Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics

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The judo competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics was the first time the sport was included in the Summer Olympic Games. Medals were awarded in 4 classes, and competition was restricted to men only. The competition was held in the Nippon Budokan, which was built to host the competition.

1 Medal summary
2 Participating nations
3 Medal table
4 Sources

[edit] Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Lightweight 68 kg details	Takehide Nakatani Japan (JPN)	Eric Hänni Switzerland (SUI)	Ārons Bogoļubovs Soviet Union (URS) Oleg Stepanov Soviet Union (URS)
Middleweight 80 kg details	Isao Okano Japan (JPN)	Wolfgang Hofmann Germany (EUA)	James Bregman United States (USA) Kim Eui-Tae South Korea (KOR)
Heavyweight +80 kg details	Isao Inokuma Japan (JPN)	Doug Rogers Canada (CAN)	Parnaoz Chikviladze Soviet Union (URS) Anzor Kiknadze Soviet Union (URS)
Open category details	Anton Geesink Netherlands (NED)	Akio Kaminaga Japan (JPN)	Theodore Boronovskis Australia (AUS) Klaus Glahn Germany (EUA)

[edit] Participating nations

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	3	1	0	4
2	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	0	1
3	Germany (EUA)	0	1	1	2
4	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
4	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
6	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	4	4
7	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1

[edit] Sources

Olympic Medal Winners. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on 2006-11-18.
Tokyo Organizing Committee (1964). The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2.
Weight division history at judoinfo.com
Video's of the 1964 Judo Summer Olympics

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