Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's marathon

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Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's marathon was part of the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 21 October 1964. 79 athletes from 41 nations entered, with 68 starting and 58 finishing.

[edit] Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Abebe Bikila Ethiopia	Basil Heatley Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Kokichi Tsuburaya Japan

[edit] Results

Bikila broke the world's best time for the marathon to defend his Olympic gold medal.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Abebe Bikila	Ethiopia	2:12:11.2 WB
2	Basil Heatley	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	2:16:19.2
3	Kokichi Tsuburaya	Japan	2:16:22.8
4	Brian Kilby	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	2:17:02.4
5	József Sütö	Hungary	2:17:55.8
6	Leonard Edelen	United States	2:18:12.4
7	Aurèle Vandendriessche	Belgium	2:18:42.6
8	Kimihara Kenji	Japan	2:19:49.0
9	Ron Clarke	Australia	2:20:26.8
10	Demissie Wolde	Ethiopia	2:21:25.2
11	Lee Sang-Hoon	Korea	2:22:02.8
12	Bakir Benaissa	Morocco	2:22:27.0
13	Eino Oksanen	Finland	2:22:36.0
14	Billy Mills	United States	2:22:55.4
15	Terasawa Toru	Japan	2:23:09.0
16	Kim Yun-Bum	Korea	2:24:40.6
17	Giorgio Jegher	Italy	2:24:45.2
18	Vaclav Chudomel	Czechoslovakia	2:24:46.8
19	Ron Hill	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	2:25:34.4
20	Paavo Pystynen	Finland	2:26:00.6
21	Fidel Negrete	Mexico	2:26:07.0
22	Nikolay Tikhomirov	Soviet Union	2:26:07.4
23	Pete McArdle	United States	2:26:24.4
24	Heinrich Hagen	Unified Team of Germany	2:26:39.8
25	Pavel Kantorek	Czechoslovakia	2:26:47.2
26	Nikolay Abramov	Soviet Union	2:27:09.4
27	Raymond Puckett	New Zealand	2:27:34.0
28	Eino Valle	Finland	2:27:34.8
29	Jeffrey Lynn Julian	New Zealand	2:27:57.6
30	Ricardo Vidal (athlete)	Chile	2:28:01.6
31	Robert Vagg	Australia	2:28:41.0
32	Guido Voegele	Switzerland	2:29:17.8
33	Balkrishan Akotkar	India	2:29:27.4
34	Jean Aniset	Luxembourg	2:29:52.6
35	Thin Sumbwegan	Burma	2:30:35.8
36	Constantin Grecescu	Romania	2:30:42.6
37	Janos Pinter	Hungary	2:30:50.2
38	Gerhard Honicke	Unified Team of Germany	2:33:23.0
39	Manfred Naumann	Unified Team of Germany	2:33:42.0
40	Antonio Ambu	Italy	2:34:37.6
41	Oskar Leupi	Switzerland	2:35:05.4
42	Ivan Keats	New Zealand	2:36:16.8
43	Harbanslal Harbanslal	India	2:37:05.8
44	Armando Aldegalega	Portugal	2:38:02.2
45	Chrisantus Nyakwayo	Kenya	2:38:38.6
46	Constantino Kapambwe	Netherlands Antilles	2:39:28.4
47	Omari Abdallah	Tanganyika	2:40:06.0
48	Muhammad Yusaf	Pakistan	2:40:46.0
49	Naftali Temu	Kenya	2:40:46.6
50	Joo Hyung Kail	Korea	2:41:08.2
51	Mathias Kanda	Rhodesia	2:41:09.0
52	Anthony Cook	Australia	2:42:03.6
53	Victor Peralta Jimenez	Mexico	2:44:23.6
54	Trevor Haynes	Netherlands Antilles	2:45:08.6
55	Abraham Fornes	Puerto Rico	2:46:22.6
56	Robson Mrombe	Rhodesia	2:49:30.8
57	Laurent Daniel Chifita	Netherlands Antilles	2:51:52.2
58	Chanom Sirirangsi	Thailand	2:59:25.6
—	Bahadur Thada Ganga	Nepal	Did not finish 2:23:41 at 40km
	Bahacur Bhupendra	Nepal	Did not finish 2:34:12 at 40km
	James Hogan	Ireland	Did not finish 1:51:27 at 35km
	Viktor Baykov	Soviet Union	Did not finish 1:39:13 at 30 km
	M. Haddeb Hannachi	Tunisia	Did not finish 1:46:18 at 30 km
	Andrew Soi	Kenya	Did not finish 1:23:37 at 25 km
	Osvaldo Roberto Suarez	Argentina	Did not finish 1:09:00 at 20 km
	Mamo Wolde	Ethiopia	Did not finish 0:47:14 at 15 km
	Hedhili Ben Boubaker	Tunisia	Did not finish 0:47:51 at 15 km
	Ly Nguyen Van	Vietnam	Did not finish 1:02:51 at 15 km
	Jean Louis Brougier	France	Did not start
	Dumitru Chitoban	Romania	Did not start
	Suliman Fighi Hassan	Libya	Did not start
	Mohammed Gammoudi	Tunisia	Did not start
	Alberto Garabito	Bolivia	Did not start
	Ranatunge Karunananda	Ceylon	Did not start
	Bruce Kidd	Canada	Did not start
	Lajos Mecser	Hungary	Did not start
	Alejo Montano	Bolivia	Did not start
	Jean Randrianjatovo	Madagascar	Did not start
	Ryoo Man-Hyung	DPR Korea	Did not start