th place

  Balance beam: 11th place

  Team all-around: silver

• Marianna Krajčírová

  Individual all-around: 22nd place

  Floor: 40th place

  Horse jump: 15th place

  Uneven bars: 8th place

  Balance beam: 31st place

  Team all-around: silver

• Jana Posnerová

  Individual all-around: 23rd place

  Floor: 29th place

  Horse jump: 16th place

  Uneven bars: 34th place

  Balance beam: 15th place

  Team all-around: silver

volleyball

Men

• silver

  Ladislav Toman

  Josef Šorm

  Václav Šmídl

  Pavel Schenk

  Boris Perušič

  Karel Paulus

  Josef Musil

  Petr Kop

  Zdeněk Humhal

  Bohumil Golian

  Milan Čuda

Web links

• Czechoslovak Olympic team from 1964 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )