1964 Summer Paralympics
Venue: | Tokyo Japan |
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 | total | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | United States | 50 | 41 | 32 | 123 |
2 | United Kingdom | 18th | 23 | 20th | 61 |
3 | Italy | 14th | 15th | 16 | 45 |
4th | Australia | 12 | 11 | 7th | 30th |
5 | Rhodesia | 10 | 5 | 2 | 17th |
6th | South Africa | 8th | 8th | 3 | 19th |
7th | Israel | 7th | 3 | 11 | 21st |
8th | Argentina | 6th | 15th | 16 | 37 |
9 | Germany | 5 | 2 | 5 | 12 |
10 | Netherlands | 4th | 6th | 4th | 14th |
... | ... | ||||
12 | Austria | 4th | 1 | 7th | 12 |
... | ... | ||||
15th | 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
- ↑ 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.